mk racing indoor gp 16th dec

[c0sie]

Andy,

If I had to be negative, it would be that £1.20 for a can of coke is a bloody outrage! Damn that cafe lol

[OldTimer]

My take on the meeting, loved the cross over 1st time i have driven one lol, the big mother of a jump was great loved that, hated the two lots of doubles for me spoiled the flow of the track and were very random, there ok for the top guys, but hard work for us not so good drivers

Lap counting, had one run all day which i had all my laps counted, moaning about it sorry andy but when i realised a lot of other people were in the same boat, i stopped worrying about it and enjoyed the racing.

So if there are any more meetings planned i would be back.

And did anybody here that David Church was in RC Car Action magazine

[Nick Goodall]

Masssssssive thanks and well done to Andy Bell, Rob Rasey and everyone involved in setting up the computer, timing gear, speakers and everything else.

I think the day ran as smoothly as possible considering it was the first big event here, the only issues i heard of were a couple of 4wd's that didn't count but that was mainly down to where they'd put their PT's wasn't it?

All in all it ran very well and most people seemed to enjoy the track. It wasn't easy by any means but i'm sure most people would only improve their driving by racing at places like this - With limited space indoors it's important to keep the speed down to a degree and use the space as well as possible so we tried to keep all of these things in mind when building the track.

I think 25 second laps for 2wd indoors is pretty cool, nothing worse then having 13/14 second laps as the lap is over far too quickly and the racing can become a bit of a procession which is a bit boring......

Next time we'll try and make it a little easier for the novices as there were quite a few people that clearly hadn't done much racing before so with the addition of these jumps it was obviously quite difficult to master for these guys but you have to try and cater for everyone - i think a lot of the newbies would have struggled whatever we did as indoor racing is always compact and a bit tricky if you try and have a bit of slippy stuff and a few jumps thrown in.

Well done to Trish, he drove awesome to finish 5th and shown he's really improved over the last few months (not just at CML Raceway)

Also thought young Mr Boots drove superb for someone who rarely races electric, i could see with more track time he'd quickly get up to speed with 2wd but with the B44 he was really flying and looked extremely fast!

Well done to Ellis for winning and Lee for TQ, also to Truman for his Trumanating moves on me and Lee in the last race, even though he threw it all away Was a good fun day and i personally loved the Track but as with any new venture we now know which areas we can improve on and Lee and I will work even harder next time to perfect the track.

Look forward to seeing even more of you at the next one!

[OldTimer]

I was using a handout transponder all day Nick in 4wd, but i know the guys really want to get to the bottom of the problems which is good

[Southwell]

Originally Posted by OldTimer

I was using a handout transponder all day Nick in 4wd, but i know the guys really want to get to the bottom of the problems which is good

Bathy had problems all day, we put his transponder in his wing for the last run and it counted perfectly.

[OldTimer]

Originally Posted by Southwell

Bathy had problems all day, we put his transponder in his wing for the last run and it counted perfectly.

Yep was a bit strange, i guess with bathy its was the bling reflecting the signal away from the loop

[losixxx]

are/will the results be on-lines at all?

[c0sie]

i'm sure most people would only improve their driving by racing at places like this

Totally agree

[B&H Racing]

I really enjoyed the meeting, never experienced jumps like that before !

Big thanks to the organisers for the meeting and the track preperation.

Bit daunting at 1st but once i got used to them, I was doing 26sec laps which I was very happy with.

I`ll be there for another meeting

[markwilliamson2001]

Originally Posted by Nick Goodall

Also thought young Mr Boots drove superb for someone who rarely races electric, i could see with more track time he'd quickly get up to speed with 2wd but with the B44 he was really flying and looked extremely fast!
!

I agree Nick, he did look awesomely (is that a word??) fast all day.
I also agree with the comments about the new guys, it even looked like Cree was making mistakes on the track, so it MUST have been hard.

Mark

[smk]

Originally Posted by losixxx

are/will the results be on-lines at all?

I'll be putting the results up on the Newbury RC club's website at some point in the near future. Because of the lap counting issues in 4WD the results need quite a bit of editing to give the right results. Anyway I'll post here once the job is complete.

Thanks to everyone for their patience with the lapcounting problems, and to everyone who helped run the event particularly those like Andy and Tracy Bell who gave up their weekend and didn't get to race.

Kevin Tombeur
http://www.newburyrcclub.co.uk/

[Lee Martin]

cree crashes all the time!
hahahahahha

[markwilliamson2001]

ROFLMAO!!!

I had a gutting end to the weekend, my cheap nasty KO servo packed up, and refused to let the car turn right , which meant that I only got 5 corners of my first final

M.

[Lee Martin]

i tihkn cheap and nasty is where your problem lies there dude!!!

lol

[markwilliamson2001]

Yes, I bought it on a limb, but since it was £40 I am surpised it has lasted this long...(5 meets!!). From what I remember, it costs £40 quid for KO to repair it, so I thought I might be another one if it goes wrong...

Anyone got any recommendations for a new one. Ideally 6v with metal gears for under £70?

M.

[Lee Martin]

EASY!!!!!!!

the new AE XP servos are v awesome!!!!!!

and only like £55..........!

[Southwell]

You running a servo saver? That could be half your problem.

[markwilliamson2001]

Servo Saver...No it wasnt that, since I didn't hit anything just before it went wrong?? Plus I have a big heavy duty horn on the servo, so the white arm bends way before the servo horn does, but their isnt actually a servo saver on the XX4 (you should know Ian).

M.

[markwilliamson2001]

Had looked at those servo's pidge.

Seems like a good bargain.

M.

[Elliott Hopkins]

Hello,

Drove like a muppet all day, couldn't concentrate all day, got increasingly more narky as the day went on, apologies to my pit buddy. That'll be my name at the bottom of the table.

The track was completely ace. I agree more run off was needed after the down ramps. And nice soft pillows at the end of the main straight in case you misjudge the brake point.

The big hump was perfectly formed. Seeing the cars bomb down the straight was a particularly pleasure.

Lots of breakages: 1 wishbone, a self dismantling front shock and a comprehensively mullered motor with delaminating stack and associated blue smoke. Three separate races.

Everyone involved needs a medal. Everything about the day was first class.

Elliott.