[Kevan]

That's a shame Brumos, it was the only car keeping that big Jag honest.

[Savage GT]

Just got back from helping Brian.
I have to say all of the cars were running well, usually there's at least one or two I don't get on with, but a lovely looking bunch that were all fun to drive, well done all

[CMOTD]

The one thing better than playing with your own toy plastic cars is playing with somebody else's toy plastic cars! Thank you Graham and all the entrants for providing us with such an excellent selection.

For those not familiar with my home track you can find the build thread HERE. It is 2 lane routed MDF, 50ft in length, fairly long straights with enough twiddly bits to make consistent fast laps a suitable challenge. I normally run at 13.8 volts but turn it down to 12 volts for proxy purposes as Graham requests. As a rough guide to lap times - box standard Scalextric saloons would struggle to get below 6.5 seconds at that voltage while an unmodified Slot.It Skyline would lap consistently around the 5.5 second mark. Sub 5 seconds is seriously quick.

We ran the cars at about 95% of their ability and made no attempt at Banzai fastest laps which inevitably lead to large accidents. The aim was consistent fast laps without being silly.

For this round we ran each car on both lanes for 15 laps, I drove on red lane and Tel on yellow. The two times were then added together for the final score. There were no real problems with any of the cars, one stopped running after a couple of laps but that just needed the braids tweaking a bit and the heat restarted. There were a small number of minor off track excursions (5 in total) but none of them affected the overall results.

The event largely ran to previous form with no real surprises so the results are as follows:

Event 1 Kinrara Trophy

ModSports Corvette well ahead of the chasing pack. Road Runners 250GTO had a good run to 2nd and just pipped Brumos Porsche to 3rd place. The Porsche was delightfully smooth but we felt it was a bit lacking in the brakes department.

   

   

Event 2 Gerry Marshall Touring

Unfortunately the computer threw a wobbly during this round and failed to save the results properly. Not a major problem as I recorded them manually as well but without the final decimal places for the race time so the figures are rounded to the nearest full second. The results were clear cut though so are not affected by the lack of some digits.

Le Manx XJS romped away with this one with BatManx Camaro not too far behind. Bangers Racing's Rover SD1 was a surprise 3rd place, not the fastest in a straight line but it handled the twisty bits really well. ALS Camaro had a real nightmare, it totally lost grip after a couple of laps on both lanes for no apparent reason and slithered its way to 5th place.

   

   

Event 3 Whitsun Trophy

Again largely to form, the first 3 cars were in a league of their own with sub 5 second laps for all of them in both lanes. Road Runners Ferrari 330 took the honours but Le Manx GT40 and ModSports Ford MKIV were not far behind in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

   

   

I don't think I have  made any cock ups with the results but please let me know if you spot any errors.That concludes the votes of the Norfolk jury, it just remains to pack these lovely cars up ready for their journey to the next host.

[Kevan]

Thanks Brian, looks like a nice track you have there 

[Graham]

The SCOREBOARD has been updated

[PaulCooper]

Thanks, sounds like a nice run from all. Thanks for the update and comments much appreciated. ??

[Graham]

 Good Morning,

Many thanks to Brian and Tel (Savage GT) for a great round at the Conington Park track, probably a fairly straight forward challenge for most and did not really upset the status quo as such. Brumos decision to park the Camaro was understandable in the circumstances, but sadly was the only real challenger to the Jaguar of LeManx. 
The cars are coming back to me tomorrow before going onto NERCS club, so I will take a good look at the car again.

Championship Review

Kinrara Trophy
1st Place - ModSports Corvette Stingray (126pts)
2nd Place - Brumos RSR Porsche 904 (102pts)
3rd Place - RoadRunners Ferrari 250GTO (94pts)
The leading car of ModSport is without a doubt on a roll and well ahead of the others, Brumos Porsche and RoadRunners Ferrari are still fighting for 2nd place with very little between them.

Gerry Marshall Touring Cars
1st Place - LeManx Jaguar XJ12C (140pts)
2nd Place - BatManx Camaro Z28 (78pts)
3rd Place - Brumos RSR Camaro (71pts)
With Brumos looking being  out of the picture for the remaining rounds, BatManx Camaro looking good for 2nd and there could be a new contender for 3rd place , which is fairly open battle between Paul C Alfa Romeo GTV6 and Bangers Racing Rover SD1

Whitsun Trophy
1st Place - RoadRunners Ferrari 330 Spyder (126pts)
2nd Place - LeManx Ford GT40 (95pts)
3rd Place - ModSports Ford MKIV (88pts)
A little more predictable the RoadRunners had the sun shinning again for them at Conington Park and extending their lead, LeManx Ford GT40 nudged ahead of his clubmates ModSports Ford MKIV  once again.

Fastest Laps Round 7
   

[Makem]

Results from NERCS race.

Only one casualty, Road Runners false spare wheel on his Ferrari, lodged inside of the body fouling the contrate, probably cost him 10 laps or so while we worked out what the problem was.

Nine members of the NERCS Club shared the driving and marshalling.

Drivers experience varied between a multiple National Champion, NERCS Club Champion, Regular BSCRA racers and Club members.

[Makem]

Results as image in case you can't open the pdf.

Gerry

[Kevan]

It seems to have been a long proxy and I'm really looking forward to the cars arriving here in the Isle of Man.

With two of the events now having uncatchable winners that result means Event 3 is down to the final few laps of the last round.

Apart from the track and race webcams we have setup I've now got hold of a GoPro 10 so will endeavour to get some extra video of proceedings.