[Graham]

 Good Morning

most of the cars were run yesterday in Events 1, 2 & 3. I will run the Event 4 cars today as I noticed there is an issue with something rattling about in Brumos Ferrari 458 and as we are at a critical point in this series, I thought it best to ask Tony if he wants me to intervene and have a look inside or not. He has asked me to try to fix it, so we will do this Event later this morning.

Having decided to run this Round 8 on my track, I spent a considerable amount of time cleaning the Raceway track up due to dust formed during the restoration of the Hillclimb/Rally track work, and I decided to give the contact rails a thorough clean with contact fluid as well. I had it in mind to run both lanes for this Round (10 laps on each), I have not used the "easier / faster lane" on my track for a considerable time and although I did my best to restore it, for some reason on one or two points around the track the connectivity was not perfect and the plug in power terminal for this lane I felt was not quite working as it should. So I will have to get a power straight replaced if I want to use this in future. The result was that out of the two lanes the "faster" was in fact was running about 0.8 secs slower with my test car on a 8sec lap time 

So as an alternative I decided to run 2 x10 Laps timed runs on the regular lane.  Because there is no room for a group of marshals, or even one, in my small track room , I choose to only count the lap runs which were without de-slots. I am not so nimble as I used to be and a few of the positions on the track require more then a couple of seconds to retrieve stricken cars. Therefore running each car twice with short 10 lap durations means that there is less chance of a de-slot and having to repeat the process again etc.
The two runs were then added together to give the full 20 lap run time.

You have to remember we started running theses Proxies when there was no clubs to go to due to covid, so managing the best we could as a "solo" host was the norm then, but I now prefer to have these Rounds run in a club environment whenever possible, so this round was decided as a last resort after having failed to secure an alternative club to replace the initial one scheduled.