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I am absolutely sure you'll be using the NSR freebies in the right way for your club. But every club is different - and the lucky ten will have weighed up how those cars will benefit their clubs best. NSR offered these cars to help clubs coming out of the disruption of the pandemic - and their main condition was the cars get used.

Club car team racing has always worked very well at WHO. The average attendance over our first ten years was 21 per event, but our club car races have regularly hit the high 20s and into the 30s. We make a big push to get new people along - all they have to do is turn up and pay their £3. That way, we manage to attract new racers who've topped up the numbers over the years. I think it's a perfect no-pressure introduction to club racing.


Having said that, we do work on publicity for our club car team races and create a special buzz on the night - and that helps get people through the door and have a memorable evening...

       

Another perspective on the NSR offer is that anyone (out of a UK population of 66 million) could come and have a go at an NSR club car night... it wouldn't limit the potential participation to the new owners of those 100 freebies. There are a lot of new people who've got into slot cars during the pandemic. Yes, it would need clubs to actively publicise the events, engage with their local communities and maybe do things rather differently at the track - but it would certainly be an interesting experiment!