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Costs

Cadwell circuit hire lets say £16000 per day (a fraction of Doningtons & Brands hire costs and probably on the conservative side)

Classes racing = 9 last time we were there
Cost of entry £115, of which some goes to paying for the medical cover, some towards the ACU Licence so lets say £85 is left to go to Circuit hireThe circuit hire spread across 9 classes/grids comes to £1778 per class/grid, this would require 21 entrants on each grid to cover the costs, providing they are not paying just the £25 for an extra race.

New Era as the organising club that has to pay for the circuit hire well in advance would be wise to work along the lines of a minimum 25 entries per class/grid to cover their costs. So when looking at Guest classes they would be looking for the ones that can put around 25 riders on each grid. DD says they can do that and they often do, but sometimes they don't.

Brands and Donny cost a lot more so they probably need in excess of 30 on each grid with slightly hire entry fees, something DD might manage but no guarntees so at these venues its in their interests to offer just one grid (just like the Dutch club did at Assen) and know you will get the required number. Now if they had offered us two seperate grids and by the closing date only had 45 entries and with programmes etc needing to be at the printers within 8 days from the closing date it would leave them very little time (1 week) to change things, so that DD only had one mixed grid and then sell the other grid to someone else, it just wouldn't be possible in that time frame

Assen is a good example, last year we didn't get enough bikes out there and could not guarantee them we would this year so they have gone with another guest class.