[Qman]

Sorry for the delay but here are the results from Woodland Fort Slot Car Club in Plymouth, Devon
The cars spent an overnight halt at Oaktree Cattery Garage in Cornwall where an inspection of the Roadrunners Ferrari 412 revealed nothing more sinister than a mechanic had filled it with Castrol GTX instead of Castrol R, with no time for a major strip down a gentle run of 10 minutes on 9volts had it freed up nicely and fingers crossed for the next days race.
The decision was made to run this round as a proper race night, our members forgoing their scheduled 1/24 Club Car round to fulfill this commitment, we had 7 drivers turn up so decided that 4 racing, and 3 marshalling would do the trick.

Cars were subject to a 2 minute daylight race followed immediately by a lane change (outer to inner & vice versa) and another 2 minutes in the dark with a new driver, the cars were then replaced, drivers moved one lane to the left and the whole thing was repeated, sounds complicated but it went without a hitch... EXCEPT...

Cars were placed on the grid for the very first race, lights went green & 3 cars roared away, 4th one NOTHING, ready for the restart after checking the lane, controller etc but this car would not run, it was replaced on the grid by the next car in line and racing continued, I then had a quick, body off inspection of the failed car to find BOTH lead wires had come off the guide!!!, easy fix and it ran in the next race.
Our track is very fast and very grippy, too grippy for some of the cars who had to be driven with kid gloves to avoid falling over, this has meant that the results you see are probably different to all previous rounds (I deliberately haven't looked to save any preconceptions)
The Matra was another case entirely, nomatter what I tried this car would NOT go around corners and as a result is right at the bottom of the results, an inspection today seems to point at a VERY light front end, the guide barely sitting in the slot, I have added a little lead at the front hoping to improve it for the next round (I have no track at home to test it).
Anyway... the results...
   
   
As you see the class leading Porsche didn't like the Devon seaside, or perhaps the driver had one too many Rattler the night before in Cornwall

   
   

Now our favourite class, I would be proud to own any one of these but the 250GTO has to be my choice... or perhaps the Porsche 550, or... just give me them all
   
   

Lastly the GT40 class
   
   

General consensus at the end of a long hard evening was that it was a lot of fun, please can we be considered for the next one, and I'm sure there will be a few entries from our members.
The cars will soon be on their way back to England   I hope the rest of you get as much enjoyment as we did.
I shall end with a little video of one of the night races, biggest problem we had was having both a yellow and a white lane, the lanes stickers look identical in the subdued lighting