DamanC Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Still no date yet, I have sent Debbie another email. Ill give it a couple of days and then pick the dog and bone up No rush guys, this cirtianly wont happen until after April Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miko_supra Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 sorry if this has been covered, just wondering how much is it to come and watch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 until we know the date and how much it actually costs to hire the place I dont think we can say for certain what it costs to compete or to spectate. So if we can all wait for Daman to sort out the costs etc and then we can see how much. I would expect spectators to be allowed and for it not to cost a massive amount. JB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Debbie is on hols until wednesday, ill give her a shout then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 Right guys, we have a date. There are two dates left at at the weekend. the 14th and 21st of April. This is not far off because of this i have chosen saurday April 21st. Gates open at 8am til about realisticly 4pm giving us a good 8 hours of unlimited fun. The Cost of the event is £2995. 50 cars will see a cost of £60 as originally expected. I have negotiated a deal that allows us entry for upto 100 cars for the same price. For those that we not a fan of math at school, 100 cars means we get in for £30. Great eh? Now there is a hidden cost should we go ahead with it, the spraying of the track. This comes in at £800. If we can get 100 cars then the cost including the spraying would be £38. Obviosly, this is going to be put to a club vote. The only other hidden cost is security. We need to devise a way of keeping the riff raff out! I am all for getting one guard on the gate for the day. Spectating costs are going to have to be worked out between myself and other moderators, this will obviosly bring the run costs down slightly. One thing i will stress thou, if the marchal deem it unfit to run due to the weather (wet track) then runs are called off until it becomes safe to do so. If the track is unsafe all day then we will loose all the money paid. I am going to put up a seperate thread in the next few days highlighting these points and a poll to see if spraying of the track is wanted and to get a list of definate numbers, once we get definate numbers we will have a definate price. Your time on track will depend on how many people come. I will create groups (pobably about 10-14 cars big) and allocate run times to each group so that everyone has an equil amount of time on the strip and knows when they should be on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Sounds good, great work. 21st April is good as the RAF Marham day is on 14/15th April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letmeshowyou Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Why do we need allocated time slots? Presumably there will be some people who want to run all day, and others who will just want to do a few. If the weather is good, and we suffer no breakages (touch wood) then time slots shouldn't really be required - people would simply need to queue up as and when they wanted to run. The most cars you're going to have in front of you is 49, meaning a maximum waiting time of about 20 minutes between runs if everyone wants to run all the time. Their current system seems to work pretty well on RWYB days with no allocated time slots with alot more than 100 cars. You're also removing any fun little grudge matches that could arise throughout the day from someone running significantly quicker than they thought they would. Personally I don't like the idea of thrashing the hell out of mine serveral times in a short space of time to fit in a time slot either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trig Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Good work Daman. Would we get unlimited runs for that price? Sorry if its been covered before.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 21st is good for me and Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I agree the queue when you want to run system should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guigsy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 might pop down just to watch tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 subscribing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tDR Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I'm still in, and agree we should just queue rather than doing time slots I vote we have the track sprayed / prepped too - what's the point in a drag day if we're not serious about seeing our best times possible? Cheers, Brian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Dam, I may or may not be finished in this time. Looks like im going to have to do a jamie and do my 1500 miles in a week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Why do we need allocated time slots? Presumably there will be some people who want to run all day, and others who will just want to do a few. If the weather is good, and we suffer no breakages (touch wood) then time slots shouldn't really be required - people would simply need to queue up as and when they wanted to run. The most cars you're going to have in front of you is 49, meaning a maximum waiting time of about 20 minutes between runs if everyone wants to run all the time. Their current system seems to work pretty well on RWYB days with no allocated time slots with alot more than 100 cars. You're also removing any fun little grudge matches that could arise throughout the day from someone running significantly quicker than they thought they would. Personally I don't like the idea of thrashing the hell out of mine serveral times in a short space of time to fit in a time slot either... maybe Im wrong but I absolutely hate queueing for RWYB. You can sit there edging forward for up to an hour while they get the cars through and it means you cant walk away from your car as its in the queue. So you spend most of the day in a queue not talking to anybody and not seeing anything at all. The goal here is to give people lots of consecutive runs (tyres stay hot and you can practice starts better) and then they get some time to look round the other cars and have a good chat while the other time slots go past. If people want the time slot solution put to the vote then thats cool, I feel its a good opportunity to make sure people get lots of runs in quick sucession. Perhaps we run a free for all after 2pm for the grudge matches. So do we need to put this to a vote as well? JB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 What about a free for all for the first few hours. Then a mini comp for the top ten times. This could be followed by 1 hour of peoples grudge matches and finish on free for all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supragold Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I'm loving this thread. Definately need the track glued and preped IMO. Lets be serious about it shall we. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprasteve Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ! its my stag weekend ! bloody typical... oh well never mind, you lot will have to take plenty of video footage for me instead....luck gits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshBhp Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Subscribed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I'm loving this thread. Definately need the track glued and preped IMO. Lets be serious about it shall we. Costs are more than fair. You'd pay £20 + £15 for 3 runs on a event day so £38 for a Supra only day + security costs is well worth it. Date is good also Gaz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letmeshowyou Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 maybe Im wrong but I absolutely hate queueing for RWYB. You can sit there edging forward for up to an hour while they get the cars through and it means you cant walk away from your car as its in the queue. So you spend most of the day in a queue not talking to anybody and not seeing anything at all. The goal here is to give people lots of consecutive runs (tyres stay hot and you can practice starts better) and then they get some time to look round the other cars and have a good chat while the other time slots go past. If people want the time slot solution put to the vote then thats cool, I feel its a good opportunity to make sure people get lots of runs in quick sucession. Perhaps we run a free for all after 2pm for the grudge matches. So do we need to put this to a vote as well? I'm not saying it's wrong but this isn't a normal rwyb day so personally I don't see it being a problem just queueing. a 20 minute wait with a good flow of cars should still see enough time to do over 20 runs in the day - a vote might be a good idea though What about a free for all for the first few hours. Then a mini comp for the top ten times. This could be followed by 1 hour of peoples grudge matches and finish on free for all thats not a bad idea at all - i like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muffleman Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Just a week between this and Marham, I need to talk nicely to the missus Plus 21st is probably the Bolney date, so if it's the 21st then I suspect I will be pulling out of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadyn Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 This is gonna be good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letmeshowyou Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Just on a security thing... it's the Central RS owners club day the next day (which is normally big) - have they offered camping to them aswell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lust2luv Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 What if it does rain, are they willing to get there turbine and giant squeegee out to dry the track, or do our costs not cover that and we have to wait for it to dry naturally? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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