[Kevan]

Race report and results - 10th April 2025 - ‘50’s & 60’s Monsters vs Minis’

   
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Ed turned up with a very tasty lemon drizzle cake…not much later Gav turned up with two boxes of assorted cakes as it was his birthday this week but he couldn’t stay.  Thanks guys, the cakes were very tasty.
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Six racers turned up and we saw a few new cars to this event.
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It’s been ages since we last saw Mike’s Oldsmobile Toronado, it was great to see it in action again and it went better round by round as the tyres started to polish on the track.
Mike’s ‘mini’ was his favourite metallic red Moggy Racer and goes well.
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Another of Mike’s cars has been in hiding for many months, Kev’s resin cast Jaguar Mk7, this one has an Andy’s chassis and after a bit of googling the winner of the 1956 Monte Carlo Rally was copied…in Kev’s favourite black.  It’s been seen recently in testing and a gear change sees it now reaching it’s true potential.
Kev was seen trying out three different Minis and ended up with the one he first built a chassis for when the club was at the airport.  This has a PCB chassis and goes well.
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The bravest man tonight was Chris who raced an out-of-the-box Mini Cooper (not one of Ed’s out-of-the-box full modified jobbies), tiny narrow tyres and its manufacturers magnet; it's actually a nice little runner.
Chris’s ‘monster’ was a rather nice looking ‘69 Camaro, headlights ablaze going quite nicely for a B2B car.
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Brian’s Monster of choice was a Pioneer Dodge Charger, it did sound a little ropey…then stopped during a race which brought out the yellow flag…the pinion had slid up the motor shaft and no longer making contact with the spur gear.  A swap for Andy’s huge Galaxie 500 put the smile back on Brians face as he enjoyed racing that.
Brian had more luck with his Mini Clubman.  There’s a few of these about on Wayne’s carbon chassis and goes well.
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Andy forgot his usual Mustang so raced his quick door wedge aka Cadillac ‘Le Monstre’.  Definitely the fastest car down the main straight but big fast monsters require a lot of slowing down and accelerating…
…not a problem for Andy’s other car, a super fast 3D MiniSprint on one of his brass chassis which was easily the fastest Mini tonight.
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Ed did consider racing a ‘69 Camaro, a green version of Chris’s but decided to stick with his 3D chassied ‘67 Mustang which goes really well.
Ed’s Mini Clubman is another of Wayne’s carbon chassis but this one is modified to take a long can motor and is one of the best handling Minis on the track (I drove it after working on it so I know).
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So the end of another great night of racing, the computer was pumping out racing V8 sounds all night as drivers got better and better with quicker lap times.

   

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Next week is Targa Florio, one car each (the car must have raced in the Targa Florio - see the list on the clubs FB page) - the equivalent of 3 minutes on each of our three Rally stages plus three rounds of racing on the main circuit.