In response to Scott's comments on the driving standards in the Mardave class may I say that I wholeheartedly agree.
I'll be the first to admit that my driving skills, especially in the new for me area of lapping slower cars
, need to improve and I only dream of attaining the god like abilities of Paul
(all bow down, we are not worthy!!!). In defence of what are probably the indefensible, I would like to say that many of the Mardave class are very new to RC cars and are learning fast. I am not using that as an excuse in my case, I just need to improve my driving! (another grovelling bow to the master - all hail Paul!!!) The popularity of the class should be seen as very encouraging for the club. Hopefully future TC drivers will come from this class.
The very popularity of the class brings me on to the main point of my post which is the number of cars in each heat. On Friday there were 18 non TCs, four of which should have been in the newly created RWYB class, and we ran one heat of 8 cars and one of 10. The angelic TC drivers had two heats of four only. I realise that there are time constraints but I would like to propose a limit of 6 cars for each Mardave heat and 4 cars for TC - as Scott points out his is much bigger than mine so there is more room on the track for Mardaves! I think that size discussions are probably for another forum altogether so lets leave that there! There would have to be some leeway to allow for numbers of drivers and time available but we should aim to limit the Daves to 6. RWYB should be in their own heat, that is after all why it was created. i.e. on Friday the four RWYB (I think it was four but my memory isn't what it was) would have been in a heat and ideally the Daves would have had three heats (2x 5cars and 1x 4car) although time constraints would mean two 7 car heats were more likely. I think that the chance to improve driving skills would increase with a reduction of numbers in each heat.
What are the views of other Dave drivers?
Steve