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Graduates Racing 2009 - enrolment now open!
And already, after less than four days, a very impressive total of 61 of you have signed-up (30 Supers, 22 Megas, 9 Classics). Many thanks!

Details were in the November newsletter that I sent out last Friday but here they are again:

The enrolment process is all very much the same as before – on-line enrolment; a priority system for members and a (very) modest increase in subs. Racing subs go up from Ł275 to Ł285. The “New to Classics” discount of Ł150 is again being offered. Social membership stays at Ł10. Just click here and follow the instructions!

On-line enrolment opened on Monday (10th Nov) for current racing members to renew. On 17th Nov, 2008’s Social Members will be able to sign up to race in 2009 and a further week later, 24th Nov, the system will be open for anyone to sign up. This priority system is to ensure that space is available to those who most “deserve” it. But please note that you only get a week or two of priority, after that, it’s open season. I would love to be able to keep a place open, permanently, for all this year’s racing members but it just would not be fair to our potential new members if we had to make some of them wait many months to be certain of their place while some “old hands” make up their minds.

As in previous years, drivers renewing for the same class, who finished in the top ten of their class’s championship table, will automatically be assigned a race number corresponding to their 2008 championship position; other drivers get to choose their race number (which is also your club membership number): first-come, first-served.

Will we fill up and need to decline later enrolments? Dunno. Maybe. There has been a healthy level of interest from a good number of potential new members, novices and otherwise, so it is quite possible that we may feel obliged to decide to “close the books” at some time, to avoid having so many members that there is a danger that not everyone would get to race when and where they want to. And please don’t think that this only applies to the larger classes (Supers and Megas) – given that we sometimes have to share grid space between classes, it is the total number of enrolled drivers that is most likely to trigger us into closing the books, so please do not delay just because you are in Classics and think that this class will not be over-subscribed.

It could be that we do not close enrolment until well into next year, but a healthy “rush” over the next couple of weeks could mean that we close much earlier. So please do not delay unnecessarily!

Information about the regs for next year can be seen in our website's Competitor Info section, here.

2009 Calendar?

The FIA changes that I mentioned in the newsletter have delayed publication of BARC's calendar. But I can say that, as usual, our calendar will be put together to give us a good wide range of circuits - our aim is that, over a few seasons, a Graduate racer can expect to get the opportunity to race at just about every circuit in the land! Our 2009 objective is to have fourteen races over about nine weekends (so you can work that out - there will probably be four one day single races and five weekend double-headers). It is our intention that we will have an "exotic" overseas double-header again. Possibly Spa, again, but we are considering alternatives! Very provisionally, I expect most, if not all , of the following circuits to figure in the remaining eight UK rounds: Brands, Silverstone, Snetterton, Croft, Oulton, Rockingham, Pembrey and Cadwell.

Not Racing in 2009?
If you were a 2008 Racing Member but think you may decide not to race with us in 2009, may I suggest that you consider signing up, for a just a tenner, as a "Social Member"? At least I can then keep in touch with you! And it would give me a clear indication of your intentions, meaning I won't have to nag you incessantly over the next few weeks to ask if you're going to race next year!

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