UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022

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RE: UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022 - nkarres - 14th-Sep-22

Congrats to Bill for a flawless race!!!!!!

My maintanance department will have a meeting tomorrow morning to look at the data of the TopFuel Tappingfoot

Great racing there!!!!!!!!

Nico

RE: UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022 - 935 fan - 14th-Sep-22

Congratulations to Nico and Bill on your hard won victories Checkeredflag

Iain

RE: UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022 - KensRedZed - 14th-Sep-22

Congrats to Nico and Bill! Thumbup

RE: UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022 - woodcote - 15th-Sep-22

I forgot to post the ladders for last night's classes. Here they are...

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From around 5pm, you can expect the XTraction and 4-Gear classes, plus some match-racing.

The Micro Scalextric Street Stock competition will run on Saturday evening.

RE: UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022 - woodcote - 15th-Sep-22

Pancake Power Qualifying - XTraction & 4-Gear

Welcome back - qualifying has just taken place for the final two pancake classes.

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The XTractions - including a few Aurora Magnatractions too - went first...

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That was an absolutely sensational sub-0.600 run by Bill's aptly-named Motown Missile - interestingly a non-Ultra-G AW chassis - and then there cars separated by 0.009 of a second. A rather compelling qualifying session.

Congrats to Bill as XTraction Top Qualifier!

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Next were the 4-Gears...

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A very mixed bag this time...

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Despite a significant amount of warm-up, some just didn't get going - but Iain's Funny Car certainly did! Congrats to Iain on another blistering 4-Gear Top Qualifier performance...

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Before the elimination races, we'll run some match races - those skinny T-Jets were a lot of fun in the shakedown, so stay tuned...

RE: UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022 - woodcote - 15th-Sep-22

Pancake Power Match Racing - Round One

Two pairs of quite different cars - original Aurora Thunderjets with skinny wheels & tyres, plus the independent front axle Magnatractions that we've seen before...

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Starting with the new kids on the block. These are cute vintage cars that Iain and Clive have sent - and very smooth on the strip too. Underneath are standard Aurora T-Jet chassis, Clive's Cheetah with a solid rivet version. The Cheetah was produced by Aurora between 1969 and 1972, the Chevy a more modern 1990s Model Motoring mould. Both were very evenly matched for speed, although the Cheetah's softer tyres gave it an advantage over the first third of the strip - the Chevy a little squirrelly off the line. Race one went to Clive by 0.107 seconds - the ETs 1.196 and 1.244 which looked rapid for these cars and was fun to watch.

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Now for the Funny Cars... Nico's Vega flew down the strip, whereas Kev's 'Cuda needed all the encouragement it could get from the crowd. Great fun though - the winning margin a huge 1.064 seconds and the ETs 0.656 and 1.666.

The second rounds a bit later...

RE: UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022 - woodcote - 15th-Sep-22

Pancake Power XTraction Eliminators

Round One started with Ken up against top qualifier Bill in a North American showdown...

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Ken matched his best time from qualifying, but the Motown Missile was too quick - winning by 0.264, the ETs 0.626 and 0.880.

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The next race was too close to call with the naked eye... on the scoreboard Nico had the win by 0.004 of a second over Iain's Dodge pick-up - the ETs 0.659 and 0.662. Just what you'd expect from that tasty fourth vs fifth tie in the eight-car ladder.

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It was back to a routine win for Andy over Clive - the gap 0.318 and the ETs 0.659 and 0.968.

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And the last race of the first round saw Rebecca beat Kev by 0.202 seconds - the ETs 0.674 and 0.848.

XTraction Semi-Finals

First up was Bill vs Nico...

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Close in the early stages, but Bill's low drag at top speed saw him stretch his legs to a 0.052 win margin - the ETs 0.613 and 0.666.

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This was another extremely close-run thing... Rebecca just pipping Andy to the line by 0.007 of a second. The ETs 0.640 and 0.648.

That gives us another Bill vs Rebecca final - California Flash up against the Motown Missile.

RE: UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022 - woodcote - 15th-Sep-22

Pancake Power XTraction Final

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It was an all-American final - Chevy vs Mopar, California Flash vs Motown Missile...

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This is what happened (you may need to watch direct on YouTube)...

Rebecca got the better drive off the line...

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But Bill was absolutely mighty over the final third...

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It was a win by 0.044 of a second...

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Huge congratulations to Bill, challenging that Ultra-G orthodoxy and winning the XTraction medal...

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I've remembered the ladder this time!

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And here's all the data from the XTraction qualifiers and elimination rounds...

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A really enjoyable class with some fast times and close racing.

We'll be back around 7.45 with the second round of match-racing and the 4-Gear competition...

RE: UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022 - Mazda - 15th-Sep-22

Congratulations to the winners so far some good races there. As far as the t-jet match race is concerned, the Cheetah that I sent is completely stock vintage Aurora t-jet with silicone rear tyres. Better luck next time Iain Thumbup

RE: UK HO Drag Proxy - Pancake Power - Sept 2022 - woodcote - 15th-Sep-22

Pancake Power Match Racing - Round Two

Starting this time with the independent front axle Funny Cars...

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Nico's Vega had another rapid run, but all the cheers were for Kev's 'Cuda, which was a little smoother and almost half a second quicker this time. The winning margin was 0.614 and the ETs 0.643 and 1.204.

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The second T-Jet round was a close one - just 0.026 of a second at the line. Iain had the quicker ET - 1.208 to 1.214 - but a massive holeshot gave victory to the Cheetah. That should have wrapped up the match 2-0, but Clive rather generously offered Iain a winner-takes-all third run. The two T-Jets were straight back on track...

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It was another close one, but Clive took advantage of his superior grip - winning by 0.085 seconds, the ETs 1.211 and 1.235. How fast were they going? Clive topped out at 3.289mph and Iain 3.409mph. Congrats to Clive on winning the match!

I reckon this could be something a little different for our pancake match-racing and maybe a new class for Pancake Power 2023. For our oval racing on the Rock County Raceway bullring oval, we ran a 'Nostalgia' class for T-Jets with original skinny wheels or Vincent size B replacements - fully stock Aurora (or Dash chassis), with a minimum 16-ohm armature and strictly ceramic motor magnets. The class gave very different racing to the Tuff-Ones T-Jets.