[Kevan]

Rally reports - 8th September - TT Grandstand & Little Druidale - 

   

Seven of us turned up on another warm evening.  We chatted about the Touring Car Proxy being run on Saturday - everyone is welcome to come down and help, doors open at 10am

Standard Class

   

Eight Standard cars, the most popular class being 2WD with four cars.  Geoff’s been working on a Scaley Ferrari F430 this last couple of weeks and tonight was the first time used in competition.  As he was driving in one group, Mike B was driving his Fiat Punto in the other group, also in 2WD.  When the times were added there was only 0.34 seconds between them…with the Ferrari winning its maiden event.
 
Standard Classic had two cars, in practice there was a pair of Abarth 131’s, Brian’s and Kev’s, in the end Kev wasn’t fully happy with his so used a Pantera which finished comfortably ahead of Brain’s Abarth 131.

Mike H and Chris also drove Standard cars, Mike with a Toyota Celica and Porsche, Chris with a Citroen C4 with the other Standard car, Kev’s BMW M1 finishing amongst the Open class cars times.

ProStock Class

   

Twelve cars tonight, the most popular of these classes as always, was 2WD, Geoff’s Scaleauto Peugeot, Chris’s Scaley Honda and Mike B’s NSR 997…with less than 2 seconds covering all three cars.
Brian’s Megane also in this class looked slow tonight, we had a chat about it and came to the conclusion it needs a quicker motor now he’s got used to it’s foibles.

ProStock Classic had two cars, Brian’s Pantera and Mike H’s Alpine A310.  Both cars were consistent over both runs but the Pantera was quicker.

The other ProStock cars were Kev’s Ninco Jag XK120 in Small Classic, Chris’s Slotwings BMW M3 and Mike B’s MSC Scooby.

Open Class

   

All five classes were represented tonight, 2WD was most popular, Kev’s MSC Scooby never going to get caught by Brian’s SCX Peugeot 206 or Chris’s Revoslot Supra that was making rather expensive sounding banging noises on the other side of the room.

Small Classic isn’t a slow class, especially when Andy’s Mercedes 300SLR turns up, Mike H’s MiniSprint tried to keep up but didn’t get on particularly well on Little Druidale

Andy’s other three cars, Mustang in Classic, Porsche 959 in 80’s and Mitsubishi Evo in 4WD all performed as well as usual.

COMPARISON CHART

   

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Next week is Grand Prix and F1

Reminder - The AGM is 7 weeks away (end of October) if you have any proposals, take note of them because I’ll be asking for them to be included in the agenda in a week or so’s time.
The race calendar for 2024 will be discussed in the weeks after the AGM as we have plenty of time to tweak it if necessary.