[Kevan]

Race report and results - 20th February 2025 - Club Ford GT40 followed by Group 5’s
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Club Ford GT40 (with club controllers)

   
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Love them or loathe them…heat #3 was the best of the lot!...all three cars crossing the finish line within 1.5 seconds

• Yellow car is the nicest to drive with all the drivers managing their best score in that lane.
  
• The Blue car is probably the most consistent with Andy, Kev & Brian managing to finish on the same number of laps within 2 seconds of each other.  Chris lost a lot of time in this lane for some reason.
  
• The Red car caused most of us some ‘issues’ except Chris & Andy who managed good scores in that lane.
  
• Ed was very consistent in his three races, still managing a 6.6 hot lap and outscoring his own Group 5 Porsche that he raced in the next event.
  

   
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Group 5

   
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Time for some faster action…although as it turned out…not much faster!
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There was a funny smell in the air, a ‘very hot motor’ smell, which turned out to be mainly a club SCX Rally car that was being driven round one of the Rally stages by one of our young visitors tonight (more about that later)...but also Andy’s quick Capri that was behaving erratically…a drop of oil on the bearings seemed to help for one race but cursed the next one which brought out the yellow flags for a car swap.
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Talking of problems, what was going on with Brian’s Capri, it’s been a rocket in the past, it was behaving very strangely, lots of controller twiddling and vented frustration but a couple of races later and it seemed to be getting there “I don’t understand it, it’s the settings on the label under the car…”
…a quick look at the last score sheet involving Brian’s Capri showed it had a NSR Shark 22…only now it’s got a Predator 22 and not the same performance.
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Meanwhile, the big red Nissan Skyline of Chris’s has become a consistent good performer for him, it’s a big beast and struggled in Red lane but went well in the other two lanes and with one final heat could he catch Brian’s Capri after Brian had just posted his best lane score of the night in the previous race?...
…the answer sadly for Brian was yes as Chris also went on to score his best lane score of the night.
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Ed’s Porsche is a nice little runner, usually struggling in Blue lane but tonight really got to grips with it by getting over a lap more than the other lanes.  It was seen after the racing was over being driven by a young newcomer who was going rather well with it.
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Kev’s BMW M1 went well in Red and Yellow lanes but flew round Blue lane in hot pursuit of Andy’s BMW M1 in Yellow lane, resulting in both drivers managing their best lane scores of the night.

   
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Going back to our three visitors tonight…
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Matt used to race as a young lad when the club was in the Summerland complex, long since demolished and a few venues change for the club since…he brought his two young lads with him tonight and they did many laps with the club Rally cars on TT Grandstand and Little Druidale then had a go on the big track with Matt after we’d finished racing.  I have to say they were using the controllers really well, varying throttle and braking to suit…it won’t be long before they’re chasing the slower drivers!
…Matt said they’d come down to our next Saturday Scalextric Club on Saturday 1st March


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Next week is one of the theme nights, ‘Italian Cars Team Race’ which will be run along the lines of the ‘Battle of Britain Team Race’ a few weeks ago.
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Two cars each, 5 lap qually, slowest drivers to pick their team-mate…race on!