tialimo написа:Hi guys,
that's a real shame, perhaps it might be an idea to organise our own club for clubman gravel enthusiasts to organise our own, in house, unofficial events....? There are enough forests over here in this great country just begging for rally stages to be made in them! Any one any thoughts about this?
It has to be worth thinking about until the FIA affiliated clubs organise themselves back to REAL rallying..
(This should open a can of worms!)
It is not imposible but there is a money problem, as always in Bulgaria. See, our country is not like UK and the ralying is not as well. If we have real gravel rally which is even round of the championship the event will have only a few participants. Virtually we don't have more than 3 or 4 real professional drivers. The others are driving in an amateur stile and don't have good budgets. You know that for a gravel event the car needs almost complete new suspension, brakes, etc which is not cheap and finally the car is not so reliable as on tarmac. And you can figure that the professional rallying in Bulgaria is merged with the amateur.
If we think about complete amateur racing with DIY cars the problem is the same - money. You can take a look at the cars around you - most of Bulgarians can buy only one second hand car. Most of us doesn't have possibility to buy another car just for enthusiastic racing, but not because we did not want to... Anyway the idea for gravel amateur races is not bad, is not impossible, but it won't be easy ...
Safe is risky.