Originally Posted by
jiml
Excellent idea, but it's the execution that's the problem. What other interests do you offer?
The carpet off road track near me had a crawling track in the back. Very intricate. But I never saw anyone use it. They replaced with a drift track. Now they have a very healthy drift program going. And the mini-z track is very popular.
What works? What doesn't work? And when do you realize it was a bad idea?
I think you hit the nail on the head... the local track in my area once had a YUGE following for 1/10 offroad where the club racing turnout often was larger than the 1/8 program. Then they moved all the 1/10 dirt onto the 1/8 track to offer larger 1/8 features and converted the 1/10 track into a turf track which was not well received. Many of the 1/10 drivers migrated over to 1/8 and eventually they converted the 1/10 turf track into a pit area due to lack of interest in the 1/10 program. Many folks asked to convert the 1/10 track back to dirt but that never happened.
They experimented with offering smaller 1/10 layouts inside the 1/8 track but it became a mix match of guys wanting to run their 1/10 cars on the full 1/8 layout.
It's a double edged sword... you need a 1/10 program which offers spec classes and low entry cost into the hobby, but it's hard to sustain those classes if the masses are expert level drivers.
They offered oval for a while and that was fairly popular until they suspended oval for a month to cater to a large 1/8 event, then all the oval racers migrated to other oval tracks and never came back.
RC is VERY fickle, especially when egos get in the way
