Winter Wonder 2015/16 dates....

[blue_pinky]

We have confirmed new dates for the Winter Wonder series 2015/16

Round 1 Sunday 25th October
Round 2 Sunday 1st November
Round 3 Sunday 22nd November
AGM* Sunday 29th November
Round 4 Sunday 6th December
Round 5 Sunday 13th December
Round 6 Sunday 3rd January
Round 7 Sunday 24th January
Round 8 Sunday 31st January
Round 9 Sunday 7th February
Round 10 Sunday 14th February
Round 11 Sunday 28th February
Round 12 Sunday 6th March

* AGM Date is provisional. No racing on AGM DAY.

Reserve dates – March 13th & March 27th

7 rounds from 12 to count.

[mrspeedy]

I know we've had a few discussions around the track about the club championships ...

7 to count from 12 rounds over the course of the winter seems a lot to me ..

My personal thoughts are that 4 to count from 6 rounds, maybe the first meeting of the month as a championship round would be a way of getting more peeps to actually run all the required rounds ..

[blue_pinky]

Tough call Si, give the incentive for maybe more people to only show up once a month...or to get maybe slightly lower numbers showing up more often....

No idea what the right answer is...but this is what we've done the last few years, and not sure it was really a broken system?

Winter is traditionally just as popular as summer....overall at least. The summer suffers from drop in numbers due to holidays, nationals, various other race commitments, etc, etc. Winter just suffers from some people not liking the cold!

Do any of the other racers have any opinions on this? We can run what ever way you want us to by consensus

[DrPaul]

Its our normal winter callender of 2 meetings per month with 50%+1 to count.

We normally start early October and finish the end of March but this year due to committments and the need to avoid other winter race dates we are starting a little later and finishing a little earlier so that is why January & February have 3 race meeting each month not the usual 2. We also need maintenance time during March to work on the whole site before Easter and the summer and national series start.

You only need 7 rounds to count so if you dont fancy all 12 dates its no biggie and with possible bad wather 12 meeting may not even happen so it would stioll be 50%+1 if bad weather affect more than 2 meetings.

We normally have a strong turn out through the winter, 7 rounds will focus racers attension if they want championship points! Some people care about the championship some dont so, some dont like the cold others love it, lets have a good winters racing!

[fivepointnine]

Maybe this has been answered before or maybe never even brought up, not sure. What about having some form of incentive for the series champs? Like top 10 or something. Maybe even just plaques?

[DrPaul]

Hello Fivepointnine,

Its not so much as incentives are needed as we have a good turn out for the winter series, obviously not eveyone enjoys racing in the cold, its just Mr Speedy has raised the question of how many rounds we race. Most of the club racers race for the fun, some care about championship points some dont, some just like the bragging rights over their race buddies.

In the past its always been 2 meetings a month which is the same in the summer so the plan is to continue that pattern, most people ask for even more race dates but 2 meetings a month is more than managable.