I was not going to post here but have decided to let all of you have the benefit of my wisdom. This is a copy of my post in my clubs forum. I hope it might help others and it cant hurt to get other peoples opinion on my ideas.


The only way to grow numbers is to gain new racers.(this may seem to be obvious but its not always).
As old boy said we must promote the hobby. Maybe some weekend fun days that have been well advertised at all the hobby shops in town.
The offroad car numbers as wazza said have grown but how many more racers do we have? I would suspect it is very few. The same racers run multiple classes which artificially inflates numbers.
Dallas offered the opinion that numbers have changed since shifting to wednesday nights. A few members have asked about the possibility of trying sundays again.
The current format of racing 2wd,2wd truck, 4wd and sc10's is beginning to make for a very cramped night. (I for 1 skip the last race of the night as I have an early start).
How about we try to have a combined fun/race on one sunday even if it is over the break after the regular season? This day should be advertised around town and if we hold it in a month or so we should have plenty of time to organise. It would not have to start early maybe 2:30, 3ish and could still be finished by dark. If it is even mildly successful we could run one every month or so and I am willing to bet our race days will benefit from new members. If we get enough kids turn up regularly we could form a kids club attatched to our club and possibly run the kids with a points system and the adults/racers as a fun thing to fill in the day, everyone would benefit.

Just my thoughts

Terry

PS feel free to modify any/all the above if you think it could work.
Also the current committee does not have to be responsible for the organising if they feel they have enough on their plates already. (I know you are all putting in a lot of o/t for the club already.) We could form a sub committee for which I would put up my hand.