[Kevan]

Race reports - 9th November - Grand Prix & Prewing + F1

   

On a day that seems to have rained on and off for most of, a few club members were not able to get down but we had enough to race and marshal.

With a new event on next years race calendar - TV/Film cars - we’ve already had numerous sightings of Ed’s Batmobile but tonight we saw a few previously unseen cars during practice, Andy now has a Pioneer fastback Mustang (Film- Bullit), Pioneer Dodge Charger (TV - Dukes of Hazard) and a Scaley Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (TV - Knight Rider - K.I.T.T. - with lights and bonnet lights).  Kev was testing a partly finished Scaley Ford Gran Torino (TV - Starsky & Hutch - with lights and flashing roof light).  All of these cars have the original motor in and all go better than you’d expect.  This bodes well for a few entertaining night’s racing next year - Ed has already suggested costumes to be worn.

And so to tonights ‘serious’ racing…starting with Grand Prix & Prewing cars, racing 2+2, 2 racing + 2 marshals.

Grand Prix & Prewing

These are probably the most difficult cars to race being narrow and lightweight and the cars final results are usually spread far apart but there were a couple of close races.

Heat #5 was the closest of the two, Andy (Red lane) and Kev (Blue lane) both managing their best single lane scores and hot lap in this race, finished with both cars less than 3 seconds apart.

Heat #6 was fairly close as the other two drivers Brian (Red lane) and Ed (Yellow lane) also both managed their best single lane scores and Ed managing his best hot lap in this race.  Brian thinks the Vanwall was down on pace tonight, I don’t think anything’s been done to it since it was set up by Kev a few years ago, it’s been a reliable car but Brian is thinking of putting a different car together so he has a choice on these GP race nights.

   

F1

From probably the most difficult to drive cars to probably the easiest to drive…F1, in particular, NSR F1 of which there were three whilst Kev raced his trusty black MB/Allslot.

Of the three NSR’s, Andy’s was quickest, his closest race was Heat #4 against Kev’s MB/Allslot, a race in which both drivers achieved their best lane result and fastest hot lap.

Brian’s best result was in Heat #3 whilst racing in Yellow lane against Ed (Blue lane) and Ed’s best result was in Heat #6 racing in Yellow lane against Andy (Red lane).

Ed went best in the Yellow lane, struggling to find consistency with plenty of deslots in the same place, maybe he’ll get more consistency with his new controller when it arrives as it has a couple of extra tuning options to dial a car in.

   

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Next week is Small Sports/Saloons + Group 5