[Graham]

Thanks to the North Staffs Slot Car Club drivers and crew for hosting and Roadrunner's video.  This is my first Roadrunner's Proxy so I'm beginning to understanding how points are distributed between Events and Classes.  The updated "Scoreboard" on the main page of Proxy is very helpful.

I always enjoy knowing more about the tracks the Proxy will be run on.  Info such as Mag or non-Mag, racing surface, heat length, voltage , etc. are all interesting to me.

Looking forward to Round 2.

Bob

Hi Bob,
great to hear from you, your car has started very well.

The points are allocated seperately for each Event which defines the type of car racing (ie Smaller Saloons or Larger Saloons, the Middle Event for Super-Touring & Moden BTCC are really in the middle size category and have a more fixed rule set regarding construction )

In theory we should get progressively faster cars across the Events and in the Classes within the Events, so the simply points scoring based on number of entry cars for each Event should be distributed more or less according to car class types, however of course we get entrants who raise the bar with their entries and those who struggle abit more. Overall I think this provides a fairly even playing field for the majority of car entries but also does additionally reward those cars with outstanding performance as indeed it should. As we have already seen, circumstances or chance occurances  during a round also plays it's part, but I don't feel that with the narrow range of points overall it causes to much of a disadvantage for entrant cars to recover lost ground over the 8 Rounds.

In regard to the North Staffs Club track it is a MDF Santex coated track with copper tape. Hence you probably noticed on the video that some cars with perhaps softer tyres suffered more than others with rubber pick up, and quite a lot of tyre cleaning was needed in some cases. I believe the track voltage was 13volts (the normal club running voltage). The track lane length is said to be 100ft long, probably the longest track length in this series.

   

The photo is abit decieving as it appears to show a long curved section of track, which is actually just a long straight, but in order to get the whole track in the photo frame it was necessary to manipulate the photo with the camera lens used.

[Graham]

Culverstone Slot Car Club Round 2

Tomorrow the 2nd Round of the proxy is due to take place.
Wishing the club members good luck and smooth running

I found a couple of old photos of an earlier proxy run there.

          

[Graham]

 Good afternoon,

Culverstone (Round 2) Provisional Results

Results
   
                   

There was an error with the Event 3 Podiums, the Falcon should have been the car Roadrunners #25

The videos have been recorded, saved onto a memory stick which will be posted to me tomorrow.
So I will review the videos before updating the scoreboard

[Graham]

I have added the comments received from Colin to the results above

[Graham]

We have a couple of schedule Round date changes.
Round 7 will now be at Manx Slot Car Club in early August
Round 8 is proposed be at the Wye Valley Slot Car Club mid August.

I have updated the plan

[Graham]

This is the first set of Videos from Round 2 at Culverstone slot car club.
Races 1-12




The track is a smooth painted MDF track with Cooper ( non magnetic) contact rails.
It is a small club 40ft lane length track. Run at 12volts

[Kevan]

Definitely worth watching on a large wall mounted smart telly 

[woodcote]

Magnificent Abarth action 

[Kevan]

Yes the Imp vs the Abarths was great and the smiles on the faces said it all.

[Graham]

This is the video's for Culverstone Races 13-24