2nd-Jun-25, 09:34 AM
A fun day, with a wide variety of tracks!
My visit here last year was a red letter day for me. I didn't do as well as I had expected, and talking it through with teammates, the reality dawned on me that you can't just turn up as these events cold, taking the cars out of the pit box where you put them after the last round. So since last time here, I have kept my practice rally track up at home, and have tried to keep my hand in on a weekly basis, getting to grips with car/eye/finger/controller coordination. So in came a simple DS 45ohm controller, and more consideration as to the best running order for my four regular entries.
My Scalextric TR7 with an Amato chassis is my lead out car, easy to drive and a good indicator as to where the challenges are on each circuit. I moved my SRC Delta up the order to follow the TR as it is similar in size but a tad faster. My Scaleauto Peugeot 208 and SRC Porsche 914 than follow, both having a shorter wheelbase and both being what you might call 'more nippy' than my other two cars.
Consistency is what you need to try and achieve with each run of each car. It's difficult to gain much time on each track, but very easy to loose it with an off or two. You just need to stay in the slot! My other problem is a bad run with a car often rattles around in my head when I am running the following cars on the track, so you need to try and forget everything that has gone before and just focus on your car that's running. I think I was better at doing this this time round, but there is always room for improvement!
More rambling thoughts than pictures, I'm afraid, but here's one of the Small Hill Climb track, a favourite of mine with lots of elevation and no real straights to talk of, a great challenge to drive fast but neatly...
My visit here last year was a red letter day for me. I didn't do as well as I had expected, and talking it through with teammates, the reality dawned on me that you can't just turn up as these events cold, taking the cars out of the pit box where you put them after the last round. So since last time here, I have kept my practice rally track up at home, and have tried to keep my hand in on a weekly basis, getting to grips with car/eye/finger/controller coordination. So in came a simple DS 45ohm controller, and more consideration as to the best running order for my four regular entries.
My Scalextric TR7 with an Amato chassis is my lead out car, easy to drive and a good indicator as to where the challenges are on each circuit. I moved my SRC Delta up the order to follow the TR as it is similar in size but a tad faster. My Scaleauto Peugeot 208 and SRC Porsche 914 than follow, both having a shorter wheelbase and both being what you might call 'more nippy' than my other two cars.
Consistency is what you need to try and achieve with each run of each car. It's difficult to gain much time on each track, but very easy to loose it with an off or two. You just need to stay in the slot! My other problem is a bad run with a car often rattles around in my head when I am running the following cars on the track, so you need to try and forget everything that has gone before and just focus on your car that's running. I think I was better at doing this this time round, but there is always room for improvement!
More rambling thoughts than pictures, I'm afraid, but here's one of the Small Hill Climb track, a favourite of mine with lots of elevation and no real straights to talk of, a great challenge to drive fast but neatly...
I love puttering with gears
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