Racing 16th Oct
 

Hi everyone, are we still on for racing on Sunday at Bury? Weather is looking dry so hopefully should be fine.

I thought it was off? But if it's not, i'll be there :) Weather looking ok for once!

I'll be coming down. At the very least we can get the track set up and have a practice day

Sounds like a plan then. So long as i have one of my cars fixed...

Transponders
 

I'll put the transponders on charge but I won't be there as I've made other plans for the afternoon.
See if you can get number two or three race controllers to pick up the stuff.

P.S. a provisional calendar is on the website.

I can pick up the stuff if you want Roger?

Mike, what time are you getting there to open up?

I need the keys, so I can pick em up with the equipment from Rog. Can be at the track anytime. 10/10:30 ish I was thinking

I hadn't got as far as telling my wife there wasn't any racing this weekend, so she hasn't made me any other plans yet!

So that means I'm free to race or race control or both. Badly.

Unfortunalty I can't be there, to do race control. :(

Si, i'll be there tomorrow, but looks like i'll have none of my stuff running (most of it's for sale on here! decided to stick to the Losi SCTE and flog the rest), so i can help with race control while you're racing if you show me how.

Is the losi scte that tough truck based on the losi 8 that you have??

OK, well you might not need to help with actual race control, since I can set that on auto. More of a problem is that I'm only allowed to go if I bring my son along, who's only 15 months, has a toddlers lack of attention span and causes chaos everywhere he goes.
So more than assistant I need a babysitter!

Ha ha ha can tell your misses is a head mistress you'll be telling us she throws the blackboard rubber at you:drool:

Yep, that's the one. Its proving a tough thing to get parts for, but it should be sorted for next week.

It is the bollocks if I was into trucks that would be my first choice with 1/8 elecs

Have you tried a main hobbies in America ??

But Buds - It uses geared diffs, so where would you shove your greasy balls?

Yep, that's where i ordered the bits from, cancelled my UK orders i've been waiting about 6-8 weeks now.

I run a 550 4-pole motor, so its fast as on 3s, but it just doesnt rev high enough on 2s, so being stuck on 3s it's not BRCA legal, therefore no regionals for my truck :(

Don't tekin do sc esc combo???Then again it's the weight of the thing what's it weigh??

Yeah, they all do, you can get 550 2-poles which run ok on 2s, but just ok, need 3s to make a 6.5lb truck properly fast.

never heard of any losi drivers complain about power when running the tekin setup, especially now with the new 540 4poles, which all run on 2s for roar rules. 3s is for bashers who like to replace gears alot lol

ps 550 4pole motors are illegal also need 540 4 pole to be legal ;)

Yeah, but the 540 4-pole Castle Combo ESC would overheat on a truck as heavy as mine. The option of getting that motor and a Tekin ESC was much more expensive and there were no other 540 4-poles available at the time i got mine.

There is no truck class at regionals anyway so they are all illegal....

im not talking about castle 4pole, i personally wouldnt use anything castle other than their fan an 4mm bullets lol

Im talking about the tekin 4pole motor the pro4 range. they not been released long but its the way forward, especially for that heavy old thing you drive now an again :P

tekin rx8 + tekin pro4 4600 running on 2s geared 14/40 = 12.30 min run time = 170f motor temp 130f esc temp

cant be bad to that an i bet it goes way faster than you need, i was running mine on a 16t but was just too fast. if you need any help with anything just shout or pop over to the rango table, more than happy to help to get that pretty body out for some smashing :thumbsup:

Oh its got more than enough speed. My personal opinion is that SC's should run 3s, afterall they're not really 1/10th, somewhere between 1/8th and 1/9th allegedly. My truck's all 1/8th like, with mod1 gears so it's plenty happy taking 3s power.

Did race it all the time until i killed a diff (lost some washers rebuilding it) and nobody in the UK seems to have them in stock. Ordered some from the US now so it should be running again next week.

Are we racing today then?

It doesn't look so good here, and I've got a small child to babysit, so right now I'm not totally keen, but I also know I'm the only available race controller today.

So what you doing Si
Dont fancy setting up then pours down,1 heat and packing away again like last week.getting soaked and covered in mud again.

Well my wife is opting for 'just don't go' as its also a 30 min drive, and I'll have to load up little Ben and all his small child paraphenalia too.

If the weather was good I was figuring going down, setting up race control, booking in, running a round or 2, then I set the system to auto and take the by now most annoyed Ben home, leaving Minke in charge of clearing up.

Then there is the option we just call it a practice day. No timing but track out. I suspect Minke is doing that part now.

Timing gear here, need someone to use it. Track almost set up

Ben's not had breakfast yet!

Going to take me 45 mins at least.....

Edit - Likely to be longer in fact.

Doubt I could arrive before 12.

Ok - I'm pretty sure this isn't going to work.

There is weetabix everywhere and he's nowhere near finished. I think it will just have to be a practice day because there is no way can get down in a reasonable time, and when I do I'll have a wriggly over excited child who loves pushing random buttons on computers in race control.

Practice only today guys.

Do you guys have space for a firestorm? Gonna bob up for a bit with my son.

I see the new committee and group of race controllers is working well!!!
well done lads

Gutted i can't be there, whats the weather like?

10/11 racers turned up. Got a fast track set up. I'll be here for a few hours

Dry track, no rain at all. Generator won't stay on tho

What you running the gen for?

Put fuel in it :eh?:;)

Just wanted to set everything up and make sure I could get it all working.
I got it all figured out but the genny wouldnt stay running.

Many thanks to those that came and to those that helped pack up.

I had a good time on Sunday . It was good to be able to come down and have a practice without the pressure of racing and allowed a bit of messing around with setups.

Just wish I could have stayed a bit longer. Hopefully you guys will have another practice session soon

Regards