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I will take the red and yellow McLaren Bob!

Had a good time even though my race didn't go so well.

Thanks for having us Rob!

Zack

I will be there and I am pretty sure I roped John G into coming and having some fun as well!

Zack

I had a couple more thoughts on these rules. Just seeking input on whether or not we need to add clarification.

Track width. Seems to me that adding spacers should be legal on these cars. The DTM cars especially look terrible and would likely improve on performance with some spacers. This is a very low cost and easy to do upgrade. Also, anglewinder type cars will have this built in.

The second is tape, I know taping the screws is needed to but adding tape to the pod as a tuning tool seems like something that would be worthwhile and cheap.

just a couple things to think about.

Zack

Doc, upon reflecting on this more. I do think it would be smart to limit the revoslot class to a certain type of car. We could open this up or add others in down the road, but they clearly make cars that are meant to compete with one another.

I would recommend going with the "GT" category to start, since there is a massive range of liveries and cars available.

Porsche GT2
Viper GTS
Toyota Supra
Marcos
F40
McLaren F1
Mercedes clk.

(this is just a suggestion, i would be fine limiting it even further to GT2 cars only, supra, marcos, viper, porsche)

Staying away from the open top and LMP cars will keep the class more consistent IMO.

I also think Al should have the final review and say on this classing, since he is the primary support for this section of the club at this time.

Zack

I should point out. I don't think we need to get rid of "all" of the classes.

I think we should simply remove the ones we haven't ran in the last couple of years, and replace them with some lower barrier to entry but still race-grade classes.

I still think the primary issue is finding the people to come out, but having a few more easy to buy and race classes would help retain them IMO.

Zack

The drive is one thing we will never be able to fix. Just have to figure out how to make the racing worth the hard yards!

Zack

I have been thinking about this a lot lately as I have been back racing some. Though not at the Thursday races just yet. The 6pm start is just a hair earlier than I can usually make happen, though I intend to start trying harder.

My push back against this as a viable way of increasing attendance is this. Would we ever turn anyone away right now that would like to come race because they don't have cars or a controller?

My experience, and certainly my practice has been to loan any interested person a good car or controller at any time. Al let me borrow a controller for more than one of my first few races there as well.

I guess I just don't see how this is going to change the attendance level if that's the case. Seems to me that getting people to turn up in the first place is the hard part, after that getting a car and controller in their hand is easy.

I have seen many people show up for a few race days since I have been part of the club, but for some reason we don't have a high retention rate.  Upon typing this, i realize that may be because of the number of cars you need to complete just a few nights of racing. That IS something that could potentially be curbed by the IROC thing, though if they want to stay with us my guess is they will be buying anyway.........

Just my .02, I think this subject is worth some thought as a club for both 1/32 and 1/24 racing. We are gonna need some newer racers at some point to keep alive.

Zack

It was my pleasure to be able to do it.

I have the Gearloose recording as well. I have to figure out what I want to do for a format, but I do plan to get it out at some point!

Zack

I am assuming "Big Nascar" means our usual Large wheel late model cars?

Zack