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Hey all,

Nice and brief; Wakefield this weekend, heaps of spots available. If Wakefield days dont break even the club simply wont run them so get your asses entered :D

Sutton Road is now open, entry thread is HERE and thread for accommodation is HERE

Get on it - cheers guys

Wakefield do every day. The day thats booked is the booking we could get. Currently if we drop the booking, there's a whole list of clubs who will take over the booking instantly. The bookings are really tough to get there, but for some reason we haven't been filling our days there lately.

Beats me why that is! All I know is that this club cant run events at a loss, so yeah pretty obvious what will have to happen.

The sad part is that for the dollars, you get an obscene amount of track time as there's always a smaller entry limit on these days compared to say NSCC etc who will run slightly less price (I think it was about $25) but way more cars meaning more sessions per rotation of the field eg less time per entrant actually driving as there is more groups to go through than we run.

Pretty simple when it's broken down like this; Pay about $25 more and by the end of lunch there's only about 5 cars on track so it feels like you've got the place to yourself. That comes down to us starting with less people, cars breaking, people having enough driving in the morning and just relaxing in the afternoon.

is it right that people post events that are from other clubs that may be taking the numbers strangely away from our awesome track days??

idk, looks like in the events section wakie is just another day, as there is 3-4 different wakefield days in the thread. if it was the only one itll stand out more and show to more people how special it really is.

my 2 cents anyways.

Yeah thats a very valid point - will be a topic at the next exec meeting now

The thing is though, the club doesnt run the events area, the forum does that and yeah if there's any changes made it will take ages as it needs to go through site admin

Is there another way of getting entries in apart from the forum?

Eg if you mail out entry forms to people (snail mail) rather than relying on people checking the events section or an email. Least that way they can stick it on their fridge and not forget about etc

Fair bit of work I know but happy to help

Another thought

What about opening up entries to members 12 months in advance and let them trickle in. Even have them pay just a deposit of $20 or something to stop people pulling out so readily then take full payment closer to the day

Then open it to the general population if there are spots left 2 or 3 months out?

Yeah thats a very valid point - will be a topic at the next exec meeting now

The thing is though, the club doesnt run the events area, the forum does that and yeah if there's any changes made it will take ages as it needs to go through site admin

This was raised with Christian around 12 months ago now, we were told by him, the Events Section in the normal NSW area is not ours, it is the forums, and we can't stop people posting events.

It would also annoy everyone here if we posted on another site to gain numbers and they removed our event...

Another thought

What about opening up entries to members 12 months in advance and let them trickle in. Even have them pay just a deposit of $20 or something to stop people pulling out so readily then take full payment closer to the day

Then open it to the general population if there are spots left 2 or 3 months out?

You can't always confirm an event 12 months out. Bookings for this year for Wakie were done at the very end of December/Early this year IIRC.

Fair enough. But the thread went up 2nd week of feb

There is 4 weeks at least.

But understandably it can't always be done with 12 months notice but give us (members) as much notice as possible

6-7 weeks quite often is not enough time for people to organize time off. Pay for the event, finish/prep cars etc etc

Not a reflection on the current committee or anything like that, (I'm not calling you un-organised etc)

But some more notice would be nice :) and not just from the Forum, Even though we are a Forum based car club, not everyone lives on here, I'm the perfect example of that.

Like I said, happy to help by sending letters/emails what ever

editing due to my phone typing skills making me sound like a twat lol

The reason we dont open events months and months in advance is basically for the following reasons.

its annoying as sin for me to do more than 2 events at once entry wise

people get slack and think "oh yeh thats months away" it gets lost in the other tripe in the events section and they miss out due to forgetting..

prob some other stuff but i cbf using brain cells right now..

short version: enter sutton rd you fairys!

club needs website, with entry and payment stuff!

I think that was talked about a while back?

It's part way through being setup, Eric was the main one doing it, unfortunately he has a LOT of work on at the moment, and a lot of other projects on too.

Also what Dave said is soo true. Open event early = no one taking it up.

The events that seemed to fill the best were those that were opened closer to the day.

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