and bring your sun screen!! I got to take mine tomorrow, oh, and money to pig out in the cafe!!

Was Lee using CR2 or Tamiya?

he was running the tamiya was very close all day between him and ellis :thumbsup:

What an awesome start for the Tamiya, good stuff!!

top 3 today in 2WD went:

1. Lee Martin - Tamiya
2. Ellis Stafford - X6 squared
3. Grant Williams - Cougar SV

Everyone in the A final was close the battle for 3rd was exciting to watch especially the last round but most of the excitement was with Ellis and Lee :woot:

Just a bit to let everyone know who was wondering :thumbsup:

Ash

Cheers matey, see you tomorrow no doubt :)

Any chance of more details, like who made the A?

Any news on todays 4wd results ? :)

As far as I remember Pidge nailed 4WD in both the first and second A-final to take the overall with some super fecking ace driving in each! Was great to watch as he nailed that far side double 99% of the time and seemed to make loads of time up using that line.

What a brilliant day though, weather was really nice, driving was great to watch and the banter was on top form from all on the grassy slope! Poor Gaz Stanton and the "Stanton double" LOL!

Stanton's number 1 fan Belston was on top shouting form today lol!

Really enjoyed it today, was a credit to all the 1/10th offroad people as to how good it was just to come up and spectate :)

So a Tamiya/Pidge double :thumbsup:Good lad pidge. Cheers cosie.

Was great viewing actually. Nearly all the top lads were rolling the far side double whereas Pidge was nailing it time and time again. Reminded me of NEO from a few weeks ago LOL

Pidge got mad skillz :D

he walked the third leg too! 511's were awesome today:thumbsup:
Cheers to all at tally for a great weekend, really enjoyed it.
the rclazy.com crew were on fine form also, cheers for the lady and barbyfire guys:thumbsup:
roll on round 2

awesome weekend, thanks too to the Taly crew. Really enjoyed the 511 too :thumbsup:

CONVERTED?!:lol: Good result first time out Bav:thumbsup:

Top weekend fella's! Cheers to the Taly boys, great effort on your part :thumbsup:

It was my first national and I thought I was going great guns...just a pity pretty much everyone else was going better than me!!! Really enjoyed it though, some great racing and even better racing to watch, stunning 2wd finals!

I must also say, to those who camped up there....that was proper hardcore camping...I was a lucky one and have my parents living 20 mins down the road, so changed my plan to camp and stayed with them instead...but I scraped ice of my car both mornings...I know it was proper freeeeezin up there, so that's true commitment for you :woot:

Can't wait for round 2 now...bring it on...and hope the temperatures get up, I'll def be camping there.

Go team Wales :thumbsup:

I watched your final from the hill Andy, you did yourself proud mate :)

Top Weekend
 

First Offroad national:thumbsup:

And even Wales turned on the sun for the weekend, amazing.

Thanks to all involved at Tallywain, excellent meeting.

and thanks to Griff and Belsten for the comedy banter, great fun.

Just recovering from my first National.

Arrived back in Dublin at 6.30am, home breakfast, change of clothes and into work!

Really enjoy the week-end racing, the track facilities & the organisation were all great.

Thanks to everyone for making us both so welcome at our first National.

MiCk B. :-)

Cheers matey :D

Did have to have a chat with myself before hand though...my usual trick if I'm on pole is to bin it in the first bend!!! Avoided that so mission accomplished, and really fun race race too :thumbsup:

Was funny hearing my name on the commentary...and great support from the Welsh MASSIVE!!! Cheers boys :D

not bad at all for the 1st time ! Roll on RHR

Yep, in my oPINION it looked really good :p

"There's a lady on the label!"

Awesome weekend, some terrific driving on show, and my 4wd final was fun, 8th to 3rd to last to 3rd all in the five minutes with the plastic fantastic spare car!

Dugga dugga dugga.

finish
 

where did Bavid and griff finish in 2 & 4wd. Also how did Amish finish?

bavid, g 2wd and c in 4wd and griff b's both days
amish d

*
 

Nice one fella - have spoke to a few locals who all mainly had good days - anyone struggle?

What a weekend! Superb weather, fantastic track and great fun.

Big up to Talywain for their efforts in sorting out the track for this year, you guys did a great job. Didnt race there last year but from the vidoes ive seen on youtube and what ive been told the track was much improved this year. :thumbsup:

Well done to pidge on the double victory!

Feeling knackered today and little sore from been lobsterfied by the sun! :blush: ha!

Really looking forward to RHR now.

Craig Collinson

Ha ha yeah one of many noisy moments from the RC Lazy/Yellow Peril/Toilet tent end of the pit area, god knows what it all sounded like!!

Stants is my new hero though, what a performance in his final from Panda Eyes :wub:wub

Not sure Griff will let me pit with him again, I'm not team enough now he's got his Tamiya pen and lanyard!!:woot:

Awesome day all round, easily my best ever national too :thumbsup:

Beetlejuice!

Founds stickers on the Bay Bav :thumbsup:

good work, I ran out of spidey stickers :woot:

OHHHH DEAR!!! LOOK OUT RHR:woot: You should get spidy wheel disks made Bav, to go on the replica of my shell you'll be getting done:lol:

Thanks to Taly for a great weekend, really enjoyed commentating duties as well, quite funny at times!!

Special mention to Stants, that final was ace mate :thumbsup:


The Spidy stickers clearly inspired me throughout the weekend!! Role on RHR and the Beetlejuice stickers!

I'll try and dig some more premier league ones out!!

Pysgod Pysgod.

referee's report
 

so starting my first full season as referee thought i would put my thoughts down

driving standards good to excellent

penalties a few

apologies several, gave a driver a stop go, went down the line saying car 6 stop go, got a reaction from a driver told him to stop, car complied told him to go, didn't shout as he was right in front of me, walked back to my position, only problem the driver i was talking to wasn't the one!, the correct driver heard me tell him to stop but didn't hear me say go. so he didn't. apologies to mr evison for that.

danny mcgee and grant williams, having decided to give danny a penalty, i confirmed with grant that he felt he had lost out and that i should apply the penalty, only problem is i asked grant in front of danny, which was obviously the wrong thing to do and put grant in an awkward position so apologies to grant and danny for that.

as danny pointed out at the time i should have told him what was happening and allow him to give the place up, as it was, the time penalty cost him two places rather than one. i accept that danny is correct and will attempt to do so in the future.

issues raised for me which all drivers need to think about. a couple of times drivers crashed and ended up in a better position so they waited and then went, one driver was going to be penalised his reasoning was he did not gain, my reasoning was he didn't lose and he should have done, however the penalties available to me are limited to a warning, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 1 lap and disqualify plus stop go as required, the problem with a stop go penalty in qualifying is once served you have lost that time and it cant be given back, so i prefer to give a time penalty which can be added or removed after i have considered the incident.

fair play awards from me, joint award for paul bradby. grant williams and dave gibson all three had an incident but waited and allowed the other driver back in front, or in grants case he let an extra one through just to be safe!!

thanks to the talywain crew for keeping me watered during the day

john

Fair play also to you John.
It's not easy trying to referee a national and I don't envy you one bit.

But respect to you for posting on here that you also learned from your experiences this weekend - it's far tougher to do that and something that perhaps a certain other national sport's referees could also learn to do:woot:

Thank you.

Thanks to all for a very good weekend!!!!

Great words from John, much appreciated, as was all the effort from the BRCA, the Talywain crew, and also to Jonesy and Sleigh for commentating!!!

Congrats to Lee for doing the double!!!!:thumbsup:

1st national over with.... and a brilliant experience. Well done and thanks to the BRCA crew, and the Taly crew. Cheers to Lee and Scott aswell for Tamiya setup tips.
It was hard work racing off road proper, but thoroughly enjoyed it.... and thanks to Sleigh for commentating on my qualifier....good job! Really impressed by all the top lads driving, congrats to Lee for the win... outstanding! But personally would like to say well done to Greg, Neil and Craig, from the NE, brilliant performances!
Roll on RHR :thumbsup:

A few pictures from the weekend

http://s279.photobucket.com/home/nei...view=slideshow

Link don't work for me :(

works for me :)

That'll be the new link, cheers Neil