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WHO Winter Rally-Sprint News Briefing 2 – Wednesday 3 February 2021

We’ve had a pause after a frantic first week of racing... but the action will begin again this weekend. In this news briefing we’ll recap on the Rally-Sprint standings, preview upcoming stages and give you a glimpse of the event stickers that all the competitors and hosts will receive...


1. Rally-Sprint Standings. After the first three stages, it is extremely close at the top. Alan Wilkinson’s Renault Mégane leads Alan Birchmore’s Citroën C4 by a mere 0.04 of a second! Phil Field’s C4 is in third, 0.99 of second behind the leader. Slot Rally UK ‘Class C’ cars dominate the top of the standings, with Graham Edward’s Subaru in fourteenth overall and leading Class A. Oli Abbot’s Audi Sport Quattro tops Class B in twentieth overall. You can study the full standings here.


2. SouthDowns Hillclimb 1 & 2 this weekend. Oli is ready to go with Stages 4 and 5, having taken last weekend to prepare thoroughly. The Hillclimb was going to built on the SouthDowns Slot Car Club track, but has been moved to a large lounge. Here’s a plan of Oli’s stage, plus his tried-and-tested rally loops that go at either end...

   
   

The scheduled start for SS4 is 10am on Saturday – Oli is hoping to stream some of the action on a Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/3417627488349248/


3. Devil’s Dyke to Saddlescombe preview. Oli’s won’t be the only hillclimb of the event. When the cars return to Brighton at the end of the month, they will be faced by this one…

   

It’s all SCX Classic track and based on the route from Saddlecombe to Devil’s Dyke via the A27 roundabout – a fun drive at the best of times, but we’re expecting some snow towards the top of the Dyke for this one!


4. WHO Winter Rally-Sprint 2021 stickers. The commemorative stickers have arrived at Rally-Sprint HQ. These will be sent to all the competitors and hosts at the end of the event....
   


5. Prize cars. We can also preview of one of the prize cars kindly donated by Gaugemaster...

   

It's the Racer Sideways Nissan Skyline Turbo Group 5 car that raced at the  9 hours of  Kyalami in 1982. A big thank you to Matt and the team over in Ford for sending us this!


Don’t forget to tune in here at SlotRacer for all the coverage of this weekend’s action, plus there’ll be a weekly Rally-Sprint round-up next Wednesday at 5pm UK time.