[Graham]

 Finally the verdict

Overall I feel entirely satisfied with the direction and the character to which this event took.
I would like to thank again all those who participated as entrants, Clubs and individuals to make this a challenging, interesting and rewarding proxy event.
And of course the support of our loyal Sponsors who provided us with the event prizes, which is very welcome bonus for those who worked hard and provided the winning cars.

So I will not be throwing in the towel any time soon 

This year we initially had the Road Race which was very enjoyable, but very much a pioneering thing for me having never organised a slot cars event before. There was some flaws however, it was not a good idea putting the GT40's up against the Ford Cortina's etc. And the scoring system generated a big advantage to the class front runners which soon became a insurmountable mountain to climb for the rest of the field. So for the Le Mans Proxy I think these two issues were resolved.

For the Le Mans Cars event I particularly wanted the cars to run with lights, to me Le mans is not a race without nighttime and lights. I had thought to make lights mandatory requirement for all classes, but thought that was a step too far, but certainly having the "no lights penalty" had a motivating effect 

In reality we only had 9 cars running without lights of the 40 running, but sadly for them they incurred the dreaded penalty, which I did not like applying, but to be fair to those who persevered was I think entirely justified. I had initially proposed not awarding any points to the cars without lights, but changed that to half points at the last minute which was reasonable compromise.

More thoughts  after lunch.........