[Graham]

And so for the last proxy report for this year

Merseyside Round 7
I had a great day with Mike on Sunday assisting with Marshalling and video recording the proxy round, and as it turned out the video recording was more important than just recording the running of the cars. We was also joined by my good friend Pete Crane from the nearby Hawthorne Slot Car Club at Liverpool. I have raced with Pete many times over the years around the Country and although he is amoungst the elite group of Top Slot Car drivers, he is very modest about it and is a true gentleman. So it was a great honour for us to have him give up his Sunday to drive for us which he shared with Mike. When you see the videos you will also see that Pete is of the traditional "Thumb Controller"  users which is probably a first for our proxies.

On the otherhand an unexpected issue arose with the lap recording software "LapTrax" whick Mike had installed on his phone. It was apparently running OK until we tried running  "Orange coloured Cars". It just kept missing laps on these cars, although in the end it seemed to work if we put a black piece of tape across the car roofs. But it was not until I got home and started to review the videos that I noticed that some other cars also had an occassional missed lap, and additionally some of the displayed car times were just incorrect by quite a significant amount!! So I decided to abandon the LapTrax results and do my own measuring using the videos recorded and my hand timer on my phone. As a double check I repeated measuring all the car times again the following day after, to be sure. I basically used the start and finish sounds to make the measurement whilst checking the number of laps run. So I think these results are are a great deal more accurate than that provided by the Lap timer 

But you can judge yourself when I post the Videos.

The Series review will be tomorrow.