[Kevan]

Race reports - 15th June - Saloon/DTM plus Sports

Another great turnout with 8 club members and guests.

It was Alan’s last night before returning home to South West England, it’s been a pleasure to see him these last few weeks.  He’s a good driver and no doubt takes lots of tips back with him…and he’s promised to return again next year.  He brought a load of tasty cakes as a thank you for accepting him so readily into the club.

SALOON

   

A fair share of Standard and Open class cars, Ed, Mike H & Nigel raced each other all night and had some great close races between them at times.

Unfortunately Mike B arrived during the second race so sat out the Saloon racing.

Brian raced his Broadspeed Jag XJ12C which is quite an imposing beast for a Saloon, preparation not going as planned as body mount screws went missing on the track! 

Geoff raced his Scooby again, this time with a repaired 4WD elastic band (cut’n’shut), it’s a fair race car as well as Rally car.

Andy, Kev & Ed raced their usual Saloon class choices, Mike H has a nicely running Peugeot 406 Coupe.  Andy’s Peugeot and Kev’s Opel were the pick of Open and Standard classes.

Alan ‘piloted’ a rapid Mustang borrowed from Andy whilst Nigel raced Brian’s Peugeot 406.

Race wins in heat order for Mike H, Kev & Andy

   

SPORT

   

Mike B joined in, one of four standard NSR Moslers, joined by Mike H’s NSR McLaren and Ed’s SlotIt Group C Jag.

Two Modified race cars, Alan’s Group C Nissan and Nigel’s Racer Riley.  Both drivers having issues, Alan raced the Nissan in last weeks Le Manx and loved it but tonight just couldn’t get on with the car the same.  Meanwhile Nigel should have found Brian’s Riley dead easy to drive…maybe it’s TOO easy and made him feel he could push it right into corners…then found out (numerous times) that he couldn’t.

Only one Open class car, Andy’s Porsche 917K (probably his favourite car)...not so favourite in Blue lane, I don’t know what happened but 5 off’s cost him 3 laps.

Standard class was busy, Kev’s ‘Copper Rocket’ Mosler was unlikely to be caught…but how long can those tyres last?  Until then, a car not likely to be caught in Standard Sport.
Brian & Geoff battled for 2nd spot in this class, Brian’s Mosler had the consistency, Geoff’s had the pace.  ‘the incident’ in the final race as Kev’s Mosler was stuck in his lane, the wheels were spinning but the car wasn’t moving…until Geoff’s Mosler shifted it probably cost Geoff 5 seconds which would have made 2nd place very close…caused some heavy duty banter…that’s racing as they say.

Mike B’s Mosler looks like the tyres are shot but still managed three consistent runs and not far off the pace of Brian & Geoff.

Mike H’s McLaren lost a load of time in Red lane but he has the car running nicely (when there’s not a huge chunk of rubber stuck on the front tyre).  His pace a little shy of Mike B’s Mosler but enough to keep clear of Ed’s Jag, although after Heat #1 it looked like he was going to struggle against the pace of Ed’s Jag and Nigel’s Riley found more than it’s second wind by stamping his authority in the other two heats.
Ed’s Jag looked like he had the totally wrong controller settings (it was perfect in testing) until a team member came along and adjusted the controller mid-race…goes to show twiddling with your nobs can be detrimental to race results.

Race wins in heat order for Ed, Kev, Mike H, Andy & Geoff

   

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