[Kevan]

Race reports - 5th October - 50’s & 60’s Monsters & Minis

   

Tonights attendance was partly affected by Covid, we did however have six racers, five club members and a visitor, Gordon from Dumfries Slot Car Club who enjoyed driving various cars on both BallaYorkley and Rally cars on Little Druidale.

Cars outside the 50’s & 60’s Monsters & Minis theme are marked as ‘Guest’ in the car ‘Type’ column.  

These special events are a handicap, in the past we’ve had 5 qually laps in the Red lane, we’ve also used the best race lap in the Red lane but this one was going to be the best of your first 5 laps in the Yellow lane, theory being you’re generally slower in the Red lane and usually faster in the Blue lane, checking the 11 scores from the racing, this was the case.

Although you could race either of your cars in the first round, everyone chose their ‘Mini’s’ first…

MINIS

Ed, Mike B & Gordon were to race each other in the three heats of the first round of racing, Gordon’s Metro was comfortably the fastest of the three cars but power is nothing without control, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in his last race.
With Mike’s red Moggy Racer winning the three heats there was some very close races for 2nd place in the heats, Heat #3 Ed’s Mini finished 2 seconds ahead of Gordon and Heat #5 Mike finished 2 seconds ahead of Gordon.

Andy’s MiniSprint wasn’t threatened in the races apart from Heat #4 meant Kev’s MiniSprint got within 5 seconds after Andy’s car deslotted late in the race.

Brian’s Mini was a bit in no-mans land but did bag a 2nd place in the last heat as Kev’s Mini left the track twice late in the race.

Gordon’s Metro is marked as ‘Guest’ as it’s a 70’s car.

   

MONSTERS

As you can see from the photos these were huge in comparison to the Mini’s

Gordon had to leave as he had a prior arrangement, it’ll be good to see him return next year.

So we had five racers which meant two car heats except the last race which was Ed vs Andy vs Kev…

Heat #1 was Brian (NASCAR) vs Ed (Mustang).  Ed’s got that Mustang going well and won the race by two laps, Brian’s NASCAR had two speeds, go and stop but did manage an extra lap in Blue lane.

Heat #2 Mike B (Jaguar Mk7) vs Kev (Ford Galaxie 500)...The Galaxie was a little too quick for the Jag to keep in touch with.

Heat #3 Andy (Cadillac Le Monstre) vs Brian (NASCAR)...the Cadillac was the quickest car on the track tonight and the NASCAR was the slowest, the race result was going to be obvious.

Heat #4 Ed vs Mike…this was the closest race we saw as both Monsters crossed the line 2 seconds apart, the Mustang ahead of the Jag.

Heat #5 Kev (Galaxie) vs Andy (Le Monstre) were a lane apart and finished with Le Monstre three laps ahead of the Galaxie.

Heat #6 Mike (Jag) vs Brian (NASCAR) was relatively close, Brian managing his fastest lap and best lane score couldn’t keep up with the Jag, ending up just over a lap behind.

…and that final heat, Ed vs Andy vs Kev…was actually a good clean race to finish off a great evening that will be welcomed back next year, hopefully with ‘Guest’ cars upgraded to 50’s & 60’s spec.

Brian’s NASCAR is marked as ‘Guest’ as it’s a 2000’s car.

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Next week is Slot Rally

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Reminder - The AGM is 3 weeks away (end of October), please print off the documents in the Club messenger chat group I posted on Tuesday.