8th,9th of April 2016
We went to the first regional of 2016
held at RHR
me and my family set off as soon as dad came in, I was so hyped! when we got there we looked for a good place to put our caravan meanwhile I played with my little brothers to entertain them meanwhile mam and dad set the awning up. I had a great night leading up to the first day of the regional larking about the camping field and with my 2 little brothers and friends. I had a good look of the track so I would be familiar with it the following day.
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The track was really wet and moist as it had been raining trough the night and was still drizzling,so we put ballistics on the rear and yellow mini spikes on the front for the warm up it worked really well so we decided to run them in the 1st round as well. we had the buggy at 70% running a 8 turn motor,I achieved a time of 10 laps in 5mins 24secs the car felt really good.
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coming into round 2 the track was slightly dryer but not completely dry so we stuck with ballistics on the rear but we changed to some high profile cut staggers on the front in yellow compound the combination of tyres worked well as the track was dry in some places but wet in others. it was tricky to drive but changing from grippy to slippy when hitting a dryer spot I was happy with my time: 10 laps in 5mins 14secs.
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round 3, we turned the car throttle up to 100% just to try. However, I found it really hard to drive as it was a big jump from 70% throttle on the previous round also as it was very hard to control on the slippy parts of the track. In the middle of the race my car broke as i went a bit wild on the big jump in the middle with the extra speed
so I had to come off. I finished with only 6 laps, however, I was not to concerned about my time as I had 1 more round left to qualify.
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Round 4 we went down to 90% throttle and stayed with the same tyres as the previous rd I was doing well until my car started to grind and then come to a stop?!?
It Was The Idle Gears. They Had Stripped!!!
I finished with only 6 laps again...
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I qualified with only my first two rounds counting i got 6th in the D final
It was a mega rush to fix the car but luckily with the help of Stephen Forster my dad manged to fix my car just in time for My final
Close Call!
I got just half a lap warm up and lined up on the grid. We put some new yellow spikes on the rear but kept the high profile cut staggers on the front as the track was dryer than all the previous rounds. i was 6th on the grid I started good and got through the first lap or so, I got up to second and I felt like we had made the right choice with the tyres as they aloowed me to push but it felt safe. I was chasing 1st for most of the race around 10 seconds back until I grip rolled and then crashed on the doubles! It was still ok however I felt my buggy could lap a bit faster than 1st place but I just wasn't as consistent. I finished 2nd place in my final and I was very very pleased!
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Link to my final video Iam on first
red kyosho rb6
https://youtu.be/uhVK3QQB-Dk
The trophies were given out and I spent the rest of the night playing football,tig and blocky with the other kids that were camping at RHR. I am getting quite a lot of RC friends now. I finished off the day with marshmallows from the BBQ thanks J.Edwards then I went back and chilled in the caravan watching tv looking forward to 4wd the next day!