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Yesterday evening we ran Round 2 at Viking SCC.  The original plan was to run four cars simultaneously; however, a couple of club members were unable to make it along to the evening so it was decided to drop a lane.  This meant we could run three lanes, with a lane space between each car to avoid any tussles.  We opted for white, yellow and green (lanes 1, 3 & 5) as this would be a good test of the cars, with the contrast of the more flowing corners of yellow and the tighter hairpins of white (the latter requiring good brakes and punchy acceleration to maintain a fast consistent pace).
 
3 drivers were each allocated a lane which they would stay in for the duration of the night, with the cars rotating through the lanes in groups of three.  The track was run at 12v and all drivers used Truspeed BP2 controllers.  Due to the number of cars to get through, we opted against running them in their separate chassis classes and instead ran all cars as a large complete group (with a reverse running order slowest to fastest, dictated by Monday nights’ couple of laps shakedown times – which was treated as a small quali).

   

Podium for winner of each respective class:
   

Overall podium of all classes:
   

The heavy braking and hard acceleration areas of white lane did catch out quite a few of the cars.  Demon Tweeks’ Lamborghini and Modsports Corvette, both very fast in their own right, excelled in the yellow lane where they could flow through the bends and maintain momentum; but both struggled in white lane where they didn’t have the braking force or the punch out of the tight bends that some others had.  (This is also exacerbated slightly by the fact one of our fastest drivers happened to be on yellow).
Bangers Racing Z4 was an absolute delight around here, as were the Revo Viper duo of Brumos and Paint Horse One.  And Oxo’s Sauber was baffling for an early 1990’s Scalextric car.
It's always a little awkward when your own car wins at your own round, especially when it didn’t show this kind of prowess in round 1.  But my 956 was built to compete in our Porsche Endurance Challenge at this track, and it’s a tried and tested setup that just works well around here so I knew what it was capable of.