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Thanks, the Thunder and Lightning categories worked a treat at ThunderCrit in the summer. It's obviously not straight forward to make a change to how we are all used to thinking about gender within racing. There's a lot of people out there who love riding bikes but don't feel catered for when it comes to racing. Hopefully we're helping to find a solution and drive some change.
We have got a loose course layout now, but we need to test it. Once we have done that and have seen evidence of how popular the entries are we will decide on how to approach the timing of the races. We should have more detail on this by the end of next week.
Best case scenario would be to have 5 races (as they are listed on the entry site). However if numbers are a bit low in a category it wouldn't make sense to run this on it's own and it may get absorbed into another race. The options then would be to have Tracklocross, SS and Fun bike as three races, completely mixed but with prizes distributed across Thunder and Lightning categories post-race.
We've had a good response so far with nearly half of our Tracklocross Thunder entries already taken.
We have use of HHV from 11am to 5pm, so will do our best to fill the time in the best way possible.
I'll try and keep things updated as much as possible in the run up to the event and I'm happy to field any questions people may have about entering and racing.
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It's certainly a change to the standard BC categories! Props for giving it a go.
I'm a bit confused though, how many races will there be? One for the fun race, or two, one for Thunder and Lightning? Ditto for the tracklocross/SS.