[Qman]

A couple more points from me (I'll shut up soon, promise)

1. Home advantage, personally I cant see a problem, I'd be less happy if the previous method was used (Home drivers take the median time for the stage), to penalize a fast car because it's owner has given up his spare time to run a stage is totally unfair.

2. My only criticism, we need a definitive rule for the method of dealing with 'offs', personally I think if a car has an off it should be marshalled 'live', but if we are running (as in one stage), 'off laps' are not counted, it should be uniform across ALL stages.
Even the best drivers/cars will make a mistake once in a while and I think it adds to the fun if the leader could 'have a mare' on the last stage and throw it away.
I can use one of my cars as an instance, I lost 21 seconds on the first stage with an off, had that happened on stage 3 (I think) that 21 seconds wouldn't have counted. It would have made no difference in the end but I always felt that I was chasing shadows.

My final thing, people saying what their cars cost, my Class A & B cars were eBay finds, £8 and £33 respectively.

The Class A Merc had the braids replaced with soft copper and NSR ultragrip tyres (lightly trued) fitted, a small amount of lead was added towards the front.
Class B Corvette had some 2nd hand ultragrip tyres fitted to increase ground clearance.
Class C Porsche was a competition prize from SlotCar magazine, left absolutely standard except that the motor was changed out from the standard M7 (21k) to a M6 (20k)