Originally Posted by TheOldBoy

If every racer had that attitude we would only have two classes of racing, 2wd and 4wd stock. All the well run clubs will allow for all the different types of vehicles that can be raced if the numbers are there. A lot of clubs will only push what they want their members to run and not do anything about other classes unless member numbers put the push on them to run the extra classes.

The important thing about pushing and having classes for the younger drivers to compete in is that they are what will help the club grow. It is from the steady influx of new members racing in any class of racing that can have the numbers to make up a race, and that class and more members because of that class, the benefits to the club is a stronger club, a wider variety of racing available, and therefore allows the club to continue to grow. Of course the club first has to take the step of actually being new member friendly and not just telling any prospective new member that turns up with a cheap basic car that the club doesn't really have a class for that car to race in, dump them into a race with the top racers with top cars, watch them get flogged and then tell them they would have to spend a load of cash to upgrade car etc. That is no way to try and attract new members because they will soon walk away from being beaten all the time even after upgrading. New members, and mainly the young one's, need a class to race and have fun in so they get the experience to go up another level.

I know the club I'm in tries to attract new members, but in reality the midweek racing is not the best thing for school age kids as they won't be allowed to stay up racing until 10.30 on a school night. This come about because nitro and ep offroad was run together and like me, a few of us stopped racing as we felt it was a waste of time marshelling nitro's for 30 min and racing for 6mins. It come down to being forced to join the nitro ranks and just about give up EP racing or give up, so a few of us gave up and this is what would happen to any club that has it's main focus on just one or two types of classes.