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Scalextric Start Formula One


You dont need ultra fast cars that handle like gokarts to have a good, close race meeting, these Scalextric cars could never be classed fast and their handling (on a wooden, non mag circuit) needs a lot of care, but we had a VERY close race meeting.
The format was that everybody had one minutes racing on each of the 4 lanes to produce their fastest single lap, this determined their qualifying order for 3 minute step-up finals.

Fastest qualifier was Bob Batten fresh from his mid season break, 0.007 behind was John Down and just over ½ second covered all 9 competitors.
   
On to the finals, Mike won the C final comfortably to move up to the B, where Bernie Lawrance broke the outright race record for these cars to move up to the A final along with Ian Chanter to join Bob and John.
This was a race and a half, it started with Bernie & John running side by side for a few laps, neither able to break away, John had an off and Bernie suddenly had a full lap lead, time to take it easy and run out the clock but no, an unforced error put John back in the lead and Bernie was chasing as hard as he could, only when the power went off did he and John notice that Bob had sneaked by and taken the win, all 3 of them covered by only ½ a lap, Ian finished 4th but he was only one lap down, a really great race.

Those results moved both John and Bob up the table to 2nd & 3rd, and with one round to go and best 4 of 5 to count the title is still wide open.
   

Next Thursday sees the first round of the NSR Back to Race Championship, cars are frantically being built, full report and photos next week.