Round 2
 

Thanks Sam & team for making this happen.
Echo what has already been said, great days racing really enjoyed the experience, great track & facilities, well worth the trip, will be there for the next round.
Cheers
Mark & Dan

You may want to check that then (not that it matters or makes any differnce, I was about 10 yards in front of him LOL, I came down the straight as John was on the jump section......

Looking forward to Saturday :thumbsup:

Good good, if everyone who has shown interest turns up we should easily be in the 20's for the numbers!

I'm just waiting on a replacement part for the EMB-1 from Schuuy which (touch wood) should come through this week. If it does then I will more than likely see you.

I've not read the rest of this thread but can I book in on the day or do you need to know in advance? I appriciate the organising from the BRCA Nationals so understand if you need to know asap

Hopefully you can come down, as i know some of our club members are interested in seeing the Schumacher.

Either booking in, in advance on (www.dmsresults.co.uk) or on the day are fine. (as i have set aside 1hr30mins from doors open till first race for practise and booking in so with ours numbers it is fine)

If you can make it drag some friends along too :)

Juat a quick notice, if your from the area and you have a micro, why dont you come race? The track is setup and looking good, the heating is on! :)

Racing starts at 10.30 so you have 1hr 30mins to get here! ;)

Round 3 of the winter series Sponsored by www.X-factory.co.uk got underway with another good turnout for such a niche market.

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The track proved to be very challenging with drivers actually saying it was faster to be slow. (Which makes no sense to me and maybe why I struggled?)

After the 4 rounds of timed qualifying once again Darren Boyle was on top, (again). John Barnes claimed 2nd place, with Gary Jordan only 5 seconds behind in 3rd and Jay Thorpe in 4th just another few seconds behind Gary. Top JNR was Daniel Andrews with a very impressive 6th place only missing out on the A final by a lap. (But he was 2 whole laps ahead of his dad, Mark Andrews!)

‘D’ Final
Mike Weir cleared up with 3 wins out of 3 to claim the win, Brothers Tom and Ben Kirkham did very well and both improving throughout the whole, getting better and faster with every run.

‘D’ Final
1st Mike Weir – Losi Mini8
2nd Tom Kirkham – Losi Mini8
3rd Ben Kirkham – Losi Mini8

‘C’ Final
The ‘C’ Final went all the way to the 3rd final to be sorted and it was so close between the groups that the person leading going into the final hadn’t actually won either of the previous finals. The final was a real belter and Mark Andrews and Colin Kirkham both traded the lead of the race (and the overall finals position) multiple times and it all came down to the last lap in the end with Mark taking the win by 3 seconds, Tied on Points it went down to who’s win was fastest and with that Colin took the ‘C’ Final. Tony Stark finished a lap behind and 3rd in final overall with 3 straight 3rd’s and Craig Homer DNF’D.

‘C’ Final
1st Colin Kirkham – Losi Mini8
2nd Mark Andrews – Losi Mini8
3rd Tony Stark – Losi Mini8
4th Craig Homer – LRP SWB Shark

‘B’ Final
Top JNR driver Daniel Andrews won both the first finals, with Sam Dimelow, Andy Evans and Gary Batchelor finishing both finals in their respective order. With the 3rd final there was a win for Sam and a 3rd for Gary but no change to the overall final positions.

‘B’ Final
1st Daniel Andrews – Losi Mini8
2nd Sam Dimelow – Losi Mini8
3rd Andy Evans – Losi Mini8
4th Gary Batchelor – Losi Mini8

‘A’ Final
With Darren on Pole again anyone could have been mistaken into thinking that the race would be the same as the previous 2 rounds. The first final Darren won, but only by a mere 5 seconds over John Boyle. The 2nd final however John came to the good and won the final with Darren finishing 3rd place and Gary Jordan taking 2nd. Jay Thorpe, proving that the LRP LWB Shark is still competitive finished on the same lap as Gary Jordan. The 3rd final was back to normal running order and Darren took the win of race, Finals and the Overall Series. Gary Jordan once again did a great drive and finished 2nd place with a string of great laps. Jay Thorpe taking a great 3rd and John letting the pressure getting to him, sweated and cursed his way to 4th place.

‘A’ Final
1st Darren Boyle – Losi Mini8
2nd John Barnes – Losi Mini8
3rd Gary Jordan – Losi Mini8
4th Jay Thorpe – LRP LWB Shark

That sums up round 3 and I hope my reports have got better with each round. Was a great turnout and I enjoyed the company.  May have a slight problem with the 4th Round so I will be contacting everyone in the very near future.

Apologies I couldn't make it and sorry for not letting you know, I have the replacement part but just couldn't get there

Not to worry and I hope to see you all at Caldicot in a few weeks

With round 4 coming up very soon (infact two weeks time!) its time to start getting interested again!

For the finale what would every one like? Flat? Fast? Flowing? Jumping? Twisty?

Also any particular jumps or feature you have like from the previous 3 rounds you would like to have included? if you cant remember the layout then i have posted the pictures below.

As always please sign up on www.dmsresults.co.uk just so i can get a rough figure of how many heats are needed. (Although you dont have to you can just turn up, it does help me)

Also with this being the Last rounds the Championship trophies will be handed out AND a raffle will be provided by our Series sponser:

WWW.XFACTORYRC.CO.UK

Round 1:
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Round 2:
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Round 3:
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Sam

I liked round 2 the best! :thumbsup:

Vote on 2 for me as well :thumbsup:

Track decision time?
 

I liked 3 cheers Andy Evans :thumbsup:

Right ill see what i can create then :)

Just got home from building the track and it looks pretty cool, drives nicley as well!
Anyone who is coming ill see you tomorrow nice and early!
(remember as a club we have hand out transponders if anyone needs one)

Sat 16th
 

Hi Sam, myself and Dan are looking forward to it, even managed to persuade another Horsham driver to come with us.
See you around 9:30
Cheers
Mark

Thank you to everyone who turned up and raced today. We had 23 (TWENTY THREE!!) drivers for the day! Thats a stunning number.

A full race report will be a bit later than normal as ive now headed off to a karting national (i had to miss the practise day to run it for you guys today, so tomorrow is race day with no testing, but will see if it was worth it tomorrow ;) )

Sam

Thanks Sam
 

Hey Sam,

Awesome days racing today. Had a really good time and nice to see so many drivers of all ages & abilities turning up.

Thanks for organising the Winter Series, you've done an amazing job!!

Roll on Winter 2013/2014 Winter Series!

Yes a great series and looking forward to the next !
Was some close and interesting racing saturday :thumbsup:
my boys and I enjoyed it.
Was great to see Dave Redstone, Watched the racing in the morning, liked the look of it, brought a new car from Darren, entered, raced and won the F final :thumbsup:
And well done to Darren for wining the series and thanks to Sam for some great track layouts !

See you all again later this year

any videos ??, would love to see some racing at this track :)

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With the Last and Final round of a massively sucsessful series hosted at www.wycomberacing.co.uk sponsored by www.xfactoryrc.co.uk now completed im glad to mention that in total over the 4 rounds we had 26 different drivers compete and all did well in their own rights.

Didnt come out too well thouhg :/
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Track Fact: The raised off camber sweeper with the nipples on the inside, caught every single driver out more than once! It got to the point that Darren even decided to give them a name. The Himalayas as they were known were a wonderful feature and something i shall be re-creating again in the future :)

The Himalayas:

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Round 1 of 4 FTQ went to Darren Boyle on his Losi Mini 8 with a cracking 23L 5.74s, he was over 2 laps clear of second place John Barnes. 3rd Place was our top Jnr Daniel Andrews. Craig Homer giving his new 'Schumacher Micro' its first run in anger he did brilliantly to bring it in home in 5th Place.

Round 2 of 4 FTQ closed the gap up between the top of the order with improvements made by John and Daniel to close in to Darren and bringing his gap down to less than a lap. From 4th place however down to 11th were all covered by less than a lap.

Round 3 of 4 FTQ saw John and Daniel once again bring the times down and close in on Darren. Gary Jordan in a lower heat, Jumped from 8th in RD2 to 2nd in RD3. Craig in his Schumacher was still putting in reasonable times and hanging onto the back of the fight for the 'A' final. The youngest driver of the series, Ben Kirkham, was doing well and improving with every single heat.

Round 4 of 4 FTQ once again see Gary, Daniel and John all closed the gap to Darren but none could beat his fasest FTQ 1 time to take pole. Harry Redstone made the 'B' final on his first time at the track. A special mention to his father Dave who bought a Losi Mini 8ight at the start of the day, built up the car and charged the batteries, competed in the Final FTQ. Just shows how easy it is to get racing with Micro Cars!

'F-Final' Went to Jon Faull with a clean streak of wins, with Dave Redstone taking 2nd and Ben Kirkham taking 3rd.

1st-Jon Faull-LRP Shark
2nd-Dave Redstone-Losi Mini 8ight
3rd-Ben kirkham-Losi Mini 8ight

'E-Final' was another straight forward set of Finals with Tony Stark taking all 3 wins quite comfortably with Tom Kirkham, Ian Smith and Ian Roberts all taking there respective postion in all 3 finals.

1st-Tony Stark-Losi Mini 8ight
2nd-Tom Kirkham-Losi Mini 8ight
3rd-Ian Smith-losi Mini 8ight
4th-Ian Roberts-LRP Shark

'D-Final' Took all 3 heats to find a winner and the winner was Mark Andrews. He narrowly pipped Colin Kirkham to the win by a single point. Andy Evans claimed 3rd with two 3rd places and Wycombe Virgin, Chris Rodgers finished less than a lap behind everytime in 4th place.

1st-Mark Andrews-Losi Mini 8ight
2nd-Colin Kirkham-Losi Mini 8ight
3rd-Andy Evans-Losi Mini 8ight
4th-Chris Rodgers-Losi Mini 8ight

'C-Final' also needed all 3 finals to decide on a winner as there were 3 different winners. Gary Batchelor took the 1st win, Dave Hall took the 2nd win and another WRCC virgin, Dominic Powles taking the 3rd win. The result went down to best time and that was Dave Hall. Craig in his Schumacher EMB-1 hit slight problems as you would expect with brand new cars and did the best his little thumbs could do.

1st-Dave Hall-Losi Mini 8ight
2nd-Gary Batchelor-Losi Mini 8ight
3rd-Dominic Powles-Losi Mini 8ight
4th-Craig Homer-Schumacher EMB1

'B-Final' Was sewn up with 3 wins by Sam Dimelow. Harry Redston claimed second place with Dave Richards and Derek Nash taking 3rd and 4th although joint on points.

1st-Sam Dimelow-Losi Mini 8ight
2nd-Harry Redstone-Losi Mini 8ight
3rd-Dave Richards-Losi Mini 8ight
4th-Derek Nash-Losi Mini 8ight

'A-Final' started off with Daniel Andrews taking the first final after a great and consistant race. Gary Jordan taking 2nd and Darren Boyle taking a surprise 3rd. 2nd final it was order as normal with Darren taking the win, followed by Daniel. Meaning it went down to the final race and with Darren taking the win he sewed up the final race of the series.

1st-Darren Boyle-Losi Mini 8ight
2nd-Daniel Andrews-Losi Mini 8ight
3rd-Gary Jordan-Losi Mini 8ight
4th-John Barnes-Losi Mini 8ight

After the great day of racing trophey presentation for the series took place and the top 10 drivers plus Top Jnr were handed there trophies.

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1st Darren Boyle, 2nd John Barnes, 3rd Sam Dimelow, 4th and Top JNR Daniel Andrews, 5th Gary Jordan, 6th Dave Richards, 7th Craig Homer, 8th Gary Batchelor, 9th Mark Andrews and 10th Colin Kirkham.

I must say that the racing and the company was fantastic at each and every round and the grid varied from top 1/10th National drivers to complete and utter rookies. There was someone for everyone to race.

After the trophies, came a raffle and with prizes supplied by;
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and
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there was something for everyone. The winner of the top prize was Dominic Powle who won a brand new Carbon Chassis with alloy kick up. This however didnt come easy as he threw his ticket away beforehand and had to search through the bin and fight with old pizzas to get it back.

Finally, i personally would like to thank, Darren Boyle with all his help with timing and bringing along spares to all rounds. Also a special thanks goes to Gary Batchelor and Tony Stark for helping setup and remove the track for every round.

There WILL be a winter series next season 6 rounds with dates to be posted closer to the time. I also plan to hold a few special rounds over the summer just so everyone can keep there thumbs in.

If anyone has any comments or photos, please post and i hope to see you all next year!

Sam Dimelow

Found some photos so added them in :)

Winter Series
 

Hi Sam,
Great report & very enjoyable series, looking forward to the next one. On that note are you opening up earlier on Easter Monday by any chance, wanting to stretch the GTB's legs.
Cheers
Mark & Dan

We are opening up earlier, but we are restricted on parking on weekdays. So we will open up at 4.30 with racing starting at 5.30-6. (i will start another thread later)

Sam