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Pancake Power Match Racing - Round One

Two pairs of quite different cars - original Aurora Thunderjets with skinny wheels & tyres, plus the independent front axle Magnatractions that we've seen before...

   

Starting with the new kids on the block. These are cute vintage cars that Iain and Clive have sent - and very smooth on the strip too. Underneath are standard Aurora T-Jet chassis, Clive's Cheetah with a solid rivet version. The Cheetah was produced by Aurora between 1969 and 1972, the Chevy a more modern 1990s Model Motoring mould. Both were very evenly matched for speed, although the Cheetah's softer tyres gave it an advantage over the first third of the strip - the Chevy a little squirrelly off the line. Race one went to Clive by 0.107 seconds - the ETs 1.196 and 1.244 which looked rapid for these cars and was fun to watch.

   

Now for the Funny Cars... Nico's Vega flew down the strip, whereas Kev's 'Cuda needed all the encouragement it could get from the crowd. Great fun though - the winning margin a huge 1.064 seconds and the ETs 0.656 and 1.666.

The second rounds a bit later...