York Vintage championship dates
 

Here are the (penciled in) dates for the Vintage championship at York:

Round 1 - Saturday 3rd November
Round 2 - Saturday 1st December
Round 3 - Saturday 2nd Feburary
Round 4 - Saturday 1st March
Round 5 - Saturday 5th April

Rules:

Cars must be 1990 or earlier.
NO minipins, any other tyres are ok.
Vintage electronics are always a nice bonus!
Make sure you have fun!!!! :D


Classes and motor rules to be determined.

Please register your interest here if you would like to compete in this championship. The number of people entering will determine if we can run split classes.

Please no - I think we should do this......., or I want to do this....... in this thread. Please just register your interest. Stu started a thread for coments like that.

Thanks,

Graham

Possibly if i can get a car sorted

Yes - 4WD

yes, running 2 cars 2wd and 4wd

yes running 2wd

I'd like to run 2wd and 4wd if we have two classes, I think Jim will too.

G

Sounds good, I'll be usiing the ProCat assuming its 19T, would not bother if its 27T.

I'll run 19t as first priority, no doubt it will be 4wd. If there is enough for a second heat I'll have a go with a second car, 2wd probably with a proper period 27t.

So with Jim I make that 6 people Including Jim (as I think Matty was selling his car?), so looks like it will be just one heat of mixed chassis (1 and 4wd), up to 19 turn motors? :confused:

G

It seems like, and after all the people that said they were up for it before, quite dissapointing really!!!

sounds just like the interclub:(

Hello!!!

I'm defo up for it:D

I'll probabley run 2WD 19t, although would have liked to run 4WD aswell but only if there had been enough for two heats.... These old cars need a lot of attention between rounds (NOT)...

Later

Jim

I've just been watchin' 19t motors on't'bay, they just disappeared before the listings were up - that’s poo.

Plenty more though.

My 4wd has arrived, 1987 worlds winner. :)

In terms of numbers if it's like last year that will be fine, would be nice to have 2 heats though.

BTW, the Aces is on Sunday the 4th - Stew has said we can have a dedicated vintage heat if we want - who's up for that?
Maybe some of the folks from further a-field would be more likely to come up to race if it was a Saturday & Sunday race weekend.

Oh well, just the hard core then.... :rolleyes:

G

Best get me hands on a 19T motor in time for the first meeting....:D

Yeh! :D:cool:

Will those racing vintage ever see the light and race with modern cars?:)

:mad::mad::mad:

Hey, Ben is actually rather quick with his 540 powered CR, it'd be a great contest!

Would it be a race of turtle vs the tortoise? the hares are in the other heats! :D

vintage dates
 

I will be at some of the dates , cannot do the 3rd Nov though, no chance of york and teesside in a weekend. RC overload on my grey matter. Procat and rc10 or kyosho thing if I can find a topdeck for it.

Keith

What to Run?
 

Would it be sacrilege to run a mint condition Gold Tub RC10 ?
"Not sure if i beleive in shelf Queens but i do like a good reminisce."
Haven't raced for donkeys years but this sounds fun. :rolleyes:

Nah that's fine, Jimmy's graphite was a bit of a minter when he ran it. My RC10's a pretty good one too, which is good as it means it doesn't fall apart on every other corner ;-)

Last year John ran Jimmy's Javelin, he just put a slow motor in and drove steadily, making sure he didn't do anything daft. If you want to have a go but don't want to badger the car just do the same. There will not be any large jumps, just small stuff.

If there is enough entries for a second heat we'll put all the 'slower' cars together.

Cheers lads
Still not sure though, i did a bit of research and my rc10 seems to be a CE edition with the black parts and stealth tranny which possible puts it outside the 1990 cut-off, depending how bendy the rule is?
i also have an old graphite mid but that's not turned a wheel since 1988 when i raced it at a club in Oldham. She really needs some work as my pit skills were a little bodge-worthy back then.
At worst i think ill pop up and have a ganders. :cool:

The RC10 will be fine, we're not ultra strict on the cutoff.

Get yourself down and race! :D

Any RC10 chassis is allowed as the fundamental tub is from pre 1990.

Get it raced!

http://www.northernracer.com/xls1.jpg
http://www.northernracer.com/xls2.jpg

Holy crap, that's a right bad boy, VERY impressed (except that wank bumper).

Mine still hasn't got any wheels so might have to bite the bullit and buys some new ZX5 ones :(

Also the motor I bought seems to have been lost in the post. The RC10 finally needs a diff rebuild after Batley so I'm now less preparred than ever :(

Very nice Stu!

The bumper is original Cat.

That is a work of art! :D

G

Frustratingly it seems I have no used front 4wd yellows I can use on my car. I might have to resort to putting new tyres on it :(

You know, at first I didn't click - but holey-shmolley, thats an XLS in mint condition!!

At first glance I thought "That Procat looks a little different"...

bi-jeezus, it'll have more power in it there by double what it was designed for :) (not counting the motor, as I don't know what it is at a glance)

The motor in there is a proper period Schumacher 15x2, I beleive that is what was used to win the 1988 worlds?

I'll run it at Worksop this weekend but unfortunalty it will have to come out for the vintage series, too fast. :(

IMPORTANT RULES
 

We had a York committee meeting tonight and they really wanted to keep the 'spirit' of vintage racing as true as possible so they have decided on the following rules:

Motors: 540 sealed can - same rules as thier 540 series, which basically means that the 20 turn HPI stinger (that was run last year) is the fastest motor that we can run.

Chassis: Age limit of 1990 (ish).

Tyres: No minipins - feel free to use up all your old half worn yellow mini's from througout the year.

G

That is well nice Stu brings back memorys of Albion Mill in Blackburn. Running on carpet with foams with demon motors (or oddiefied motors).

What :o. I'd just sorted myself out with a 19T spec motor for fook sake. Count me out :mad:

I'm really sorry, but that is what the committee decided :(:(:(:(

G

G - That's a bag of wank. In the late 80's motors were being run with winds in the teens.

I have an alternative idea, it's not ideal but it's better than the above, we'll discuss it tomorrow with Jim, Mr W, Dan......