hehe, sadly countries that speak differant languages across europe seem to have closer to mathcing rules than we do.

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it'd be better in my opinion to get all the seperate 'governing bodies' both state and national that are all off doing their own thing at the moment to the table and form one body.. like the uk's brca or usa's roar etc. so you'd basicly have the national body with state directors.

special club level races or smaller regional events could be classed as 'regional level events' and could be organised thru the state director to reach a suitable date to avoid overlaps and then advertise these races to appropriate clubs in their state who pass that on to their members, perhaps at these the host club is responsable for scrutineering / race control, etc.

then the next step would be 'state level events' where events like a nsw v qld challenge or a state titles would be organised thru the national body by the relevant state directors, again to avoid overlaps. also state directors would be responsable for passing on details to its clubs whom in turn pass that on to their members, at this level of event it should be the hosting state's directors responsability to see that scrutineering, race umpiring, etc happens.

then national level made up by various state directors and maybe a couple of additional people would decide rules which get passed onto the states, be responsable for national titles etc, etc.

one of the problems at the moment is there are just overlapping events left right and center... which hurts turnouts to all events on at the same time which in my opinion hurts racing.

also a good idea for bigger events would be to make sure the 'biggest class' .. say 2wd for offroad and tc onroad have racing on both days if it's a 2 day event.. this will make travelling alot more appealing rather than 'x hours drive for 1 days racing then turn around and go home'. in qld that usually means stock on day 1 and mod + 540 on day 2.

basiclly things like that to give all clubs a good reason to be apart of a governing body (eg. advertise your local event thru the state director and all members at other clubs get told about it) and then the more individual clubs and racers the more exciting larger meets will be and without clashing events, not having to worry about different rules when you travell, etc, etc..imo everyone would benifit alot more.

at a club level people shouldnt have to be a member of a club to race.. but they should be rewarded if they are. common things here at the moment is discounted entry fees for club members and open trophy meets where anyone can race but only members get the prizes, trophy etc. if club membership included discounted membership to a national governing body which in turn has lower entry fees for members to race at events under it, there would be even more incentive.

another advantage if a single governing body took off and grew a good membership would be then they could work out a deal where if a hobby store offers a discount to members on say rebuildable stock/540 motors and perhaps even spec and/or control tyres they would in turn get more publicity and increased volume of sales, etc.
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please excuse any spelling / rambling.. i only just woke up