[I.Pace]

Echoing the words above, huge thanks Andy for your marathon session.  Excellent coverage highlighting the cars at start and finish.

Cheers, Leo

[Qman]

Agreed, excellent work, obviously it's still a learning curve but so far an enthralling 2 days of racing in and around Brighton.
Personally (for future events) I'd like to see the Historic class limited even further, maybe with a  narrower width and/or narrow tyres, it was always going to be a GT40 benefit (If I had one I'd have used it), the charm of that class has to be the real classics, the Yanktanks, Cortina, Mini, TR4 & Elite, they should be in a class of their own.

[woodcote]

Thanks Leo. Congrats too on your marathon viewing session  

The Hillclimb is packed away (until next time) and the kitchen is back to being a  kitchen.

I had time to take a few pictures today. These are my favourite six...

       

       

       

Before I dismantled the hill, I did do a little bit of testing for potential future use - we might be seeing it again before next February.

[Mike174]

Another mega day Andy, thank you again. It’s a lesson to all, if the wife finds a car in the build box and says ‘that mini is cute can I enter that?’ Say no it’s not tested in any way. That explains the poor showing of that. Either way I still enjoyed it! Thanks again.

[Graham]

 Hello, what a great days driving, really on the edge

Anyway as to todays official results, please see attached PDF files


After a couple of days full of activity the cars will be resting up at Boycies Garage in Hereford before they will prepare for the next leg of their journey.
There has been a few breakdowns along the way from Brighton which has caused some cars some delays, but most performed better around Devils Dyke than many had feared. And some cars were able to make up for lost time after Madeira Drive.

Will it be all smooth driving from here on, who's to tell.

Tomorrow I will publish the combined accumulated times and points for both these first 2 stages 

PS. just to mention that today the Ford GT40's did not have it all their own way, certainly the 2 NSR based cars did, but the 3 Scalextric Ford GT40's were out performed by some small Nino 50's cars. So it depends very much on the type of track design and of course the type of Slot car construction. A Scalextric motor is not going to out perform a NSR one, but it is always difficult with these competitions as to where you draw the line without putting off too many would be participants. As you say this is a learning curve, but I am also very satisfied with the degree of competitiveness that we are having so far. 

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[Graham]

  Good Morning, after the exciting coverage and careful nurturing of our cars around the stages at Brighton, the cars will be shortly moving onto Hereford.

But before we depart we should take stock of how the cars & teams are doing so far,


   


   



I have added the full results as PDF files


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[Mazda]

That was a really great weekend of racing. I enjoyed watching the cars live on screen.
Well done Andy.

[PaulCooper]

Great to see the final results in place, nice job AP very professional presentation you have set the bar high for all the garages to aspire too. 
My IT skills are not as great as AP but I hope to use you tube for any video coverage?

[woodcote]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments! I've certainly had a lot of fun, from the start ramp photos last weekend through to the final few cars going up the hill yesterday. A big thank you to everyone who has entered cars - they were a joy to drive and a brilliant excuse for me to build that awesome Devil's Dyke Hillclimb again...

   

Although the bells and whistles on the video stream didn't quite go to plan (I'm thinking  a CPU process priority issue with Race Coordinator...), I'm glad you enjoyed what I cobbled together. With the camera on the start line, I thought it was a small step forward from last time...

       

Paul - YouTube have a reasonably good guide to streaming. The easiest way is to simply plug a single webcam into your PC, Mac or laptop and hit 'stream now'. I used these cheap ones with manual focus - auto focus tends to focus in and out with any movement. However, using the OBS software (with the help of Jason's guide here) does give you the option of extra cameras, plus some images, like Jason's banner image I pinched from the SlotRacer homepage. An OBS 'broadcast' will need setting up and scheduling on YouTube beforehand - but it wasn't too hard. The nice thing about YouTube is that you can embed the feed on the forum, share the link on Facebook -  and it automatically posts a copy of the stream on your channel for posterity. Sadly, YouTube won't allow you to live stream from a phone or tablet - unless you have 1,000+ subscribers to your YouTube Channel.

All the cars (minus Jeremy's Mini) have had their tyres cleaned and have been packed away ready for collection tomorrow. The Mini is returning to Eastbourne for more development work. Rose was quite keen to travel in the big box and assist Phil with the next two stages...

   

The only pre-transfer repair necessary was to glue the rear wing back on to Aimee's Škoda - it fell off on the hill yesterday.

There was a bit of work done on a few guides so the cars could complete the SCX Classic hill climb. Where I've written 'guide catching' on the results sheets, these cars completed the course, but there were loud clicks on every piece of track - definitely costing tenths of a second on every ascent and descent. It also increases the risks of random deslots, especially on the straights. As a result, I was wary of taking 'clicky' cars full throttle down the long Saddlescombe Road.

A few cars did get completely stuck in the slot on their warm-up laps - cars with the words 'guide too long' required the front  bottom corner of the guide to be removed to allow them to ride over the bumps in the slot; cars with 'fat guide' required the entire front edge to be sanded to a point; and 'guide too pointy' either had a Scaleauto guide pointing forward or a new deep Scalextric guide with a sharp right-angle point. I sanded off the sharp points. These alterations got the cars round, but almost all were still in the 'guide catching' category.

Cars with 'bottomed out' written on the sheet struggled to get over one or more of the crests in the hill - at the start of the fir trees. These were mostly newer Scalextric cars, where low ride height and the recessed 'easy-fit' guide meant the guide lifted out of the slot and the car went 'straight on'. Some weight in the front does help - as does slightly more ground clearance. I drove these cars as slowly as possible over the crests, but that was no guarantee of success! In terms of testing, using a basic 'up & over' flyover on your test track usually shows up the cars that may have problems. Hopefully that's useful for 'next time'.

   

Finally, good luck to all the competitors as the cars move up-country. And to my fellow hosts - have fun 

[Mike174]

At the very least this proxy and the previous rally sprint has taught me how to better set my cars up and how to construct an effective test track. Just have to remember to add weight next time!!