Originally Posted by Roelof

No toplevel competition in RC racing have brought grow on clublevel. Even now with plenty of Internet coverage from like REDRC with their ETS/EOS/ENS, RCracingtv with their European championships and even LiveRC with all their US based races do not make it to the wide public.
Most of the coverage have only an eye on the top drivers, the rest who are making such large event possible with buying products and subscribe to those races as field filling are hardly mentioned. RCracingTV is not that big with live coverage on the EC-B's and 40+ as with the EC-A races. Also on REDRC you can count the written words on 2 hands about the new ENS 40+ race.

If you want to attract people to go to the larger races then make sure that everyone counts.Even if its about a "boring" F-final, make a report with a nice overview of the finish so people can inform their home front.

And then, what are those top guys doing to the clubs and their fans? Most of them I know are avoiding the local clubs. Not only due a busy schedule but they are also "too good" to mingle among low level drivers, why spending expensive practise time to those poor drivers to help them to a higher level and try to avoid them 2 times a lap on the the track.....
While most top guys from Nascar, Indy, F1, Soccer, Football, Baseball etc have a kind of support program for youngsters to create new blood helping people and their sports.

Our sport has a lack of a right PR machine telling (forcing) drivers what to do to promote their sports and try to lift it into the same TV programs as other sports. And although this seems a good promotion, it is not. I am missing all other RC racing classes.