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2nd May 2024, 20:12 #1
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Both the Plains & Border Counties are now run at different times to when they used to previously. The Borders was mid March, and the Plains for years was mid/late September, since 2009?? it moved to it's current slot. Obviously, forestry allocation may be the reason, but I regularly wonder just how much communication there is between organising teams.
Events/ championship are all competing for entrants, and there needs to be a way to facilitate all these events to run. Losing events is doing the clubs, or the sport no good at all.
Funny that you mention the North Wales & Plains, as back in the day, they used similar forests about a month apart in the autumn, when the North Wales was called the Bulldog.......
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3rd May 2024, 23:35 #2
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The Plains was in mid-April 35 years ago, though. I was servicing on the event on the day of the Hillsborough disaster.
It isn't uncommon for events to change dates. When it's done at the behest of a large championship it rarely has an impact. When a date change is forced by influences outside of rallying it can have a significant impact and if a large championship decides it doesn't want your event either because of location or a date you can't change then it often means the event has a limited future. Just look at the Astra, Dukeries & North Humberside events as other examples.
It's a sad loss. I remember marshalling on the event when it was a road rally and have been involved many times since.
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