WHO Winter Rally-Sprint News Briefing 3 – Thursday 11 February 2021
This week’s round-up is a day late, due to a busy Wednesday of HO proxy drag racing in Brighton (see
here).
We’re now three weeks into the Rally-Sprint and have completed five stages, with six more to run. Don't forget that you can find all the Stage reports, results and news briefings indexed in the
opening post for easy navigation of this increasingly long thread! Now, let's look back to a action-packed Saturday of racing...
1. Stage 4: SouthDowns 1. Oli packed two stages into a day at the in-laws – making the most of their big lounge. He also experimented with a live stream on Facebook, which you can still catch
here. The SlotRacer coverage starts
here.
The class podiums for Stage 4 were…
Class A: 1. Graham Edwards, 2. Doug Passell, 3. Paul Cooper
Class B: 1. Oli Abbott, 2. Graham Edwards, 3. Andy & Rebecca
Class C: =1. Craig Jones & Sebastian Birchmore, 3. Ade Child
The full results for Stage 4 are
here.
Although the stage was quick, a poor run for Alan W’s Renualt Mégane dropped him from first to fourth overall. Our new rally leader was Alan B. You can find the overall results after Stage 4
here.
2. Stage 5: SouthDowns 2. Oli ran the same stage in the afternoon, but with different results...
Class A: =1. Graham Edwards & Doug Passell, =3. Paul Cooper & Noah Passell
Class B: 1. Graham Edwards, 2. Oli Abbott, 3. Andy & Rebecca
Class C: 1. Graham Edwards, =2. Phil Field & Ade Child
The full results for Stage 5 are h
ere.
Although Wye Valley’s Alan Birchmore remains in the overall lead, Alan Wilkinson is back on the podium - and the top seven cars are separated by less than seven seconds! Graham is top of Class A, with Oli Abbott hanging on to the lead in Class B. The overall results after Stage 5 can be found
here. Results and overall standings for each stage are available as pdf files in each of the results / standings posts.
3. Bravo and a big thank you to Oli for getting his two stages in the bag – plus a very valuable experiment with live streaming. The cars will make a short trip to Jean’s this weekend ready for stages 6 and 7, which will take place in a couple of weeks time. We'll aim to confirm the remaining schedule next Wednesday.
4. More live coverage? Oli’s experiment was brilliant. Competitors could see their cars in action and the technology worked well with the format. It’s definitely something we’ll experiment will further before the end of the event.
5. EV Triathlon 2021 Proxy. There’s another proxy event happening in May with sign-up and coverage on SlotRacer Online. The event is a mix of rally stage, sprint and drag race - organised specifically for the Scalextric Jaguar I-Pace Electric Vehicles (EV). You have plenty of time to get an I-Pace and prepare it… so check out the format and regulations
here.
That's it for now... Next week’s Rally-Sprint round-up will be back to Wednesday at 5pm UK time.