THE ENTRY LIST AND THE GROUP LIST ARE ON THE CLUB WEBSITE,
lancscountymcc.co.uk.
Hallo folks. Hopefully this is the good news yo
u've been waiting for.
Lancs County should be back
up and running trials again as we have plans to hold a Wednesday evening t
rial on August 19 at Wrayton Hall Farm, Wrayton, LA6 2QU. This is a schedul
ed date for an evening trial from the club so should be in your diaries!!
Now, as you may be aware, things are very differe
nt now due to the Coronavirus epidemic, so here's the details of what you h
ave to do and what we have to do.
We have applie
d for a permit to run (that's no different to normal) but it is through ACU
head office and not the local North West Centre. Once approved and issued
we create an on-line entering system on the ACU website which is the ONLY w
ay you can enter the trial. There's no entering on the night, nor any phone
calls to me(Mike Rapley) saying you'll be coming, can I reserve an entry f
or you.
That no longer happens. The entry facili
ty opens on Sunday, August 9 and closes on Monday August 17 at 8pm. We need
a minimum of 30 riders for the trial to run and be viable and a maximum of
50.
The reason the maximum number of riders is
50 is because the evenings begin to draw in and because it means that we on
ly need to have five riders per group.
Groups yo
u ask? Yes, now what happens is that we put each rider into a group, it's a
bit like being at school where you pick your team mates though you can ask
on the entry form to ride with a friend and we will try to accommodate tha
t wish. Those that don't specify a riding pal will be allocated a group in
which to ride and the groups will be listed at the start. One rider from ea
ch group will be given a bag with the means to score the group which is han
ded back to the secretary at the end of the trial. He observes the group th
roughout the trial and it must not be handed to another rider. You can choo
se your preferred observer from your group. There will be no separate secti
on observers.
All this means is that riders need
to get themselves to the trial on time for a briefing at 5.50pm. Group one
will start at section one and other groups start at the section that corre
sponds with their group number. Only one group at a section at a time, no o
vertaking the group in front and no section inspection after the first lap.
We hope to have Terry the burger man back with
us for this trial and whilst all this might well seem very different, this
group system has worked very well for the two Westmorland trials that have
been held in July and for which I was the secretary.
So the website on which to enter on or after Sunday, August 9 is
acu.org.uk. It's very easy, yo
u can't enter without an ACU licence and payment is taken on line.
If anything is unclear then it's OK to give me a call, b
ut it has worked well so far and whilst you may not like having to faff aro
und entering in advance and on-line, it's the future as far as we can tell,
certainly until we receive different instructions from the ACU. I hate the
expression, but this could well be the "new normal".
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