what do you guys think of this idea.

all club presidents agree to put aside a agreed amount of money to then, at the end of the year fund a big inter club challenge race meet.

during the normal points season each quarter period clubs hold a inter club qualification day. only club members can enter and during this day club members race for points which are acumulated (like a championship) towards deciding which club member is the local track champ.

from here all members are ranked and the top 10 (just a example) then at the end of the year, after 4 inter club challenge qualification rounds have occured these club winners get together with the club winners of other local tracks. (eg; moorebank, mingara, illawarra, brookvale, penrith, canberra, tamworth and any other nitro clubs that there may be in nsw) for a inter club challenge.

with the money each club prez has put aside a local netball court is hired out and used as the "neutral ground" to hold the end of year event. this allows all club participants to have a equal chance of winning.

from hear a nsw, qld, sa, wa, nt, tas, vic interclub champ is crowned, and with the money that each club put aside to organise the end of year event (and with the help of sponsorship possibly) the winner is flown expenses payed to participate at the touring car world titles. (if they wish to participate). this would increase australian driver participating and help promote the sport within oz and around the world. (due to greater participant numbers).

sponsorship could be aranged so that each club is sponsored by a hobby store, hardware store or whatever. sponsorship could be attracted by outlining the exposure each store will have during the racing year and at the culmination of the challenge.

local council could be encouraged to participate by promoting the year long event in the local paper. the council which agrees to hold the end of year interclub challenge for each state would then promote it again in the local paper. positives for participating councils would be increased spending in the local community by visiting racers from around each state.

positives:
-increase club members. (due to the fact that only members are elligable for the end of year race meet and only members can participate in the qualification rounds.

-inter club rivalry. more competition for club members

-communication between club members prez etc

-increased exposure to 200mm nitro

-increased exposure to 200mm tourer world titles

-increased council participation

-interstate rivalries i always knew sydney was better than melbourne.

-sponsorship for local tracks

-greater exposure to sponsors

-possibility of sponsors promoting entire event if they are a large company. eg hardwarehouse could quite posibly pay for the end of year event if they were shown the positive image a community e event such as this one would bring them. (keeping kids of the street bla bla bla)

Have you sold that Neo - I think its time you changed your name !

Threres something missing in this as a Sport - Prizes!

We should start to organise an Interclub series where each club holds a round at their local track.

Obviously all the other clubs travel to the participating clubs track and you compete as a club team and also as an individual.

Then at the end of the series there are prizes for the winning club and best individual performance.

I think this would be a good place to start - with about 5 clubs or so.

And youd be sure to have a reasonable turnout - if 10 people from each club attended you would have 50 plus people

I'm sure this would make for a great day !

i haven't sold the NEO yet. it's a steal at $600 bucks! oww well

tryed changing name. no can do. unless i re register.

i like the idea of a huge event at the end of the year. if you make a challenge with one club going to the others track it limits the amount of participants, and leaves the event being a locals only type thing. if all clubs aim to a end of year event it would also build up the hype for the eventual clash of all nsw clubs.

what you could do is hold a club vrs club day like you said but have it inbetween each qualification round. so every 1.1/2 to 2 months clubs meet at the opposing local tracks for a challenge.

prizes could be trophies, free car kits (supplied by sponsor if they are a hobby store), free membership to rc clubs etc.

a all expenses paid tripto race o/s is a pritty good prize though

Oh yeah and good prizes like cash for the club, good cars - radios - set up equip etc

If each club contributes to the series say $300 dollars you got $1500 already

then say $10 race fees each person for each round 50 people x $10 x 5 rounds = $2500 thats

$4000 already - plus you could run a series raflle etc.

Now with that you purchase some goodies sponsors have provided at cost price ( they got nothing to loose )

and waalllaah - you got something worth been in it for

the mingara guys could start it of by challengine the moorebank guys. get each club prez to organise it, hold it when there isn't a meca or dsi and bobs your uncle. or maybe ilawarra racers challengine the mingarra guys.

plus the money the clubs would make by having people register as members. use the qualification rounds as a membership drive. ie; show of the club, and makeit a prerequisite that all the racers who want thier points to be registered for the inter club challenge have to be members of thier local track.

You need good prizes - to make it worth while travelling to a few places and going to all the rounds.

I don't think one race is enough to gain any momentum - people at our track wouldn't care if we were having a qualifier for a big race in the future !

But If we said next meet is at Wolongong - We want as many as possible for a fun day to earn team points ! it would be some sort of an event.

At the moment its - wanna go to Moorebank for Mecca ? No way haven't got a chance on that track

Moorebank - is not a good option as you Know it takes a while to learn to drive there - We need tracks that everyone can get involved in , with pull start engines etc. and just turn up and have a good run !

yeah i guess your right.

so not many of you guys will be down here for meca? how far is it to your track from liverpool?

Its less than an hour and a half, but thats not the problem. One of the guys that comes to our track every meet lives right near moorebank but doesn't feel he's up to driving there !

i would rather see a statewide 'tour' with a point score arrangement with double points for an end of year 'state championship'

perhpaps make it a 6 round event drop worst round, share it between the clubs each year (i guess a little bit like meca now just involving more clubs with parhaps more 'mainstream' rules)

i would not just make it 200mm nitro, it has to be electric as well.

as for sponsorship, you would need to have the series locked down with a package to present to a potential sponsor, generally people are not keen to hand over anything to something ill concieved and poorly excuited.

You would also need to lock in the rules not like the macca challange, i personlly think that if you let any motor, body,tyres ETC you will once again give the checkbook racers the bigger advantage then they already have

I agree with David
Why not give each club prez a quick call and see who's in and who's out?

Then work out a calendar with dates @ each track.

Perhaps the finals could be @ Eastern Creek go-kart using their
go-kart as the track

If you need help doing the website, lemme know

so what's going on?