[Top Down]

Nov 4th race report

With 10 people attending the track was quickly put together and the practise session began.

Support race: Club Scalextric Motorbikes & sidecars.

With a different way of handling some drivers needed more time to get the hang of three-wheeling on the straights as well as the corners. However, the Club prepared Combo's gave some incredibly close racing.

       
       

At the end of the session Race Coordinator showed just a third of a lap covering Alan and Brian tied for sixth and Wayne and Mark tied for seventh, ranking them on screen in order of their fastest laps.

Not so close were the top five who were covered by .... five laps, Mark J coming home first and Ben fifth. Second was David, third Vic and fourth Bill.

Main Race: Nascar, TransAm and American Muscle cars.

 

With owner prepared cars and the voltage reduced to eleven the field was wide open here.

       

 

Although the racing was 'fast and furious' with some great battles the end result was a runaway win for Vic on 78.4 laps. Ben has come on in leaps and bounds though, fighting hard for an excellent second place on 75.9, 4.6 laps ahead of Mark J in third place. David was fourth a solid ten laps ahead of Bill, who had been pre-occupied sorting out an issue with a couple of heats being cut short and having to be re-run. Turned out to be a faulty cable to the DS timer. 

      

Alan, Mark W, Aaron (not having run in the Support class), Wayne and Brian made up the rest of the field.

       

       

       

(Note the variety of cars being run from Carrera, Pioneer and Scalextric. 20k max motor levels the field.)

Next race day is now SUNDAY 17th Dec 

N.B With the one-off earlier times of 4pm—9pm.

 

Support race: Grp 5 club cars.

Mains: Owner/driver Saloon cars with inline chassis and max of 20K motor rpm.

Where? The usual place:

Gt. Whelnetham Community Centre, 
Stanningfield Road,
Bury St. Edmunds. 
IP30 0TX

(All photos by Vic King)