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Originally Posted by Southwell
Well yeah, i don't think its fiesable to be honist. It's just going to be too low. I would just say put a bigger run off down and leave it at that. You need practically no power to jump it anyway....
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Ian, a longer section after the down would stop the problems with coming up short due to people trying to land the down ramp on the brakes (to make up for having none) to make the corner.
It however wouldn't solve the problem of having no way out if you couldn't jump it for some reason (haivng to swerve to avoid a car having it's own accident or just given up the ghost for example).
I like the idea of distance jumping giving a bonus in lap times as I've said but still believe that you should be able to roll any feature.
In 2006 at the Great Yarmouth national they had a series of dips which were basically just 3 JCB scoops out of the ground about 0.5m apart. Now there was no problem driving them if you could get a decent entry and carry speed but if you got stuck, most often because somebody had cocked up the entry and ended up on their roof you got stuck in them as you could drive out of them from a standstill.
Marshals got hurt, engines cut, cars got broken and tempers more so. The track was basically good apart from that one feature but it was enough to pee off quite a few people!!!!
Difficult features are cool ..... jumps are cool .... flat tracks are dull agree with all that 100%. Equally features that can't be rolled cause marshalling problems, broken cars, broken spirits and people have crappy days .. some times there last ever day racing!!!
As for the people saying "practice practice practice" they are dead right ..... but where???? Only track I can think of that has the sort of features you can practice jumping on is CML raceway. Lee and Nick seem to be the only people (as far as I know ... maybe wrong ..... actually I am .. just read the Worksop thread ..... why nobody in the west mids though
) putting big jumps indoors. It's great to say build jumps at home but that only works if you have a garden to build on in ..... I couldn't even build a decent jump in my garden for my micro ... swing a cat ..... no .. maybe one of it's fleas!!
I suggest those needing the jumping practice badger Lee to open up CML Raceway in the new year for some fun ..... I have
You lads local to CML don't realise how lucky you are .... or indeed how much advantage you have over some of us on these sort of tracks!!!
Most people building temporary tracks think a jump is a bit of flat plywood 6" off the ground ... doesn't really help. I agree this is more than a bit pants....
Lee and Nick have been very understanding and thoughtful about the comments we have all made, they have assured us that the next track will be the best ever (and I believe it) so can we please move on. I would hate to think that my comments, or anybody elses, would stop Lee and Nick building an interesting track .... I know that will never happen so am not really worried. All people have asked is that it is safe for marshals, drivable (if a little slow lapping) for less practiced "feature" drivers .. no matter how much racing experience they have and fun for all. That is what I am sure we'll get next time.
Consider me pre-booked for all future meetings ..... even after the most sh17 days racing in a long long time.
