[Kevan]

Race reports - 25th January 2024 - Saloon + Sports

A great turnout of club members tonight with seven racers.
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As we missed racing last week due to the weather we took a vote on which of the four classes over these two weeks were favourite:
Group 5 got 2 votes, Saloon got 5 votes, Club BMW got no votes and Sports got 5 votes…
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SALOON
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Gav intended racing a SlotIt Opel, without doubt the best standard class Saloon you can buy, but they still need setting up so he ended up racing Mike’s Moggy Racer.
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Ed has his thumb controller back and it’s not only been fixed but upgraded to the same spec as the PWM2 with a couple of extra adjustments which we worked on after racing was over.
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Kev raced with Ed & Gav
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Chris hasn’t been able to race much recently so is still learning how to deal with the extra grip the new track surface gives.  His Honda Civic suffering with ‘too much grip’ and ‘too much brakes’, no doubt he’ll get used to it as this car goes great.
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Mike brought an interesting car to race, a resin Jaguar XJ12C on a bespoke 3D chassis made by Kev…and it’s a rocket…but body mounting screws kept falling out to halt racing a couple of times.
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Kev raced a race ready SCX Mercedes DTM, one of a few basic cars he’s been working on that have very little in the way of race adjustments available, SCX, Ninco and Fly cars without motor pods.  The Merc is easy to drive without being overpowered…and competitive.
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Brian has brought his Peugeot 406 to race recently because it was always a really good running car and rarely deslots.
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Geoff has his SlotIt Opel back from the proxy but seems to prefer the challenge of racing his 4WD MSC Scooby, it’s quick as Mike found out but can be prone to ‘Rally Rage’.
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SPORTS
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Brian volunteered to race with Gav & Ed, they’re good to race against whilst trying to beat each other.  He’s worked on an NSR Mosler and looks super smooth going round the track.
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Gav’s NSR Audi R18 looks like it has a magnet…it hasn’t as it was checked after one of his heats, it’s a great race car once he gets used to it.
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Ed’s SlotIt Jag XJR9 is probably a little underpowered with a Pioneer 21k motor and may go back to the original motor for next time.
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Chris usually favours his Mack chassied Dome Judd and did so tonight which is always good to watch but was suffering sudden rear end kicks in a couple of sharper corners, possibly due to the increased grip.
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Mike decided to race his ‘Club Challenge’ Mosler…but forgot what it was like at full track power, i.e. lifting the front end coming onto the straights, this is dramatically reduced at 11v for the actual ‘Club Challenge’ races.  These are quick cars and managed a 6.2 hot lap.
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Geoff was racing his Mosler on this surface for the first time and it’s very quick and consistent but goes best when full power is applied on the straights.
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Kev’s ‘Copper Rocket’ Mosler was left at home tonight to race something else, a Black Arrow Lamborghini which to be honest isn’t much slower and very difficult to keep up with as Geoff found out in heat #2. Kev was driving a Ninco Lamborghini round in practice but not near the pace of the Moslers.
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Next week is Mosler ‘Club Challenge’ #1 followed by TV & Film Cars