BHPC Calendar 2011

With nobody else putting themselves up for the job, I'm assuming that following the AGM I will be the person tasked with putting the BHPC race calendar for 2011 together.  Hence this post to get any feedback from the racing (and potentially racing) membership about what you'd like to see.  Below are a few current thoughts, in no particular order.  Please feel free to comment on these points, or on absolutely anything else you'd like - or anything this year that you didn't.

• The basic shape of the season has worked well for several years, so I intend to follow a similar pattern, with 12 days of racing, of which the best 8 results would count
• Though we got some good coverage - but mostly to do with some stonking "Hot Laps" rather than our own race - the Brands Hatch (Bike Radar Live) experiment didn't work well as a BHPC race.  Neither I nor Mike Burrows (I'd like to thank him again for all the effort to make the event happen) would propose repeating it
• I'll aim to include the two established weekend events: Lancaster/Preston and the two-dayer at Fowlmead.  What would people think to a third one?  The new circuit at Stourport looks a must-try and others have already suggested a weekend event combining that and another midlands venue, such as Shrewsbury.  Another suggested - but untried by us - track is in Solihull.  For me, weekend events reduce travelling and free another weekend for other stuff.  For others, maybe those with families, weekend events are difficult.  How do they suit the membership in general?
• Fees at Castle Combe have risen steeply over recent years, and it may well be unaffordable.  I have a great deal of trouble getting dates there too.  I still want to put on one longer race (say 2 hours).  The best candidate venue for that seems to be Fowlmead, probably the second day there.
• There may be a possibility of a town-centre criterium event - on similar lines to those some of you have attended in Jersey.  The courses are often not suited to streamliners or to the more extreme unfaired/part-faired bikes.  Would you be up for it?
• How many velodrome events?  I'd go for one: they're fairly expensive, and I find them a bit dull, but it's variety and allows people to have a go at record-setting
• Given that Hillingdon now looks suitable for an AGM, we don't have to go back to Hog Hill.  Would you miss the hill or be glad never to see it again?  If we omit it, I'll aim for the replacement to be in the South East; Reading?
• I'll try to make some events on Saturdays, but then I did this year too.  The predominance of Sunday events is mostly down to the availability of venues.
• Where I know or can find out about other events (BPCC, CylceVision, Worlds), I'll do my very best to avoid clashes, but sometimes they're unavoidable, or dates are announced after ours are confirmed
• It has been suggested that the AGM meeting be a "just for fun" event.  Apparently - but before my racing days - this was how it was.  A good idea, or would it just mean that you wouldn't attend the AGM?

All constructive comments welcome.