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Originally Posted by johnboy
My own personal opinion but yesterday was'nt the best regional ive been to. I know people have gone out of their way to run a race meeting and a big thumbs up for that but could it be possible for someone who knows how to use the race software to run race control. Most people got there at 8am and racing started near 11am. It was a long wait. Also i know we have been spoilt by places like Worksop, York and the old Teeside race track which are big halls but the track was not wide enough for overtaking . I know the club have to make the best out of what they have to use and please dont take this as me slagging off Teeside club because i used to enjoy the trip up to the club but yesterday was abit of a let down.
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I agree that the delay at the start was excessive, but in the end we got all the racing in quite comfortably, we could have even had 8 car finals in the end.
I actually thought it was a good overtaking track, there were several clear points where you could get down the inside on the way into a corner - first corner and the carousel into the centre jump were the best, but you could make a clean pass on pretty much every corner except the two with rippled mats. But it was narrow, and there was an issue with the carpet-to-slippy section in the carousel causing a lot of cars to understeer off onto the straight and I saw a few serious smashes because of that.
It actually reminded me of tracks in the 80's and 90's, before the invention of "big air", and in my opinion was all the better for it!
All in all I enjoyed the day. Would have enjoyed it more if I had got on top of the car setup earlier in the day, and if there hadn't been a "bonus" marshal point in the middle of the track in the final, which put the marshal's head directly in my line of sight for the jump down-ramp
. But happy to get another 3rd in C-final trophy to add to my collection. One day I'll make the B...