Ahhh right i was the one who got your car off the straight.;)
I had an x5 on order and was told that the belts dont break and it was reliable? Have you got the belt tensioner thingy on your car?

lil ben

Im running an X5 (non squared) the belts are very reliable. I modified mine to run the xxx4 as its thicker but also longer than the xxxs belt used. Iv ran the same belt for about erm... end of 2005 ish.

I dont have any extra belt tensioners as my belt doesnt skip too much when running a one way, only when running a front diff and thats at my local club where everyone is used to the harmonic sound of a belt skip.

Thanks Teesside, it was an excellent track. I really enjoyed my day, and I was very pleased at making my first Indoor regional A final, and my first 4WD regional A final.

I must apologise for ruining Simon Walton's quickest qualifier. I was on the infield, when a broken wire cut all power to my car. It free wheeled onto the straight, where Simon was about to land from the table top, costing him about 5 seconds.

Sorry Simon.

Well done to Greg and Ben, great 2wd drives fromt the young'ns. Well done to Stephen Adams for being quickest in round 1, I didnt see that one coming.
Thanks also go to Westy and Alan Harland, for keeping my TRF wheels turning.

Well done chris on your first A final. Where did ya finish?

lil ben

Don't worry about, I've just finished putting the rudder on, as you suggested, LOL!! I'll get my own back tomorrow night. Well done on your A final, you were flying in the qualifiers.

You are Packy's HERO with his plastic fantastic :p

Qualified 7th, finished 7th or 8th. Fairly uneventful final, but enjoyed it.

Sounds like something is amis in there, you said on Sunday you'd not raced in a while, was it literally the first meeting the car had done in ages?

Do you have the old (original) white tensioner pulley? The sides are not very high on that, the later black ones are much better. Firstly there is a black dual bearing one, then a later again black one that is 50% bigger diameter which gets you more belt wrap which is good.

I know you know the squared is available, have a read round 4wdrc.com for the latest stuff on the car.

It was the drive pulley it flicked off, when the belt wrapped itself around the layshaft it ripped a flange off but in my haste to get the car ready for the final i didnt have chance to replace it and thought seeing as the roller basically spoon fed the belt to that pulley i thought it would last a race.

I run the black tensionner pulley but i think im going to be changing it all when i get the X5 squared so im upto date!

I ran the car for Batley and it was fine, in fact i finished all races without a hitch!

Can i ad that it wasnt all Teesside lot that were going through people:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: and there is a canny few quick lads at teesside now, plus i wouldnt put teesside regional as an "FA cup final" we have our "ACES" for that. hahahahaha

I understand they were quick enough to make the A i don`t have a problem with that, it was just that some people would drive through you if you were on the line. Plus i think there was a little more competition at the regional than the aces dont you;)

Must have been as Damian won the Aces.

:)

not the best of days for me. a lot of problems. never finished a race without a breakage but still managed to start no.1 spot of the C.

managed to bend a shock shaftin practice [my own fault from rubbish driving], in round 1 some1 drove up the back of my car and bent another shock shaft and also dented the shock body although i did manage to finish. second round i had a steering lock problem and i wont even consider goin into th 3rd nd 4th rounds. then i got to the final nd my LRP speedo decided life wasnt great for it atmo nd cooked itself which was a perfect end to a perfect day, lol. :D nevermind, things happen.

thanks to TRCC for puttin on a great meeting and for being well organised. and welldone to all!

Who are you???????????? where you from ?????? batley, york ??? where ??is it just because you maybe got beat. hahahaha:D

Of course i got beat, im not stu wood or tom cockerill, it was actually my first (indoor) regional A final as well.
But i do the full series and respect others whom i race against, if i accidentally touch them ill wait till they have recovered/been marshalled, not just carry on regardless.

who did that from teesside like ???

Lee from Off-Shore, not sure where that is though :p or No Fixed Abode, thats how he's got so much money, its all in off shore accounts!!

You going to Jarrow tomorrow night Lee??

I doubt it simon i think im babysitting:rolleyes:

And im not going to name people on here its not fair on them as it may not have been intentional, they might of just grown a set of A final horns:D

pm me then

I was 4th on grid in C and at the start i went to second and was following you till you packed up on staright i went through and held the lead for a while but finished second,

Enjoyed the day twas ace well done trcc, see you soon hopefully

Just like to say thanks & well done to all involved with the regional, Gary, Bill & the youngsters on scrutineering (Josh, Mike, James, Leg-end etc) & the Ladies in the cafe & all who helped lay the track late on saturday night.
Lee, just a couple of points:- The only Teesside regular to make the 4wd A final (your final) was Pete Watt who qualified 2nd & finished 2nd after a great drive behind Tom Cockerill, so I dont know what happened with anyone colliding with you but it was defo not Pete. I watched him all race & he was superb & only near Tom & Bruce Thomson. Also have to dissagree with the local knowledge comment, last year with all the astro I would say fair enough, but now the only high grip astro is on the straight (not much of an advantage), the carpet is similar to that used at other venues & the concrete floor is on a par with Batley slippy floor surface for the amount of grip available.
Not trying to stir anything, just my opinion.
Also, well done to young Josh, who has improved massively the last few weeks, a great result in 2wd, B final at first regional, Good job.

Barry

Very much appreciated :D

very welldone mate! shane won didnt he?

think u might be mistaken mike as matty run first me second then he dropped out and i was in lead and never looked back:confused:

wish i was in the c final but i had problems most races, first heat my front shock rod end came off, second heat my car cut out for sum reason, third heat my crystal set was dodgy and kept cutting my car out, fourth heat i finished but was downed from all the problems before hand then put in the Dfinal my brushed motor started to die half way through and worse than 540 motor but i still managed to lead the race and win, will be better next time i hope with a new brushless, more inspiring shell and the new upgrades for the X6 :D all in all the day was gr8 though and many thanx to trcc for well put together fun day :)

I cant believe i lent you my spare shock rod ends then went and broke mine a couple of heats later. You owe me mike.

lil ben

oi it was my shock rod end that broke actually not yors :p i have 1 of yors spare and one of them on my car :D

at least your transponder counted in the final:eh?::rolleyes:

well ya can still buy me some new ones mike;)
Was it one of teesside transponders andy. Cos if it is im sure its the clubs responsibility to make sure it is working correctly:o:o

lil ben

dnt wory i will ben seen yor doing yor doin them wheels 4 me :D

yeh it was a handout, but the guy watchin the computer was too silly to realise,

i think i got up to about 6th when i realised, so i slowed down nd let others finish without me getting in the way, because there is no real way of proving where i finished is there?? so i let the others get on with it,

not a happy bunny:mad:

Lee, i dont know you and you dont know me. im not sure why you felt the need to post your comments about "local" teesside drivers?

As far as i know i was the only "local" in the 4WD A final. I ran a brand new car on untested tyres on a track we have never ran before , so my local knowledge advantage extended to the fact that i know the cantine knocks out a great bacon butty and thats about it.

I know i didnt hit , bump or push you in the final, as i did none of the above to anyone ( apart from tom, who i waited for) so i think you have your facts well and truly wrong.

I, like some other teesside "locals" dont race the full season of 1/10th offroad, simply because we race other classes and have a lot of date clashes, we have some extremely talented and accomplished drivers in teesside that you wont know if you only race electric buggies but are very highly respected in other classes of rc racing. to say someone only got to where he is because of local track knowledge is very niave and even arrogant.



Tom Cockerill if you read this, i really enjoyed the battle in the final. I still couldnt catch you even with my huge advantage of "local track knowledge" :D:D excellent driving mate.

Pete Watt

Peter, i know quite a few of the teesside lads, i used to race onroad, i also know it wasn`t you who took me and other drivers out during the final, the only reason i said it was a local lad was because he told me it was the club he raced at most. I apologise if i offended you or anyone else in teesside, and yes you do have some good drivers and i know most would not take someone out intentionally but i have heard that this driver has a reputation for it.

Cheers

Lee

Thank you for your reply and appology Lee, when you put it like that, it dosn't sound so bad. It was just the generalization of the teesside club members that was frustrating to read.

Im sorry to hear you were taken out by another racer in your final.
it is very annoying when it happens to you.

Pete

AndyM

Which final were you in and can you remember the colour of the transponder?

I have been through all the race records and cannot see a transponder that looked like it was going down.

transponder '0' i was in the B Final,

it was the colour that is lowest on the rack (if that makes sense)

my best ever result aswell:mad:

I'm gonna have a word with Derek and see if we can do anything about it.... :(

G

are the results posted up anywhere yet?

thanks northy! but i doubt there is anything because the race has finished etc. so there isn't any way of proving what posistion i got up to or anything, ahh well, life goes on, lol

argh, yeh, i remember now! i spun round dint i infront of the rostrumm which let you through, then my car died nd you were leading when tht green losi [yeh! thats right, you know hu you are :p] as good as took you out. but welldone again shane! twas an almost faultless drive. :)

p.s. im guessin this means your keepin the x6?? :D