[woodcote]

Looks like I have Trackmate Drag Basic working nicely on the bench, so I am going press ahead with hooking it up to the strip. Although the Drag Basic GUI is all blocky DOS graphics, it is an extremely reliable timer - which is what we want. There's no output to trigger a relay, so that will need to be manual - launching both lanes simultaneously.

So, with this morning's progress, I am going to set a date for a first shake down session to see if everything works - the weekend of 16-17 May. I can run the format with cars I have - but if anyone wants to send a car or two, we can test if the postal side of things works too.

Then events will then move to a regular monthly Tuesday and Wednesday evening...

June 9 & 10th
July 7 & 8th
August 11 & 12th
September 1 & 2nd - Brighton Speed Trials
September 29 & 30th

All cars will complete their qualifying runs on the Tuesday evening. Wednesday evening will be the proper race evening - all three classes will have their eliminators, plus any extra races we might schedule. I'd plan to post qualifying results on Tuesday evening and then a report of each class as it happens on Wednesday from 7pm. I may edit an event video, but won't stream anything live. Could do a pre and/or post-race Zoom meeting though...

How does that sound?