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WHO Winter Rally-Sprint News Briefing 4 – Wednesday 17 February 2021

We’ve had another brief pause in the action, but Jean is gearing up for Stages 6 & 7 this weekend – and then we have a return to Brighton for the final leg of the event...

1. Rally-Sprint Standings. After the first five stages – more-or-less halfway – it remains ridiculously tight at the top. The Wye Valley Citroën C4s sit one and two – Alan Birchmore’s advantage over Phil Field a mere three quarters of a second...

   

Alan Wilkinson’s Renault Mégane is in third, three seconds off the lead – and Phil Barry’s SRC Porsche 914/6 GT is fifteen hundredths of a second further back. The top eight are covered by just eleven seconds, so there remains plenty to play for!


2. Martlets Rally Stage 1 & 2. The cars have completed their road transfer to Jean’s home in Worthing. He reports that everything is ready to go this weekend. Jean’s original plan was to run a massive Scalextric Sport stage – based on the layouts he built for his events last summer – and have Mike D do the driving…

   

Although lockdown restrictions have inevitably intervened, expect some high speed action on back-to-back stages this weekend. Coverage will be posted here on SlotRacer Online – keep an eye out for updates on Jean’s schedule.


3. Final leg in Brighton. Our task next week is to get the cars back to Brighton. If that is achieved successfully, we’ll be nicely on schedule. The plan is to run the Devil’s Dyke to Saddlecombe stages over two days – one in the afternoon and then a pre-dawn start the following day – hopefully with some live streaming. That’s planned for 27-28 February. The penultimate stage – a re-run of Stage 1 – will follow mid-week, with the final stage rounding off the Rally-Sprint at the weekend.


4. SlotRacer Online Proxy stickers. All you lucky Rally-Sprint entrants will be receiving a brand new SlotRacer Online Proxy sticker...

   

These have been produced to celebrate the lockdown resurgence of proxy racing and are available free to the organisers of any proxy slot car event that uses the SlotRacer forum for race build-up and coverage. There are five rather superb designs – a big thank you to Jason for doing these!


5. Prize cars. Here’s a preview of the second prize car kindly donated by Gaugemaster…

   


6. More proxy racing? We’re pretty certain the WHO Winter Rally-Sprint will become an annual proxy event – it has been a lot of fun! Our return to racing at the Barn is still rather up in the air, so there will be other proxy events in 2021 that the club will organise or support. Make sure you check the SlotRacer Proxy Racing section for updates.

Finally, 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.