[Kevan]

Race reports - 22nd June - Club GT40 & Club Revoslot

Seven club members turned up on the longest day of the year to race club cars.

It was Geoff’s birthday yesterday, the Italian cookies he brought in were very moreish…

Gav arrived looking much more lively than of late, the yellow Ninco Ferrari 250 TR cheered him further.

As usual during practice there was an array of all sorts of cars, proxy car testing, tuning testing, a couple of new cars recently acquired and a rather nice UPO Shadow DN4 for sale if anyone is interested.

Mike B arrived nice and early, not missing any racing tonight after last week's missing Saloons.

Club GT40’s, not everyone’s favourite class, we’ve had them a few years, they’re battered and bruised but go pretty well, the Yellow car in particular is a great race car.
The red GT40 is the next best car whilst the Blue one didn’t like the right hand corner after the start straight, catching most of us out.

We all used club controllers apart from Ed who uses a thumb controller, he went a bit too well in the first race with threats of making him use the same controllers as the rest of us.

The Revoslots always go well, the standard tyres have turned out to be exceptionally good.  With recent problems concerning the quality of NSR tyres it may be a good idea to consider using Revoslot air tyres instead.

We had a couple of situations during the evening where a faster driver was in the middle lane with the two other drivers racing side-by-side creating a problem for the faster driver…driving through the ‘gates of hell’ was the phrase coined which can ends in tears so careful navigation and timing were called upon which isn’t so easy when all three cars are the same…all part of the fun.

These two classes of cars are actually fairly evenly matched as most of us had similar scores with both lots of cars.  Mike B and Kev both went markedly better with the Revos than the GT40’s.
The head-to-head battles tonight were close, Kev & Andy, Geoff & Brian, Ed & Gav.  Mike B was the second fastest Revo driver in both Red and Yellow lanes.

   

   

A quick look at the controller settings selected by other drivers showed a huge difference in preference, from maximum brakes to minimal brakes with the heavy Revoslots, it’s surprising how you adapt to a simple controller from an adjustable-everything one with not a great deal of difference in your lap times.

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