Club News Outdoor club meetings start from Friday 1st May, we will be catering for both on-road and off-road racing this summer. Also, this year a season ticket pass is available entitling any members to race every friday in a single class for a one-off fee of £25 (conditions apply, see race director or a committee member for more details). All summer dates have now been confirmed and added to the club race calendar, starting 5th April. The key summer dates have now been added to the club race calendar, weekly club meeting dates are still to be confirmed. I just wanted to highlight that we now have a good regular turnout of people racing buggys and tamiya mini's on saturday nights, I have updated the saturday series page accordingly. The AGM Minutes for 2008 are now available online, see the following link for details 2008 AGM Minutes I will be at the club race meetings between now and Xmas to collect membership applications, if you are not going to be racing during this period could you please download and print the forms and send them over to me asap to ensure you BRCA insurance is renewed in a timely manner. Membership Form Link The postal entry form is now available, Entry Form. A prize fund has been provided by autoexposure and PBM Racing for our Xmas offroad special, this includes vouchers for the top three drivers in each final and random prizes throughout the event, we hope to see you all there, see below for booking in details. A single off-road event meeting is to be held at greasley sports hall on Sunday 28th December, this will be a special event with an extra hall being hired for pitting so we are able to put up a larger track than the usual off-road series events which also means we can cater for more racer, 80 drivers, book in by emailing alanwillows@yahoo.co.uk giving your name, class and crystals, £6 members £8 non-members. See Oople Mid-East forum for more details and to discuss. The 2009 membership form is now available to download from the general information page. Postal applications are preferred, however we will be distributing the forms at the club meetings during December, the cost of joining the club is only £10 and gives big savings on race fee's at any club meetings and helps fund the running of the club. The club Annual General Meeting takes place on the 23rd October at Greasley Barber Sports Hall, this is the members chance to choose who is on the club commitee next year and have their say on all matters related to the running of the club. So please attend if possible, the committee would also welcome some new people to help with the running of the club. The entry form for the off-road winter series is now online, spaces are limited so please get your entry in asap to avoid dissapointment. Entry Form. The winter series dates are now online, this includes Saturday evening indoor racing and the Sunday Indoor Off-Road Dates, see the Club Calendar for more information.. Space has been made available for up to four heats of regular touring car racing at the eurocup meeting, all brands of touring cars are eligable and both stock and modified motors are permitted. The race calendar has been updated to reflect that this meeting is now a joint meeting for Tamiya Drivers and regular touring car racers. Additional dates for Off-Road Club meetings have been added to the race calendar, these are 8/6/08 and 20/7/08. We are holding work days to prepare the track for summer on 19th & 26th April, this including general tidys, astro turfing the grassed area so we can use multi-surface off-road racing, painting and mowing. All help is greatly appreciated in order to give the track a good fresh look to kickstart the summer!. A new site has been set up covering off-road activitys in the east midlands area, this site currently also includes race reports from the recent BMCC Indoor Off-Road Event, and entry forms for off-road events, see www.me-or.co.uk. Tamiya Eurocup entry forms are no online, see the following link for more information http://www.tamiyaeurocup.co.uk. Just a reminder that BMCC indoor off-road series starts in february, see leaflet for more information here. The race dates for summer have started to come through, firstly we have confirmation of the Tamiya Eurocup which will take place on 17th August, also we have our dates for the Off-Road regional series which are 2wd on 4th May and 4wd on 15th June, TORC meetings which are 29th June & 21st September, and finally BTCC on the 29th August. All dates have been added to the Club Calendar, club series information and dates are still to be confirmed. The first batch have arrived and will be available for collection on saturday night, everyone who got there memberships in before new year are there, see Andy Wesson to collect yours. News Archives