List of mail in races and tracks

Races currently taking entries will be found here: 

www.redlinederby.com/events

You can find that same info at the top of the site under "Racing"

Yup, that's the calendar and mail-in events should be noted. The calendar goes out 90 days but if you're looking for beyond that, there's the "See all" link on the calendar and it'll show all the events shared, future and past. www.redlinederby.com/events/all

Thanks. If I can make a suggestion, I believe the categories should be:
Leagues (3D Bot Maker) (Nascar)(Indy Car)
Tracks (Chaos Canyon) (Daytona)(Texas Motor Speedway)
Events (Trucks Vs Cars) (Daytona 500) (Indy Lights 200)
Class (Stock/Mod) (Open) (Open)

Everyone is different when deciding what is important to them. Leagues can have multiple tracks and Events can be performed on multiple tracks. Some Events also have multiple classes within the Event (stock, mod, 125cc, 250cc, etc). I believe we should be consistent.

In respect to Chaos Canyon, I think he should be calling his league Chaos Racing, as he now has 2 tracks; Chaos Canyon and his new hillclimb track.

What is everyone elses thoughts on this? 

Also I believe we need a filter for mail in vs fantasy racing.

No problem. Just starting the conversation so fans can better understand how diecast racing is distributed and how to find the cars, driver, tracks, and formats they love. Right now race events are presented in a silo other than DIRS. 

Chaos Canyon is the name for the area that houses all 5 of our current tracks - think of it as the city that they are all located in, rather than a specific track.

We also run the DIRS which is the Diecast international Race Series (if you haven't heard of it), that this year has 8 tracks in two different countries, not just a track/s that we run.

Every event we run tends to be different and we rarely run a mail in event. The Rally that we are into now (running across all five of our tracks) is a mix of mail ins and rent a rides, the Outlaws street racing is mail ins then pretty much everything else we run solely on our channel is/was our own cars for now but we will have some other mail ins as well, but every track is different, every track has their own style and how they want to run it. Even down to points scoring and number of cars racing. We are one of the few that I've seen run 6 and 8 cars at a time in tournaments, mostly they are 2 or 4 cars at a time. Some (like Sub4RA) will run more cars again for things like NASCAR etc.

I would say as far as filters, for finding events, you don't want too many as it then makes it harder for track owners that don't fit the specificity of a particular dropdown. I would tend to keep it broader such as type (stock or modified), track type (basically open track, drag or laned and that's it), host (in case there is a particular track you're trying to find). Then once you've filtered to the type, track and host you can easily see what options there are and what the various rules are. 

Hey WinstonGunner,

There is the Canyon Road track, which is the track we race on mainly (with the jump), then there is the new Possum Farm Hill Climb Track, The Chaos Canyon Stadium track (that's the new head to head track also with boosters), the Rocky Road track and finally the Chaos Canyon Helix Track. As I said above, Chaos Canyon is the overall name for the region/area the tracks are in - basically instead of saying they're in Auckland, rather than a league.

As for having the same drivers to root for etc we do that via the Canyon Outlaws series. It is the same drivers/cars every fortnight and there is only a chance for those not on the list, to get on there every couple of months. The other series will vary in terms of drivers because we change it up in terms of what cars, style of tournament etc even though we have some regulars there will always be some new drivers. Everyone wants a chance to drive at the bigger tracks, so if you only ever had the same drivers and that's all, it becomes discouraging to others. We are constantly asked how people can be a driver ro send a car to the canyon but we can't accommodate everyone unfortunately.

If you think about racing in real life, there are plenty of variants of events and styles of racing and people tend to gravitate to what they want to watch. Personally, we make what we enjoy watching and that's the main driver behind it, and we hope people get a kick out of it as well. If I could work out a way to make a proper diecast mud bogging track I'd be doing one of those too but there are some things that just get too hard. 

The DIRS this year, is probably a bit too big, with 8 months of solid racing. Some viewers have followed all the racing, but based on the view counts at each track it's probably too long of a series for people to keep up with. Honestly, viewers seem to los interest when things go over about a month, which is why we switch things up. In saying that, my rally is going to take 10 weeks as the two groups go over 5 diferent tracks, and I'm using that as a test. But likely will keep future events to the normal approx 4 weeks of racing.