Originally Posted by smelly62

Dale and I were there and we never felt rushed at all. There was time to have a break at lunch but the organisers chose not to. There was still three hours of daylight left at the end of each day which we used to get our cars ready for the next day after which we went and had a dinner and beer with our friends.
The track was open for practice on Thursday and there was still plenty of time to run two practice rounds of 15 min on Friday morning before qualifying started.
I think there should be no qualifying on Thursday but track open for practice.
If entry numbers are large leave out practice on Friday morning and get straight into qualifying with 6 x ten min heats if only 80 (or whatever is a realistic number that can be run in three days using 10 min heats) or less entries or 6 x seven min heats if entriy numbers are greater than 80. I feel it is wrong to limit entry numbers and we need to race 6 qualifyers however long they may be.
For marshalling reasons Electric buggy entries need to be at least as many as the number of IC race numbers eg if 12 car races then 12 Electric entries needed.
Problem with more classes is longer race meetings which defeats the objective of three day events in the frist place.
I think one hour final ok but only with 7 min heat events.
The AARCMCC rules are the events should be advertised six months ahead of time with entries closing one month before the event. If this is ever enforced (I know,I know, I'm dreaming) then it would be way easier for both clubs and drivers to plan for three day events.
Ask most club members that only go once or twice a year to Sanctioned events why they don't go to more events and most will say "time off and cost". Ask someone who has never been to one at all and most will say not good enough or not interested but a lot will say time off and cost. The length of the heats is not on their minds but the time off and cost is.