You forgot I also killed the rotor on the Bmax's motor. We thought its cells were flat, but actually it was a dead motor.
Also, and most importantly you forgot that we broke a marshal. Johnny stunned him a little first, before Rob took him out completely!
Technically the Losi wasn't broken - i just stupidly mounted the transponder where it jammed the steering. In my defence I normally run a PT.
The breakage list isn't that bad when you consider that in a typical race meeting you get 25-30 mins of track time each. Even with 6 people we'd have been double that, but in practice with 5 of us it was higher than that still. Indeed, heat from 10+mins running is what killed my Bmaxes motor.
After the Lazer electrics issue Chris had a serious manhood failure and wussed over the double for the rest of the day - does that count as a breakage?
Still - good fun, and a great track once you get used to the monster double.
We could do this sort of event at Bury if people want, but I think a few alterations are needed.
1. 6 hours, or even the 5 the actual scoring race lasted, is too long - 4 seems like a nice figure.
2. We'd need to set out the course to avoid the grass as much as possible. Keighleys track cut up really badly and that caused some issues.
3. Some sort of rotation of marshals. Some marshal points involved a lot more work than others. When we inherited the point by the jump after Rob KO'd its official marshal we doubled our workload.
4. Mains power to all. When my battery died our challenge near ended there. As it was it lead to some pretty tense moments where you were out on the track and there was no one to replace you!
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