Bristol racing

[Willa]

I'm moving to Bristol in the next few weeks and was wondering if anyone knew of any racing in that area?
I currently race 1/10 electric off road but might be tempted to get something different if there's none of that racing nearby.
Thanks

[blue_pinky]

Hi there...

Bristol itself is a little bit of a black hole for offroad...but just outside there are a couple of options.

I live in Weston-super-Mare and know this little predicament all too well!

Literally just the other side of the severn bridge is the Caldicot club (www.caldicotrcracers.co.uk/), we have section on here to see what's going on, we're indoors every friday night, and run 1/10th and 1/16th offroad. We've been pretty busy lately, getting around 6-7 full heats of racers every week, very mixed abilities so there's a good race to be had for anyone, from newbies to regulars at the nationals....mostly 10th 2wd's of late, but always 4wds and micros as well. Quite a few from this side of the bridge make the trip, so your not alone there! Would be less than 30 mins from Bristol.

As for outdoors, Caldicot only runs outdoors once a year for it's welsh regional round, but...keep your eyes peeled as there is a new offroad track being built in Weston...which will help fill the void a little...more info on that will be released shortly once we get the final go and get things under way.

After that you have Tiverton, about 45 mins south from me in Weston, so probably about an hour or so from Bristol itself...depending on where abouts you end up. Great little club, well worth the trip, they have a section on here you can check out.

Then about 45-60 mins from Bristol, again into Wales you've got Talywain...out in a valley near Pontypool, has been used for nationals over the last few years, though not got one this year...the track there is um....improving all the time shall we say...they are trying to cultivate more a of a regular club following, which they've not had in recent years, so they'd be worth a look too.

Another club (though slightly more rough and ready and the moment) around that welsh area, and slightly closer to you than Taly, is trying to set up a better track now too....GNR....not a lot of info about that currently, but watch the WRCA section in here for more details as they get going this year too.

Hope that helps, look forward to seeing another new face in the area!!!

[DrPaul]

Welcome to Bristol Willa,

WORM meet at Weston Super Mare every 2nd and 4th Tuesday night of the month racing micros. There are a bunch of us who live in Bristol who race at WORM , its about 20mins from Bristol, indoors and great fun.

You can find out more info on the Micro Forum here:
http://www.uk-microrc.co.uk/forum/

Plus the new outdoor off road venture opening in Weston shortly.

Get in touch

Paul

[blue_pinky]

Oooops Should have mentioned them as well...much fun with micros there too

[JCJC]

Swindon may be an hour on the M4 on a good day (), also have a club listing on oOple.

[alan p]

Originally Posted by JCJC

Swindon may be an hour on the M4 on a good day (), also have a club listing on oOple.

It's about 45 minutes on a good day

And we start racing outdoors on the 8th of April

[cornishboy176]

Originally Posted by DrPaul

Plus the new outdoor off road venture opening in Weston shortly.

Can't wait,be good to have more off road buggy tracks in the south west

Let's get back the old days of the SWORDS

[Alan - South West RC]

There will soon be an outdoor off-road track in Weston I believe and myself and Rob at South West RC have something else we are looking at.

We may be able to use a large split level warehouse for racing in the village of Yatton (it about 9500 square feet of floor space). Depending on how our meeting goes on Monday we may decide to build an indoor astro track. We will make sure racing is on a different week or day to the outdoor racing as we dont want to affect them (plus we want to race there) and it will only be a temporary thing while the warehouse is sold (unless we get enough interest to offer them good rent).

I'll keep you posted and update on Monday.

[Willa]

Thanks for the replies, I'll hopefully start coming racing from mid april