1st-Sep-22, 08:38 AM
Good Morning,I know it seems a long way off........but believe me it is "just around the corner"
I will start with a bit of intro
After the Slotting Car Proxy Club voted in July this topic as one of their preferred themes for next year, I decided that it should be in essence run on Rally Stages that best simulate what the topic is about. Hence it will be a contest about the cars ability to negotiate some very testing slot car tracks set up at clubs or with individual hosts for the purpose of running Rally cars.
In general I will refer to these as either "Rally/Hillclimb Stages" or "Tarmac stages", the former can be based on ready made routed wood single lane tracks or similar plastic track based single lane tracks. The latter "Tarmac Stages" will be based on short club or individual host track circuits, and again either wood or plastic tracks.
There will be no large fast Club tracks used for this particular Proxy.
The "Rally /Hillclimb stages" will include steep inclines and tight corners, ramps are possible and hump back bridges, rough surfaces, or slippery sliding surfaces.
We have 10 hosts/clubs volunteering to put our cars through these challenges, and each host can potentially run up to two Rally Stages. Each Host Round will count as the combined running results from the number of stages they run (ie either one or two). And the points will be awarded from the final results of each Host Round.
We have some new host/clubs who have offered their services, and I am extremely grateful for their participation. Unfortunately not all our regular hosts could be included in this specialised Proxy series but I hope that they will be willing to participate again the latter part of next year, when we return to a more conventional "Raceway" based track themed proxy
So here is the Provisional Schedule proposal for the series next year, I am sure there maybe changes along the way before we reach the critical dates, but I will update the schedule if necessary as we run up to the end of the year.
Rally Cars
Although not mandatory it is recommended to fit guides with suspension because of the nature of the tracks, and additionally fitting cars with motor mount or wheel suspension may be advantageous. Long wheelbase cars (ie in the Monte Carlo Event) may struggle to get round the tight corners and steep inclines. So I would void entering them. A reminder that All cars entered must have both a driver and navigator, Rally decals and Livery appropriate to the Event in which the car is entered.
Series Format (Revised) The format will now follow the conventional practise for slot car Rally Events.
Therefore for every Stage in the round each competing car will be measured for the overall time (including de-slots) taken to complete the Stage.
And each subsequent stage will add onto the accumulated overall time. So for this Proxy there will not be points allocated for finishing positions at each stage or Round. It will be one continuous series of stages.
The four Events will be run separately in any order as chosen by the host. A time will not be posted for any car which is felt to be incapable by the host of completing the round and a default or time out will be allocated.
After each Round (1-2 Stages) the run times of each car in each Event will be posted on the Slotracer online forum and on our facebook page.
Rally Proxy Round Scoring and Awards
Stage Times (Rally & Tarmac stages) - Hosts will run each car according to the complexity of their tracks for approx 60 secs for each car stage.
The number of laps to be run within this time is set by each host.
Round (Host) Times- Combined time of both Stage times, each host will run 2 stages.
DNF- a car which fails to complete a stage due to mechanical breakdown or physical impairment - Time allocation of 2x slowest car or default timing for each stage.
Round Event winner & runners up -will be announced for each Event by the host.
RoadRace Administrator -
Event Series Points
I will announce the accumulated Event timings results and post the results the day after the Host individual Event Results. Points will be allocated for the accumulated results from the rounds. 10 points for 1st Place, 9 points for 2nd etc. All cars which entered an "Event" at or after 10th place will receive 1pt, A DNF will receive 0 points.
Car Class (Construction) Points
I will announce the accumulated Class results and post the results along with the Event points. 10 points for 1st Place, 9 points for 2nd etc. All cars after 10th place will receive 1pt, A DNF will receive 0 points. Class D points (as there are only 1 or 2) will be added into Class B (if made using a Class A body)
Team Points
I will announce the accumulated Team points and post the results, These will be the combined Event & Car Class results from the 2 cars entered by each entrant, or if a single car entered it will be the single car combined results.
Maximum points- 10 Event win & 10 for Class win= Total possible 20 points per Round or 200 points for each car, or 400 points for a combined 2 car win of the series.
Winners Medals & vouchers
Our Medals this year are sponsored by "Truspeed Controllers"
So we will have Winners & Runners up medals for each Event (1st, 2nd & 3rd)
And we will have Winners medals for each Car Class A,B/D & C
Vouchers - with the good will of our Sponsors we will award vouchers for the winners and runners up of the Events, Car Class winners and Best Presented car.
George Turner Award will go to the winning car of the Monte Carlo (Event 1)
There will be no "Fastest Lap" award.
The "Best Presented Car" will be declared at the end of the series, and will be chosen by a "entrants vote" and will be the highest scoring car from the 4 Events.
Technical Rules
I will not be changing or modifying them from now on.
and are as attached
Rally guides
Please ensure your cars have a suitable Rally slot guide profile.
Any guides fitted with protruding front blades, or too thick or too long will simply not work.
All these guides above have blades 5.6mm deep, 18-19mm long and 1.6-1.7mm thick which is ideal for this Proxy.
Guide stems fitted with springs.
Please do not fit wood guides etc
Final Event Car lists and explanation
This is the list of cars eligible for the each of the four events included in the series
Event 1 (Monte Carlo) pre 66 Rally cars
This is intended to be a list of cars which competed in the Monte Carlo Rally up until 1966. In those early days many cars were driven across Europe and UK from different starting points in which was effectively a "Road Race" sometimes with whole families on board.
Event 2 ( Class B Rally Cars) 1983-1987
This was a relatively short period of Rally history which permitted the use of specially developed "prototype" based cars of limited model production (if at all).
It was a narrow band of cars which were homologated into Rally Class B, so I have expanded the Event car list somewhat to include Rally Cars based on Group 5 Sports cars and other similar low production based cars prior to the Historic official Class B Classification allocated to these models. Some of the models listed were also homologated into what was Rally Group 4 cars.
Event 3 (Sports & Touring Rally cars) (1966- 1996)
Historically referred to as Class 2, 3 &4 Rally cars mostly based on Touring cars. But here I have omitted some Class 4 cars which were also homologated into Rally Class B.
Event 4 (WRC) 1997-to date
This is cars which are recognised as having taken part in the modern WRC series based on production Touring cars.
So hopefully all the questions have now been resolved, I will start the Official entry list in October/November, but if you want to add your intention to enter on this thread please feel free to do so.
Sponsors
Pendle Slot Racing www.pendleslotracing.co.uk
George Turner Models www.georgeturnermodels.com
Truspeed Controllers www.truspeed.co.uk
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