[courtney s]

I would like to appeal the steward's decision, in motor racing wheel and tire replacement are common occurrences and certainly not a DQ offence. I think the loss of the Wheel is punishment enough but to receive 0 points is, in my opinion overreaching. I would petition the stewards to have my 6th position reinstated and the corresponding points, as the repair was easily made, and did not hold up the event. Also note, the car ran perfectly during the shake down and the first 11 laps, shows this as a component failure, and out of the control of the builder.

Respectfully Team CourtSport 
(Courtney Smith managing partner, director of technology, sporting officer and communication manager)

[Graham]

I would like to appeal the steward's decision, in motor racing wheel and tire replacement are common occurrences and certainly not a DQ offence. I think the loss of the Wheel is punishment enough but to receive 0 points is, in my opinion overreaching. I would petition the stewards to have my 6th position reinstated and the corresponding points, as the repair was easily made, and did not hold up the event. Also note, the car ran perfectly during the shake down and the first 11 laps, shows this as a component failure, and out of the control of the builder.

Respectfully Team CourtSport 
(Courtney Smith managing partner, director of technology, sporting officer and communication manager)

A very nicely prepared request, but the way the Stewards see it is that the car failure was during a race, and that if the timer had been left to run, by the time the host had located a suitable part replacement and fitted it to your teams car, it would have been timed out anyway. If it had been a problem seen during the shakedown, of course it would have been fixed before the race started.

Following this incident I have amended the Host Briefing sheet which now clearly states that should a similar failure during a car run, ie wheel off, braid come out etc the hosts are instructed to DNF the car. So I will be consistent in applying the same criteria to all entrants cars. 

And I did give you 1 point for the Camaro for last place.

So very sadly (as I know it is a great car and did not deserve to be where it ended up) your request is denied.

[Savage GT]

NM, brain failure, question withdrawn 

[PaulCooper]

Thank you South Manchester SCC . A lot of hard work has to go into hosting the round and I respect you got the results out today rather than rushing around yesterday after a long session. 

Nice track glad you had a crew to help out. 

Cheers

[courtney s]

I would like to appeal the steward's decision, in motor racing wheel and tire replacement are common occurrences and certainly not a DQ offence. I think the loss of the Wheel is punishment enough but to receive 0 points is, in my opinion overreaching. I would petition the stewards to have my 6th position reinstated and the corresponding points, as the repair was easily made, and did not hold up the event. Also note, the car ran perfectly during the shake down and the first 11 laps, shows this as a component failure, and out of the control of the builder.

Respectfully Team CourtSport 
(Courtney Smith managing partner, director of technology, sporting officer and communication manager)

A very nicely prepared request, but the way the Stewards see it is that the car failure was during a race, and that if the timer had been left to run, by the time the host had located a suitable part replacement and fitted it to your teams car, it would have been timed out anyway. If it had been a problem seen during the shakedown, of course it would have been fixed before the race started.

Following this incident I have amended the Host Briefing sheet which now clearly states that should a similar failure during a car run, ie wheel off, braid come out etc the hosts are instructed to DNF the car. So I will be consistent in applying the same criteria to all entrants cars. 

And I did give you 1 point for the Camaro for last place.

So very sadly (as I know it is a great car and did not deserve to be where it ended up) your request is denied.


Understood and Accepted, however I am worried the TEAM will not be as gracious and I will receive a proper flogging. 

[Graham]

I would like to appeal the steward's decision, in motor racing wheel and tire replacement are common occurrences and certainly not a DQ offence. I think the loss of the Wheel is punishment enough but to receive 0 points is, in my opinion overreaching. I would petition the stewards to have my 6th position reinstated and the corresponding points, as the repair was easily made, and did not hold up the event. Also note, the car ran perfectly during the shake down and the first 11 laps, shows this as a component failure, and out of the control of the builder.

Respectfully Team CourtSport 
(Courtney Smith managing partner, director of technology, sporting officer and communication manager)

A very nicely prepared request, but the way the Stewards see it is that the car failure was during a race, and that if the timer had been left to run, by the time the host had located a suitable part replacement and fitted it to your teams car, it would have been timed out anyway. If it had been a problem seen during the shakedown, of course it would have been fixed before the race started.

Following this incident I have amended the Host Briefing sheet which now clearly states that should a similar failure during a car run, ie wheel off, braid come out etc the hosts are instructed to DNF the car. So I will be consistent in applying the same criteria to all entrants cars. 

And I did give you 1 point for the Camaro for last place.

So very sadly (as I know it is a great car and did not deserve to be where it ended up) your request is denied.


Understood and Accepted, however I am worried the TEAM will not be as gracious and I will receive a proper flogging. 

One benefit of our Proxy’s is that it is not so far to the bottom, and a quick recovery can be assured if you have the pace 

[AdeC]

Big thanks the Tatters and South Manchester Slot Club for running of the round. Absolutely over the moon with the skinny little MG sneaking it’s way onto the podium. Was not expecting to see it there

[Graham]

 Good afternoon

well what a great round that was from South Manchester Slot Car Club

Pitlane Review
some bigger surprise than I thought amongst that run.

Modern Endurance 24Hrs
First surprise was that Team tatters got past the BMW V12 of Savage GT, I guess home advantage played its part there. Luckily RoadRunners Merc CLK managed to keep in the top three but only just about, as Team Cubes Corvette CR6 was hot on the heels. The Astra V12 of BARacer is becoming a hosts favourite as it seems to need a little more control around the corners, but that can be quite exiting   

Classic Le Mans
Another case of the rest of the field trying to keep up with Mountain Views Ferrari 250 GTO, but the AC Cobra of Bangers Racing was close behind. But biggest surprise (al least for me) was the MGA of Green Star Racing breezing past the Porsche 904 of Brumos RSR to take 3rd place. 
The RoadRunners Aston Martin DBR1 put in a miserable run time, perhaps the lack of time to replace the chassis did it no favours, but BARacers Ferrari took full advantage of the Mers woes and snatched 5th Place. The long awaited appearance of the Maserati A6 GCS of Oaktree Racers finally made an appearance, even though the team still thinks the car is running in the MIllie Miglia   And the Cunningham C4R of Rokers Roar was slow...very slow but cruised along nicely.

Daytona
where do we start....
The Lancia BMC of ALS Racing got the better of Ruscillo Racings BMW M1,  Bangers Racing Lancia BMC found it's form on this fast track and if not for 1off would probably have romped home for 1st place. Team Tatters BMW 320i struggled abit on the home track which was a bit of a surprise. 
But the biggest upset was the Camaro of Courtney Sport, not quite matching the pace of the leading Group 5 cars and then loosing a rear wheel, could have made 6th but ended up off the track at DNF.

InterSeries
The Courtney Sport's Porsche 917/10 made a commanding run, this car has some kind of jet powered motor I think   so smooth.
The Ferrari 512M reappeared in this Round, to prove that the it's not just pure magnetic force keeping it up front 
And Brumos RSR ran third with a predictably good performance.

So quite a riveting start to the series, with more thrills and spills I am sure 

Next we are off to NERCS in Sunderland where the club will be doing it all again for Round 3

[tatter06]

It was a great pleasure to run the cars. 

I think my class A car was just so fast down the straights it got lucky, the v12 lm was a much better steer overall, as were a couple of others. The Astra was a good car, I think though its hard for the trigger finger to adjust to a touring car after an hour or so of running gt/lmps. In a touring car class it would be excellent. 

I loved running the classic le man's class, I think they were all good runners, very few offs overall, some were just quicker than others on our track but I would expect that  lass to have a few mixed up results on different surfaces. 

The Daytona class didn't go how I was expecting at all from the shakedown, again under racing conditions the quicker in a straight line cars just had the advantage over better handling but slower cars. Feedback was my BMW was geared wrong, its 12/32 with a SA 20k motor I've used before but maybe is idiosyncratic to my driving style. 

The 917/10 motor was lovely, in fact all of the cars with those illuminous green end motors were smooth, are they predator motors?

[Graham]

It was a great pleasure to run the cars. 

I think my class A car was just so fast down the straights it got lucky, the v12 lm was a much better steer overall, as were a couple of others. The Astra was a good car, I think though its hard for the trigger finger to adjust to a touring car after an hour or so of running gt/lmps. In a touring car class it would be excellent. 

I loved running the classic le man's class, I think they were all good runners, very few offs overall, some were just quicker than others on our track but I would expect that  lass to have a few mixed up results on different surfaces. 

The Daytona class didn't go how I was expecting at all from the shakedown, again under racing conditions the quicker in a straight line cars just had the advantage over better handling but slower cars. Feedback was my BMW was geared wrong, its 12/32 with a SA 20k motor I've used before but maybe is idiosyncratic to my driving style. 

The 917/10 motor was lovely, in fact all of the cars with those illuminous green end motors were smooth, are they predator motors?

no they are called Pirhana motors, they are --supplied by Slot Car Corner in the USA

I think I might get a few, so if you or anyone else is interested we can combine an order to save on postal costs, I can look to get them before the end of this Proxy and send them to you with the return of your cars ?