[Graham]

Because it is running through the summer period I have been deliberately vague about the schedule, initially to fit in with changeable personal circumstances.
Additionally we do have some unforeseen complications with a couple of hosts who are unfortunately currently in hospital or undergoing treatment.
So currently we have the order as:

 20th June- Gpa113- with Ninco
29th June -Woodland Fort (Mike S)- home made routed wood
14th to 28th July -Andy Player (Ninco)
5th to 8th August - Graham (both Ninco and SCX)

[Gpa113]

Hi Chris,

Gpa113 is me!

Pip.  I am based down near Woking, Surrey,  and have taken part in a number of Graham's excellent Proxy events,  including both of the previous Extreme Slotting Rally-Raid events. 

I run my own club,  Send Scalextric Racing Club, from my home address.  I was lucky enough to build a dedicated hobby room,  6 metres by 5 metres,  and built like a small bungalow!  Built by best mate Andy and myself.  Note - He is the clever one, not me!
I don't have a website,  or twitter, Facebook or anything,  as the club runs from our home it's  by invitation only.
 We have around 13 "members",   and get between 7 and 11 most of the time. 

I will be running two parts to my stage, both on Ninco track,  and the first part will be revealed tomorrow,  quite possibly with the results as well 

Whats Gpa113?    It was my race number in the Group A Hot Rods at Arena Essex  I raced bangers and Hot Rods for 14 years, great fun.

Pip

[classicchrisk]

Hi Chris,

Gpa113 is me!

Pip.  I am based down near Woking, Surrey,  and have taken part in a number of Graham's excellent Proxy events,  including both of the previous Extreme Slotting Rally-Raid events. 

I run my own club,  Send Scalextric Racing Club, from my home address.  I was lucky enough to build a dedicated hobby room,  6 metres by 5 metres,  and built like a small bungalow!  

Thanks Pip, sounds like a decent size space. I built a similar size bungalow in my garden 8m x 5m, which I now, live in. At least my accommodation also includes the roof space!! My shed also occupies a similar footprint, reserved for car and motorcycle hobbies. Built it before I started racing Slot Cars, so have managed to squeeze a 30ft lap length Scalextric Sport, in one corner, and have a routed wood rally track on a 4ft x 3ft board. Still managed to get a 52ft stage length out of it! 
This is my first venture into Raid. In fact, I've never actually seen a proper raid track!

Some of my pals in the village race stock cars, at Buxton, mainly Fiesta Hot Rods. I don't think their series ventures quite as far as Essex.

Cheers
Chris

[Gpa113]

Cool looking tracks Chris, love that routed rally circuit.  One of those is on my list to do, at some point!  Amazing lane length 

[Gpa113]

Extreme Slotting Rally-Raid Proxy Stage 2.    The Send Scramble Part 1.

Here is the layout from yesterdays Stage 2A.

This is the Ninco Mastertrack  Off Road layout,  as per the set instructions.  It is 12.05m in length, technical and twisty,  with some nice elevation changes.  Zoom in to see the placement of the obstacles.  
Timing via the LapTrax app on my tablet, which is a free app, and does a great job.
Start line bottom left, driver station middle top.  Really good fun track. 

It needed to have all the bridge sections raised,  so that the incredible trucks could pass safely underneath! 

   

[Gpa113]

First Class to run was the SCX R2 class, which meant the awesome Sand Buggy of Andy P was first onto the Stage.

Love this little model, it is one many that I have had the pleasure of driving before. It pulls wheelies on the inclines, and clears the obstacles with ease. 42.16s, for 4 laps, set the target. Which  was good enough for 2nd, just the Mitsubishi of James A going faster, with Paul C's beautiful Red Bull Touareg right behind.    3 tenths of a second cover the top 3, super close!

   

[Gpa113]

Next Class was the well supported Ninco R1 class.  These are great fun, as long as you treat the obstacles with respect 

All 8 entries are covered by 8.5 seconds,  really competitive bunch of models.

My own VW Touareg topped the times. It is very used to this layout,  and quick across the bumps, but still doesn't feel as fast as a few of the others.  Right behind is the Very bright Orange Nemesis Bowler of Mike.  2nd in Class two years running,  it would be a very deserving winner, and felt both fast, and stable on this track.   3rd place is the Mitsubishi of ClassicchrisK,  which went really well,  especially as he says he hasn't seen a Raid track before!   

Certainly all to play for, anyone could win this class...

   

[Gpa113]

Class R3 was next up, for Lightweight Vehicles, also described as expensive 

Wow, these are super quick...

Top spot, and quickest time of the stage, was the amazing Odyssey 21 of event organiser Grahan.  This is properly rapid, and an incredible bit of engineering kit.
Running it close we had the three  Porsche 959 models, with Hotlap Phil getting closest,  just ahead of MYST and James.

Looking forward to these on a longer, and faster,  Part 2 to this Stage. 

   

[Gpa113]

And now for something completely different....Class R4  -  Trucks! 

I have not had the pleasure of driving the Trucks before.   They are fabulous.  Big, unwieldy,  fast, and just so different.  

In practice (each entry had 10 laps practice to check they ran ok) it was obvious the bridges needed to be raised to let these big "Beasts of Burden" pass safely underneath!

The Mercedes of Grahan was good, and took 3rd.   Up the road by 9 seconds we had the incredible twin motor driven MAN of MYST.
One motor for the front axle,  one for the rear. A very lightweight body, and bloody quick!  What a surprise on this twisty layout.
Top spot though to the returning Ford Transit AA patrol van from Groundhogs,  still complete with flashing lights. 
This is a Mitoos chassis,  so a real decent entry. 

My favourite was the MAN of BARacer  
Jeremy,  it was hilarious    It assaulted all the barriers,  knocked itself over on one of the underpasses but just keeps going. Brilliant. 
It reminded me of the massive Hummer,  entered last year by Topdown, Hello Doug!


   

[Gpa113]

Final class was the Dakar Sprint -  Class R5.

I hadn't really read the rules properly for this class, and didn't realise you don't require a drop arm guide, shame, I would have found something at Gaydon otherwise. 

All obstacles were removed from the layout,  so this class only has to cope with the bumpy surface.  I double checked this with Graham  before running this stage. 

Ridiculously close at the top!
ClassicchrisK's Land Rover 0.07 ahead of Graham's lovely Ninco Porsche 911SC.  Both went great.
3rd was the highly modified,  with enormous rear wheels, Scalextric Porsche of Mike, good job

The little Fiat Panda was fun, whilst the A30 Police car struggled.  It went like it had a misfire. Will investigate before the next stage. 
   


Part 2 of The Send Scramble will be set up tomorrow.  Results up by end of Sunday.  Can't wait