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[Jolley]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Taking this on board, where are most of the DSC members located geographically so we can make the change next year to run the series with a club that only runs on tracks close to the DSC heartland.

That would reduce the travel costs for most people.

You could drop Anglesey and Pembrey for Silverstone and Donnington.... but that would be dependant upon whatever Hottrax decide to do, and I suspect it is a lot cheaper to run at Pembrey/Anglesey than it is at Silverstone/Donnington.

I quite like the tracks we run at.

[PDL]

Originally Posted by Jolley

You could drop Anglesey and Pembrey for Silverstone and Donnington.... but that would be dependant upon whatever Hottrax decide to do, and I suspect it is a lot cheaper to run at Pembrey/Anglesey than it is at Silverstone/Donnington.

I quite like the tracks we run at.

As a guide Oulton costs £28k to hire I would expect Donny is the same, and Anglesey is about £18k to hire. But they are building new pits/garages and Tower so it may go up

[antonye]

Originally Posted by Jolley

I quite like the tracks we run at.

Good!!!

When we were discussing the "offers on the table" late last year, one of the club offered us a calendar which looked something like this:

Cadwell Park
Cadwell Park
Cadwell Park (Mountain)
Cadwell Park
Mallory
Cadwell Park
Cadwell Park

Now even as someone who loves Cadwell, that wouldn't appeal to me as a race season!

Track selection is one of the big things that dictates the cost, as I'm sure you appreciate, and we are getting a great selection of tracks with Hottrax that is comparable with anything we had with New Era ... maybe with the exception of including Assen!

The formula for DD has always been cost, and will remain a focus going forward. We have discussed many times the "extras" that we could put into DD - tyre warmers, tyre choice, rule changes - but it always turns out that it adds to the cost rather than reducing them.

We also had the opportunity to switch club last year, and thus look to see if we could get better value for money, and Kev did an amazing job of balancing up the cost-per-minute of track-time from ALL the offers we had, and they were all within pennies of each other, so we had no real issues to deal with sacrificing the cost of entry against quality of circuits.

In my opinion, and it is just my opinion for what it's worth, I really don't see any problems in DD. The fact that the riders have any say over things like the rules and direction of the series is something you would not get in any other race series to this degree, that I am aware of.

Maybe the series really isn't broken and doesn't need fixing at all?

[PDL]

Originally Posted by antonye

...Maybe the series really isn't broken and doesn't need fixing at all?

From an outsiders perspective your series isn't broke at all it is very successful. Maybe just market it a little bit more, in a focussed way, know who your market is and then offer rookies some incentive.

[bradders]

Originally Posted by PDL

From an outsiders perspective your series isn't broke at all it is very successful. Maybe just market it a little bit more, in a focussed way, know who your market is and then offer rookies some incentive.

+1

[antonye]

Originally Posted by PDL

From an outsiders perspective your series isn't broke at all it is very successful. Maybe just market it a little bit more, in a focussed way, know who your market is and then offer rookies some incentive.

Yes, I think you're very much right on this point!

We do actually have flyers at race rounds now and we'll pick up on putting out press releases of results to the bike/sport press too as this may help generate more interest.

[Simps]

Wish I hadnt said anything now!

I think the tracks are all good.
Class B is packed.

Just Class A numbers were a bit low and thought that we might be able to inject some renewed interest by adding a alightly more powerful or newer bike.

If for example I finished in the top 3 this year (I know its a very big IF) I would doubt I would stay on next year in B and at the moment I am not sure I would go to A but that could change by the end of the year!

If I am a great deal richer perhaps I will try the 848 challenge, we shall see.

[Gbyte666]

Originally Posted by 955SP

If I am a great deal richer perhaps I will try the 848 challenge, we shall see.

LOl, did you see the Monday 848 race at Thruxton, good luck with that...lol

Craig

[antonye]

Originally Posted by Gbyte666

LOl, did you see the Monday 848 race at Thruxton, good luck with that...lol

You know what, I was at Silverstone for the opening round and watching from the pit wall I had *exactly* the same thought!!!

[Simps]

Missed it, only watched Brands. Was it carnage?