Uk club racing after covid19?
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No it won't. You can buy BSB tickets here: https://doningtonpark.msv.com/DP-20-BSB/Admission-...
BTCC is a BARC series. BSB is an MSV series and they have a very different approach to spectators at the moment.
BTCC is a BARC series. BSB is an MSV series and they have a very different approach to spectators at the moment.
LucyP said:
No it won't. You can buy BSB tickets here: https://doningtonpark.msv.com/DP-20-BSB/Admission-...
BTCC is a BARC series. BSB is an MSV series and they have a very different approach to spectators at the moment.
More than aware of that, you could buy btcc tickets today, it was the government classifying btcc as an elite sport that prevents spectators. BTCC is a BARC series. BSB is an MSV series and they have a very different approach to spectators at the moment.
The assumption being that bsb will be classified the same.
Nothing should be assumed with BSB. BTCC is just circuit hire for MSV. BSB is theirs. They will be lobbying hard for it to go ahead with reduced numbers of spectators.
It's a bizarre government decision anyway. You can go to Alton Towers for example, and go on a ride, which must be more risky than standing at a circuit, whilst keeping 2 metres from other spectators and having no access to the paddock, which is the MSV argument.
It's a bizarre government decision anyway. You can go to Alton Towers for example, and go on a ride, which must be more risky than standing at a circuit, whilst keeping 2 metres from other spectators and having no access to the paddock, which is the MSV argument.
Edited by LucyP on Wednesday 29th July 23:42
mcdjl said:
You all seem to be assuming that there's logic to the government's decision beyond being seen to do something.
I do wonder if 'on telly = elite sport'Club events can happen quietly in their own bubble (even though many circuits are choosing not to have spectators yet), most of the country don't know they even exist.
However, put a motorsport event on TV where compressed camera angles are naturally going to make it look like people are close together (2m is nothing through a telephoto lens) and all of a sudden the pressure from other sports, opposition MPs, the public etc starts kicking in. Do that on the British GP weekend and you're seen to be clueless and making it up as you go along...
Edited by ch37 on Thursday 30th July 08:13
ch37 said:
I do wonder if 'on telly = elite sport'
That was my thinking too. The only sports they government really need worry about is the higher levels of football and rugby where you have a boisterous crowd in a confined space. Other sports can, other than a few larger events, easily social distance in the open air but the more these are seen on tv the man-on-the-street will want to know why football is still behind closed doors.
geeks said:
One will have 5k spectators, the other will have 5 spectators!
A typical club event at Castle Combe, predominantly made up of home championships, will comfortably challenge some national motorsport events in the UK for spectator numbers. I do wonder if that's why they have taken the current view they have re: no spectators. More so given there will be pent-up demand from people starved of spectator motorsport this year. Add in good weather and they could easily end up with a serious problem.Even the 'action days' (glorified public track days) attract 5 figure attendance numbers at Combe. They were getting 15k at Japfest before it simply got too big for the circuit.
Edited by ch37 on Thursday 30th July 10:51
ch37 said:
geeks said:
One will have 5k spectators, the other will have 5 spectators!
A typical club event at Castle Combe, predominantly made up of home championships, will comfortably challenge some national motorsport events in the UK for spectator numbers. I do wonder if that's why they have taken the current view they have re: no spectators. More so given there will be pent-up demand from people starved of spectator motorsport this year. Add in good weather and they could easily end up with a serious problem.Even the 'action days' (glorified public track days) attract 5 figure attendance numbers at Combe. They were getting 15k at Japfest before it simply got too big for the circuit.
Edited by ch37 on Thursday 30th July 10:51
ch37 said:
A typical club event at Castle Combe, predominantly made up of home championships, will comfortably challenge some national motorsport events in the UK for spectator numbers. I do wonder if that's why they have taken the current view they have re: no spectators. More so given there will be pent-up demand from people starved of spectator motorsport this year. Add in good weather and they could easily end up with a serious problem.
Even the 'action days' (glorified public track days) attract 5 figure attendance numbers at Combe. They were getting 15k at Japfest before it simply got too big for the circuit.
It may be due to how open to the public the pit area is. No way to seperate the competitors from the public compared to other circuits that have enclosed pits and padocks?Even the 'action days' (glorified public track days) attract 5 figure attendance numbers at Combe. They were getting 15k at Japfest before it simply got too big for the circuit.
Edited by ch37 on Thursday 30th July 10:51
So I've got a double-header event due soon and have been told that facemasks have to be worn from entry to the venue until exiting. Over the weekend that means north of 18 hours with the mask on. Even if I'm parked a looooong distance from other competitors and on my lonesome, and never indoors.
To be honest it's putting me off entering. I will be honest and say I dislike the masks and have very slight claustrophobia/anxiety which makes me uncomfortable over an extended period with them.
Is this a MUK directive? If it is I can't see in it any of their online documents. Is it common to all other club racing in the UK? I don't see the same regulation being applied to track days etc.
To be honest it's putting me off entering. I will be honest and say I dislike the masks and have very slight claustrophobia/anxiety which makes me uncomfortable over an extended period with them.
Is this a MUK directive? If it is I can't see in it any of their online documents. Is it common to all other club racing in the UK? I don't see the same regulation being applied to track days etc.
Order66 said:
So I've got a double-header event due soon and have been told that facemasks have to be worn from entry to the venue until exiting. Over the weekend that means north of 18 hours with the mask on. Even if I'm parked a looooong distance from other competitors and on my lonesome, and never indoors.
To be honest it's putting me off entering. I will be honest and say I dislike the masks and have very slight claustrophobia/anxiety which makes me uncomfortable over an extended period with them.
Is this a MUK directive? If it is I can't see in it any of their online documents. Is it common to all other club racing in the UK? I don't see the same regulation being applied to track days etc.
Makes absolutely no sense and will probably do more harm than good (as masks get wet). Who's the organising club?? Not seen anything like that written in any other Instructions.To be honest it's putting me off entering. I will be honest and say I dislike the masks and have very slight claustrophobia/anxiety which makes me uncomfortable over an extended period with them.
Is this a MUK directive? If it is I can't see in it any of their online documents. Is it common to all other club racing in the UK? I don't see the same regulation being applied to track days etc.
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