I think this is a very good point, but i think the benefit from my idea is that you would not need to visit the venus so much before a national. This would ensure people spent more time at their local club supporting their grass roots racing encouraging racing to grow over the UK as a whole and not at key clubs because they have a national that year.
If you take Chris's point Bury metro will be suffering from a boom with loads of people wanting to use the facility but not many wanting to help with the club so they get some short term growth and funds but as soon as the national passes they are in their bust cycle where every one moves on and only the hard core local club memebers remain. This situation i can't see helping a club long term.
I personaly feel my idea has come from the amount of purpose built tracks that we now race on (not having a go at these tracks as they all have great facilities and in the last few years we have been lucky that they have asked to hold nationals) if i think back to Aylesbury/Worksop/Bury St Edmunds & Holbech etc there was more of a split between what i would classify a level playing feild track v a track you really need to practice on before a national.
I know not all are keen on some of the mentioned tracks but i think it does cut down the cost of racing over the course of a season
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