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2026 Season - Rnd 08 - Sat Aug 1st

Fifteen club members turned up to race, on a very hot Saturday afternoon but surprisingly, not all at the same time! More of that later.
 

Ringing the changes, a different circuit was set up by removing one corner section and replacing it with a pair of straights, making for a shorter faster lap.

 

Support race: Club Fly `Super trucks'

       

Slightly modified from standard they produced some close mirror bashing heats with some drivers, having never driven trucks before, taking a bit of time to get used to the different driving style required.

       

  

Coming home the winner despite the mayhem was Mark J, leading Shaun by over two and a half laps. With identical lap scores but a better fastest lap, David took third ahead of Bill, with Larry just half a lap down in fifth.

       

 

The rest of the field finished near enough in pairs, each pair finishing within less than half a lap of each other. So, despite the carnage, some pretty close racing!

   

 

 Half Time:

 

At this point Mark J and Alan had to leave, just as Mark Raine arrived after a late shift at work. Rather confusingly he raced under Alan’s name for the rest of the evening, as Bill forgot to add him as a new entry. However, this explains why there were fifteen drivers overall, although the maximum appeared to be fourteen!

 

Main race: Owner/driver Saloon and DTM cars.

   

 

As with any owner/driver class there was a huge array of cars – and makes, varying from ‘almost standard’ Scalextric to well sorted Slot.it’s – and it was one of the latter that won, giving Chris his maiden win by almost six laps! 

       

       

       

Nine laps covered the next nine places, from old hand, Vic, then Ben down to Mark R (racing as Alan!) with David F, Tim and Wayne bringing up the rear,

       

It was a very long night, with racing not finishing until 10.20pm, followed by another 40 minutes to pack away.

 

Add to that the A14 being closed, it was gone midnight before some got home!

(At last! My new W11 PC and I are speaking the same language!) 

All photos courtesy of Vic,

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Next meeting - Rnd 09 - Sat Sept. 5th

Hi All, An early reminder for the next race day on Saturday September 5th. 

Please note: There is something going on until 5pm so the car park might be full of strange brass band players. 

Doors open for slot racers at 6pm. 

Main race: Owner/driver Rally cars with INLINE chassis and Max motor rpm of 21K. 
Support race: Club Policar Rally cars.

   
Bit of sympathetic magic here - wishing for cooler weather to come, maybe!
N.B. Doors open: 6pm 

Gt.Whelnetham Community Centre,
Stanningfield Rd,
Bury Saint Edmunds.
IP30 0TX

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2026 Season - Rnd 09 - Sat Sept 5th

With a few people missing in recent weeks due to illnesses and accidents, we still did surprisingly well to have ten club members turn up on the night. With everyone getting stuck in it didn’t take too long to get the big track set up ready for racing in the opposite direction to the norm. Before racing proper began though, a good few ‘familiarisation’ laps were run to get used to the different braking points required for the ‘reverse running’, which makes a BIG difference!

Support race: Club Ninco Rally Peugeots 

They made a welcome return, providing close racing with the cars being very evenly matched. Staying on the track and avoiding the crashes, Mark J came out on top, just a tenth of a lap ahead of Shaun and nine tenths ahead of third place man, Mark R.

           

Main race: Own/driver Rally cars.

   

With inline chassis and motor rpm of up to 21K, as usual the owner/driver class saw a wide range of body styles from Ninco, MSC, Scalextric, SCX and even a NSR Porsche 997 GT3 hitting the track. Racing was fast and furious with the better handling and extra power. 

                                                       

Mark came home first again – but not the same Mark. This time it was Mark W with his Porsche. Less than two laps down, Vic’ made his appearance on the second step, a lap ahead of the winner of the Club car formula, Mark J.  

   

All photo's courtesy of Vic'

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Next meeting - Rnd 10 - Sat Oct. 3rd
 
Support race: Club Ninco Mclaren sports cars.
     

Main race: Owner/driver Sports & GT, Le Mans and Can am cars.
(Any chassis layout and any motor RPM, use the motors that you can not use in our other classes ie more than 20,000 or 21,000rpm.)

Doors open: 5pm (Back to normal. No brass players in sight this time!)

Gt.Whelnetham Community Centre,
Stanningfield Rd,
Bury Saint Edmunds.
IP30 0TX

Hope to see you there, if you can afford the petrol!