First race...video's, pics and feedback wanted!

[blue_pinky]

Hi all,

I big thankyou to everyone who came along on Saturday...hopefully you all enjoyed it as much as I did!

And an even bigger thankyou to everyone and anyone who helped out getting us ready for it as well...you know who you are and we literally couldn't have done it without you

Much hard work already done...and a fair bit more to follow too...next meeting is Sat 9th June, and we will have made more progress on the track by then with new features and hopefully a little more astro as well...before our BIG delivery of astro is available in July...fingers crossed anyway!!!

I only got one video from the day...it's now online at our new YouTube channel...where we will add any other vids we make along the way too!



The video shows Huw Jenkins (Team Wales) keeping Dan Harding (Team England) honest...and at bay in the end...in the 4wd final Not that we'll be tracking 'team' performance in the future...

If anyone else has any pics or vids from the day we'd love to see them...get in touch or post them up somewhere if you can

I only had chance to video the 4wd final as I raced in the better attended 2wd class.

For those who didn't attend, just to give you an idea, we had over 30 entries for the day which was above our expectations for a first event...2 full heats of 2wd's running (and possibly a 3rd heat as well...but my memory seems to be failing me a little there so I'm not sure!), 1 heat of 4wd's, 1 heat of trucks and 1 heat of micros. And we managed to fit in open practice, 5 rounds of round by round qualifiers and finals...so lots of top fun racing to be had

The track stood up ok throughout the the day, but did change and get a little slower...started out slippery/drifty and flat...loads of fun...as the day went on some of the gravel/dirt areas cut in and rutted up a bit...making it rough and a little tricky...but still loads of fun! We'll work on that before the next race... reflattening it, and covering some of the worst areas I suspect.

The cafe did a good trade serving hot food and drinks all day and where more than happy that it was worth their effort opening. And the trackside shop, South West RC, also said they did good bit of trade too, so thanks to Rob for doing that on his own all day without a car to race!!!

If anyone has any feedback at all, good or bad, now is the perfect time...we know it wasn't perfect, but anything you spotted or ideas you thought of would be gratefully received and considered so we can improve things for next time and the future generally!

Thanks again, look forward to seeing you and maybe a few more faces next time