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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 02:47 PM
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It still is a great show.

Some of the staff of XR/RS club Holland is also here on PF and will probably tell you the same or similair about moving the venue to the current location

2010 was a disaster, due to the license for the track action being held back at the last moment. (long story, but it looks like someone p!ssed off about something happened earlier that year during the anual XR/RS club meet, and pulled the plug out of getting the license in order. )

2011 the license was not givven ... until late.. .. combined with the history of the year before .. it was not as busy as before.. but a VERY good show.

The new site doesn't have as much 'feel' as the Landgraaf site did.
But it needs to grow.

Yes, it's further away from the Ring, Yes it's further away from belgium, Germany .. causing it to attract less european drivers.. and that's a shame.

But the biggest shame is the exploiter of the former site (landgraaf) fining the club with huge amounts, when they might have seen a dog.. or spotted an stain that could have been an oil stain on the tarmac, which wasn't there before ...

The fines added up, the rent went u skyhigh .. and the organisation was a lot less flexible this way.

The oil stain issues also are the reasons why people needed to park on the grass, in stead off on the tarmac .. cause oil on the grass is not as easy to spot..

The new venue area.. has a great area to park up the cars, both for clubs as for individual visitors.

Due to safety regulations, the sprint (200m) could only be a one lane sprint, so not really a competition... but the organisation might look at changing that.

The slalom course this year was VERY good imho.

The weather.. always tricky in September, but apart from a few drops.. we had lovely weather


My purple fiesta, parked next to Andie's
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