24th-Sep-21, 02:51 PM
1/32 Formula Libre Rd3 (sponsored by Mitoos )
What a night, the track has now 'rubbered in' nicely and the Libre cars were FLYING, laps records were broken race after race, a few members now have Genesis chassis'd cars from Ian Fitzpatrick at Betta and others have JS chassis, most have lexan shells and all (except Ian Chanter) were running spongies, when you consider that Ian was running his NSR Mosler which is a contender for outright honours in the Sports class you begin to realise just how much difference the mods make.
The win in the end was taken by Bernie with his 25 year old (at least) brass/pianowire, scratchbuilt chassis, rocking a 22 year old Betta Volvo S40 bodyshell (life in the old dog yet). You will notice that it still carries the towbar from being used in Caravan racing back in the old days at Crawley club.
The race record, 46.68 laps in 3 minutes equates to an average 3.856sec lap, compare that with the single lap record of 3.710sec shows just how hard he was pushing.
2nd on the evening was Mike Stonehouse (who won the first 2 rounds) and 3rd was Graeme Bickford.
Mike still leads the championship and I think only needs one more 2nd place from the last 2 rounds to clinch the title.
Back to Scalextric 'Start' Formula One cars next week.
What a night, the track has now 'rubbered in' nicely and the Libre cars were FLYING, laps records were broken race after race, a few members now have Genesis chassis'd cars from Ian Fitzpatrick at Betta and others have JS chassis, most have lexan shells and all (except Ian Chanter) were running spongies, when you consider that Ian was running his NSR Mosler which is a contender for outright honours in the Sports class you begin to realise just how much difference the mods make.
The win in the end was taken by Bernie with his 25 year old (at least) brass/pianowire, scratchbuilt chassis, rocking a 22 year old Betta Volvo S40 bodyshell (life in the old dog yet). You will notice that it still carries the towbar from being used in Caravan racing back in the old days at Crawley club.
The race record, 46.68 laps in 3 minutes equates to an average 3.856sec lap, compare that with the single lap record of 3.710sec shows just how hard he was pushing.
2nd on the evening was Mike Stonehouse (who won the first 2 rounds) and 3rd was Graeme Bickford.
Mike still leads the championship and I think only needs one more 2nd place from the last 2 rounds to clinch the title.
Back to Scalextric 'Start' Formula One cars next week.
Bernie, racing since 1969