I liked the track. No complaints there. Ledbury club have done a cracking job on it. Only little things needed attention where the grass and astro joined there were some random ruts sending the car cartwheeling.
I'll be brutally honest with the next part. Marshalling was non-existant from the Truggy drivers in round 1. The excuses about they only listen for cars on their roofs doesn't cut it. We all have 2 eyes at the end of the day...
I think the meeting could be run a bit smoother. When it was announced the computer had crashed and the Truggy race had to be re-run it look about 20 minutes to acually happen. Surely this could/should of happened in 2 minutes since all the cars were still warm from the previous run.
5 mins between heats was tedious. Maybe it's because I'm honed to Stu's 90 second counter that it pains me, but we (the 1/10th) didn't need 5 mins between Truggy and electric it was just wasted time.
Forgive me if I'm wrong about nitro racing, but I saw a lot of course cutting where drivers were jumping the table top before the loop and jumping over the corner to gain time. I even saw someone gain 2 places by cutting this corner. Marshalling was very slack again even with 5 mins between heats/finals some drivers still failed to be on their spots for the start of the race.
In the A final Rally X 1 marshall actually re-fueled someone's car while on his point. During 1 re-fueling another car had crashed so he couldn't perform his marshalling duties. Also the time gained by just pulling in next to a marshall must be quite a lot since all the other drivers had to slow to enter and exit the ramp, etc. Surely if this is to be a proper league series this should be looked at. If marshalls are in short supply a club member should of been appointed.
Gripes aside and my moaning behind us I had a nice day's racing. I was ready to go home at midday, but glad I stayed
