General Club Talk
 

:thumbsup:Please use this thread for General club talk. Keep it clean and Civil

Just like to say thank you to all 18 drivers who raced last night, helping to put the track out and putting it away after another good nights racing.

The carpet was extended by 6mts and the track opened out to allow the buggies more room, this made a big difference to the flow of the track.

We also had a couple of new faces who came down for a look and I think they will be popping down to Radio Racers to have a word with Shaun.

Ben has taken a few pictures that he will put up over the weekend.

All I have to do is get the printer to work all night!!

See you Next Friday

Peter

where will the photos be going ?

soon keep your eyes on here downloading as we speak ....:thumbsup:

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...g?t=1287870082

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...g?t=1287870125

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...g?t=1287870184

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...g?t=1287870255

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...g?t=1287870353

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...g?t=1287870672


Few Pics for everyone to see, Only our 2nd night racing at this venue and allready getting busy and track looking great :thumbsup:

Will post more up as and when i next get some.

Give us a clue Ben!!

Posted a few pics up for everyone sorry it took alittle while, been getting my head round Photo Bucket and resizeing the image, sorry pics are not the best.

Good pics Ben, Thanks

Another good night on Friday.

We had 21 racers, 2 heats of buggies and a full heat of Mardaves.

I think all the lads had a good nights racing.

Next week I'm thinking of splitting the buggies into 2 and 4 wheel drive instead of just on ability, what do you think?

If you think od anything the club could do to improve the racing just post on here and we will look into it.

Cheers

Peter

What a good way to end the year, 24 racers, 4 finals and still new faces turning up every week.

Just like to say a big thank you to all the lads who helped with the track.

The quicker we get the track up the more time we have racing, that's why we could run 4 finals.

The club wishes all racers a very good Christmas and hope Santa brings you all new toys to play with.

Next meeting 7th Jan 2011

Peter

Got to say a big thanks to the organisers and everyone else at the club for making me welcome at the track, enjoyed the racing and really liked the track alot, looking forward to going back after the new year

If you are reading this and your thinking of going for the first time I would certainly recomend it.

Here is a video of the track its only my 5th time racing 1/10th am used to 1/5th so think i crashed quite alot lol

my car is the last to start and is the dark grey and yellow cougar that the camera is following


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbauSX_JBJY

Thanks Steve, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.

I have put this post on our web site to encourage others to come down, hope you don't mind.

Peter

http://rvrccc.freeforums.org/index.php

Yes thats no problem Peter, if you have some flyers or anything we will give them out at the shop too

what do you use...
 

Hi

What does the club use to lay out the track - i cant quite make it out on the pics/vid.

Thanks

We use the best carpet you can get. 5 rolls of 2mts x 30mts long.
The track is made from square drain pipe with flexible plastic corners than are very forgiving. The jumps could be a bit better, we will look at them in the new year.

Any other questions just ask.

Peter

thanks
 

Thanks for that Peter.

John

Happy New Year - Lets get Ready to Rumble
 

:thumbsup:Happy New Year everyone - Lets get Ready to Rumble this Friday with all our new Toys

First Night Back 2011
 

What a good night at Wellfield, New Track layout , 27 Racing, 10 mardaves 17 assorted Bugies & Short course.

Keep it going lads

really enjoyed it track was great,with a few well made ramps here and there it would be fantastic,

Raced at ribble vallley
 

I travelled from oxford to race at the last meeting before christmas and i raced in the short course class, i wish to say thanks to everyone for the freindly atmoshere and for waiting for me to setup my car as i arraived late
i will be defiantly racing at your club more often
cheers :)
michael
ps see you friday :)

Your more than welcome Michael.

We had 32 racers last week, 13 Mardaves and 19 Buggies so if we have the same this Friday we will be running 4 heats which will give you a bit more time between races.

Peter
Race Control

Pete just to say last Friday was really enjoyable. Very relaxed and friendly. I'll definitely be doing as many Friday's as possible in the future.
Unfortunately work commitments make it difficult to attend for the next three/four weeks, then hopefully I’ll be back on track.

Hi there,

Just sorting out corners for our track at Roundabout Raceway and was hoping you could give me a bit of help. I've just got the square downpipe, and liked the style of corners you run (looks better than the idea I had).

So 2 questions for now...

1/ Where is the corner plastic from (or what is it supposed to be)? I can see it's plastic strip but where do you get it from?

2/ I was going to join the straight pieces with a block of wood, but on your pics it looks like there's a bolt as well. Is there a hole in the wooden joiner and you just drop the bolt in like a lynch (sp?) pin? Or is it actually bolted?

Thanks for any help,

Dave
Roundabout Raceway

Hi Dave, you are right about the joints we just drop a coach bolt into a pre drilled hole.

The plastic is a bit more problematic in that we get it through someone at the BRCA in a sheet then you have to cut it up. Its a long time since we got any but if you contact anyone on the BRCA committee I am sure they will help. It is good stuff and we get only rare breakages.

Regards
Eric Dunn
Chairman
RVRCCC
:thumbsup:

Thanks for the info.

Think I'm going to be doing quite a bit of work on these barriers on Monday :eh?:

Might try splitting one pipe and using that as corners for now until I speak to the BRCA.

Thanks again for the help,

Dave
Roundabout Raceway

Record Numbers at RVRCCC
 

:thumbsup:There were 57 racers at RVRCCC last Friday and I think our race controler Peter did a fantastic job and Barbara too booking in racers.

You usually only get these numbers at weekend meets when you have plenty of time to book racers in so if Peter and Barbara looked harrassed at times dont be surprised.

I would like to thank all the racers who came because its you who make the event.

Eric
Chairman