27th-May-22, 09:23 PM
Race reports - 26th May 2022 - Slot Rally
With ‘Death Race 2022’ imminent (IoM TT) and some members unable to attend due to illness, work or being off island there were enough of us to see sixteen Rally entries.
15 lap runs all round as we had time and only 16 cars to drive round.
A few cars were seen with new owners tonight, Brian’s DeTomaso Pantera, Gav’s AC Cobra and Porsche 997.
Gav has upgraded his controller and should be fully up to speed with it’s adjustments in due course. Settings were chosen which suited the SCX Citroen Xsara nicely, the car driven well in control and smoothly…the same settings don’t work for cars with much quicker motors but those will be found. As it turned out this was to be his best car tonight…sometimes slower is faster.
Brian’s Pantera (nicknamed DeTomato) is a little flier and will be seen many more times I suspect. The Peugeot 206 was a few seconds quicker though and his best car tonight, slightly quicker in the ‘slow’ direction but he’s much happier now he has a bunch of ‘proper’ Rally cars…they’ll probably go even better if he remembers to bring the correct controller next time!
Andy was reccying with a bunch of small classics, what to Rally, MiniSprint…Moggy 1000…Anglia…Alpine A110…in the end the Anglia was chosen. The Porsche 959 and Ferrari F40 were easy choices and there was a welcome return of the Jaguar Xk120 which ended up his second best runner tonight. One or two too many deslots spoiled a couple of runs but again probably affected by controller tuning as his usual one is…finally in the post!
Kev’s four car choices were quickly selected (for a change) with a Volvo 850 T5 seen on the stage for the first time, it went well but still looked a bit too hasty with current controller settings. The Opel Manta and Mustang seen last time went well again (especially the Manta) with the final choice runner Ninco Lancia 037 managing quick stage times.
Car comparisons
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Next week sees a change to the race calendar as we’ve swapped the next two weeks around. So next week is Le Manx (Group C & LMP) - race format to be decided - the following week is Small Sports/Saloons & Group 5
With ‘Death Race 2022’ imminent (IoM TT) and some members unable to attend due to illness, work or being off island there were enough of us to see sixteen Rally entries.
15 lap runs all round as we had time and only 16 cars to drive round.
A few cars were seen with new owners tonight, Brian’s DeTomaso Pantera, Gav’s AC Cobra and Porsche 997.
Gav has upgraded his controller and should be fully up to speed with it’s adjustments in due course. Settings were chosen which suited the SCX Citroen Xsara nicely, the car driven well in control and smoothly…the same settings don’t work for cars with much quicker motors but those will be found. As it turned out this was to be his best car tonight…sometimes slower is faster.
Brian’s Pantera (nicknamed DeTomato) is a little flier and will be seen many more times I suspect. The Peugeot 206 was a few seconds quicker though and his best car tonight, slightly quicker in the ‘slow’ direction but he’s much happier now he has a bunch of ‘proper’ Rally cars…they’ll probably go even better if he remembers to bring the correct controller next time!
Andy was reccying with a bunch of small classics, what to Rally, MiniSprint…Moggy 1000…Anglia…Alpine A110…in the end the Anglia was chosen. The Porsche 959 and Ferrari F40 were easy choices and there was a welcome return of the Jaguar Xk120 which ended up his second best runner tonight. One or two too many deslots spoiled a couple of runs but again probably affected by controller tuning as his usual one is…finally in the post!
Kev’s four car choices were quickly selected (for a change) with a Volvo 850 T5 seen on the stage for the first time, it went well but still looked a bit too hasty with current controller settings. The Opel Manta and Mustang seen last time went well again (especially the Manta) with the final choice runner Ninco Lancia 037 managing quick stage times.
Car comparisons
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Next week sees a change to the race calendar as we’ve swapped the next two weeks around. So next week is Le Manx (Group C & LMP) - race format to be decided - the following week is Small Sports/Saloons & Group 5
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