clanfield track updte

[ballistic bolwell]

finishd the track work of today with the digger and have a roller for this sunday morning so the track will be open for practice in the afternoon,will post a vid up sunday evening

[eyeayen]

Looking forward to seeing the new layout. Some photo's would be great to see what it's looking like now.

[ballistic bolwell]

there is a new vid on are forum under track topics,

[Dudders]

there is a new vid on are forum under track topics,

Where?

[ballistic bolwell]

sorry on the clanfield rc forum,trying to put a link up,computer skills not good,there is a link on clanfield section on maxbashing as well

[eyeayen]

Here

http://www.clanfieldrc.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=737

[Apex-Dean]

Hi,
Are you still open for practice this coming sunday ?

[eyeayen]

It's not officially reopened yet but I think if you help with some of the work, what's left of it anyway you can run your car. Might be best to go onto the Clanfield forum ( as linked above ) and ask ?

[ballistic bolwell]

the track is now open ever sunday 11am till 4pm,£10 for the day,please post me or text me if your coming ,dont want to sit there if no one is coming,

[jaffacake]

£10 for five hours?

[Stuweatherman]

£10 for five hours?

ouch!!

[eyeayen]

£10 on an unfinished track does seem a little steep.

How much is it going to be when the track opens for a day of racing ?

[ballistic bolwell]

track is finished,sorry what can you do for £2 per hour nowadays and remember tracks are not free to run,they come with alot of bills which any club committe will tell you ,

[Crazy L]

computer skills not goodl

What, still? FFS Tone, check out the local college for evening classes on computer literacy.....and maybe simple literacy too :p:p

[Stuweatherman]

But by pricing practice the same as an all day regional event surely your dis-wading people from coming along, 5 people paying £10 or maybe 20 paying £7 or £8???

By pricing it too high you'll just put people off coming at all!! South hants did a similar thing by increasing their indoor club night fees to try to raise money to resurface their outdoor track and all they've managed to do is to decrease their numbers! For people who didn't know, they went along for one night and never went again.

[Crazy L]

But by pricing practice the same as an all day regional event surely your dis-wading people from coming along, 5 people paying £10 or maybe 20 paying £7 or £8???

don't bother mush, just leave it be.

[ballistic bolwell]

always hard to please everyone ,just remember some poeple will pay £120 to race for 4days soon and just look at how much track time they get,if you go go-karting your pay £15 for 15mins,that works out at £300 for 5hours,or look at a packet of fags,this is what most clubs charge for a race or practice day and has been this price for as long as i can remember,

[eyeayen]

I was really looking forward to Clanfield reopening as I now have a car I can run there but at 110 mile round trip plus a £10 entry fee I won't be coming that much.

I just looked at the club 12 mile down the road from me, it's only £5, another one locally is £8 if you're not a member and £2 if you are a member. Torch is similar, £8 for non members and £6 if you're a member.

Perhaps this needs to be looked at again or the numbers won't come up...

[ballistic bolwell]

as i said i would love to please everyone and only charge £5,but this venue has high rent and running costs as not a flat track or astro turf,if you want dirt and big jumps it costs sorry to say,would be nice if drivers would be please to see that someone is willing to put their hand in their own pocket and get a track running,its only old clubs that have cheap entry because they have old rent costs

[eyeayen]

None of the clubs I've mentioned are old, Torch hasn't been there that long, South Coast have been there less than 5 years too.

I'll come up on the 25th to see what it's like and return some completed shells to people but if I'm going to spend an hour travelling I'd rather go somewhere else that's cheaper than the entry you're charging.

If it's run as a club there should be an annual fee that members pay and then they get a good discount on race day fees, if it's a flat fee every time I really think it needs to be lowered. As far as I'm aware most of the old members aren't interested, a lot of them are running electric now so if you want to get new people to the club I think you should look over it and see if it can be reduced ?

The other thing is if it's going to be that high an entry fee people will expect a tip top track every time they visit !

[ballistic bolwell]

when the club run it last year there was a joining fee and it was £10,ive been racing for eight years and raced all over the country and most 1/8 nitro tracks are £10,some are even more now with paying on the day fees,

[Crazy L]

Torch hasn't been there that long

I have to correct you on that one squire, Torch has been at its current site for 12 years now, and has existed for about 28 years.

On topic though, £10 is the going rate for 8th tracks, and people will pay to race, practice is another matter though although you get more tracktime.

High rent and high maintenance demands high numbers, but you have to have the high numbers or you may as well pack it in.

[jaffacake]

Reminds me of the dirtmasters at clanfield 2009
racers were turning up at gone 3pm and you still insisted they pay £10 to practice...WRONG WRONG WRONG!! :thumbdown:

[Jimmy Whitehall]

If you cannot afford £10.00 to use a track you need to be looking for a new hobby!

Track open this Sunday?

[eyeayen]

@ Jimmy Whitehall - I can afford £10 to use a track but as it's not a race day I don't feel the £10 is justified to in effect bash there. Race day fair enough, any other dates should be less because unless enough drivers turn up there won't be enough people to race. You've sort of missed my point too, the club was recently disbanded because of money issue, a lot of the old members won't be coming back so the numbers are going to be down, therefore to charge £10 probably isn't going to inspire new members to come and join. As I said it seems a lot when other clubs are charging considerably less.

@ Crazy L - Sorry I didn't realise TORCH had been there that long, someone I was chatting to recently told me it was only 5 or 6 years old so I took that as true, I stand corrected.

[Stuweatherman]

@ eyeayen In relations to TORCH its probably the resurfacing that they got confused about as they resurfaced it a couple of years ago.

And yes most people don't mind paying £10 for a RACE DAY, but not usually for just a practice or club meeting.

[eyeayen]

And yes most people don't mind paying £10 for a RACE DAY, but not usually for just a practice or club meeting.

Thank you Stu, that's what I was trying to get at.

[ballistic bolwell]

sorry guys but this thread was about the track and not the fees,not looking good for sunday for weather,but have to say alot of members have contacted me about racing and have been helping to rebuild the track,so please stop going on about what happened in the past ,i have built a track to go racing on and thats all i want to do if i lose money i dont care as long as everyone has had fun,if you want to race then come along if not its your loss