petit rc

[David Church]

I had a great time at the Petit! As usual seeing all the guys makes it worth the trip.
Thanks to all involved in the running of the meeting!!!

[GRIFF55]

excellent report as usual jimbob!! BUUUT, your graph is wrong!!! lol where is the welsh section!!!!! shocking......... 5 of us there!!!
Awesome job by bondy too, keep up the good work mate. makes me want to blow the cobwebs off my bike!

[RogerM]

Another good meeting, if a little long I thought the tracks were both very good other than that spine jump thingy which I wasn't keen on personally.

Petit is all about the show and there was certainly plenty of that all weekend so well done to all involved.

Not sure I will be doing Petit again next year though.

[Welshy40]

Well my piccy got missed off so here it is again but quality report from jimmy and the granny had firmer ones than her daughter :-)

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[MiCk B.]

Yep it was a good meeting.

Personally, overall happy with how I went on both days.

But there were a few things that I felt let the event down.
The PA for the week-end was very poor, could hear very little of what was being said in the pits or on the rostrum.
The track was a fair layout, apart from the blue jump, which was more of an obstacle. From all the 'talk' was expecting more of a changeling layout, but it was a good track to race and watch racing on.

The last one was the commentary, which was hit and miss. The actual commentary on an individual race was very good. Hats off to the commentators as it's a difficult job. But not every heat was commentated on. This in my opinion made it unfair. With out the commentary it can be difficult to know if your faster / lapping a car or both on the same pace.

There's great potential in the venue. It could be a great location for future events.

It was great again to see such a good turnout for an electric off-road event so early in the new year. With so many drivers and manufactures present (including shops), it really proves that 1/10 off-road is growing again.

MiCk B. :-)

[AmiSMB]

Have to agree with the comments you have made there Mick it would have been nice for all the races to have been commentated so that if you had issues in practice and got a bad seeding then it could have helped. The system at Maritime was great for that as you could hear the system say car x is about to be lapped or the commentator would announce this. The PA was very bad and I could not work out what the voice on the computer was saying regarding the heat number at all over the weekend and really felt for Nicholas as it was really bad trying to understand him whilst doing the raffle. I also think that as we had BBK Software actually running the meeting that the information to the racers would be much better i.e. Wifi, extra race info screens dotted around the circuit or even the racing projected at a white wall like they do at the Neo event.

[Legacy555]

Originally Posted by MiCk B.

From all the 'talk' was expecting more of a changeling layout, but it was a good track to race and watch racing on.
MiCk B. :-)

Not really offroad me thinks......

fantastic venue, good organisers behind it, great raffle, good pits, massive breakfast rolls, great carpet, superb space, plenty warm enough, nice people involved, brilliant location, top racing, crap PA system, useless refereeing, disappointing track, unfair amounts of pre-practice, rubbish jumps, lot of "talk".....

7.5 out of 10

[Nicolas Petit]

hello Everybody,

Many thanks to all for coming and enjoyed the weekend. BIG BIG thanks to John and Ardent crew and volunteers on Friday evening to build the track. I will develop soon my thanks in other post soon on Petitrc website.

About "lots of talk" I would like to tell you that I am VERY disappointed of some of you (1st time in 3 edition in England) about 2 points:

- On Saturday evening I trust all of you and let you to take your Raffle products with your ticket and let also big products on the table.
When all of you went out, I saw that some of big Raffles products disappeared:
- 2 Speedpassion motors
- 2 Speedpassion speedo
- 3 Acorn Racing batteries

Also I ordered 190 tshirts with an extra of 30 included and some of drivers told me that they didn't get 1!!!!!



I had trust of Everybody..... Just believe that was an accident, a mistake for raffles products.

Good Evening.

PS: if you don't get your tshirt, please contact me by email only. Thank you

PS2: And for your info the race isn' named "Petit" but "PETITRC Race"

[mikeyscott]

That's very disappointing. To the thief, you are a prick.

[racingdwarf]

Did 2wd on sat, what a great venue! wish it was closer to home,hats off to the club, running a meeting of this scale takes a lot of time,I know it's easy to look on the internet and see loads of great indoor meetings world wide but for somewere that only been running 12 months, some people need to remember how many thousands of pounds have been spent.

This said, the total lack of refereeing combined with some realy crap driving after marsheling or a mistake. There seemed to be no one taking charge of the start line or the track with cars every were, there is no point going when your number is called if the last car to go is put in front of yours.

the track flowed well apart from the big jump,may have been better in 4wd, but for 2wd it was just to steep and narrow,not the incredible,take your breth away track we read about on petit...sorry Nicolas.

practice on thursday friday

as for the tee shirts,raffle prizes,sad to see we have low life scum in our hobby! a great shame

[MRD]

I did think it was a bit strange the way the raffle worked on Saturday relying 100% on trust. I feel the RC crowd is the most honest Ive ever met so its sad to think there are theives about .

[Legacy555]

Originally Posted by Nicolas Petit

- On Saturday evening I trust all of you and let you to take your Raffle products with your ticket and let also big products on the table.
When all of you went out, I saw that some of big Raffles products disappeared:
- 2 Speedpassion motors
- 2 Speedpassion speedo
- 3 Acorn Racing batteries

Yes, this is an absolute disgrace!! - didn't think RC racing was a hobby for common thieves. Maybe if the people involved took them by accident or mistake they might post them back anonomously to Ardent Receway.
The motors, speedos and batteries were for the Sunday night raffle and not the Saturday raffle.

[Neil Skull]

I just want to Say thanks to all the people who helped at "PETITRC" 2011
I thought the event was overall a success, Driving standards was generally very good, there is always the odd bad driver who thought an Agricultural race meant driving like a tractor ploughing through a field. But i thought that given the track was flat there was not too many incidents.

I was sorry we had to leave early and miss the prize presentation Sunday but we had a long journey home and was very tired.

The only thing i would criticise was the practice days on Thursday and Friday. I would say no problem to have practice as long as it publicised when the race date was released. It was too late for our guys to arrange time to practice and we found it very difficult getting a set up on the non standard carpet.

I look forward to a 2012 event and hope for more XL T shirts without any team names on as we cant wear ours

Oh and Thanks to John for arranging warm weather. it was 20 degrees warmer than our last visit and much more pleasant.

[jameswilkinson7]

Originally Posted by Nicolas Petit

- On Saturday evening I trust all of you and let you to take your Raffle products with your ticket and let also big products on the table.
When all of you went out, I saw that some of big Raffles products disappeared:
- 2 Speedpassion motors
- 2 Speedpassion speedo
- 3 Acorn Racing batteries

Also I ordered 190 tshirts with an extra of 30 included and some of drivers told me that they didn't get 1!!!!!

That is disgusting.... The RC community is the most honest I have ever come across. We all leave our expensive equipment in our pit spaces and always trust it will still be there on our return. It has shocked me that thieves are among us.

This was my first big meeting... I thought it was run well in a great location. And I enjoyed every minute (apart from the getting up early part!) The only gripe I have is the practice some others got in beforehand on the new carpet. It would have been nice if everyone had started off on an even keel.

[lotussmart]

4 people and 8 hours and the track now looks like this :-)

Rather sad really, I enjoyed the buggies. Who's for filling it with dirt and having a permanent Off-Road indoor dirt track?

[russmini]

Originally Posted by lotussmart

Rather sad really, I enjoyed the buggies. Who's for filling it with dirt and having a permanent Off-Road indoor dirt track?

You may suddenly wish you hadn't said that when the thousands of PM's, e-mails, phone calls etc start coming in...

Think it would be Awesome though John

Wel Done on Hosting and Supporting the RC Community.

[jimmy]

Touring cars on dirt would be OK - Tamiya make rally tyres for the minis now too!

[Legacy555]

Originally Posted by lotussmart

Who's for filling it with dirt and having a permanent Off-Road indoor dirt track?

That could be the most awesome idea ever posted on this forum

[jimmy]

I didn't mean any disrespect when the first thing I said was - cool venue, should be filled with dirt.

[lotussmart]

Originally Posted by jimmy

I didn't mean any disrespect when the first thing I said was - cool venue, should be filled with dirt.

You're right that was the first thing you said to me Jimmy :-), ironically the first thing we had to do was clear dirt out when we moved in :-). Did any of you notice the unit next door? If there is enough interest then the plan would be to rent that unit too and build a dirt track. We already have the pitting space, cafe, goats and "kind of" toilets, we just tap a doorway through and job done. Hosting the PetitRC Race got us on the map in the buggy world, now I want to see the support so I can justify the beans and convince the landlord :-)