Originally Posted by DA_cookie_monst
Before we digress, the National racing bodies are only there to offer an umbrella organisation and create guidelines for clubs to operate within if they so wish.
What people GOT to realise, it isn't UP to the BRCA/ROAR what classes and what motors as a club, you run, or even how long a race is. So there is nowt stopping clubs making a limited cost class or beginners class, there is nothing stopping clubs going 4/5/6/7 cell, in the end, the EB homologation lists are there for BRCA sanctioned bodies and a help to clubs to organise racing.
Yes, and that is why you see clubs starting their own "grass roots" classes such as the stock and mod Recoil class.
However a single club isn't going to have great success turning around a hurting industry. We need to pull together.
The BRCA/ROAR is there to push commonality and standards to widen the audience and scope of racing...to help join all these little clubs...to help popularize the sport.
As such, they need to be sure they aren't "missing the forest for the trees."
We need an organization that will look at the bigger picture. We need an organization that will actively seek ways to popularize the sport and bring in new drivers. It has to do more than just sanction races and specify motor windings.
If they BCRA and ROAR don't see this need, or are to entrenched in the empires they've built, perhaps it is time for a new organization.