[Graham]

Pitlane Review
Well it was another Great Round by Andy at Brighton, two very different Rally Stages which tested the cars to their maximum.And now they onto another new host BARacer whose feeling a little nervous about running his stages, but I am sure he will do us proud.

Event 1
Manx Andy's Jaguar XK120 had a firm grip on these stages and is now demonstrating its true potential. I decided to change the class classification of this car to Class C, for one thing it seemed completely daft to have one car in its own class, but apart from that it makes sense to classify these "Pro" built brass chassis based models according to their potential and this one is definitely running as fast as other Class C models.
Great to see the Austin Healey of Green Star Racing make it to the top, very well deserved.
I was disappointed to see the Roadrunners Jaguar XK120 struggling on the Ninco 1st stage, the chassis design was not very accommodating for adding ballast, but hopefully it will recover on the next Stages. On the other hand the Cortina of Lifeboats Racing seemed to be working better than could be imagined on such testing stages, well worth the additional help that the Harlequin garage put in to get this running reasonably steadily 

Event 2
Great to see the little Metro of Bangers Racing now beginning to show its form after a slow start at Harlequin. But it will have a real job on its hand to keep up with the smooth running BMW M1 of Savage GT.  I am sure that Lifeboats Racing will be delighted with the steady running Audi Quattro A2. And Harrisons Racers Lancia 037 put in another great performance in this Round.

Event 3
Really surprised to see the Roadrunners Fiat 131 Abarth giving the Porsche 914/6 cars so much hassle at the front, I built it to see if I could get into the mix with these cars, but thought probably that at best it would be holding onto the their tails   But the Porsche 914/6 of Brumos RSR is uncomfortably close behind.
James@wyevalley the only in line version of the Porsche 914/6's is certainly competing with the Sidewinders and is creeping up the field. The fastest Triumph TR7 of BARacer is also keeping in touch with the front runners.
The Porsche 914/6 of Courtney Sport appears to have a guide related issue, so far the only car to have struggled with this, which was quite prevalent in the past Proxy events. So hopefully my message about guide dimensions is getting through, but I guess one or two can get caught in the net sadly.

Event 4
As Andy has said, this Event is very closely matched set of cars, I intentionally restricted the type of Car classes with the intention of making it so, so very happy see the results closely contested. On home turf the Subaru of Woodcote Racing was beyond reach of the other cars on this Round, but the Renault Clio of Scott Sports I think is going to give the runners at the top a very close contest, along with the superb Scalex Subaru of Team Alaric. Courtney Sports Porsche 924 definitely struggled more on these testing surfaces and will be glad to be back on flatter track surfaces for the next rounds.

Team Placings
Obviously the troubles of Courtney Sport have temporarily, I am sure, placed them on the back foot and the are not appearing on the top10 list currently. On the other hand Brumos RSR make their fist appearance in the top 10 with a great run of their Porsche 914/6   just a pity about the BMW M1 troubles.
Savage GT still ahead at the top, but increasing pressure from the other 10 teams is going to make this an interesting and hard fault competition.

So we are off to see what BARacer Stages has install for us, plenty of thrills, but not too many spills I hope 

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