12th-Oct-20, 08:27 AM
The latest update is that all our remaining events for 2020 have been cancelled. Sadly, it looks like it will be a worrisome winter and the club can do its bit to keep everyone safe, avoid contributing to local infection rates and minimise the crisis faced by our wonderful frontline NHS, social care and supply-chain staff - including all those who are WHO club members.
Our provisional 2021 calendar will be published in the next few days. We plan to race again from April, picking up where we left off six months ago in a rebooted 2020-1 championship season. All results and points from 2020 will be carried over. Racers who were juniors at the start of the 2020 season will be counted as juniors for the extended 2020-1 season, even if they are now 16.
In addition to the regular HO championship, that means the May and July WHO Digital Wednesdays will conclude the 2020-1 Trans-Am and Nascar Team Race championships. Mike, Simon and myself will work on the formats for the two Digital Saturdays (June and September), plus the remaining Digital Wednesdays in April, August, October, November and December. We will attempt to fit our Saturday classes into those extra evenings and we plan to run a full-day Goodwood Revival event - probably in September.
I strongly suspect there will still be Covid restrictions in place throughout next year - certainly the basic hand-washing, social distancing and test & trace. We will need to remain flexible and be prepared to tweak the way we race. We may also need to delay our return, but a planned resumption of racing in April should be a fairly realistic aim.
In the meantime, we continue to look at socially-distant ways of racing. A second Winter Series of proxy drag racing starts next month, plus Simon and I are planning a 1/32 scale proxy Rally-Sprint competition for January and February. More about that soon!
Our provisional 2021 calendar will be published in the next few days. We plan to race again from April, picking up where we left off six months ago in a rebooted 2020-1 championship season. All results and points from 2020 will be carried over. Racers who were juniors at the start of the 2020 season will be counted as juniors for the extended 2020-1 season, even if they are now 16.
In addition to the regular HO championship, that means the May and July WHO Digital Wednesdays will conclude the 2020-1 Trans-Am and Nascar Team Race championships. Mike, Simon and myself will work on the formats for the two Digital Saturdays (June and September), plus the remaining Digital Wednesdays in April, August, October, November and December. We will attempt to fit our Saturday classes into those extra evenings and we plan to run a full-day Goodwood Revival event - probably in September.
I strongly suspect there will still be Covid restrictions in place throughout next year - certainly the basic hand-washing, social distancing and test & trace. We will need to remain flexible and be prepared to tweak the way we race. We may also need to delay our return, but a planned resumption of racing in April should be a fairly realistic aim.
In the meantime, we continue to look at socially-distant ways of racing. A second Winter Series of proxy drag racing starts next month, plus Simon and I are planning a 1/32 scale proxy Rally-Sprint competition for January and February. More about that soon!
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