Leighton Buzzard National

[Smartalec]

Just wanted to say a big thanks to the guys at Leighton Buzzard for an excellent days racing at the second National.

I'm well pleased with qualifying eighth at my first ever Micro event, and i'm looking forward to the others.

The finals weren't so good, with a bad start in the first and a take out in the second putting me down to last on both counts. Lap times towards the end of the second one getting up to speed and the car felt fast all day with very little to do to make it balanced.

Off to Wycombe now to get seriously 'airborne' and try to break the thing LOL

[David Church]

Congrats for making your first National "A" final

[Chrislong]

Excellent meeting, ran well, great venue and great people. Nice to meet Chris Hampson! Looking forward to High Wycombe although very nervous of the amount of obstacles the track may have.

One comment, don't take this as a criticism guys as I know it easily can be, and I am mighty impressed with the quality of the tracks I have been to at LBRCC and Cobra. But I can't wait to race on a race track and not an obstacle course. Perhaps I should expect obstacle courses in this class? But it ain't half hard to put a clean run in whilst not colliding with other cars.

Oh, impressed too with the pre-meeting emails from Ben! Very helpful.

Now time to look forward, anybody got any links to pictures of High Wycombe tracks?

[Body Paint]

There are some discussions on another forum.

Apparantly the Wycombe crew are going to start the planning of the track at their club night, tonight.

From what they have said so far I think it will be an excellent track, with more of a mixed track style, rather than the sequence of jumps and features that we have had so far.

I'm sure the series will hold a good variety of tracks, something to please everyone. Roll on Wycombe

[_sleigh_]

Bishop seemed to have fun at the weekend (well except the rather brutal qualifying )

I like the sound of the points scoring system you run at Micro's. Point on qualifying which is counted twice as there are two sets of finals which score for separate round of the championship. So each meeting is actually a double header (que Lee for the joke )

[Body Paint]

It's great fun Sleigh, you see all sorts of different strategies.

Makes a change for Bish to have a good final.

[Lee]

Originally Posted by _sleigh_

a double header

He he, phil said double header

[Chris Doughty]

Originally Posted by _sleigh_

Bishop seemed to have fun at the weekend (well except the rather brutal qualifying )

I like the sound of the points scoring system you run at Micro's. Point on qualifying which is counted twice as there are two sets of finals which score for separate round of the championship. So each meeting is actually a double header (que Lee for the joke )

Phil - you should get yourself an LRP Shark and have a play, its ace!

[frogger]

Originally Posted by Chrislong

But I can't wait to race on a race track and not an obstacle course. Perhaps I should expect obstacle courses in this class?

If you are going to race micro's more often then get used to airtime! These little buggers are tough, very quick, they can do BIG jumps and take bumps with the best bigger off road cars out there so people are experimenting with all sorts of 'obstacles' to see what's fun and what's not. Leighton appreciate feedback as much as any other micro club out there and all of us try not to take things to heart too easily so don't be shy to air your opinion.

The reality is that the micro clubs\classes for most are still new and everytime someone runs an event they learn something new. For the most part clubs get it right and the events sure are fun. It's actually quite hard to build an indoor track that is challenging, fun and good to race on at the same time for 10 little rats on acid that screech around at light speed. Add into the mix a bunch of aggressive (but friendly ) race drivers and it always makes for interesting racing. The tracks are tight and the cars open wheel so when there is contact you can always expect a little bit of carnage

At the Wycombe national your car will fly so stick some wings on We are planning a 4 meter double lane cross over with the track twice crossing under the clear polycarbonate bridge. There will be a big near verticle wall ride, kicker jump, a drift section and a few other bits and pieces with some carpeted flat track thrown in for easy overtaking after a long sweeper corner.

It should be one of the best tracks yet. So come along and get yourself booked in!

[Chrislong]

This Micro racing sure is ace, it is very different to what ive been used to & I am enjoying it big time. Looking forward to High Wycombe - i'll be there on Saturday night (+Craig?).

Now then, I need to practice some obstacles!!!!

The clubs I have been to so far have a lot to be proud of, very impressive, the remaining rounds have a lot to live up to. Im hopefully off to Macc this Friday (anybody know any info?) so may have photos of current layout if anybody interested.

[Danosborne6661]

Awesome meeting at the weekend wasn't it! The track did have a bit to many obstacles for my liking. If things like the plates were removed and so on it could of been quite a nice flowing track, but never the less it was good fun at the racing was spot on. I was in the B-final though which i haven't been in before! God damn you 10th offroad boys knocking me down a few places, roll on wycombe and see you lot at the trackside

I hope you 10th guys like our Phat Bodies wings that a few of you bought

[Smartalec]

Can anyone tell me where to look for the results for the National series? ..... I know where I finished but i'd like to know how everyone else ended up

[_Bish_]

Try here Alec
http://www.uk-microrc.co.uk/forum/in...howtopic=12142

and race report and results here


http://www.minijt.btinternet.co.uk/h...nts-051008.htm

[Smartalec]

Cheers Tony, i'll have to re-think my driving style for the Wycombe finals ..... it was a bit hectic at times during both finals LOL

[Danosborne6661]

Originally Posted by Smartalec

Cheers Tony, i'll have to re-think my driving style for the Wycombe finals ..... it was a bit hectic at times during both finals LOL

Hectic at times? Times being 5 minutes long yea?

[Smartalec]

Yep, manic from the buzzer on the first final and then even more manic on the second final ..... but I didn't get nobbled till the second corner on that one LOL

Still, i've learned a lot and was happy with the qualifying ...... just need to get the car flying straight as an arrow for the Wycombe mayhem now