Hmm, Cov weather ....despite being freezing cold in the morning, it got hot enough to get sunburnt later....:cry:

Big thanks to Neil Oliver for lending me his car when my speedo broke just before the final. Neil - you should have used greens all day instead of yellows :thumbsup:

Ian

I had a great day, and didn't break anything which was a result for me.

Gutted I can't make the next 2 events.

We'll be there all summer as well, just pop over!

First outing with the new Kyosho zx-5 FS.

Used mostly out of the box settings and did not have a great qualifying. I can see with the right tweaks here and there this car had the potential it just finding it.

Enjoyed the racing but the track was OK. Some section i just could not get the hang of. The back section seems to spring to mind there where just to many lumps and bumps for my car. But then thats the nature of off road racing if we had a flat track it would be called touring car.

Weather was great after freezing my fingers in the morning.

All in all a good day out with car hope to put in some time at my local track and see if i can tweak her to get some better lap times for ledbuy in 4 weeks.

Thanks GUYS for making a noob to regionals welcome.

thanks to the team at coventry for a well run meeting yesterday. first time at a regional, and enjoyed it, even if our heat did get held for what felt like an age, we were kept informed all the way through what was happening. top job race director! :thumbsup:

cant say i enjoyed the track though, great layout and excellent jumps but wasnt overly flat in the flat bits!!

where can i find the results from yesterday? :confused:

You should be able to find on the mid-west web site later this week

Have to say, The track was a lot better than I thought it would be.

Okay so there are a few places where a bit of maintenance is needed and there are big holes in the astroturf which need filling and upset the car if you were unlucky, but the worst ones in the far corner of the track were avoided by the track layout.

Being forced to add 100g of lead to a 2wd to meet 4wd weight limits helped calm the car down on the bumps significantly.

Only track feature I really really didn't like was the hump 3/4 of the way down the straight.

I don't see that it really adds a lot to the track, and if you get it wrong the accident is invariably a big one.

(I got it wrong number of times.)

Not entirely sure how it complies with BRCA rule 14.7 either.:confused:

Other than that and a slight case of sunburn, an enjoyable meeting though.:thumbsup:

cool, i'll keep an eye on that then!

:thumbsup:

Thought you were just trying to bore us all David with your knowledge... but you are actually correct:

14.7

Wise man, much respecto!!!

Jon

I thought that meant that the 20m section where the cars grid up at 2m intervals should not have the rise or fall.. the coventry hump is beyond the pole position.. but my interpretation might be wrong!

Yes... the rule refers to the fact that the straight must accomodate 20m of flat (as in no features etc.) area to fit the start grid into for finals. All 10 cars on the start grid yesterday were not seperated by any jumps/bombholes etc. making this comply with rule 14.7. Granted, the pole man didn't get much of a run up to the hump on the straight and where it is avoidable, we would recommend that tracks do not incorporate features into their main straight.

Personally I thought the tweaks to the layout yesterday on the right side of the track were really cool, but I fully accept that Coventry is a bit of a marmite track for many (you love or you hate it) but at least there is no home advantage there, it remains a fresh challenge whenever we go! Thanks to all the team at Coventry for their support on the day. :thumbsup:

Thanks to all who made the meeting happen and run well.

I have to say that I really struggled to see the far right of the track well enough to be able to drive around all the "features" but hey, guess that is equally true for all.

Sunday was my worst days racing since the mid 80s, I can not remember the last time I DNF'd every round and the final (and practice ..... twice with 2 cars in the same 5 min session!).
Hopefully that is all my bad luck out of the way for the whole season now!

Only good thing is that the ZX5-FS was running really well when it was running so at least I have something to build on.

Just out of interest, how many people managed to go the whole day without breaking their car??? Guessing that will be a shorter reply list asking the opposite question.

Actual roger my fs did not break a single bit just goes to show how well they are built and thats an achive ment for me because when i was running my rb5 i broke somthing every 5 mins.

Roger i know you did not get to realy race but do you have the setup that you where running before for DNFed

Results now available on website :thumbsup:

http://www.brca-midwest.co.uk/results.html

2 spur gears suspension bolt and the infamous male outdrive still made the c :lol:

I did an outdrive as well Tinners and managed to do 2 belts as well (front and rear)!! Could not get the car to stick on the track!

Steering spindle and rear wishbone.

Although one of those was dicking about after the race, doh!

I am currently writing reportings for great region of Mid West High Five!!!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

A

i did mine on the double jump borrowed matts car just before the final and bust his servo:thumbdown: