Hi,
I was wondering how the costs for 2026 season have come out vs 2025 with the change away from BARC?
Cheers Ian
Hi Ian, race entries are now £250 per race compared with £375 last year, and equivalent to the early bird scheme we had to run in order to generate enough income to pay for the races up front with BARC. The main reason the race by race cost was so much higher last year was to make the early bird scheme better value, but we don't need to do that now so it's reduced the entry costs for all and also allowed everyone to spread the costs over the year.
Ultimately the costs associated with track hire minute by minute are roughly the same regardless of the organising club, but it's the additional aspects of a race weekend (e.g. Recovery services, admin, staff costs etc) that can make the difference, and fundamentally the payment structure. All costs tend to increase by about 5% each year regardless. Hope that makes sense and we'll see you out on track this year?
Thank you