National Newby's

[David Church]

This thread is for first timers to the National series.
Could you tell us what you expected before you have been to a national, and what you thought after you have been to an event?

I heard some comments like they never expected the pace to be so fast.

I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the event as a whole, and also your thoughts about each event you attend.

Cheers
Dc

[Big G]

12 heats... of course the pace will be fast!

[DaSloth]

Not sure if you mean of pace the event running or the pace of the other drivers, but i was really happy with the way it ran, it was consistent and once i got into the swing of things it was all ok.

I really enjoyed my first national, pretty much what i expected it to be though warmer nights would be nice =D

[panch]

Dave...

Both mine & Rich Davis' First National experience and what a great weekend it was all round, the track was great, the weather was great, the banter with the welsh boys was great and the standard was awesome (as expected)...

Looking at the round by round over the two days it was amazing to see how many places you could move up or down with only a few tenths difference, It just goes to show that you need to be near on perfect and consistent every lap to get in with a shout of any early alphabet letter !!

We didnt enter expecting to be anywhere near the middle let alone near the top of the pile and were quite happy to battle it out in the lower end of the scale...hoping to improve as the series progresses though and move up at least one or two finals by the end of the year...

Thanks to everyone involved with Talywain and to you guys running the meeting...

Roll on RHR

[David Church]

It's good for all to get feedback from people that have not been to a National before.
Feel free to introduce yourselves to me at the next meeting you are at, it won't be too hard to find me

[N7ELA]

It was my first national this weekend. I thought the organisation was great, both days went without a hitch and the commentating during the racing was fantastic. It let everyone know who was in the lead and what was happening.

Only thing I was surprised at was how quiet the referee was. I'm not knocking the referee but just expected racing at nationals to be super strict.

All in all it was a good weekend and although I finished better than I expected I found out a couple of seconds can be the difference between 2 finals.

[MiCk B.]

This was my first BRCA National.......

So thoughts, for us it was a long journey, left Dublin on the 8am ferry on Friday back in Dublin at 6.30am on Monday, and straight in to work.

Was it worth it................. yes.

As National newby's we were made very welcome by Paul (who kept us up to date on the reserve situation all week) Charlie, DC & the rest of the staff at Talywain (sorry that I can't remember names, there was a lot of 'em).

I was very happy & impressed with how the meeting was run, tight on time, but you always knew what was happening. The printed time table for everyone was great.

Racing as expected the standard was very high, but very fair. Like the Euros (Worlds) cracking to see the top lads do what the do so well.

Commentary for all the heats was a great thing to have. We're F5 since it's our first season and out in heat 1 in both classes. But all heats from first to last were given the same level of 'support' from the commentary team (Phil, Jonsey, DC [sorry if I'm missing out anyone]) as well as the race officials.

Hopefully we'll get entries for more of the rounds.


MiCk B. :-)