[Anthony B]

Attended the Lens meeting this last weekend.

What a wonderful track! Stunning in fact

               

The race was part of a three prong French Scalextric championship being held in Bordo, Lens and Neuvic.
Bordo was held in April, Lens Sept and Neuvic will be in Nov.

Racing Scalextric cars on a wooden track - initial reaction was - no a bit boring. But was asked by a friend to attend with hime.

I have to say - racing the powersledge F1s and Clamshell GTs was FUN!! ANd a lot quicker than I expected. We ran the GTs on 12v and Powersledges on 14v. Virtually all the powersledges ran race tuned versions and in the clamshells the Hong King 222 Johnson motor was the choice as it was by far the quickest. I had braid issues in the sledges (order now in for thicker braids) so finished stone last.
Then some last minute weight set up in my P4 to try and get stability in the corners, was not effective enough and finished 15th.
Was leading my heat in the open class when we had a computer glitch (on a really fancy but overly complex system) that stopped the race. I was also surprised to see some cars in the clamshells work very well indeed (French Porsche 930RSR and The renault Alpine - not c1 version c 028 I think). Picked up a cheap Porsche to work on as I could see some 'tricks to improve the handling further.

Good fun indeed!!

We had a dinner on the Sat evening which was really nice to sit and chat about slot cars while eating nice food.