EIR 2011

Lowie · #1 15-09-2010

As the previous years, the Belgian club BRCC will be organising their Euro Indoor Race (or EIR) again, during the winter of 2011.

The track will be at the same location as the two previous years and the same build: an indoor off-roadisch astrotrack with challenging jumps.

But BRCC has managed to make a deal with the city of Charleroi and the hangar has now become a permanent track!
The place is now called Black Country Arena (something to do with the old cole-mines and Steel-industry in the surrounding area) and it has it's own website at http://www.blackcountryarena.com.

The guys have worked hard and BCA now has a complete pit-area where all VIP-members have their own private pit-spot (We had like 100 VIP-memberships and they were all sold out within a matter of weeks.) There is a sound-system, toilets (so no need to do that 20 miles-walk anymore

), electricity at each VIP-spot, a bar, internet ... and there is more on the schedule.

Over the winter-time, BRCC will be organising their Winter-challenge at the track, with 5 challenges.
We will also organise the first challenge of the 2011 Belgian-Dutch-Championship (1/10th offroad) again.

... aaand off course also the EIR-race.

We suspect that registration will go very fast again, this year, so ...
On october 8th, 21.00h CET an registration-email-address will be published on www.blackcountryarena.com.

pass on the news!

Lowie · #2 15-09-2010

some BCA-pics

Lowie · #3 12-10-2010

Registrations were opened on Octobre, 8th and within a day we were almost fully booked.

JP is now very busy taking note of all details and sending e-mailmessages to all drivers in which they can find all details regarding the payment.

I received a large list of UK-pilots from Nathan Ralls and Bart Phoenix Vanechelpoel and I passed them on to the rest of the team.
We had anticipated the interest from abroad and were very pleased with the very positive UK-participation during our 24H-endurance-race last year and so we gladly reserved about 20+ spots for UK-drivers so everyone got his ticket in.

But we're full now. About now, the only free spots available are in the SC-class. So if you have a SC-truck lying around that needs some racing: HURRY ==> eir2011@blackcountryarena.com

We will now wait for payments rolling in.

To confirm your registration, you will have to do the payment following the next instructions :

Clearly mention your full name (and nickname)
Clearly mention EIR 2011
The amount for the first category is 35 euros, and 30 euros for each following category
Payment through banc-transfer:
IBAN : BE73 363059802560
BIC (or SWIFT): BBRUBEBB
payment through paypal :
mary.draelants@gmail.com,
Please be carefull. For a paypal transactions, you
have to choose the gift option, to prevent us having to pay for the extra charges.

Thanks for your trust

BRCC Team

Lowie · #4 16-10-2010

2WD
1 ANDRE GEOFFROY
2 BELSTEN DAVID
3 BERTHIER Thibaut
4 BETTENS SIMON
5 BRAYETTE Kevin
6 CATALINA Yohan
7 CAVAR Xavier
8 CERVIN JULIEN
9 CHURCH DAVID
10 DE CONCHY Fred
11 DE GREEF Ludo
12 DE HOUWER JORG
13 de Saint Hubert Mathieu
14 Debacquer John
15 DESBOIS Guillaume
16 DEVILLE Philippe
17 EVENS NICOLAS
18 FONTAINE Floriant
19 FURSTENFELD NICOLAS
20 GIBERT Stéphane
21 GIBSON DAVE
22 GLATIGNY CYRILLE
23 GRIFFITHS ANDY
24 HAMMERTON Nico
25 HOWSAM EMMA
26 KEMPENEERS Maarten
27 KEYAERTS Willem
28 KIMI
29 LATHOUDERS Kris
30 LATINI Romuald
31 LEPAGE Laurent
32 MURE SEBASTIEN
33 NEIL TRISH
34 OWEN MATT
35 PAIN FREDERIC
36 POULTER DAVID
37 PRUBMANN Oliver
38 RALLS NATHAN
39 RAU Lucas
40 RENARD JF
41 RENAUX JEROME
42 RENAUX Rudy
43 RISSER Nico €
44 ROUFFOSEE STEPHANE
45 ROULLAND François
46 SITENSKY Kim
47 SPENCER JOHN
48 SPRINGER ALEC
49 STAFFORD ELLIS
50 VALTIER LUDOVIC
51 VAN DE GRAAF ARJAN €
52 VAN HELMOND WESTLEY
53 VAN OVERVELT Benoit
54 VANDENBOSCH Dirk
55 VANDENBOSCH Thaisa
56 VERBRUGGHE Giovanni
57 Verelst Steven
58 VERHULST Jerry
59 VERHULST Tom
60 WARTELLE Sébastien
61 WILLIAMS GRANT
62 WILLIAMS ROSS
63 DENIS Vincent €

4WD
1 BAND STUART
2 BELSTEN DAVID
3 BENNARDO GILLES
4 BERTHIER Thibaut
5 BETTENS SIMON
6 BYKANS Peter
7 CHARLIER Christophe
8 CHURCH DAVID
9 CLEREBAUT Philippe
10 de Saint Hubert Mathieu
11 DE SUTTER Peter
12 DEBOES FRANCK
13 DEM
14 DEN HONDT Francis
15 DENOEL Michel
16 DESRAMEAUX MARTIAL
17 DEVILLE Philippe
18 FONTAINE Frederic
19 FURSTENFELD NICOLAS
20 GIBSON DAVE
21 GLATIGNY CYRILLE
22 GRIFFITHS ANDY
23 GROSSI Damien
24 GUISAMBERT Renaud
25 HAMMERTON Nico €
26 JP €
27 KEYAERTS Willem
28 LATINI Romuald
29 LEPAGE Laurent
30 LIGOT Jean-Yves
31 LIGOT Philippe
32 VOUMARD LOIC €
33 MEULEMANS David €
34 MICKIELS Erik
35 MIKO
36 MORSA Dominique
37 NEIL TRISH
38 NELIS Iris
39 OWEN MATT
40 PAIN FREDERIC
41 POULTER DAVID
42 RALLS NATHAN
43 RENARD JF
44 RISSER Jean-Mi €
45 ROBERT RAPHAEL
46 ROSSETTI ANTOINE
47 ROULLAND François
48 ROUSSEL patrice
49 SALLAERTS Kurt
50 SERVAIS Joachim
51 SERVAIS Philippe
52 SPENCER JOHN
53 SPICER GREG
54 SPRINGER ALEC
55 STAFFORD ELLIS
56 STOREY LlOYD
57 TIMBERLAKE PAUL
58 VAN ECHELPOEL Bart
59 VAN ECHELPOEL Kristoph
60 VAN OVERVELT Benoit
61 VANCAUWENBERGE FLORENT
62 VELKENEERS JOHNNY
63 VERLIES Kris
64 WARTELLE Sébastien
65 WILLIAMS GRANT
66 WILLIAMS ROSS

Truck
1 BLENS BJORK
2 JP €
3 MEULEMANS David €
4 OWEN MATT
5 PRUBMANN Oliver
6 RAU Lucas
7 ROUSSEL patrice
8 SCHLAFMUNTER Philippe
9 SITENSKY Kim
10

Short Course
1 COURTOIS BERNARD
2 EVENS NICOLAS
3 HAMMERTON Nico €
4 LIENARD REMY
5 MICHEZ EDOUARD-BENOIT
6 PATT €
7 STUTZ Eric
8 VANCAUWENBERGE FLORENT
9
10

TT 1/8 BE
1 BYKANS Peter
2 CAPELLMAN ROGER
3 CARPIN MATTHIEU
4 CATALINA Marc
5 DEM
6 LOOMANS BART
7 MOUTON René
8 Musin Maxime
9 NICKELL Cedric
10 ROUSSEL patrice
11 SCHLAFMUNTER Philippe

Lowie · #5 04-12-2010

chaps,

19 people have not payed yet .... and only 7 remaining available places
you'd better be quick IMHO

paypal: mary.draelants@gmail.com

or by banc-transfer
BE73: 363059802560
BIC/SWIFT: BBRUBEBB
Maryline Draelants

Dadandson · #6 31-12-2010

Hello Gentleman,

The track of Euro Indoor Race 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMXPMbn_fBQ

@+ JP

Lowie · #7 01-01-2011

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c' est qui, JP, qui a été filmé? Il roule vachement bien.

Dadandson · #8 01-01-2011

Hello,

It's "The Fox". JF Renard sur Durango
JP

ulrich · #9 01-01-2011

Hi friends

It not possible for us to come this year.. I hope it will be possible next year..

Best regards

Jesper & Ulrich Rasmussen

chuckie stella · #10 02-01-2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by ulrich

Hi friends

It not possible for us to come this year.. I hope it will be possible next year..

Best regards

Jesper & Ulrich Rasmussen

Hi Ulrich, that is sad news to hear!! I was looking forward to meeting you and Jesper again!! I will email you soon and hope to see you at the Euros!?!?

chuckie stella · #11 02-01-2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dadandson

Hello Gentleman,

The track of Euro Indoor Race 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMXPMbn_fBQ

@+ JP

Are drivers seriously practicing on the EIR 2011 layout already!!!!!!!?

Lowie · #12 03-01-2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by ulrich

Hi friends

It not possible for us to come this year.. I hope it will be possible next year..

Best regards

Jesper & Ulrich Rasmussen

too bad

till next time!

Lowie · #13 03-01-2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by chuckie stella

Are drivers seriously practicing on the EIR 2011 layout already!!!!!!!?

mmmm

doing the opposite would not be OK I think.
The track opens on Thursday, qualifying rounds start on fryday ...
A significant number of the drivers will not be able to take the day off for the race and will only arrive on saturday.
So people that were able to take these days off might have an advantage over the people who only arrive on saturday.
But now, everyone is able to test the track and figure out a decent setup.

And knowing our drivers, decent setups will certainly be available over the internet before the competition-weekend.

(I'll track them down and post links here)

Smartalec · #14 03-01-2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lowie

mmmm

doing the opposite would not be OK I think.
The track opens on Thursday, qualifying rounds start on fryday ...
A significant number of the drivers will not be able to take the day off for the race and will only arrive on saturday.
So people that were able to take these days off might have an advantage over the people who only arrive on saturday.
But now, everyone is able to test the track and figure out a decent setup.

And knowing our drivers, decent setups will certainly be available over the internet before the competition-weekend.

(I'll track them down and post links here)

So you think it's ok to have a "slight" advantage if you're local then by being able to practice on the track for weeks before everyone else arrives?

Lowie · #15 03-01-2011

So you think it is Ok for people that are able to take the day off for extra practice, or for professional drivers to have a "slight" advantage over "regular people that have to work on thursday, friday?

and about locals having an advantage .. isn't that allready the case in about 95% of all competitions where there is a permanent circuit?

and what to think about clubs who organise a test-competition the year or 6 months before the big event? I agree that often the track is slightly changed when that is possible, but not always AND we are a small bunch of guys, and building such a track is quite a large task. All boarding is 50% rebuild in wood every time we change the track-layout.

Extra advantage is that the track is now tested and fully ready before he event.

Thinking about it .... I just realise I should really get used to the fact that whatever one does, there will always be critics.

It's never ok for everyone. We're not perfect.

Dadandson · #16 03-01-2011

Hello,
The level of English drivers is so high that Belgium drivers need many training to do a D

Do not forget that the track of BRCC is permanent and is therefore normal that the track is already.

@+ JP

Smartalec · #17 03-01-2011

Most permanent circuits don't use the exact same layout for weeks before the event, they use a different layout so no one gets to use the track before the event. Sure there will always be an advantage for local drivers whatever the track layout but it's completely wrong to use the EXACT layout prior to the event. If you can't make the practice day that's just the way it is, you can't expect to be able to practice for days and days just because you can't make the one designated practice day

How about anyone that's practiced on it already not being able to come along on Thursday to let the rest of us catch up a little? ........... bet the locals would love that

Smartalec · #18 03-01-2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lowie

Thinking about it .... I just realise I should really get used to the fact that whatever one does, there will always be critics.

It's never ok for everyone. We're not perfect.

I think it's pretty fair to critisize the fact that people can practice for ages above the majority and it could be ok for everyone, you just don't allow practice until the designated day, then all is fair

spenner · #19 03-01-2011

Can you confirm that Qualifying starts on friday ??? This wasn't what we was told!!!!

Me and others were told it was same as last year.... Practice - Friday, Qualifying - Saturday, Finals - Sunday...

GRIFF55 · #20 03-01-2011

Can you cancel my name off the list please? (Andy Griffiths)
many thanks