JBcos

South Wales Regional day - Saturday 7th August 2004 - Llandow Circuit

CANCELLED

Unfortunately due to lack of interest and support from other RS Regional groups and visiting groups the decision has been made to cancel this show.

After many months of hardwork by the regional group and the RSOC committee members, regional groups and visiting clubs have not been booking.

Many thanks to those clubs that have booked

Bristol RSOC 6 cars
Hampshire RSOC 12 cars
Devon RSOC 8 cars
Dorset RSOC 6 Cars
South Wales XROC 7 cars
Performance ford club 6 Cars

Total 45 cars = approx 1.28% of the RSOC membership

The big attraction the big cost and big disappointment the circuit.

After many months of legal work to get the contracts changed and agreed and liasing with the RSOC Insurance Officer and Dominion plan to get the curcuit added to the RSOC Insurance Shedule we have received a grand total of 6 track bookings.

Suprisingly the day attracted a good number of traders without to much hard selling which was a very positive step towards a great show day.

All clubs members and traders will recieve a full refund that will be dealt with promptly by the regional group secretary and treasurer.

I can only say a big thankyou to all those that have helped organise this show.

South Wales are a group that is willing to travel and to support RSOC shows, this year alone the group has had a display at

Central Day
Devon
Leicester
West Wales
Cornwall
North Hants

and will also be at

Bristol/Swindon
Essex
Dorset
Derby/Durham

not to mention the other ford and non rs shows that the club supports each year.

Less.

Sorry all your work wnet to waste Jb and this wasnt a staci show either but if you was going to make huge loss m8 quite understanble.

jon foz

thats a big dissapointment,seems to me that the shows are gradually dwindling in support,hopefully they are all waiting for the big ones this summer,lets see

escortmad79

That sucks dude, numbers of RSOC members seems to be dwindling due to their sh*t attitude towards members, which is why I'm a member of the Devon group & not the main group

st3v3

sory ot hear that jb,hope you re-think the idea for next year,

JBcos

who knows what next year will bring

The plan was well thought out this year and the organising of the event has been 100% excellent.

People dont travel to the small static shows which is why we opted for a track day event with circuit. Unfortunately without the support of the members these curcuits are not affordable and that is the bottom line

Spiky

iTrader: (1)

we've been discussing this a little while now, and it's just a big shame that it has come to this


and to think me and several members of our club have been to a vast number of shows this year and previous too

Shings

JB

we cant come as we're all in Germany- we are due back the day of the event. Sorry but it was booked last year.

And I reckon you pulled the plug to early. We dont get fully booked up until 2 or 3 weeks before the event regardless of when we say the cut off is.

IMHO you cut off was too far away- castle coombe's is the same as yours and they hold there show 10 days after it.

Hope that info is of some use to you- having been with Central from the 1st show we did I know how bloody tough it is- but I dont know it as much as Mike/St3v3/Daz/Gareth/Jakie/Simon as compared to them I do very little.
our first year a few members and also Big Nige actually stumped up the cash to pay for the day not knowing if it was going to be a success- having looked at tracks we know how much they can cost so I see you prob no one is gonna want to be in for that much money.

Have a re think mate and I am sure you will come up with a winner next year.

Jake
Central

slowpoke

sorry to hear that guys it was a little too far for the manchester group to travel i think the lowest one we do is gaydon next weekend

cheers...................matt

Nath

Gutted for you m8. Its hard to gauge interest nowadays and since my car was nicked I've just thrown the towel in and had enough of things for now.....

Good luck for next year though

JBcos

cheers all, maybe it is alittle early to shut up shop but the risk is too great for a club that hasnt got financial backing. The low low level of interest is very apparent when your organising these things.

Next year i wont be in an RS

martinrs500labatts

whot a shame it would have been a good show,


seams the shows have now hit a max, and only the well established ones are doing the numbers.

Nath

Wouldn't the RSOC help out at all?

JBcos

there are options for funding but totally pointless with 6 cars on track

Nath

Its such a shame. I asked some of the guys round here and most of the cars are either still broken or just running in with the fear that they dont want them going bang again. I was looking forward to a drinking session with you lot sometime again this year as well ....

RS Bowk

Gutted 2 hear this mate i was really lookin 4ward 2 this 1 as were the others of us from the bristol rsoc were always willing 2 giv new shows a try. all i can say is stick at it and hopefully try again next year as we will b more than happy 2 have a stand at ur show

all the best

St3V3_C

I am gutted for you - I am really surprised you didn't have more book for the track though - wierd

Rhys

I mean is it to much hassel for other groups to come and attend?? its even a track day to so should be good fun!!


Dissapointed in the other regional grps who havent put down to attend

Eagle

iTrader: (2)

foook.... only reason i never booked a track pass was i thought they had all gone sorry mate

cornish pixie

Gutted for you all. Maybe there are to many shows now? It is quite a commitment to do the majority of shows so people will pick out the ones they want to do and invariably they will either be the really big ones or ones that are fairly local to them.

Yours should have been a winner with the availability of a track, to close to Coombe? I guess its the track day boys feed back that will be most valuable to you only they know why your date did not seem attractive?

Best of luck for next year

cornish pixie

Gutted for you all. Maybe there are to many shows now? It is quite a commitment to do the majority of shows so people will pick out the ones they want to do and invariably they will either be the really big ones or ones that are fairly local to them.

Yours should have been a winner with the availability of a track, to close to Coombe? I guess its the track day boys feed back that will be most valuable to you only they know why your date did not seem attractive?

Best of luck for next year

Stavros

Too many regional shows, people just cant be arsed to go to em all.

Being a track day shouldve been more of an attraction, but Llandows not a very popular track it seems (ive heard "glorified go-kart track" more than once), so manybe thas it.

This show had a LOT more going for it than many shows tho, which resemble nothing more than a load of old Fords in a field, a burger van, and a bouncey castle.

Tho i spose they cost less

Anonymous

Ours is hard work, and didn't fill up untill 2 weeks before...

U have pulled it too early....

But you said booking was closed over a month ago, whats that all about with 6 cars booked on

JBcos

thats just it, we had to run with advance bookings to pay for the day (as you do in the early years) however we still only had 5 cars booked on track (not the mighty 6 that i thought lol) no real interest shown etc, maybe it is pulled to early but with about 4 weeks to go we are still around Ł3.5k short

Anonymous

To be honest, as a personal opinion it was expensive for the track for what the track is....

I never committed cause it would mean driving, to which would have cost enuff in fuel, then the day - you are looking @ 300-400 quid all in, in the same month as national day / USC / TOTB etc.....

Its all abit much for people i think....

Early years ? our 2nd show

dave cos4x4

iTrader: (5)

Really gutted this has happened.

All the time and effort the group has put in.

Hope this does not put the group off sorting another day for next year,track or field.

Really gutted that you had no support for the day from other groups,roughly the same distance as Castle Combe.


Dave.

JBcos

thats what it boils down to Dave, if groups arnt willing to travel and attend this day or others then they just wont happen.

Yeah Dingy early years, you've done very well with your show, we are in year 1 trying to attract people, track passes were possibly not cheap but were as low as we could afford to go. The success of this show was in the hands of people attending the day.

RobS

iTrader: (3)

does this mean i cant bully the kids on the bouncy castle then

appreciate all the effort u nat and the commitee put in2 it

Anonymous

Fair play then mate, but for me it was too expensive for the track, sorry but honest opinion.

I have attended loads of shows, but only showed my car 3 times ever.....as it aint my thing, so you can't really say i don't show, cause i know i don't......

JBcos

this is the type of feedback that will help with the next one

dave cos4x4

iTrader: (5)

Bigger and better John.


Dave.

JBcos

yeah for real dude - you wanna book it all up for me

R4N SS

iTrader: (6)

AArrrrggghhh!!!!! really sorry to read this.

I have to say the Welsh RSOC has to be one of the most hard working and helpful group out of the lot. They have attended shit loadsa shows and showed their support -- only to find when they required support there was none

I was looking forward to attending the show and having a few beers with the lads. Not gonna track the 3dr as i dont want to blow another engine just yet.

Have to say tho the show looked top class with good attractions

Maybe nobody wants to go to wales or its too far, etc.

JBcos

and just think Spiky was looking forward to penning all the sheep up

Cheers Ran, comments appreciated and very true

dave cos4x4

iTrader: (5)

no thanks John.

You stick to booking the track and i will stick to driving on them.

Gutted i'm not getting the car on track.

Have to book the old school track day again at brunters instead.



Dave.

JBcos

JBcos

R4N SS

iTrader: (6)

thats prob why no one is turning up

JBcos

doh, thought that was high on the attraction list

richm

what a pisser John... the amount of work that goes into a show, specially the first one.... most people won't appreciate..
No confirmation from Somerset?
Better luck next year - if you can be arsed, and no-one can blame you if you can't...
You've put all the right things together as best you can to make a decent show too... maybe suffering a bit from being at the end of the country so to speak maybe..?