| SPANK MY ARSE AND CALL ME CHARLIE!
chris only asked a simple question:
"would many of this years racers and prosepctive ones for next year be interested in a race outside of the UK?"
a simple yes/no and maybe a comment would have done!
chris, as i see it, is just trying to throw ideas out there to improve the series no harm in that. if no one does it then it will collapse and stagnate.
any changes made to the format, number of rounds, venues etc will be done in association with the views of current and prospective racers no doubt.
lets not all start flapping about things that are not an issue yet.
regarding a comment from jools:
"To be honest, from the tension in this thread the foreign round proposal seems to be another example of the DD series acting in a divisive and alienating way to the ordinary grass roots members when it should be inclusive."
while i respect you jools, and believe most of your comments are spot on, i think you a wide of the mark here.
DD is only adding to the DSC. this thread was a simple question, no more, no less. everything that is connected with DD is in ADDITION to all the other stuff the club does. if someone doesnt want to go to a DD round to watch or take part, fine, they can carry on with all the usual DSC stuff they do. its still there. not everything the club does has to be "inclusive", some people want to do rideouts others dont; some people like meeting for drinks others dont; some dont want to do trackdays others do. this goes for all the clubs activities.
you choose what you want to do, you leave the ones you dont. its called freedom of choice.
"alienating way to the ordinary grass roots members" ?
what is a grass roots member anyway?
i do what i can and more importanly what i want in the club.
only been on one rideout,
do the essex meets every now and then,
done DSC trackdays
done factory trip
do lunchtime drinks with DSC'ers
do xmas drinks
do AGM's
do DD.
dont know if that makes me grass roots or not? but even if i didnt ride in DD i would just view it as another string to the DSC bow that i could either join in or not.  |