[racingdwarf]

In norfolk we ran an 1/8th club for ten years holding three nationals etc etc, but it was very hard to get raw beginers into rallyx as the cars just don't like pottering round with a lerner also they soon found that rallyx cars were very unforgiving on any cheep components servos,radio etc they found setting engines up some sort of dark voodo and then there were clutches,and shimming the diffs right and if they made a mistake like forgetting tiewraping their airfilter pipe to the engine and it came of mid race there face would fall a bit when you told them the engine was for the bin!! but it's ok cos the shop has some good cheep ones at £120+
Also running an 8th club can be a nightmare as getting a peice of land were nobody is going to complain about the noise can be hard work, and then the track maintanance is never ending as the cars are very hard on the track (unless you got astro££££)

As a result of all this the club had very few beginers, Kids would come look, there dad would take a look at the cars find out how much one was look at the amount of gear needed............then head for the gate!! most kids in rallyx have fathers who were well into it before hand (Elliot is a great eg)

Last year the club came to an end and I now run a tenth club on the site, it's not been easy but we now have a lot of new faces including 4 kids. The thing about 10th is you can set them off with say a B4 rtr and they can plug and play, they can get the car, a charger and some batterys for sub £200 and have a good days racing.Also when they are on the track marsheling the is far less chance of getting hurt.We do a display at the local school fate and this year were are doing a few more fates localy. Flyers in schools, local papers, posters in any shop thats sells cars. Two of our keenest new members found out about the club at there local swimming club

Is there a future? yes very much so.