[Qman]

Belated report from last Thursday's Club Truck event.
   
These trucks are beginning to show their age (35 years+), some have very little brakes but it's the same for all drivers, except the red truck got SO hot in heat one that it melted the solder on the leadwire, it was replaced at the end of the heat with the spare car so it just needs a bit of TLC.

Anyway on to the racing, quite a few members had prior engagements so there was only 5 of us racing, 3 in a heat with just 2 marshalls made for an interesting evening.

The format is best 3 of 4 heats, totalled, and then a handicap is added based on previous results, the target for the 3 heats was 110 laps which nobody managed but the track is still quite slippery.

Honours went to Bernie, who narrowly beat Bob, which after 3 rounds brings Bernie into the joint lead with Graeme, Anthony is only 3 pts adrift in 3rd.

   

This week sees round 4 of our saloon championship which is split into 2 classes, Production is for standard Scalextric, SCX or Ninco cars, tyre trueing, ballast and body rock the only allowed mods, and then the Pro class, which covers all your Slot-it, NSR etc and scratchbuilds, drivers can enter both classes and results are determined on each and every race result, winner gets 4pts, 2nd 3pts, 3rd 2pts & 4th 1pt, the races are arranged so that no 2 races have exactly the same drivers, points are cumulative, the idea is an attempt to copy BTCC, every race in the whole season gives points.