You can't have too much of a good thing.....

...well that's what they say anyway! So for the second week we ran fastest lap qualifying, but with 10 drivers, we extended it to 30mins runtime. Not that it made a huge amount of difference in terms of sorting everyone for the finals, as you could have pretty much predicted John, Charlie, Dan and Kris being in the A Final, so that left the rest of us arguing over one place - which Nathan grabbed by a couple of 1/100's of a second!

Tonight's race results can be found here - Race Results >>

See you all next week!

Where is everyone?

I guess everyone is still recovering from Christmas, as numbers were at an all time low this week, with only 6 turning out to have some fun.

But despite the low numbers, we still had a really fun night

Something a bit different...

...Dave (in his infinite wisdom!) decided to try something a little different, so we had qualifying over 20 minutes with fastest lap over this time to set grid position for the finals. This meant you could go out as many times as you wanted (batteries allowing) in the 20 mins to try and set a superb flying lap! Right from the off, Nathan was fastest, with 9.4s lap, although this was then quickly matched by Colin to sit in P2. Over the following 15mins, Dave, Rob and Adam swapped places for 2nd, 3rd and 4th, getting closer and closer to Colin and Nathan's time, with Iain bringing up the last spot. As the clock ticked down to 5 mins remaining, everyone tried to get back out onto track to improve their position, and as lap times fell, Nathan put in a flying 9.3s lap, followed by Colin managing 9.35s. Rob followed into 3rd, with Dave in 4th and Adam 5th, Iain 6th - and so the grid was set for the finals!

We then ran two finals, one of 5 mins and then one of 8 minutes! Of course the limitation here was a lack of Marshall's, but we had two volunteers from the watching spectators (!) and surprisingly there was little need for marshalling in either race - although 8 minutes of concentration (and lack of prep - Nathan, make sure that battery tape is secure next time!) meant that only 3 cars finished the 2nd final - Colin, Rob and Dave.

No results to post this week though (still in the club computer!), and hopefully we'll see a lot more people next week!

New Track Corners

We've been developing some new corner designs since just before Christmas, and it looks like after getting to Version3, we've now got a corner design that is a lot more forgiving when you run into it than the older solid corners we had been using. The new corners have a flexible plastic section around the outside of the bend, which moves when the car hits it and all this does is unbalance the car slightly if "glanced" or pushes the car off again if hit "head on", neither of which causes damage to the car from the corner.

We will now be making up more of these to replace the entire corner set!

Many thanks to Iain Gardiner for his help with supplying aluminium plates to help keep the corner shapes from moving when hit.

If car damage from the older corners was ever a reason for folks to move away from the Club, then these new corners should help remove that issue!

Tonight's race results can be found here - Race Results >>

Track personal bests have also been updated to include Track 17 - Personal Bests >>

We hope you all had a great Festive Season, and are now recharged (!) and ready to race into the New Year.

It was good to see so many braving the cold and snow tonight in order to run our first meeting of 2010 and it was nice to see a couple of new youngsters having a go on the track with their cars during the breaks between rounds.

You can find tonight's race results here - Race Results >>

BRCA / Club Membership 2010

Don't forget, that if you haven't paid your BRCA or Club membership yet for 2010, you need to do so as soon as possible. The BRCA membership remains at £13 for 2010, and the Club membership to just £2, so that it only costs £15 for both, the same as last year. If you need to fill out a membership form, you can download one from here>>

See you all next week......

Christmas Break......

.....with it getting close to Christmas, we've decided to take a break a little early, so there won't be any more racing now until the 8th January 2010

We would like to wish everyone who's raced this year at KMCC a very Happy Christmas and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year and we hope to see you all next year as we look to move the Club from strength to strength and start to rebuild numbers to where they used to be.

You can find tonight's race results here - Race Results >>

Track personal bests have also been updated to include Track 12 - Personal Bests >>

See you all Next Year!

End of Championship Series

So that's the 2009 Autumn Championship over, and thank you to everyone for an exciting series, with some excellent racing even with the smaller number we've seen racing recently

So, just to conclude - who won what.....

You can check out the results in full below:

Championship Results >>

Race Results >>

Nearly there......

.....only one more round left to go now in the Autumn Championship and it is really close now in F3, as Stefan and Sam are neck and neck for 1st place, with Daniel still in with a slim chance of taking the win. F1 looks a bit clearer, with Dan showing everyone a clean pair of heels for a win!

You can see all the championship results here >>

And race results here - Race Results >>

Track personal bests have also been updated to include Track 23 - Personal Bests >>

Tune in next week to see the conclusion!

Round 11 and 12 were run tonight and results can be found here >>

And race results here - Race Results >>

Track personal bests have also been updated to include Track 20 - Personal Bests >>

Round 9 and 10 were run tonight and results can be found here >>

And race results here - Race Results >>

Track personal bests have also been updated to include Track 24 - Personal Bests >>

Half Way.....

.....through the Championship with Rounds 7and 8 run tonight (race results can be found here>> ) and with fewer than usual racing at the Club presently, we've decided to temporarily remove F2 as a category and move the F2 drivers into F1. All the results have been recalculated and you can see the revised Championship standings here >>.

At the moment, it looks like Dan or Charlie are most likely to take 1st place in F1, while 3rd place and below could go to any one of Colin, Rob, Adam or Nathan. In F3, it's just too close to call right now and anyone could take the top spot, especially now Ian has got his new brushless and Lipo combination!

Track personal bests have also been updated to include Track 21 - Personal Bests >>

Great racing tonight, well done to everyone!

We've kept all the all older news items, so you can go find them if you feel the need!

Archived News >>