Irish Road Racing 2023

Does anyone have a link to photos from the A3 race in navan

@joey100 ,I was driving the tail car in A2 race yesterday. I thought you 2 lads had stolen the show. Fair play for giving it a rattle.

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40 in an A4 race on the first weekend of the season is not a good entry

I know where you're coming from re new lads starting out but if A3 becomes the new lowest category its the same thing as the strong juniors will.have been all upgraded

Just a quick observation from A4. At a rough count I would have said about a quarter of the bunch in A4 last Sunday also race in the Vets (including me). A lot of us might only do few A4 races at the beginning of the season and then focus on the various IVCA League Races. So that's a good chunk of your potential A4 race participants gone after April. I think combining A4 into A3 (handicaps or whatever) at some point is inevitable but I would probably wouldn't take out an Open Racing Licence in that case.

Thank you to those who turned up the Seamus Kennedy race last Sunday, weather gods played their role, which helped. As a first race of the year, the A1 race which was doing car for was great to watch up front and personal. A special mention to one rider, who at sign on presented the registration crew with some chocolates..............this went down a treat with us and the coffees.................unfortunately I cant give you points for a race win/place, but maybe something else during the year. (other riders take note....😉😉🤣)

IF anyone has any comments about the running of the race, route, information pack etc, please DM me. Hope to see some of you at some of the other races Navan run throughout the year. Thanks.

Riders really not entering till last minute this year which is a pain for everyone

No realistic overview until Friday evenings now

Just an observation here lads but looking at CI calender then link to eventmaster to book some races is terrible.

Some of the organisers needs to add more info to their race summary.

If a lad new to racing or someone that's not done a particular race decides to go and do one he's not done before and looking for info it can be a bit confusing with the lack of basic info, route, distance, elevation, eircode, contact details, fb and insta pages etc.

We all complain about small numbers at our races but we need to be selling it with advertising, the race just being on the CI calender with basic info is just not enough.

Don't most people look for route map to see if it's gonna suit them?

That stat says it all really and that's without touching on A4 field sizes.

Was mentioned here earlier that 40 in A4 on Sunday last was a good field. Compared to pre covid it's terrible

I get annoyed sometimes when I see race cancellations but at the same time as a promoter I can fully understand. It's real tricky territory at the moment running these things. One example from recently a medical crew that cost e350 two years ago are now e800

Less riders competing.riders expecting somewhat more from promoters than they did a few years ago = less events.

I would estimate we are down 30% of the road calendar compared to about 2016.

2 of our lads signed up for an 4 race last year and had to email organiser for route and eircode to race, they only got info 2 days before and only 19 riders at the start line, that's why lads not racing, sometimes I wonder 🤕