Friday 29 November 2013

overview of committee meeting 28.11.13

committee meeting 28/11/13
 
apologies Curtis and Richard stain
 
present Daniel Austin, stuart butler, ben gayson, jimmy noke, Richard Johnson, alan willows,andy hicklin, martin Thorpe, nigel town, Daniel town.
 
 
 
membership and race fees are to be held at the same level for 2014,
 
reduced membership is available from 1st sept at half fee.
 
membership forms will be available from race control from 31st nov.
 
all members will receive a membership card on renewal.
 
brca membership will no longer be processed through the club.
you can join direct via the website or post (we will have forms available)
please note you will have to show your new card to race control in the new year.
 
Saturday club nights,
you will initially be only able to book in for one class,
if you wish to race another please put your name down. these will be allocated on a first come basis
until the heats are full. this is to enable us to hopefully always run four rounds.
 
tyres for offroad
from the new year we will be running a trial on the new carpet. only minispike type tyres
will be allowed no mini pins. this is to see if it reduces the amount of fluff produced and reduced grip levels for the other classes and to protect the clubs large investment.
 
Christmas cracker
set up for this meeting will take place on Friday night, time tbc. please help if you can also with clearing away on sunday night. a lot of work goes into this lets make it a good one!
 
tape
we have had issues with the tape lifting, we are going to trial some different tape and laying techniques so please bear with us!

it is with regret that we have not been successful in our applications for nationals this year. both the on and off road section committees voted to go elsewhere. 
 


Membership Forms 2014

Membership forms are now available on the downloads page. You can now Join Broxtowe Model Car Club for the rest of 2013 and 2014 for 1 price.
Adults £12, Juniors (U16) £8

BRCA membership is no longer available through the club. You can download the form from our download page and post it off, or go online and re join there.

You will not be allowed to race as of January 2014 if you do not have current BRCA cover.

Forms Here

Join / ReJoin the BRCA Here

Monday 25 November 2013

Bring our yer dead. The Re-awakening.

Two nights of vintage racing in December. 14th and 21st. Bring your buggys or on road classics and give 'em a run.
Non competitive but just as good fun!

A bit of RC history for you below!
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This 1/12th Ishimasa FF12E chassis from 1979, world’s first front wheel drive rc car. It came with a couple of different body types. There was a Porsche 917, the Savanna RX-7 a Renault Mirage. There may have been more.
Presented in ‘Graupner Neuheitenkatalog 1980′, Graupner followed the first successes achieved in 1979 with the vehicle in some national races.

Information courtesy of http://www.classic.rc-junkies.net/

Lots of info on classic RC cars

Sunday 24 November 2013

Latest Results

Latest results from round 2 of the indoor Sunday championship and the Saturday night championship now on the website here.

Sunday 17 November 2013

Broxtowe Model Car Club AGM Club Report

Broxtowe Model Car Club
AGM2013
 

below is the club report from the agm
 
 
 
 

Club report 2013

2013 has seen another busy and successful year for the club.

 Indoor finished well, with the expected dip in numbers not occurring which left us struggling to run four rounds to the end!

The snowman series was well attended by all with quite a few newcomers coming to practice for the national later in the year

The outdoor season started with our regular Easter meet, hastily scheduled after A1 pinched the date and then had to cancel because of a flooded track!

The mid-east regional series started at Broxtowe with 2wd, there were 83 entries an encouraging start to the season, 4wd and short course returned in august, 60 entries over the two classes, pretty good to say it was the last round of the championship!

Short course returned to Broxtowe in May excellent numbers again over 60 entries across the three classes.

The only on road action this year took place in June with the BRCA Clubmans meeting. A fantastic event with amazing face book feedback and good weather!

The following weekend saw the BRCA off road national; unfortunately the weather was not so kind! Mixed conditions on the Saturday saw some odd round scores! Sunday was more consistent. The event went well and the club would like to express special thanks to Eugene Galley for going the extra mile to make sure the event was a success. 1st to arrive on Thursday morning and last to leave on Sunday night.

Friday club nights went ok with the usual interruptions from the weather.

Indoors started as the last finished, very busy! Unfortunately three rounds seems the norm now, with many drivers electing to run two classes it makes it impossible to do anymore!

The future

planned events, the snowman series continues outdoors over the winter, also an indoor series mainly for on road. The Christmas cracker returns for a two day meeting this year 28th/29th dec. Entry forms for all these events are available on the website.

National events for both on and off road have been applied for the results of which should be known very shortly.

Work to complete outdoors includes painting both buildings at request of the council, connection of electrical supply to the new building and general upkeep.

It has to be said that helpers for both maintenance and at events has been woefully inadequate this year and has to change. The committee would like to remind all members that it’s their club and in their interests to get involved! The continued success of the club depends on it.

 
 
Following the election of officers the following people were duly elected to the committee
 
Chairman          Dan Austin
 
Vice Chairman  Richard Johnson
 
Treasurer            Nigel Town
 
Secretary             Andrew Hicklin
 
Membership        Alan Willows
 
committee            Jimmy Noke, Warren Fox, Lance Walker, Stuart Butler, Martin Thorpe,
                             Mark Dougill, Richard Stain,
 
Junior Reps          Daniel Town, Curtis Stain, Ben Gayson
 
 
 
 

Friday 15 November 2013

Thursday 7 November 2013