York Vintage championship dates

[Northy]

Here are the (penciled in) dates for the Vintage championship at York:

Round 1 - Saturday 3rd November
Round 2 - Saturday 1st December
Round 3 - Saturday 2nd Feburary
Round 4 - Saturday 1st March
Round 5 - Saturday 5th April

Rules:

Cars must be 1990 or earlier.
NO minipins, any other tyres are ok.
Vintage electronics are always a nice bonus!
Make sure you have fun!!!!


Classes and motor rules to be determined.

Please register your interest here if you would like to compete in this championship. The number of people entering will determine if we can run split classes.

Please no - I think we should do this......., or I want to do this....... in this thread. Please just register your interest. Stu started a thread for coments like that.

Thanks,

Graham

[Kash]

Possibly if i can get a car sorted

[WHITTLER555]

Yes - 4WD

[super__dan]

yes, running 2 cars 2wd and 4wd

[mattym0310]

yes running 2wd

[Northy]

I'd like to run 2wd and 4wd if we have two classes, I think Jim will too.

G

[vader]

Will those racing vintage ever see the light and race with modern cars?

[Medders]

Originally Posted by vader

Will those racing vintage ever see the light and race with modern cars?

[vader]

The force is not strong with the vintage what you need is a new young jedi to run along side you and lap you. My apprentice "Obi won Jemison" will take care of that with his 540 powered CR!

[Chrislong]

Hey, Ben is actually rather quick with his 540 powered CR, it'd be a great contest!

Would it be a race of turtle vs the tortoise? the hares are in the other heats!

[VintageRC]

Hi,

I realised that theres no group on bebo devoted to vintage RC Cars, so I decided to set one up! If anyones on bebo and loves vintage RC cars then feel free to join this group.

http://www.bebo.com/VintageRCCars

Stuart Hill

[mr emily]

I will be at some of the dates , cannot do the 3rd Nov though, no chance of york and teesside in a weekend. RC overload on my grey matter. Procat and rc10 or kyosho thing if I can find a topdeck for it.

Keith

[Mushman]

Would it be sacrilege to run a mint condition Gold Tub RC10 ?
"Not sure if i beleive in shelf Queens but i do like a good reminisce."
Haven't raced for donkeys years but this sounds fun.

[super__dan]

Nah that's fine, Jimmy's graphite was a bit of a minter when he ran it. My RC10's a pretty good one too, which is good as it means it doesn't fall apart on every other corner ;-)

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Mushman

Would it be sacrilege to run a mint condition Gold Tub RC10 ?
"Not sure if i beleive in shelf Queens but i do like a good reminisce."
Haven't raced for donkeys years but this sounds fun.

Last year John ran Jimmy's Javelin, he just put a slow motor in and drove steadily, making sure he didn't do anything daft. If you want to have a go but don't want to badger the car just do the same. There will not be any large jumps, just small stuff.

If there is enough entries for a second heat we'll put all the 'slower' cars together.

[Mushman]

Cheers lads
Still not sure though, i did a bit of research and my rc10 seems to be a CE edition with the black parts and stealth tranny which possible puts it outside the 1990 cut-off, depending how bendy the rule is?
i also have an old graphite mid but that's not turned a wheel since 1988 when i raced it at a club in Oldham. She really needs some work as my pit skills were a little bodge-worthy back then.
At worst i think ill pop up and have a ganders.

[Northy]

The RC10 will be fine, we're not ultra strict on the cutoff.

Get yourself down and race!

[Northy]

We had a York committee meeting tonight and they really wanted to keep the 'spirit' of vintage racing as true as possible so they have decided on the following rules:

Motors: 540 sealed can - same rules as thier 540 series, which basically means that the 20 turn HPI stinger (that was run last year) is the fastest motor that we can run.

Chassis: Age limit of 1990 (ish).

Tyres: No minipins - feel free to use up all your old half worn yellow mini's from througout the year.

G

[Spencer Mulcahy]

That is well nice Stu brings back memorys of Albion Mill in Blackburn. Running on carpet with foams with demon motors (or oddiefied motors).

[Medders]

Originally Posted by Northy

We had a York committee meeting tonight and they really wanted to keep the 'spirit' of vintage racing as true as possible so they have decided on the following rules:

Motors: 540 sealed can - same rules as thier 540 series, which basically means that the 20 turn HPI stinger (that was run last year) is the fastest motor that we can run.

Chassis: Age limit of 1990 (ish).

Tyres: No minipins - feel free to use up all your old half worn yellow mini's from througout the year.

G

What . I'd just sorted myself out with a 19T spec motor for fook sake. Count me out