[Graham]

 Good evening,

well that was a very smooth Round 9 at the Tyneside Slot Club with our hosts from the nearby NERCS Club. Very well managed and it all got done before it got too late 
Perhaps not surprisingly the Landcrab of the leading host did not manage to break any new proxy series records, although I would have chuckled if it had 

   

This turned out to be a good night for the Rally B (Event 2) cars, in fact the best Round todate for them

And the cars once again on their way, this time to another new venue at the Manx Slot Racing Club in Isle of Man who will be running the very last Round 10. This is a 2 day trip and our first across the water (well OK, not far across the water).

Pitlane Review after Rounds 1-9 (Stage 1-18)
Monte Carlo (Event 1)
1st Place                               2nd Place                        3rd Place
ManxAndy                          ManxKev                            Roadrunners
Jaguar XK 120                    Jaguar XK120                    Jaguar X120

Perhaps the Jaguars of ManxAndy and ManxKev struggled a bit on this Round, which enabled the RoadRunners Jaguar to catch up just a little, but not enough to worry to influence the final outcome I suspect.

Rally B Car (Event 2)
  1st Place                          2nd Place                        3rd Place
Bangers Racing                 Harrison's Racers               Green Star Racing
Metro 6R4                          Lancia 037                        De Tomaso

 Bangers Racing's Metro comfortably ahead, but Harrison's Racers Lancia making it into 2nd place with less than the thickness of a cat's whisker ahead of Green Star Racing's De Tomaso. This could go down to the line.

Rally Legends (Event 3)
  1st Place                         2nd Place                      3rd Place
RoadRunners                    Savage GT                  Brumos RSR
Fiat 131 Abarth                  Porsche 914/6             Porsche 914/6

Still hanging onto 1st place my RoadRunners Fiat 131 Abarth, lost out completely to the Porsche guys this Round once again, so all will depend on the last Round. Brumos RSR has finally just pipped BARacer's TR7 into 3rd place, but again anything could happen in the last Round.

WRC Modern (Event 4)
 1st Place                        2nd Place                        3rd Place
Ruscillo Racing                Bangers Racing              Woodcote Racing
Citroen C4                        Citroen Saxo                    Subaru

Bangers Racing's Saxo took another 4 secs off Ruscillo Racing's C4, and now only 6 seconds between them, could be an interesting finally. The Subaru of Woodcote Racing looking comfortable in 3rd.

Class A (RTR Standard Cars )
1st place                          2nd Place                       3rd Place
Scott Sports                    Harrisons Racers               Team Alaric
Renault Clio                      Lancia 037                      Subaru

it will be a very close finish between the Renault Clio of Scott Sports and the Lancia of Harrison's Racing

Class B ( Modified & Scratch builds)
1st Place                           2nd Place                       3rd Place
RoadRunners                    Ruscillo   Racing              Bangers Racing
Fiat 131 Abarth                   Citroen C4                     Citroen Saxo

Looking good for RoadRunners Fiat for the Class win, much less certain for 2nd place as the Saxo of Bangers Racing draws in closer.

Class C (ProCars)
1st Place                   2nd Place            3rd Place
Savage GT            Green Star Racing      Brumos RSR
Porsche 914/6           De Tomaso            Porsche 914/6

Looking like the Savage GT team has this all sewn up for the Class C results. Brumos Porsche 914/6 closing the gap to the De Tomaso of Green Star Racing.

Team Points
1st place - Bangers Racing
2nd Place - Savage GT
3rd Place - Harrisons Racers

At the moment barring any last minute hitch it is looking like Bangers Racing will take the 1st place, however it does not take that much for Savage GT to make up the deficit, so could be a last Round Challenge. Harrisons Racers are also in with an outside chance having moved ahead of my RoadRunners.

So the cars are on the way  for the very last leg of the journey to the Isle of Man where our hosts will be hopefully giving us another great set of results to complete the" Rally Cars Slotting Rally"