Race Report
We return to Shenanigans Raceway due to school holidays, roadworks and other delays.
We were two racers down today and I reached out to the three other interested guys to see if one of them would like to join us and meet the others in the group and be vetted by us, unfortunately the late notice meant that they were unable to attend for various reasons, sad but that's life. Perhaps within the next few weeks, or sooner if this stay at home visitor limitations are removed.
A decision was made after a quick chat with the others in the group about where the next race is to be, due to racers having to travel through two major road repairs and long wait delays and then having to deal with school holiday traffic, by racing at Shenanigans all this road works and school holiday chaos can be limited to all travelling, this is only tentative*
The race preparation was going ok, no changes or touches were done, so I was exasperated with the problems with the Expert driver, race, windows displaying a white box, the Guided Setup across all the settings worked flawlessly, when I wanted to edit the race using the Expert, nothing was working, grrr. After near on 14 hours, two Windows Resets and seven RC reinstalls later, I finally got the damn Expert screens working. Thankfully as there were some changes needed within RC and these screens are required to complete the changes to RC.
With two racer down, Shenanigans Raceway was utilising RC's Multitrack Three lane setting, leaving us with four racers and one marshal and three track call buttons.
The Leaderboards and Podiums were again obtained by a mix of all racers across all events. Congratulations to everyone on your Leaderboard, Podium wins and great racing. Very close racing by everyone, here's an example of how close, check the results for: Event 8, Host Class, 1-24 Mini Cooper's Fuel
As is natural for myself, I performed a couple of 'coming through' deslots, I also pulled up blowing my race even more, even Joe got in on the action driving on trying to clear his way through a deslotted car, he tried but no go :)
Joe decided to race his Scalextric LMP car, unfortunately this car was just atrocious on the track, another racer running silicon tyres, not only did the silicone's let Joe down, they also destroyed what grip was there for all racers that
followed. This week saw various racers taking out the podiums, which is fantastic, the Most Outstanding was Joe, he made himself several podiums, just proves that a decent controller really does make improved results.
The deslots got that bad by the Scalextric LMP I offered my Revo LMP Toyota, my 3rd LMP backup car for Joe to use, though he had a backup car which was good. Soon as Joe swapped out his racing improved instantly along with the deslots reducing. It is great to want to run a car just for the sake of running a car, this doesn't always work though, especially on racing, my track is available for all in our group.
It was great to see all racers and cars having decent grip, even with an overcast day, the weather last week was a tad worse than last week at Old Bar Raceway where no one had grip, environmental conditions, they certainly do change the racing and car handling.
Guides, they really do a terrific job even though it is one of many items that could go wrong, these little blighters really do all the work, in very harsh conditions, sudden change, then back the other way in another instance, they handle hairpins under harsh racing conditions so we really should see more of these suckers snapping than what we see now.
We saw Paul really pushing his cars hard, he goes out there to break lap records, as is usual to go out there and break the lap record, which he did on two occasions, when Paul deslots it's usually down to him racing hard and not the car.
This week saw various racers taking out the podiums, which is fantastic, the Most Outstanding was Joe, he made himself several podiums, just proves that a decent controller really does make improved results.
Jeffery and Lindsay were unable to attend today's racing, he was missed along with his cars and racing style, both have grown even more from the first time I met, damn his fast. These guys are good.
The racing all day was very close when we check the Race and Heat Windows. Quite a lot of Driver Best Lap and Best Heat Lap were obtained.
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Chaos Report Headlines
We see the bridge, chicane and both inside corners. Not a lot of shenanigans today, Joe did break his guide nd nearly forgot that small spring again, but he remembered just in time.
My Slot.it LMP once again broke the guide wire, now that I might have found a work around, during the teating the wire broke again at the guide.
Charlie had two high speed deslots, smacking the flat edge board side on, and the impacts at the right hand turn coming out of the straight, the second impact was more significant, it just sounded bad, after a bit of triage, there was no car damage from either impacts.
I deslotted and Paul came through and literally flipped my LMP over the top of his LMP and kept going. I had a few 'turtles' and a few unreal deslots, it varies from week to week and the level of pain present, which is why this race write-up have taken a few days longer.
Without further jibbering on, here are the Leaderboard, Podium photos, Race screen and the Heat screen for racing at Wed 29th September, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway.
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 1
1 Ninco 1 Leaderboard & Podium
1st Paul 74.59
2nd Charlie 74.11
3rd Joe 72.05
4th Johnno 70.85
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul with 9.197
Current Race Record: Paul with 9.197 (obtained 29/09/2021, today)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 2
Ninco Porsche Cup Leaderboard & Podium
1st Paul 75.46
2nd Charlie 74.46
3rd Johnno 72.68
4th Joe 68.84
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Johnno 9.073
Current Race Record: Charlie 9.073 (obtained 29/09/2021, today)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 3
Scalextric Trans-Am Leaderboard & Podium
1st Paul 80.76
2nd Charlie 76.54
3rd Johnno 76.37
4th Joe 65.00
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Johnno 8.297
Current Race Record: D.O.C. 9.405 (Destroyer Of Cars) (obtained 29/09/2021)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 4
GT International Leaderboard & Podium
1st Paul 82.41
2nd Charlie 81.84
3rd Johnno 73.00
4th Joe 66.53
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul 7.917
Current Race Record: Paul 7.917 (obtained 29/09/2021, today)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 5
Revoslot
1st Paul 84.01
2nd Charlie 80.99
3rd Joe 76.12
4th Johnno 76.07
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul 7.620
Current Race Record: Paul 7.620 (obtained 29/09/2021, today)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 6
Slot.it Can-Am
1st Johnno 82.33
2nd Charlie 82.18
3rd Paul 79.75
4th Joe 73.28
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul 7.661
Current Race Record: Johnno 7.881 (previously obtained)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 7
Modern LMP Leaderboard & Podium
1st Paul 88.08
2nd Johnno 85.75
3rd Charlie 80.78
4th Joe 71.37
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul 7.533
Current Race Record: Paul 7.654 (previously obtained)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 8
Host Class, 1:24 Mini Cooper's Fuel
1st Charlie 69.000
2nd Johnno 68.000
3rd Paul 67.000
4th Joe 65.00
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul 7.533
Current Race Record: Paul 7.654 (previously obtained)
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Shenanigans Raceway (Mid North Coast, Taree, 2430)
dictionary definition:
- mischievousness or high-spirited behaviour,
- secret manoeuvring
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We return to Shenanigans Raceway due to school holidays, roadworks and other delays.
We were two racers down today and I reached out to the three other interested guys to see if one of them would like to join us and meet the others in the group and be vetted by us, unfortunately the late notice meant that they were unable to attend for various reasons, sad but that's life. Perhaps within the next few weeks, or sooner if this stay at home visitor limitations are removed.
A decision was made after a quick chat with the others in the group about where the next race is to be, due to racers having to travel through two major road repairs and long wait delays and then having to deal with school holiday traffic, by racing at Shenanigans all this road works and school holiday chaos can be limited to all travelling, this is only tentative*
The race preparation was going ok, no changes or touches were done, so I was exasperated with the problems with the Expert driver, race, windows displaying a white box, the Guided Setup across all the settings worked flawlessly, when I wanted to edit the race using the Expert, nothing was working, grrr. After near on 14 hours, two Windows Resets and seven RC reinstalls later, I finally got the damn Expert screens working. Thankfully as there were some changes needed within RC and these screens are required to complete the changes to RC.
With two racer down, Shenanigans Raceway was utilising RC's Multitrack Three lane setting, leaving us with four racers and one marshal and three track call buttons.
The Leaderboards and Podiums were again obtained by a mix of all racers across all events. Congratulations to everyone on your Leaderboard, Podium wins and great racing. Very close racing by everyone, here's an example of how close, check the results for: Event 8, Host Class, 1-24 Mini Cooper's Fuel
As is natural for myself, I performed a couple of 'coming through' deslots, I also pulled up blowing my race even more, even Joe got in on the action driving on trying to clear his way through a deslotted car, he tried but no go :)
Joe decided to race his Scalextric LMP car, unfortunately this car was just atrocious on the track, another racer running silicon tyres, not only did the silicone's let Joe down, they also destroyed what grip was there for all racers that
followed. This week saw various racers taking out the podiums, which is fantastic, the Most Outstanding was Joe, he made himself several podiums, just proves that a decent controller really does make improved results.
The deslots got that bad by the Scalextric LMP I offered my Revo LMP Toyota, my 3rd LMP backup car for Joe to use, though he had a backup car which was good. Soon as Joe swapped out his racing improved instantly along with the deslots reducing. It is great to want to run a car just for the sake of running a car, this doesn't always work though, especially on racing, my track is available for all in our group.
It was great to see all racers and cars having decent grip, even with an overcast day, the weather last week was a tad worse than last week at Old Bar Raceway where no one had grip, environmental conditions, they certainly do change the racing and car handling.
Guides, they really do a terrific job even though it is one of many items that could go wrong, these little blighters really do all the work, in very harsh conditions, sudden change, then back the other way in another instance, they handle hairpins under harsh racing conditions so we really should see more of these suckers snapping than what we see now.
We saw Paul really pushing his cars hard, he goes out there to break lap records, as is usual to go out there and break the lap record, which he did on two occasions, when Paul deslots it's usually down to him racing hard and not the car.
This week saw various racers taking out the podiums, which is fantastic, the Most Outstanding was Joe, he made himself several podiums, just proves that a decent controller really does make improved results.
Jeffery and Lindsay were unable to attend today's racing, he was missed along with his cars and racing style, both have grown even more from the first time I met, damn his fast. These guys are good.
The racing all day was very close when we check the Race and Heat Windows. Quite a lot of Driver Best Lap and Best Heat Lap were obtained.
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Chaos Report Headlines
We see the bridge, chicane and both inside corners. Not a lot of shenanigans today, Joe did break his guide nd nearly forgot that small spring again, but he remembered just in time.
My Slot.it LMP once again broke the guide wire, now that I might have found a work around, during the teating the wire broke again at the guide.
Charlie had two high speed deslots, smacking the flat edge board side on, and the impacts at the right hand turn coming out of the straight, the second impact was more significant, it just sounded bad, after a bit of triage, there was no car damage from either impacts.
I deslotted and Paul came through and literally flipped my LMP over the top of his LMP and kept going. I had a few 'turtles' and a few unreal deslots, it varies from week to week and the level of pain present, which is why this race write-up have taken a few days longer.
Without further jibbering on, here are the Leaderboard, Podium photos, Race screen and the Heat screen for racing at Wed 29th September, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway.
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 1
1 Ninco 1 Leaderboard & Podium
1st Paul 74.59
2nd Charlie 74.11
3rd Joe 72.05
4th Johnno 70.85
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul with 9.197
Current Race Record: Paul with 9.197 (obtained 29/09/2021, today)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 2
Ninco Porsche Cup Leaderboard & Podium
1st Paul 75.46
2nd Charlie 74.46
3rd Johnno 72.68
4th Joe 68.84
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Johnno 9.073
Current Race Record: Charlie 9.073 (obtained 29/09/2021, today)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 3
Scalextric Trans-Am Leaderboard & Podium
1st Paul 80.76
2nd Charlie 76.54
3rd Johnno 76.37
4th Joe 65.00
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Johnno 8.297
Current Race Record: D.O.C. 9.405 (Destroyer Of Cars) (obtained 29/09/2021)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 4
GT International Leaderboard & Podium
1st Paul 82.41
2nd Charlie 81.84
3rd Johnno 73.00
4th Joe 66.53
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul 7.917
Current Race Record: Paul 7.917 (obtained 29/09/2021, today)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 5
Revoslot
1st Paul 84.01
2nd Charlie 80.99
3rd Joe 76.12
4th Johnno 76.07
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul 7.620
Current Race Record: Paul 7.620 (obtained 29/09/2021, today)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 6
Slot.it Can-Am
1st Johnno 82.33
2nd Charlie 82.18
3rd Paul 79.75
4th Joe 73.28
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul 7.661
Current Race Record: Johnno 7.881 (previously obtained)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 7
Modern LMP Leaderboard & Podium
1st Paul 88.08
2nd Johnno 85.75
3rd Charlie 80.78
4th Joe 71.37
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul 7.533
Current Race Record: Paul 7.654 (previously obtained)
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Wed 29th Sept, 2021 at Shenanigans Raceway
Event 8
Host Class, 1:24 Mini Cooper's Fuel
1st Charlie 69.000
2nd Johnno 68.000
3rd Paul 67.000
4th Joe 65.00
5th n/a
6th n/a
Current Lap Record: Paul 7.533
Current Race Record: Paul 7.654 (previously obtained)
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Shenanigans Raceway (Mid North Coast, Taree, 2430)
dictionary definition:
- mischievousness or high-spirited behaviour,
- secret manoeuvring
https://slotracer.online/community/showt...p?tid=2209
Australian Slot Car Group (ASCG) - all things Slot Cars
https://www.facebook.com/groups/australianslotcars
NSW Slot Car Group (NSWSCG)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nswslotcargroup
https://slotracer.online/community/forum...php?fid=54
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