Spring Championship - Round 5

More incredibly close racing this week from the 18 cars on track, and more broken lap records. After a good A Final off road buggy racing win mid-week, Dan was looking to try and close the gap on Championship leader John, Richard was hoping for a return to form in the F2 class and could the little Mardave of Rob keep on winning in F3?

Qualifying
John once again hit the ground running and won the first 2 qualifying rounds cementing his place on pole position for the A Final nice and early. Dan got into his stride by the last round and with a 1st and a 2nd would take 2nd place on the A grid with Nathan right behind in third. Adam once again took pole in the B Final having missed out on the A on count-back, Dave quaified in 2nd but was unable to make the grid due to car problems which effectivly promoted Ben up one place. Rob would line up at the front of the C Final with Dan right behind and Mark in 3rd.

Finals
The C Final was away first with Rob leading the pack away but it was the younger Oliver family member Dan who had the best opening lap and took an early lead. Jamie was an early retirment after 2 laps when his battery pack refused to stay mounted inside the car. Dan's lead didn't last too long as a couple of poor laps on lap 4 and 5 cost him the lead letting Rob get away and get into his rhythm and it was that consistant lapping that allowed him to go on and take the win in a new PB time of 25 laps. George had tried his best to challenge Rob and also managed to complete 25 laps but finished a fair way behind in 2nd after a very long last lap. Mark came in 3rd picking up valuable points to leave him sitting solidly in the trophy positions in F3.
The B Final grid was a little light as Dave and Lee were both unable to start the race but the 4 remaining drivers took the chance to race on a slightly clearer track. Adam lead away well and was able to build a good lead and lap cleanly (for a change!), allowing the remaining 3 drivers, who are in their own battle for the F2 title, to fight between themselves. This week Richard's car was going much better and and despite a close fight with Ben looked like he might be back on target in the Championship battle. Ben's car has also been inproving alot recently and once the boost was turned back up for the final he was putting in some impressive laps, faster than Richard. Adam went on to win the race with a new PB and a time that would have been competative in the A Final. Unfortunatly, Richard's personal transponder hadn't been working quite right during the race and had missed several of his laps meaning that Ben took 2nd place and Martin came in 3rd. An attempt was made to sort the lap counting problem for Richard and it looked like he may have claimed second place but he decided to not accecpt the adjusted result as he conceded it was a fault on his car that he should have noticed sooner and therefore didn't feel he should be awarded the place (fair play matey). All this means the Championship table has closed up make for an exciting last 3 weeks for the F2 drivers.
The A Final was once again set up to be an exciting race with the first 4 cars lined up in championship order on the grid. It was current series leader John that made the worse start though being jumped by Dan and Nath in the early laps and meaning he had alot of work to do. His first target was Nath and target may be the right description as an 'agressive' move cost Nath 5 seconds and lost him 2 positions but this did set John free to start the chase on Dan. Nath regained his composure and set about chasing down Steve who had nipped ahead and slowly Nath's car was closing in. At the same time John was managing to reel in Dan a little but just as last week all the pushing to try and catch the leader was just a bit too much and some small mistakes started to creep in allowing Dan to manage his lead. Dan held on and took the win, again with and new PB and lap record, ahead of John. Nath had caught Steve but in an effort to try and find a way past clipped the same hairpin corner marker twice in 4 laps and this was enough to let Steve pull away and take third.

Results, Championship Tables and Personal Bests have all been updated with this weeks action.

All this means that in F1 the table has remained fairly static this week as the top 4 are all so evenly matched it is becoming really hard make any real gains in the points. In F2 though things are getting really close, despite Richard's early dominance 2 dissapointing weeks have opened the door for Ben who is finding his form at the perfect time. Meanwhile Martin is playing the waiting game scoring good consitant points and waiting to pounce if the 2 ahead slip up. In F3 Rob is looking good for the top trophy with Mark doing a good job scoring solid points and may be on his way to second but the battle for third looks like it could be close. 5 drivers currently are in the hunt for the last trophy so its all to play for.

See you all next week!!!
Adam

Spring Championship - Round 4

This week marked the half way point of the 2012 Spring series but with some tight battles in all the championship tables theres still plenty to play for in the remaining 4 weeks. Also this week we welcomed Stuart Robinson on track for the first time, hope you enjoyed the experience and will keep coming back for more.

Qualifying
With a full compliment of F1 drivers this week, making it into the A Final would be especially tough. The top 2 places were once again filled by Dan and John who week on week keep pushing each other to put in incredible lap times. Nathan, Steve and Lisa filled out the remaining A Final places. The B Final would be lead away be Adam, who narrowly missed out on a A Final place, followed by Dave and Anthony meaning the F1 drivers filled the top 8 places (as they should!). Top F2 qualifier was Lee just ahead of Martin who completed the B Final line up. Top F3 qualifier was Mark Robertson who took pole in the C Final ahead of F2 drivers Ben and Richard, with the father son battle between Rob and Daniel completing the C Final. Andy, Chris and Stuart made up the D Final.

Finals
The D Final was up first with 3 of our newer drivers given a the track to themselves and a chance to work on their lap times in a slightly less crowed environment. Andy lead the grid away and duly went on to win putting in some good consistant laps towards the end of the race. Chris followed in 2nd place with Stuart 3rd.
The C Final was lead away by Mark who made a good start and lead the first lap but a mistake on the second lap gave the chasing pack a chance to pounce. Current F2 leader Richard found himself starting in the now unfamiliar place of 3rd in the C Final but things got even worse after 7 laps when he retired, fortunatly the dropped scores format should mean this week can be written off if he can return to his best form next week. Richard's misfortune looked like it would help Ben in the series standings but a problem right at the end of the race cost him the win too and more importantly a missed chance to claw back Richards points lead. All this left the victory up for grabs and it was an Oliver family battle with Rob taking the win from Dan by just under a lap. Ben recovered to finish 3rd ahead of Mark in 4th.
The B Final was lead away by Adam but his race came to an end after 7 laps with a drive shaft faliure. This left Dave and Anthony to fight for the win in what turned into a close battle. Both drivers posted almost identical fastest laps but it was Anthony who took the win a lap ahead of Dave. Lee wasn't able to hold onto the top F2 posistion as Martin was able to pass him to take 3rd a lap ahead of Lee in 4th.
The A Final looked set to be another close battle with current championship leader John lining up on pole once again but with Dan right behind. Dan made the better start and took an early lead, quickly getting into his rhythm but John wasn't far behind. Further back 3rd place starter Nathan was going well but was forced out after 17 laps. Up front Dan was being Mr Consistant forcing John to push as hard as he could to get on terms with the leader but some small mistakes started to creep in and no matter what he tried Dan was just too fast this time. Dan went on to take the win in a new personal best time of the series, the only man to hit 34 laps. John came home 2nd with Steve once again taking 3rd and Lisa an impressive 4th running a 21.5 turn motor.

All this means that at the half way point John still leads the F1 catagory 6 points clear of Dan in 2nd with Nath 'sir 3rd alot' in, erm... 3rd, 10 oints behind Dan. In F2 Richard's lead was cut slighty by Ben with the gap now being 6 points but Martins good reult this week means he is only 3 points behind Ben in 3rd. Chris still leads F3 thanks to him having completed all 4 weeks racing so far but it is Rob that is closing in quickly sitting in second place and once we start dropping scores in a couple of weeks we could see him jump to the top of the table. Mark Offord, Greg Bird and Mark Robertson have all score well in the weeks they have attended so could still mount a serious challenge for the trophies if they come along to the remaining rounds.

Results, Championship Tables and Personal Bests have all been updated. The PB's were cleared at the start of the series so what you see in the table is your best race time on the current layout that we have worked hard to keep consistant.

The second half of the series starts next week and theres plenty of points still to be won so make sure you all come along see what you can do.

Adam

Spring Championship - Round 3

Another good week's racing tonight, week three of our eight week championship. Under the new format things certainly get mixed up bit and you never quite where you are going to be in the finals until the last heat has finished. Keeping the same track layout also means we can mostly keep the practice session to a minimum, even when there isn't a fire alarm test.

Just a quick update this week (think of it as a BBC F1 highlights week – I don't have Sky) - now I'm racing again I find I'm having the same problem as Adam – you don't get enough time to watch the racing and work on the car , especially when my pit faces the wall!

Qualifying
After a poor first round John Fillingham pulled two wins out of the bag to take pole from Dan Wooster with Nathan Maycock keeping them both honest in all the rounds. Consistent driving saw Steve Swan, Adam Burgess and Dave Irving also make the A final.
The new format saw Ben Johnson and Richard Vyse tied on points to head the B final with Ben getting the pole based the tie break of best time for a single round. Rob Oliver also managed to squeeze the Mardave into the last slot in the B final thanks to some consistent runs and partly thanks to Lee Henson's car torubles. Martin Flower and George Dixon also made the B.
Andy Connely qualified on pole for the C with three good runs with Lee, Eddie Neal, Jamie Gibson, and Chris Fuller lining up behind him. It is really good to see all the new racers keeping back for more – hope it is getting easier every week and remember everyone will help out with any problems with set up etc.

Finals
In the C Final Lee managed to keep the car running for a whole race and put in a time that would have got 4th (and nearly 3rd) in the B final. The rest of the finalists were quite well space with Andy getting 2nd with Eddie (3rd) and Chris (4th) having a good race.
In the B Final Richard and Ben had a close battle with Richard eventually taking the win. Martin Flower followed closely behind in 3rd with Rob 4th and George 5th.
In the A Final I was lucky enough to be marshalling and so could watch what was a scrappy but in the end very close race. Battling for the lead Dan Wooster managed to lose his battery pack at the end of the straight on lap 12. From laps 16 to 33 it was very close between John, Nathan and Steve with 2 seconds between them at the end. Dave Irving showed the importance of good qualifying and then keeping the car going in the single final as he sneaked 4th after Adam lost a wheel on lap 22.

This weeks Results can be found in the usual place and the Championship Table has been updated.

I'll finish with my usual update on progress with the Mardave. Last night made me remember why I enjoy model car racing so much as the little CE went brilliantly, albeit a little twitchy! I started on a 22 pinion and ended on a 25 (bit too much cogging) but that final jump was too much so I'm on the lookout for a 24 tooth if anyone has one? With 3.7v it isn't going to trouble the touring cars on the straight but hopefully as get to grips with it (and maybe a sensored motor) I'll give the B finalists a bit more of a run for their money! I think I need to get the Exige body painted up to lower the C of G a bit as grip roll was an issue towards the end of the night.

Cheers
Rob

Spring Championship - Round 2

Onto round 2 of the Spring Series and this week we had 17 cars on track which included Robs Mardave making its race debut. After a few weeks of shake down runs to get things ironed out the Mini bodied car looked good out on track and despite the obvious lack of top end speed it more than make up for it through the corners. It will be interesting over the coming weeks to see how Rob fares in F3 giving the more powerfull touring cars something to think about!

Qualifying
It was incredibly close at the top of the qualifying table this week with the top three all tied on points. Dan, John and Nathan each topped a round of qualifying and then they each took a second position too meaning they all finished up with 3 points. Where there is a tie we revert to the timing sheets to decide the quaifying order but things were just as tight here aswell. Dan would take pole in the A Final having completed his fastest run 0.7 sec quicker than John's top time with Nathan lining up 3rd with a time just 5 seconds slower. Steve, Adam and Dave rounded things out completing an all F1 A Final.
Richard was 7th fastest meaning he would take pole in the B Final just ahead of Ben. The 6 car B Final grid featured all F2 drivers.
The C Final followed a similar patten where by all 5 drivers were F3's this time headed by Rob with the Mardave.

Finals
The C Final was away first with Rob starting at the front of the pack. It was Mark that made the better start though leading after lap one, but Rob quickly got into his stride and reclaimed the lead on lap 2. From then on the little Mardave lapped well and despite having to watch out for the touring cars coming up behind like missles on the straight, Rob was able to see out the race fairly comfortably finishing with a 2 lap lead over Mark in second with John coming home 3rd. This leaves Mark leading the F3 Championship table with a good early lead over Chris in second but with Rob and Greg having taken maximum points in their single outings so far they are sure to start leaping up the table once the dropped rounds start coming into effect in few weeks time.
The B Final was the battle of the F2's with Richard once again heading the way after qualifying. Last week Richard had brilliantly put his car into the A Final ahead of all his F2 rivals meaning he was garenteed maximum points but this week he would have to fight for the points lining up in the same final as the other F2's. The race got away cleanly with Richard putting in a storming first lap (only Dan's first lap in the A Final was quciker than Richard's flyer) followed by 23 fast consistant laps which no-one else could match. Ben and Lee tried their best in the opening laps to hang onto the leader, both putting in some good times but a few mistakes crept in letting Rich get away. Richard took the win with 29 laps completed and a best and average lap time seperated by just half a second, that is top A Final type driving! Ben followed in second needing only to cut out the small mistakes to be able to challenge for the win in future, and Lee came in 3rd putting in a very good drive to finish 2 seconds behind Ben. The F2 Championship table see's Richard leading with maximum points so far but with Ben just 6 points behind and making good progress with his car the battle has a long was to go yet.
Finally the A Final and Dan lined up infront of a closely matched group of cars. Dan lead away with all the cars managing to get around the first lap fairly cleanly but the next 2 laps saw John and Steve both invovled in incidents that would slow them up briefly. Things settled down a few laps in as the drivers settled into their rhythm and started setting some vary fast lap times, on the current layout a lap time of under 9 seconds is fast but the top 2 drivers were getting close to an average laptime of 9 seconds, amazing driving. After 5 minutes of intense concentration Dan snatched the win 1.5 seconds ahead of John with Steve taking 3rd just pipping Nathan to the line by 0.5 seconds. All this close racing has lead to a F1 Championship table that is just a close, John and Dan are currently tied for the lead on 198 points each with Nath and Steve also tied for 3rd on 190 points.

The Results and Championship Table pages have been up dated with this weeks results. This week the Championship tables have been amended slightly as the bonus point system has been removed for this series. We used to award a bonus point for TQ and another for winning the A Final but as we are scoring for qualifying this time we dont really need the TQ bonus and removing the A Final bonus helps keeps things close.

So 2 weeks of great racing down and the consistancy in track layout seems to be really helping the quality of racing across all 3 formulas. Its already shaping up to be a incredible fight for the trophies in all 3 formulas and with 21 different drivers having taken part so far it looks like we are on target to beat the numbers that we saw in last years series as there are several regulars yet to race in this series.

Hope to see lots of you next week!
Adam

Spring Championship - Round 1

Finally the Spring Series began this week and 18 drivers came along to fight for the first points up for grabs. Andy Connoly chose this week to venture out on track for the first time after several weeks of spectating and preparing his car. Running a proven chassis and an eye catching chrome shell he was able to get some laps under his belt and some points on the scoreboard despite some of the usual teething problems most people suffer with a new car. On the subject of bodyshells, there were 4 shiney new colour schemes on show this week, plus 2 brand new chassis' and several packets of new grippy Sorex tyres. Our fun, friendly club championship looks to have become serious!!!

Onto Qualifying and John hit the ground running with his brand new Xray and topped both round 1 and round 3 to claim pole position for the A Final. Dan was also running a brand new car and needed a touch more time to get it dialed in but a win in round 2 made sure he would line up right behind John for the final. Rounding out the A Final was Richard lining up 6th, and top F2 driver.
Dave qualified 7th overall so that meant pole position for the B Final just ahead of Martin with Greg lining up in 6th and therefore claiming top F3.
Chris did a good job to take pole position in the C Final out-qualifying several more experienced drivers. Mark lined up second having tied on points with Chris but missing out on results count back.

Finals
The C Final was an Offord family domination with Mark showing his extra experience over his rivals by taking the win by 3 laps, followed by Pheobe in second place. Eddie took a solid 3rd place with Chris unable to capitalise on his pole posistion coming in 4th. Andy and Callum were non-starters.
The B Final was lead away by Dave who was going well posting fastest lap of the race but a breakage on the front left corner of his car meant he was left limping round on 3 wheels at the end trying to salvage as many points as possible. This opened the door for Martin to take the win finishing half a lap ahead of Ben. George picked up a good handfull of points by finishing 3rd, adapting to F2 well after moving up for the start of this series. Dave limped home 4th with Lee left looking for his motor mounting screws on the track after retiring after 9 laps. Greg was a non-starter but still picks up maximum F3 points due to qualifying in the final above all his rivals.
The A Final saw a great battle between John and Dan for the win. John lead away off the line closely followed by Dan with Adam just beind having benefitted from a tangle between Steve and Nathan in the first few corners. Adam's race ended early though with a steering arm failure on lap 2 and Nathan's race didn't go well either with a retirement on lap 18. John and Dan faught hard for the whole 5 minutes but also gave a display of good sportsmanship when a couple of moves weren't completed fairly the position was handed back and the battle resumed. In the heat of the battle the leaders didn't notice Steve quietly sneaking up on them which lead to a tight finish but it was John that took the win from Dan by just a few car lengths with Steve right behind. Richard did a good job lapping cleanly while staying clear of the leaders battle when required and took 4th place and top F2.

So with a good first round completed the Results have been posted, the early Championship standings are also avaiable to view and a video of the A Final lead battle is now included in the Video Gallery.

Hope to see plenty of people along next week for round 2.

Adam

As expected we had a slightly lower turn out of drivers this week due to the Easter weekend but the 11 drivers who did race enjoyed a relaxed but highly competative night. Thankyou to everyone who was able to come along a little earlier this week and help out with the track maintainance. In the extra hour we had we were able to vacuum the carpet and repair most of the broken 'bendy' corner markers, then we were able to spend a little extra time in laying out the track and marking all the corners and their locations so hopefully we will be able recreate the layout accuratly for the 8 weeks of the championship.

With the lower numbers we ran just an A and B final.
Richard lined up in pole position of the B Final having run his great looking BTCC Renault Laguna shell throughout qualifying, complete with driver inside and brake disks behind the multi-spoke wheels. For the final he switched back to his regular shell and made a great start getting away well in the first few laps. Second place starter Lee had the worst start of the bunch and infact ended up being lapped by Richard within the first 5 laps. The man to watch though was Ben who had a difficult time in the qualifying heats finishing 10th out of 11 drivers but battled through well in the final to eventually pass Richard and just take the win (by less than a second) and claim his winners prize of an Easter egg! Richard finished 2nd with George doing a good job and finishing 3rd.
In the A Final John lined up on pole position, just ahead of Adam and the Nathan. The first three cars got away fairly evenly and pulled a gap on the rest of the cars but at the start of lap 2 Adam's car came to a halt suffering from battery connection problems, leaving John and Nathan to battle it out alone. Further down the field Steve was goin well but after a couple of slow laps at the beginning of the race was unable to reel in the leading drivers. In the end John took the win (and the Easter egg) finishing just half a second ahead of Nathan with Steve coming in 3rd, a lap back.

The Results page has been updated with this weeks finals, and with the layout being set up slightly tigher than recent weeks their are just 2 updated personal bests on the Track 12 page.

So next week marks the start of the 2012 Spring Club Championship, 8 weeks of competition with trophies for the top 3 in each formula at the end. The Formula Grade Table has now been updated to include the new drivers and also see's last years F2 and F3 winners moved up a level. Remember this is a club championship, therfore you need to have paid your club membership fee in order for your results to count. (The table remains provisional for now as there may be changes to balance to formula's and non-members may be moved into a non-championship grade)

See you next week!
Adam

An idea was put forward in the week leading up to tonights racings suggesting that we pick one track to race for the whole of the upcoming series and in keeping with the whole idea of doing something a bit different for this championship the one track idea seems popular. Hopefully this arrangment will give our new drivers (of which there are quite a few) a chance to build up a bit of consistancy in their racing and a gentle introduction to championship racing. Track 12 has been chosen thanks to its nice balance of a technical start to the lap with a fast sweeping end to the lap.

Onto the racing and a slightly lower turn out than normal this week meant a more relaxed night with a bit more time for car repairs and all the racing completed in good time.
The C Final first and Mark Robertson lined up on pole position before going on to take the win fairly comfortably, putting in some nice consistant laps in the process. The battle for second was contested by junior drivers Dan and George and once again they were very evenly matched (almost identical fastest laps), George came out on top this time finishing a lap ahead of Dan with Jamie coming 4th having suffered from car issues for most of the night.
The B Final saw Lisa line up on pole which on paper looks like a unusually poor result but in truth, considering the night was more of a test session (running a 21.5t motor), it was a very good result. She actually qualified at the back of the A final despite the power disadvantage but elected to drop down so as not to interupt the faster cars in the top final. Lisa took the win a couple of laps ahead of Richard with Lee coming 3rd.
John lined up on pole for the A Final, with his qualifying made much easier with Nathans absence this week and Dan crashing heavily in the first round of heats, then retiring in the second round due to a mechanical fault probably stemming the first round incident. Anthony qualified well in 2nd with Steve Swan making a welcome return to the club and lining up in 3rd place. Dan managed to battle through from the back of the grid to give John a close race and eventually take the win despite John's last corner lunge. This lasp gasp effort from John almost cost him second place as Steve was right behind the leaders on the last lap but some how Johns car crept across the line to take 2nd just ahead of Steve with the top 3 cars seperated by 0.74 seconds!!! A truly unmissable last lap for the spectators and in fact I pulled my car over on the last lap to watch the top 3 finish!

Another good nights racing complete and the Results have now been uploaded.

This Friday is the beginning of the Easter weekend but we are going ahead with racing as usual, its also the last week of practice before the Spring Club Championship gets going so make sure you come along and get that set-up perfected before there are championship points up for grabs.

See you Friday
Adam

The round by round format seemed to work a little more smoothly this week with drivers starting to understand how it all works. Even with the new format we still have the fastest more experienced drivers in the top finals and the newer less exerienced drivers qualifying in the lower finals although interestingly Nathans consistancy in the heats was rewarded with pole position for the A final ahead of regular pole man Dan, but if we had been running the fastest time qualifying the positions would have been reversed.

In the C Final Neal lined up on pole with Gearge lining right behind and thats how the 2 cars remained right until the end, both drivers posting similar fastest laps and crossing the finish line seperated by just 0.23 seconds. Greg bird came in 3rd after a tough race with his bodyshell catching in the car's rear wheels causing all sorts of problems and robbing him the chance of challenging for the win. John was 4th and then coming home 5th was Chris Fuller who has been a regular spectator lately while he has been finishing his stunning looking Aston Martin bodied Schumacher chassis.

The B Final had Dave lining up on pole with his car looking much better this week thanks to a nice set of new tyres but it was Peter, who lined up second, who ran away for the victory finishing 3 laps clear of Dave. Lee came 3rd, also runnig new tyres and feeling the benefit, Richard finished 4th and Mark Robertson made steady progress through the night and finished 5th, posting some good lap times in the final.

As already mentioned the A Final was lead away by Nathan and it was a busy grid of 6 cars this week. All six drivers were capable of lap times all within half a second of each other which lead to some very close racing, which in turn meant 1 mistake could cost several places. A messy start saw Nathan get away and open up a healthy lead while everyone else was tripping over one another, infact he was lapping other cars within the first minute of racing. After 5 minutes Nath's domination was confirmed as he took the win and the fastest lap too, Dan followed 3.5 seconds behind with John the same distance back in 3rd. Lisa, Anthony and Adam finshed a couple of lap behind the lead cars.

Results and Personal Bests have been updated.

Well that ends a good nights racing and the count down is on until the start of the Spring Club Championship on 13th April. Just a reminder, to be eligiable for the championship and be in with a shot of picking up a trophy you must be a KMCC member so anyone that has yet to pay their membership for this year needs to get it sorted over the next couple of weeks. Also if you ordered a PT through the club they have now arrived and ready for you to pick up, please sort out your payment arrangments with race control next time if you haven't done so already.

See you next week.
Adam

An interesting week this week as we tried the round by round format for the first time. For those who are new to racing or those who have only raced touring cars, this format may have been a new experience bringing a little confusion with it. Round by round is the format more commonly used in off road/out door racing as it allows qualifying to remain competative even in changeble weather conditions. Just to try and clear up any confusion i'll try and explain how it works again.

The old format we used before this week is known as FTQ which is purely a 'fastest first' format where whoever posts the fastest race time will line up on pole position for the A final and the rest of the drivers follow based on their times. In the new format each qualifying round is scored seperatly but again is based on how fast you complete your heat, so in round 1 if you achieve the fastest time you score 1 point, if you are the second fastest you score 2 points and so on. For the next round of qualifying the times are basically re-set and you race again to try and complete the fasest time you can, you are then awarded points again depending on where you came in relation to everyone else. This continues until all the qualifing rounds are completed, at which point the computer takes your best 2 points scores out of the 3 rounds to give your total score. The finals are then set out using the totals on a lowest is best basis. As you can see on in the table from this week, Dan Wooster scored 4, 1, 1 in his three runs, the 4 is dropped leaving a total score of 2 points (the best score possible) and therefore claiming pole postion for the A final. Where there is a tie, like between Adam and Nathan who had a total of 6 points each, the decider is whoever had the best single round score. In this case Adam scored a 2 which beats Nathan's 3. With this system a driver that puts in 1 very fast run is not garentee'd to qualify well, consistant clean racing is rewarded more than out and out speed. Remember, you're not just racing against the people on your heat, in qualifying it is just about times and how you compare to everyone on the night. I hope this helps clear up a fews things but, as usual, if you are unsure of anything then just ask for some help.

Onto this weeks racing and in the D Final only 3 cars made it to the starting grid with Andy failing to make the start. Pheobe couldn't quite find the form that she showed last week so finished 3rd just a few seconds behind Jamie. Mark Offord took the win finishing 3 laps clear of the rest.
Onto the C Final and Dave had struggled with the new qualifying format and lined up in second place on the grid, a fair way lower than expected. Pole sitter Martin dropped out of the race early on leaving Dave and Dan to battle it out for the win. Despite Dan's car being given a little more power he was unable to stick with Dave who went on to take the win.
The B Final was full of action with Anthony and Lisa treating us to a great battle for the entire race. Perhaps the main hightlight of the race being when Lisa's car ran a little wide out of the last corner and clipped the wall causing the front wheels to lift off the ground and then continue down the full length of the straight in one huge wheelie, greeted by cheers from the onlooking crowd. The fierce battle between the top 2 went right down to the wire but in the end Anthony took the win just 2 seconds ahead of Lisa. Paul completed the top 3 just one lap behind.
The A Final was also a close run thing with the top 3 covered by just 6 seconds having all completed 33 laps. Dan took the win, having also started in pole position, with John in second and Nathan coming in third.

This weeks Results and Personal Bests have been updated.

If you have any questions about the new racing format, the upcoming championship or anything else for that matter, post on the club Facebook page and your fellow club members will help you out.

Se you next week!
Adam

This week gave us a chance to give a new track layout a try while Dave wasn't looking! Following on from some of the other new layouts we have tried over the last 6 months, this new Track 1 features a technical infield section which slows the cars down a little and increases laptimes. Despite a few drivers taking a few runs to get used to it, the track seemed fairly popular in the end (the ultimate test will be if the layout sheet stays out of the bin when Dave gets to try it!).

Onto the racing highlights and there were some impressive performances this week across all 3 finals.
The C Final saw Eddie feeling more comfortable with his new stick transmitter which resulted in him qualifying on pole posistion, unfortunatly the busy track and tight layout meant he suffered a little during the first final and could only manage third place overall. Pheobe was on fire this week with 2 of the best drives i've seen from her so far, particually this first final which she lead for the first half of the race before just losing out to John in the end. Second place overall is still a great improvment though and if similar progress is made over the next few weeks she could be a real challenger in F3 in the next championship. The overall win went to John Reynolds with his consistancy being the deciding factor in the battle with Phoebe.
In the B Final Martin seemed to be on a real charge this week putting in a great run to claim pole but with Ben just behind on the grid the finals promised to be close. Sure enough the battle between the top two was great to watch, not exactly the cleanest racing i've ever seen but both drivers doing the right thing and waiting for their opponent to recover whenever an overtaking move got messy. In the end though Ben was able to just beat Martin to the finish line in both races to claim the overall win. Greg claimed 3rd thanks to the tie break rules.
The A Final battle was really close at the front with Dan, John and Nath all managing lap times under 9 seconds amazingly. The first few laps of both finals saw all 5 cars closely bunched up running nose to tail meaning one mistake could send any driver from the front to the back instantly. The driver with the toughest race was probably Richard though, for drivers who are on the borderline between being in the top heat and the second heat its great when the week comes that you are put up with the fastest cars but you then end up spending most of the time looking out for and getting out of the way of the leading cars but hopefully the experience of running with the F1's will further inprove his driving until A finals become the norm. Dan and John ended up taking a win each but Dan took the overall win thanks to the tie break rule. Nathan was once again 'sir third alot'.

Results and Personal Bests have been posted in the usual places for you to check out.

Spring Championship 2012

Following a sucessful and very popular club championship at the end of last year some people have been asking when then next series will be, so here it is! The championship will start on Friday 13th April and run for 8 weeks finishing on 1st June. Each drivers best 5 results out of the 8 possible will count towards the overall championship results meaning that you can afford to miss upto 3 weeks and still have enough results, or if you compete in more than 5 rounds your worst scores will automatically be dropped. We are going to try a different race format to what we normally do for the duration of the series, where we will have 3 rounds of round by round qualifying with 2 rounds to count and 1 final. What this means is each in each round of qualifying points are awarded for where you finish overall and then the grid positions for the final are decided by the points you score in qualifying. Don't worry of you haven't raced this format before or if it sounds confusing, it will make sense once we start and the most important thing is you will still get as many races as you do now.
As before there will be trophies awarded for the top 3 in each formula at the end of the series. The table showing everyones formula grading will be updated soon with the current F2 and F3 champions moving up a grade and all the new members added.

So there you go, 4 more weeks of practise before it kicks off so make sure you all come along and get your set-ups perfected ready for the first round. Can anyone beat Dan in F1 this time? Will Richard move up 1 place from last time to claim the F2 title? Will F3 be a battle of the juniors with Daniel and George resuming their fight? Can't wait to see what happens!

See you all next week.
Adam

Another good week's racing and everyone must be enjoying their racing as a few big rebuilds were taking place between races to ensure drivers could get out for the next race.
It was Track 15 this week, which is quite a tight track and made for slower lap times and good stick / wheel practice for our new drivers.
As we're not in a championship it'll just be a brief report this week:

Qualifying highlights
Dan Wooster and Nathan Maycock had a close battle for FTD but in the end Dan was able to pull out the only 20 lapper of the night for pole. Adam Burgess helped the two of them by struggling in the first round and then having a flyer in the second round (getting fastest single lap of qualifying) until he lost a body post. So pole for the B was the best he could manage. Greg Bird had a good first qualifier to get pole in the C and Callum Elmer had a good run to be on pole for the D.

Highlights from the finals
In the D Final Andy Bradley had two good wins from last place on the grid with Callum getting 2nd.
In the C Final it was really close between all the drivers but in the end it was consistency that got the overall win. A 3rd and a 1st after capitalising on a late mistake by George Dixon saw Daniel Oliver get the win.
In the B Final Adam Burgess found some consistency for two wins with two good runs from Richard Vyse seeing him capture 2nd overall.
In the A Final both Dan Wooster and Nathan Maycock had good runs for 1st and 2nd respectively. In the 2nd race Dan had a bit more of a battle as an early mistake saw him drop to 3rd and then have to claw his way back through the field. The junior drivers were able to watch a master class in how to overtake at the end of the straight. Lisa Keen finished 3rd with Anthony Adcock 4th. Credit must also be given to all drivers in the race for good clean racing both for allowing clean overtakes and moving over when being lapped. I for one thoroughly enjoyed watching the A finals tonight.

All this weeks results and personal bests can be found as usual on the Results page and the Track 15 page.

To end this report I'll give you a quick update on the Mardave. Another week of brief shakedown runs saw the speedo operating as it should and the car accelerating quite smoothly but it was really twitchy! Having decided that the lower holes on the servo saver should be used the steering was re-tested on Saturday morning. At this point I discovered the problem. The new transmitter has exponential but I'd set it 100% the wrong way - doh! Reversing it makes the steering look much smoother so fingers crossed for next test that it will be more controllable.

Cheers
Rob

This week Track 1 was pulled out of the folder to start with but once it was laid out it was decided that the layout was a bit simple so a quick change to Track 2 was made, a track that has become very popular since it was created late last year. As for Track 1 I think it may have to be replaced with a new design, I have one for us to try which I've been waiting to reveal for a while.

A new car on track this week as Rob gave his new Mardave a shake down run. These simple little cars can provide some great close racing and in the confines of our small tracks are capable of giving the touring cars a run for their money as demonstrated last month when we had a visit from the guys from Rugby. Hopefully over the coming weeks Rob will be able to find a good set-up and adapt to driving on foam tyres and show us what he and the car can do.

Onto tonights racing:
In the D Final it was Callum who took the win, he was unstoppable in both legs winning by quite a margin and posting some decent lap times too. Eddie has been making good progress too and came in second running a nice new bodyshell, a switch to a stick transmitter will hopefully bring the lap times down a bit more soon.
Greg took the win in the C Final with a comfortable leg 1 win to start ahead of Andy then George. Leg 2 saw only 2 cars take to the grid and once Greg dropped out all eyes were on Andy as he lapped on his own to take the leg win, Greg took the overall win thanks to his pole posistion.
The B Final looked as if it would be a battle for the win between Dave and Richard with Peter struggling with his car not quite able to keep on the pace and sure enough Richard took the leg 1 win a lap ahead of Dave. Leg 2 saw Richard drop out after 17 laps opening the door for Dave to take win although Peter's car seemed to back up to speed and ran Dave close. The overall win went to Dave from Richard with Ben following in 3rd.
Dan once again took the overall A Final win with 2 leg wins plus pole posistion completing a dominant performance. Nathan ran Dan close in both legs but couldn't find enough of an edge to deny Dan of the win despite completing the fastest single lap of the night at 8.01 seconds, just pipping Dan by 0.01 seconds. Adam was 3rd only beating Anthony thanks to the tie break rules.

As usual the Results have been uploaded for you all to look at plus the Personal Bests have been updated, this week showing an improvement in times from when we last ran Track 2.

See you next week!
Adam

A good turnout of 15 drivers came along this week to do battle on Track 9, one of the fast older tracks.

Qualifying was tough for some with Lee failing to make it out on track for the first run and Adam struggling in both heats (proving the car preparation is key!). At the sharp end it was business as usual with Dan taking pole posistion for the A Final closely followed by Nathan. Pauls car was looking good on the way to the front of the B Final grid and Greg was fastest of the new members once again to claim the C Final pole.

So onto the finals and Greg was unstoppable in the C Final taking both leg wins by several laps and putting in some good lap times. Lee came in second with Eddie in third.
Leg 1 of the B Final started with some very close racing but settled down after a couple of minutes with Adam going on to take the win by a couple of laps from Dave. Leg 2 started a little messy with a few crashes, one of which took Adam out of the race with a dislodged ESC. Dave and Paul battled for the win but it was Paul that came out on top despite a broken belt. The overall result was a little different though with Dave taking the win thanks to his consistantcy with 2 second places, Paul was second and Adam third.
The A Final leg 1 was led away by Dan but Nathan was looking very good and sticking right with him right up until they started lapping the other cars. Dan managed to sail past the back markers with ease but Nathan's luck wasn't so good and struggled to make clean passes, this left Dan to take the win by just over a lap. Leg 2 was much closer and the top 2 battled for the whole 5 minutes but it was Dan that took the win again, this time by just 1.5 seconds. 2 wins for Dan gave him the overall win from Nathan with Lisa taking 2 solid third places and therefore third overall.

All this weeks Results have been uploaded and as usual the personal bests and a video have been posted on the Track 9 page.

Finally just to mention something that has been discussed on the Facebook page, with the issues that we've had the handout transponders the club his looked into the cost of buying some Personal Transponders for the club members to buy. Dave has managed to get a good price for the MRT PT's and arranged for the batteries to be replaced in the handout transponders too. So if anyone wants to buy a PT through the club please let Dave know through the Facebook page or contact him directly (contact number on the 'About The Club' page). Paid up club members only!

See you all next week!
Adam

Another good week's racing was had by all and considering the weather it was a good effort by everyone so we could run 3 five car heats.
It was a new track this week, one of Adam's new creations and generally the feedback was good. Possibly harder for some of the new drivers as a couple of hairpins were in difficult to judge from the rostrum. But by the end of the night everyone seemed to be getting the hang of it.
Once again good to see our new racers are persevering and coming back week after week and fettling their cars and their set up. It gets easier so keep at it and remember if you're not sure about something just ask as we're all happy to help.

Qualifying highlights
Without Dan Wooster or John Fillingham to push him Nathan Maycock had a fairly easy ride into pole in the A in heat 3. Adam Burgess also made it easier for Nathan by having a couple of difficult qualifying runs. Paul Coleman pulled a great second heat out of the bag to get second in the A just ahead of Dave Irving.
In heat 2 Martin Flower managed to secure pole in the B in a couple of scruffy races with Lee Henson in second.
In heat 1 Callum Elmer looks to be getting to grips with his new chassis and shell and I think he'll soon be pushing some of the other young drivers for wins.

Highlights from the finals
In the C final Daniel Oliver seemed find his form after very poor qualifying and start getting to grips with the new track. A couple of good runs saw him take the win with Callum Elmer keeping him honest in second race.

In the B final Greg Bird had a great first leg to take the win in what was a very close race with Lee Henson and Martin Flower. In the second leg Martin was back on form taking the win and the overall victory with Lee in second. Greg struggled after a poor first lap and could only manage third. It seems like we have more and more drivers with similar abilities so things will be very close over coming weeks battling for those B final places!

In the A final Adam Burgess was able to find his usual form but it wasn't quite enough on this occasion. Nathan Maycock seemed to find the extra 10th of a second every lap when necessary to stop Adam closing the gap in the first heat. In the second heat Nathan was able to run away with it as Adam had a couple of bad laps. Dave Irving was third in both heats with Paul Coleman having a couple of good runs to keep in touch with Dave. Ben Johnson unfortunately had a breakage in the first leg an could not run the second.

The Results page has been updated with the details from all this weeks finals and the Track 16 page has the personal best times and a video of the layout featuring Martin Flower.

Hopefully the weather will be kind to us next week and we'll be back up to the 20+ racers. Fingers crossed I'll have the Mardave CE on track at least for a shakedown run if not a race. The chassis is built and I have all the electrics to go in, I just have to find the time to get everything located properly and wired up. I have promised myself I will try to do a tidier job than my usual "bodge" and this may delay me. I also have a shell to paint and unfortunately, quite a busy week at work, but fingers crossed!

Cheers
Rob

A bumper turn out once again this week, 21 drivers to be precise and again that included some newbies to the club. Matthew Church and Jamie Gibson ventured out onto our track for the first time and despite the usual teething problems that normally comes with racing your car for the first time they did well and we hope to see you again soon.

Track 12 was used this week, the track page has been updated with the personal bests from this week plus a new video of the layout, this time featuring Nathan Maycock putting in some stunning laps.

Onto the racing and it was a busy track all night with 4 full heats/finals.
Starting with the D Final and some close racing from the top 3. After a stuttering start to his racing over the last few weeks, things came good for Eddie Neal tonight with pole position followed by 2 good wins. Things were by no means easy though, Callum was running well with his new Xray and barring some minor issues may have taken the win and also Pheobe was going well finishing within a lap or 2 of Eddie in both finals.

In just his second week Andrew Bradley made the step up to the C Final, making good progress already. The top 3 were evenly matched all night which resulted in Lee and Daniel being tied on points overall but Lee taking the win thanks to his pole position. Race 1 was won by Lee but Dan managed to run him close finishing 9 seconds behind on the same lap, but in race 2 Dan got revenge by taking the win by a clear lap. George ran them both close with his single lap pace matching the leading 2 but just needs to work a little on consistancy to be able challenge for the outright win.

The line up for the B Final guarenteed close racing with 5 equally matched drivers lining up together. Richard lined up on pole position with his now brushless powered Losi and in leg 1 was unstoppable finishing 2 laps clear of the field. The other 4 drivers were battling hard though all finishing on 27 completed laps but it was Paul 2nd followed by Dave with Ben and Martin crossing the line together seperated by 1/100th of a second! Leg 2 saw Richard start well again but was forced out after 3 minutes with car trouble, this opened the door for Ben to complete a great run and manage to tie on points with Richard but the qualifying positions determined that Richard would take the overall win ahead of Ben despite his retirement with Dave taking 3rd.

The A Final had a full grid of 6 cars with Dan taking up his usual place on pole position. It was good to see Jamie Guiver back racing again and despite being away from racing for a while and then missing the first heat he still managed to make the A final. Although Dan lined up on pole it was Nath that was driving like a man on a mission this week, Leg 1 saw Dan lead the pack away very closely followed by Nath but about half way through the race Dan's drive belt made a bid for freedom forcing him out of the race and allowing Nath to take the win ahead of Andrew and Jamie. The race was full of incident though and Ben and Paul showed some brilliant marshalling skill after Adam's car decided to rip up a big chunk of tape on lap 5 and then disappear under the carpet where the tape was missing on lap 10. They managed to remove the ripped tape, recover the car and re-tape the track all while the other drivers were still racing - Great work lads!!!
Leg 2 passed with slightly less chaos and a bit more close racing, with the top 4 seperated by 1 lap. This time Dan took the win finishing 1 second ahead of Nath with Adam coming in 3rd. The overall win was taken by Nath thanks to his 1st and 2nd places next was Dan and then Andrew in 3rd.

So another fantastic weeks racing completed, all the Results have been uploaded so you check out your finishing positions and lap times in a bit more detail. Thankyou to everyone who raced this week and hope to see you all again next week.

This week we raced on Track 2, the Personal Bests for this track have been added to the track page and all this weeks Results have be uploaded too. This week we welcomed 3 new drivers on track, Andrew Bradley, Chris Fuller and Roger Pratten. Hope you all enjoyed it and will be back next week.

Rob Oliver has kindly provided a summery of this weeks action, hope you enjoy his write up...

What a great week we've had this week with loads of new drivers turning up – enough to run a whole heat on their own. Plus more potential new drivers either coming to watch to see what goes on or that are still in the process of finishing their new cars. Fantastic! Just goes to show that all the effort that went into our huge publicity drive has paid off – Thanks to Neil Overson for originally setting up our club Facebook page and well done Adam for keeping the web page running!

Qualifying
George Dixon had a good battle with Daniel Oliver this week and came out ahead, even after forgetting his transponder in the first heat! Fortunately he drove a belter in the second heat to make the B final. Daniel ended up on pole in the C. In the same heat there was the usual battles between Ben Johnson and Martin Flower who had a nightmare run of incidents at the end of the second heat to gift the win and pole in the B to Ben.
Dan Wooster had a couple of flying qualifying rounds which looked better on paper as Nathan Maycock was running at best with 3 wheel drive.

Highlights From The Finals
In the D finals Andrew Bradley put in a couple of good runs for the win followed by Chris Fuller in 2nd.
In the C Final Lee Henson took Daniel Oliver out in the first corner off the start in a move Ayrton Senna would have been proud of! It lead to a close race with Lee winning the first leg but Daniel taking the 2nd leg.
In the B finals it was another couple of close races between Ben Johnson was and Martin Flower with Ben getting the overall win due to being on pole. George had a good first race and his car setup changes seem to be paying off as it looked much more stable this week.
The A finals saw Nathan Maycock's car running back as it should and pushing Dan Wooster much closer than in qualifying. In the first race at 4 minutes it looked like Dan was holding a good gap. The last minute saw a few incidents for them both and a couple of lead changes and Nathan was just able to snatch the win.
In the second race Nathan really launched his car at the start and then at the second corner launched it off the track. It looked like a gifted win for Dan but then his small mistake in a difficult position to marshal let Adam sneak ahead and Nathan catch up. They both managed to claw their way past Adam and then it stayed in that order to the end – great close racing.

So another good night was had by all! We were able to run four heats even with a good few of our regular members being away. It is great to the club going from strength to strength after a few tough years where some of us were starting to wonder if we could keep going. In a couple of weeks there will be another car on track too once I get all my parts and finish the build. My fingers are getting itchy after last year's semi-retirement!

Just a few closing words on marshalling as we've got a few new members that may not be very experienced:
1) You have to marshal the next heat even if your car is broken. If you need to do some repairs ask race control if someone will step in for you.
2) Before marshalling make sure transponder is removed and returned to race control.
3) Marshall cars as quickly and safely as you can.
4) Marshal cars in the same way you'd like to be marshalled – put the car down facing the right direction etc!
5) `Finally, drivers – don't rev your motor whilst waiting to be marshalled as we don't want any mangled fingers!

Cheers
Rob

Well in last weeks update I set the challenge of beating the 17 drivers we had last week and we did! Thankyou to everyone that come along this week, a brilliant 20 drivers booked in giving us 4 full heats. Also for the third straight week we had a new driver and this time it was Neal Shore, hope you enjoyed your night and come and race with us again soon.

This weeks track could be described as a bit of a marmite track, some people hated it (Dave! who ended the night by throwing away the design and declaring we would never race it again, we'll see...), whereas some drivers quite enjoyed the challenge even if it did take a little getting used to. The track in question is Track 14 and was chosen by Beth. The personal bests and a short video have been posted on the track page.

Onto the racing and we start with the A Final which saw possably the closest qualifying result we have ever had with all 5 drivers seperated by just a couple of seconds. The racing in the finals was just as close but despite lining up 3rd on the grid Dan Wooster picked up 2 wins and therefore took the overall win. With John and Nathan tied on points it was left to the qualifing result to split them and so John picked up 2nd overall and Nathan 3rd.
The B Final was just as closly fought with Dave, Anthony and Peter all battling hard for the win. Anthony come out on top though with a 1st and and 2nd place giving him the win followed by Dave and then Peter.
The C Final saw Paul lining up on pole and going on to win both legs after making some huge steps forward with his car setup . George was also going well with his new brushless motor and speedo, taking a very good 3rd in leg 1 of the final but unfortuatly was unable to race in the 2nd leg leaving the way open for Martin to take 2nd overall followed by Greg Bird on his second visit to the club.
Daniel Oliver was unbeatable in the D Final taking both legs and the overall win followed by Mark and then Neal. The track layout didn't seem to be helping some of the newer racers which did make for quite a bit of bumping and barging but still all good fun though.

The Results page has been updated with details of all this weeks finals. With all the new faces coming along I'll just remind you all about our Facebook page, there tends to be alot being talked about on there by most of our members so come and join in (you do have to ask to join the group but this is usually accepted pretty quickly). Currently being talked about is the idea of proper BTCC replica shells and the possability of running a mini series for them.

Dare I challenge us to beat this weeks driver entry next week? More the 20 would be amazing! We'll see what happens...
See you all next time!

Great to see lots of new faces again this week. Welcome to the club Eddie Neal and hope you get your car fixed soon and can come and have a proper race with us. Also we had visitors from the Rugby area, Mark and Nick Cooper who brought along their Mardaves (more on that in a minute) and Norman Stephens with both a Mardave and Touring Car, hope you enjoyed it and that we'll see you again soon. As well as the new racers we had a few spectators who came along to have a look at what we do on a Frday night, again we hope you enjoyed the evening and see you again soon but maybe with some cars next time?!

So onto the racing and this week saw some of our regulars taught a bit of a lesson. The track was chosen by Daniel Oliver this week and he went for possibly the fastest layout we have, Track 8. As mentioned we had some Mardaves mixed in with the normal touring cars and we had a great demontration that you don't need complex, high-powered 4wd cars to lap quickly round our tracks. Mark Cooper qualified in pole position for the C Final and went on to take the win ahead of 3 touring car rivals but it was Nick Cooper who was probably the star of the night. Nick put his Mardave on pole position in the B Final again ahead of 3 touring cars and went on to finish 2nd only being beaten by Anthony's very quick touring car. The A final was all touring car with Nathan taking pole position and going on to win ahead of Adam and John after 2 very fast if a little messy races.

Check out the Results page for the overall finishing positions in a little more detail. Also have a look on the Track 8 page for a short video of Nick and his Mardave showing us how to lap consistantly. We have also cleared the old Personal Bests data from the computer and started again from scratch so we can start posting everyones best times on the track layout pages again. This will let you keep track of your best performances on each track and see when you improve.

Thankyou to everyone who attended this week, 17 entries is a great turn out but lets see if we can beat it next week. Just a quick reminder that if you have one its probably worth bringing along your own tables for the next few weeks until we can track down where all the tables that are normally in the hall have disappeared to!!!

See you all next week!

Hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year!

It was good to be back racing again this week after the short break over the christmas period. A few club members kept themselves busy during the break by paying a visit to the Derby club which is based at one of the best perminant RC facilities in the country, Ardent Raceway. During these outings our members proved once again that we have some of the quickest drivers in club racing. Andrew Keen, Charlie Ware and Adam Burgess dominated the top 13.5 heat, between them winning all four heats taking the fastest time and fastest lap. In the second heat Paul Coleman was easily the quickest when all four wheels were attached, while Martin Flower and Ben Johnson made good progress through the night and posted some good times also. Some picture of the trip can be found in the New Look Gallery.

So onto tonight and we welcome 2 new faces to the club, Greg Bird and Lewis Kirk. Hope you enjoyed your night and hopefully we will see you again soon! There seemed to be a few gremlins in the timing system tonight with some missed laps and then the laptop shutting down and losing some of the results data but I have written up the results from the printouts (minus the laptimes as that would take me hours!!!) so take a look at the Results page for tonights finishing positions.

The Gallery page has been evolving over the last few weeks and now has a good selection of pictures for you to have a look at, and theres the new Video Gallery too. If anyone wants their pictures or videos featured here on the site then send them through to me, or post them up on Facebook and let me know and I'll add them asap, particually if you have any shiney new bodyshell pictures you'd like adding to the 'Members Rides' section.

See you next Friday.

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