Surrey & Hants 2.0

[Kelk]

Firstly, admins I hope you can leave this post here as it would be great to reach as wide an audience as possible.

Recently the club has been reviewing what state it is in and how it can be taken forward. We've approached people from other clubs within the Mid South Region for their open and honest feedback. What's good and most importantly not so good.

From this collation of thoughts, ideas and "for the love of all that's holy in the world do...." an action plan has been put in place and this is the start of it. So we thought it might be useful for other clubs (hence why its in this forum rather than the clubs) in case knowledge sharing helps them and if they have any ideas for us

So what's good?

Location
Facilities - on site electric power, toilets, parking hard standing Tarmac for pitting with additional space on a grass field if needed for bigger events, food nearby

Most importantly - what's not so
The fixed features - double doubles and table top are far too inconsistent
The astro itself - large ruts and ridges that make driving on it inconsistent
The rostrum could be a little higher

I'm writing this on my iPhone so the next post is the "and here's what we are doing about it"

[Kelk]

The track is a new layer of astro put down over the original astro. The original astro was always heavily laden with sand and this killed pinion gears and was always a source of complaint. Placing the second layer down gave a more consistent track surface and put the sand issue to bed.

The track looked like this...

[Kelk]

Yesterday saw the start of the club addressing the issues as they were laid out to us. Firstly the dirt double doubles. The astro has been peeled back and then attacked with spades....



Once clear it was time to take on the dirt / rubble based table top. This was an epic effort given the size of it and the weight of the material involved.










The table top has gone we are pleased to say. A lot of hard work but it's gone.
A great effort from Stuart McCabe, Carl Howard, Christopher Ellis, Gareth Whittacker, Paul 'stumpy' Taylor, Terry Dickinson, Keith Merridith, Duncan Hedger and I am sure I've missed some people

[Kelk]

Mote pics to follow

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[Kelk]

So we have got work to do still Nd will be deeply reliant on club members but the aim is to bring S&H to a level where people think of us first as a track they want to go to

More updates to follow in due course