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

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!


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

Latest Results

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

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
 
 
 
 

Club Constitution Proposal

New club constitution available here. This is a proposal and is yet to be voted on at the AGM.

Christmas Cracker Entry

Chrismas Cracker entry for now available here

Annual General Meeting

Our Annual General Meeting will take place on saturday 16th November at 5pm in the Parish hall adjacent to the sports hall.
Racing will commence in the sports hall once the AGM has completed.
This is your club so come along and let us know what you think. Committee members elected along with other issues discussed.

Indoor Sundays at Broxtowe

Indoor Sunday club racing returns to Broxtowe. A 5 day challenge over the winter aimed mainly at on road classes. Don’t forget its on our brand new carper. More info here!

Christmas Cracker 2 Day Event

The Cracker is Back! 2 Day Event 28th and 29th December

£10 for one day £15 for both,

run as two separate meetings with totals added together to find the ultimate Christmas cracker!

classes for 2, 4wd & s/c. entry form will be on website soon

Indoors from September 7th

We go back indoors on September 7th to race on our NEW carpet track!

Doors open around 5.30pm if we can clear it with the leisure centre.

For more information see here

Vintage Night Again 26th July

Dig out that old truck or buggy and come and give it a blast on our off road track.

Plenty of others to have a race against.

Got a Lunchbox? Come and give it a blast, you know you want too!

Club Championship 2013

Browtowe Model Car Club, Club Championship 2013

Saturday 24th August From 12 noon (3 rounds qualifying minimum)


Sunday 25th August from 9.00 am (4 further rounds of qualifying and 1 final minimum)

Possible BBQ etc saturday night

Free Camping Friday / Saturday

Snowman Series 2013 / 2014

The 2013/2014 snowman series dates have been announced.

1. October 6th 2013
2. November 3rd 2013
3. December 1st 2013
4. January 5th 2014
5. February 2nd 2014
6. March 2nd 2014

For more information and entry form click here

BRCA Off Road National 22nd/23rd June

Broxtowe would like to welcome all racers to our track this weekend for the BRCA off road national event.
The committee are all looking forward to a successful meeting and hope everyone has a great weekends racing.

Looking for directions?

Friday 21st June On Road Racing

Due to the BRCA Off Road National being run on our track there will be no off road racing on Friday night. The track has to remain closed, and we have to set up for the meeting as well. Therefore we will only be running an on road meeting this Friday night.

BRCA Touring CAR Clubmans

The BRCA Clubmans touring car series came to Broxtowe and it was a great success. Thanks to the BRCA for bringing the series to our track and big thanks to all the racers who attended and supported the series and the club.

Results here


13.5 Turn Winners

17.5 Turn Winners

Easter Egstravaganza!

Sat 30th March and Sunday 31st.
12am start Saturday,
10am start Sunday,
usual format. reduced fees for both days.

Vintage Racing 31st May 2013

Bring your vintage RC car down to Broxtowe and give it a run on our off road track. We have done this a couple of times over the last winter indoor series and it has proved extremely popular. It gives you a chance to run that old RC car you have sitting on the shelf in a non competitive and fun event. Even Tamiya re releases are catered for in the same heats. We can even put a heat of vintage on road rc cars if enough turn up. Try to leave em standard though. This isn’t about getting round the track the fastest, it’s all about having a bit of fun!

Get down to Broxtowe and “Bring out yer Dead” 3! May 31st 2013

Outdoor Friday Evenings

We will commence outdoor Friday evening racing from 3rd May 2013. Gates open 5.30 - 6pm. Booking in starts ASAP as does racing!

Saturday Afternoon Racing

We will be holding 3 Saturday afternoon club meetings during April at our outdoor track. Both off road and on road classes catered for.
Start Time 2pm tip Dusk
Dates April 13th,20th and 27th.

Indoors Ends

Indoor racing at Barber Sports Hall ends on 23rd March 2013.
the next Major event is at our outdoor track on April 7th. 2wd Mid East off Road Regional

Snowman Series Review

Check out this cracking write up of round 4 of the Snowman series by Team Durango. Link

Early Start!

From Saturday 19th January until at least 23rd February we will be opening up at 5.30pm on Saturday nights at Greasley leisure centre.
This is due to high numbers of racers attending our club. We would like to start racing by 6.30pm Latest, so please try to get along a bit earlier and help us setup etc.
We have done this to avoid the unthinkable of having to turn away racers!
thanks for all your support.
BMCC Committee.

Bring out yer dead - 2 - The Re-animation!

March 2nd 2013 is another chance to bring out your old Buggy, Lunchbox, Wild Willy, Hornet or other non race car that you would not normally race.
Get em out the loft, of the shelf or out the cupboard and come and ‘ave a laugh.
The last event was excellent fun!

Personal Transponders

There has been some talk about the new timing system update from MyLaps (formally AMB) The is the computerised system that counts your laps when you race. There is a new update available for the timing equipment. We are using version RC3, the new version is RC4. As far as we understand it there are the following types of transponders that work with our system RC3

• AMB Handout transponders
• AMB Personal transponders
• MRT Personal transponders

The old style AMB transponders are no longer available and you have the option of buying either a ‘Harry’ personal transponder or a ‘Purcy’ personal transponder.

The ‘Harry’ PT will work with our system fine, even if we upgrade our equipment. Works with RC3 and RC4
The ‘Purcy’ PT will only work with RC4
The AMB Handout transponders will work with our system, RC3 and 4
MRT Cloned transponders may not work with the new system RC4 but work fine with RC3

We as a club have decided that for the foreseeable future we will not be upgrading our system to RC4 as it works fine at the moment as there are a large number of MRT clone transponders in use. If you are looking to purchase a personal transponder we suggest you go down the ‘Harry’ route as these will work with other clubs timing equipment should they upgrade to RC4

One point we feel we must make is that handout transponders are no longer available to buy new so there will come a time when we may no longer be able to supply them at our meetings. This means that personal transponders will be required to race at some stage in the future. However we have managed to replace the batteries in our old handout transponders and keep them going strong at the moment.

We hope this clears it up a bit?