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September 11th meeting.

The cars: 

From top to bottom: 

Club Escorts, Owner/Driver saloons and club 911's. There was a fourth class run first, Owner/Driver Rally cars but I was too carried away with being back racing to get photos of them. 

   

The track:

   

It was back to 'The Big Track' for the local members, having run on the 'Short Bentley's' at their return meeting. Racing was run anti-clockwise off the start line, reversing the norm, which caught me out big time in the first heat.  Good job I brought back-up cars! 

The night:

Well organised and smoothly run, as above we had time to run four rather than the usual three classes, two of four minute heats, one of three and the final one of two minutes. Fifty-two minutes of racing and we were still all done by 22:15. 

   

Next meeting:  Oct 2nd. Track - 'Short Bentleys'. Classes to be confirmed.

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Next meeting:  Oct 2nd. Track - 'Short Bentleys'.

   

We aim to race owner/driver American Muscle, TransAm and Nascars as one class, all with inline or sidewinder motors up to 20,000rpm, plus various club lorries, bikes, cars  and maybe a 'new to B-St-E' one-off IROC class, time permitting. 

   

Gt. Whelnetham Community Centre, Stanningfield Rd, Bury Saint Edmunds. IP30 0TX

Doors open for set up at 5pm, racing from 6-10pm.

[Jaeson]

Hi guys. 
Sorry I missed the last race meeting. Can I attend the next one please? I have also had to change my email address.
Thank you. 
Regards Jaeson

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Jaeson, I've emailed and PM'd (private messaged) you through this forum. Hopefully you've amended your email address here and still have mine and can send me your new email address please?

Doug

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Oct 2nd. Track - 'Short Bentleys'.

The short-lived petrol crisis led to a smaller turn-out than expected but it was good to see Martin joining the group - and to hear that Jaeson is hoping to return, on October 23rd. Hopefully more will come back to the club as confidence returns.

The first class was American Muscle and yet again I missed this through the double whammy of the national petrol crisis, plus Covid hitting our family. Good to hear that the grandchildren have made a quick recovery but 'mum and dad' are taking a bit longer. Fingers crossed for a family reunion before too long.  

LOVE that '63 Galaxie of Vic's. 

Mark cleaned up in this class but Martin made a great showing in second place. 

   

Next up were the ever popular club Trucks, which as usual levelled the playing field. Mark took the win again but it was a very tight field, with little over a lap between each of the top four. Martin was new to these, finishing six laps down - but I'd have given him a fighting chance of not being last if I could have made the meeting.  

   

Finally, new to all, were the very smart looking 'Vic-built' Rally Peugeot's. With the liveries changed by some detail painting and added lane stickers the base chassis were honed to give as even a performance as possible, any differences being dealt with by running them IROC style. This again gave a very tight grouping of just a lap between each of the first four, Shaun taking the win from Mark and Martin halving the distance between himself and fourth place. Let's hope that encourages another visit 

   

Next meeting:  Oct 23rd. Classes T.B.A.

All photos courtesy of Mark.  (Click on photos to enlarge.)

[rallyhub]

As a rallyfan I like your Peugeot class.

Hub

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Another Vic King tableau announcing the date of the next B St E meeting.

   

The next meeting is on Sat’ 23rd Oct’.

The classes will be Sports & GT cars with unlimited motor revs and chassis configuration  ie Porsche, Ferrari, Audi, McLaren etc.

Support race with Motorbikes and Motorbikes with sidecars plus Porsche 911.

Hope to see you all there. 
Vic

Gt. Whelnetham Community Centre, Stanningfield Rd, Bury Saint Edmunds. IP30 0TX

Doors open for set up at 5pm, racing from 6-10pm.

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October 23rd

Something a bit different this time. Two classes never seen at the B St E club.
 
Shaun brought along these Superbikes, which were run with magnets! How else?

   
 
Acceleration and speed were phenomenal, cornering not so. Fortunately braking was really good, so once we'd figured that out lap times tumbled and scores increased accordingly. Rob won by 0.9 laps, with Mark and David in a dead heat for second place on 34.2. Barely half a lap back was Shaun in fourth, then there was a big gap to the rest of the field. That number, 0.9, came into play again though, this time covering fifth to eighth place, so some surprisingly close racing.


 
Good call to run them for two minutes. Just enough of a taster to be fun. 

After a short break for cake - another birthday -  these made a surprise appearance.

Pioneer Legends.

          
 
No one was more surprised than me that the majority of club members had neither seen nor heard of the 5/8th's sized Racing Legends series, nor their 1/30th counterparts from Pioneer!

This was their first outing, the cars only being powered up directly from a PSU whilst being set up at home. Prep' was down to completely stripping all six - they were pre-owned and pre-built but unused white kits intended for another club's IROC racing, which fell through. The strip-down took the cars back to their kit form, including removing all heat welded body parts then carefully rebuilding them to factory spec'. The only changes from box stock were leaving out the magnets and the gluing and truing of all the wheels and (stock) tyres.

How did they perform? Apart from a couple losing a pickup braid - I'd inserted two of the twelve upside down! - they were faultless, very stable, ran smoothly, were evenly matched and great fun to drive - and watch, with lots of drifting and sliding through the corners but with great traction and acceleration out of them.
 
Four fifths of a lap covered the top five, David taking the win from Shaun, Rob, Mark and Vic, with Bill, myself and Martin bringing up the rear.
 
Finally .. Owner/driver sports/GT's. 

   

Basically mag-less 'unlimiteds'. Any motor, any chassis config. However I'm not sure scratch builds are allowed. They all seem to be tuned-up off-the -shelf cars covering a wide range of 1:1 and 1:32 manufacturers. Scale-auto, Scalextric, Slot.it, Ninco and NSR all made an appearance, representing eight different 1:1 makes.  Mark assumed his customary position here - but only just. Two fifths of a lap behind was Rob, the top five being covered by 2.2 laps after 40 minutes of racing, eight 5 minute heats.



(Slo-mo video courtesy of B St E member Rob Sayers.)

Next meeting: Nov 13th. Classes? Who knows? 

Watch this space.

[Kevan]

It's always interesting to see what other clubs are doing.

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Next meeting: Nov 13th.

   

Gt. Whelnetham Community Centre, Stanningfield Rd, Bury Saint Edmunds. IP30 0TX

Doors open for set up at 5pm, racing from 6-10pm.