Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports

Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports - Printable Version

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RE: Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports - Kevan - 7th-Sep-23

The box is tracked to the local depot, it should arrive some time today.

DPD is the carrier and I can recommend them for any large parcel.

The daft thing is I can place an order with DPD over on the mainland UK and it's much cheaper than going direct to the DPD agents here in the Isle of Man who will deliver it today...go figure.

RE: Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports - Kevan - 7th-Sep-23

The box has been delivered...the schedule is...on schedule.

I'm working at another shop today, my work colleague has signed for it, I'll collect it either tonight on my way home from the club after Slot Rally or first thing in the morning.

RE: Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports - Graham - 7th-Sep-23

Whilst we wait nervously for the first Round Results this week, I have copied across the "Points and Award" details from the earlier Thread, and it is also now included on Page 1 of this posting.

RE: Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports - Makem - 7th-Sep-23

(7th-Sep-23, 06:52 AM)Kevan Wrote: DPD is the carrier and I can recommend them for any large parcel.

DPD are the most awful delivery company we are forever chasing them for deliveries, avoid them like the plague.

RE: Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports - ALS - 8th-Sep-23

(5th-Sep-23, 11:45 AM)Kevan Wrote:

RE: Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports - Kevan - 8th-Sep-23

Hi Graham/other hosts

I've taken the liberty of printing a photo of each layer, sadly only have a black laser printer that's running low on toner.

Each layer has a photo of the car layout, each layer and photo has a layer number.

A couple of cars didn't print so they have their unique numbered colour sticker like in Layer 1 where Ade's Mk1 Escort isn't showing.

N.B. Graham, Ade's Escort is labelled Red 13, the base plate is marked S13...but the score sheet is marked Red 12. Do you want me to change the sticker on that car to Red 12 and change S13 to S12 on the base plate?

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RE: Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports - Graham - 8th-Sep-23

(8th-Sep-23, 05:09 PM)Kevan Wrote: Hi Graham/other hosts

I've taken the liberty of printing a photo of each layer, sadly only have a black laser printer that's running low on toner.

Each layer has a photo of the car layout, each layer and photo has a layer number.

A couple of cars didn't print so they have their unique numbered colour sticker like in Layer 1 where Ade's Mk1 Escort isn't showing.

N.B. Graham, Ade's Escort is labelled Red 13, the base plate is marked S13...but the score sheet is marked Red 12. Do you want me to change the sticker on that car to Red 12 and change S13 to S12 on the base plate?

Hi Kevan,
yes it should be S12, please change the sticker number to 12 and the baseplate accordingly..........it was very lucky to have got in the box at all to be honest with 30mins between receiving and packing it.

RE: Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports - Kevan - 8th-Sep-23

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RE: Touring Cars Slotting - Official Results & Reports - Kevan - 9th-Sep-23

Andy, Brian, Ed, Mike & Myself were in action from 9.30am and finally got finished and locked up by about 5pm.

It was a long, hot, energy sapping day but hugely enjoyed it all.

The track was vacuumed clean then all the cars were placed in twos in race order then each car had braids cleaned (and in quite a few cases straightened) and all tyres were cleaned in readiness.

Mike was in charge of video, Brian was in charge of calling out the heats and writing results 'just in case' the computer crashed, Ed was on permanent marshal duty in his best position by the track whilst Andy drove all the cars in the middle (Yellow) lane and I drove all the cars in the outer (Blue) lane racing two car heats then swapping cars round. After each cars first of two races the tyres were cleaned for the second of two races.

We stopped half way for dinner, goodies were kindly brought in by the guys then we we sat and chatted before commencing the racing. We couldn't hang around as Andy was off to see The Merchant of Venice at 6pm.

There were problems with some cars:

the most concerning of which is Brumos RSR BMW 2.8 The gearmesh sounds awful yet there isn't an excess of backlash BUT the car left a trail of aluminium dust all round the track that we called the 'silver dust of death' as it coats the tyres and reduces grip. It's second race was gingerly finished but this car isn't going to finish the proxy without work. We had to run cars of our own round for a few laps to clean up the silver dust before the next proxy heat.
Green Star Racing BMW M4 - the car refused to roll freely and flew round left handers but felt like the handbrake was on in right handers. After it's first race we stopped the racing to check the car over. Ideally we would have taken the bodyshell off but that would change the drivers preferred body mounting settings so we left the bodyshell on. I removed the wheel next to the spur gear and it helped greatly so put the wheel back on with a little more of a gap but it's still not what I'd call race-ready as it's still a little grabby and spoiling the cars flow.
Hotlap Opel Calibra - during it's first race Andy said it's behaving very oddly, after inspection the rear axle had shifted over a good 2mm, it was found that the crown gear grub screw wasn't tight. Axle re-centred and finished it's second race.
Harrisons Racers BMW 320i - threw a wheel part way through a race, this was glued back on and we commenced racing.
Lifeboats Racing Ford Galaxie - one rear tyre kept rubbing the wheelarch, we stopped at least once to try to move the body over just enough to race the car. This was done without changing anything other than sliding it over as there was a little play. A dab of superglue held it in place to finish.

Trawling through the results now....

Brumos RSR - Brumos RSR - 10th-Sep-23

the most concerning of which is Brumos RSR BMW 2.8 The gearmesh sounds awful yet there isn't an excess of backlash BUT the car left a trail of aluminium dust all round the track that we called the 'silver dust of death' as it coats the tyres and reduces grip. Its second race was gingerly finished but this car isn't going to finish the proxy without work. We had to run cars of our own round for a few laps to clean up the silver dust before the next proxy heat.

The motor shaft on the SRC is fairly large, my guess is it is rubbing. If it’s ok with our Race Director, Graham, I would be ok with minor work being done. If power can be applied and lightly filed on the inside
to reduce friction it would be greatly appreciated, I accept all penalties assessed by our Race Director for the repair.

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