As 2004 rushes to an end, tonight saw the last race meeting of this year!

Congratulations must go to all the winners of the Autumn Series - who were awarded their trophies tonight. We will have a break from competition racing for now, but expect to run a Spring Series next year - so get practicing!

Tonight's racing was on a track layout we haven't used before and the cars managed to get up plenty of speed with the layout. Track 15 can be found HERE.

All of the results from tonight's racing can be found HERE.

Championship Series Prize Draw

Once the trophy presentations wrre over, the Prize Draw took place - here are the winning ticket numbers and the winners!

As you can see, there is no winner name against tickets 69 and 221, so if you are holding onto either of those numbers, you need to see Colin on a race night before the 21st January to claim your prize! If nobody claims either of them, then the "reserve winner" will take the prize - Mark Phillips for the bodyshell and David Seamark for the Bearing blaster.

All the prizes were sponsored by:

Rob Oliver (www.RCMatch.co.uk) for the two sets of GP3300's and
Mike Smith (www.Modeltech.co.uk) for all the other prizes

A huge THANK YOU to both of them for their generosity.

Happy Christmas!

And don't forget racing starts again on the 7th January 2005 - see you there!

Autumn Championship Series

They think it's all over - it is now!

Yes, the Autumn Championship Series has now come to an end, with some positions only being decide by this weeks results. In F1, John Fillingham went into tonight's races knowing that Anthony Spooner couldn't take 1st place from him, but the fight for 3rd was going to be close with Dave Irving chasing Nathan Maycock hard. In the end, Nathan held Dave off to take 3rd spot. In F2, Colin Williams and Mark Clayton were neck and neck, both with the chance of 1st place. By the end of the night, Colin had held Mark off, but with only 2 points in it, this was probably the most closely contested formula. Even though Jamie Oliver didn't have the best of nights with his new RC-Lab, he had enough of a buffer to make sure of 3rd spot.

In F3, Daniel Mayes had a clear lead from early in the series, and he took a convincing 1st place. Simon Phillips had a bit of a challenge from Graeme Chapman late in the series, but held him off to take 2nd place with a cool 20 point buffer.

So, here are the top positions, each of which will recieve a trophy next week.

Congratulations to everyone who took part - we hope you enjoyed it. The complete results for the Autumn Series can be found HERE.

All of the results from tonight's racing can be found HERE.

Prize Draw - Next Week!

Don't forget to bring all your "BLUE" raffle tickets with you next week for the end of year / series prize draw. We have loads of really brilliant prizes to give away, click HERE to see more.

Dates to Note!

Friday 17th December - Last race meeting before Christmas

Friday 7th January 2005 - First race meeting of the New Year

Thursday 20th January - Annual General Meeting - The New Inn, Ringstead, 7.30pm.

Just one more week of the series left to go now, and it's starting to get very close for the top 3 places in each formula. Full results from tonight's meeting can be found HERE, and you can check out the Round 11 Series results HERE.

Don't forget we will have trophy presentations and perhaps more importantly the Prize Draw on Friday 17th December.

Christmas Break

We will be taking a break over the holiday, and Friday 17th December will be the last race night before Christmas. The next meeting after that will be Friday 7th January - plenty of time to give those cars a good tear down and rebuild ready for the New Year!

Only two weeks left now until the end of the Autumn Series and quite a few drivers have now run at least 8 rounds. The leaders at this stage are:

F1 - John Fillinghan, Anthony Spooner and Nathan Maycock, with Dave Irving and James Trostler still in with a shout for 3rd place.

F2 - Colin Williams, Mark Clayton, Jamie Oliver, with Stuart Gates and Luke Byrne still challenging for a top 3 slot.

F3 - Daniel Mayes, Simon Phillips, Graeme Chapman, with Kevin Howard and Simon Williams still battling hard.

Placings can still change though over the next two weeks! There will be trophies for the top 3 drivers in each formula, as well as overall Club champion, awarded on the 17th December.

Full results from tonight's meeting can be found HERE, and you can check out the Round 10 Series results HERE.

Minutes from the Club Committee Meeting held 18th November have now been added and can be found HERE

Full results from tonight's meeting can be found HERE, and you can check out the Round 9 Series results HERE.

T & R Models are a model & hobby shop in Wellingborough, which since 1987 has catered for the model railway and slot car customers. Due to customer requests they are now also a stockist for Tamiya remote control electric cars and spares, together with R/C model boat parts.

You can find out more about them at their website - www.trmodels.com

Two thirds of the way through the Championship Series now, but there are still only a few drivers who completed 8 rounds - so the current standings are likley to change quite a lot over the next couple of weeks as people complete 8 runs.

Full results from tonight's meeting can be found HERE, and you can check out the Round 8 Series results HERE.

Prize Draw

Don't forget to keep tight hold of your "BLUE" raffle tickets for the Draw which will be held on Friday 17th December, as we will have the 12 prizes below up for grabs, worth over £300!!

Sponsored by Rob Oliver (www.RCMatch.co.uk):

• Set of GP3300 Cells
• Set of GP3300 Cells

Sponsored by Mike Smith (www.Modeltech.co.uk)

• Integy TC Setup Station
• Matrix V10 Twinrturbo Stock Motor
• Indi Sparkle Bearing cleaner
• Indi Zero Discharger / Equaliser
• Battery Carry Case
• Team Losi Afla 2 Bodyshell
• Hot Bodies Dodge Stratus Bodyshell
• 7 Piece set of Nitride Hex Drivers
• 4x New T27 Belted tyres; 4x Inserts; 4x Carbon Wheels; 1 Bottle tyre glue and a Team Tyre holder
• 4x New T27 Belted tyres; 4x Inserts; 4x Carbon Wheels; 1 Bottle tyre glue and a Team Tyre holder

A huge thanks to both Mike and Rob for supporting the Club this way and giving us such HUGE discounts on the above prizes.

Some more fast racing tonight on Track 12, especially with 4 of the A finalists all on the same lap for the whole 5 minutes of the second leg!

Full results from tonight's meeting can be found HERE, and you can check out the Round 7 Series results HERE.

A couple of problems with some of the F1 drivers this week landing them in the D final, but some excellent close racing in all of the races.

We are halfway through the Autumn Race Series now, and we can start to see a couple of drivers who are making a big impression! In F1, Anthony Spooner and John Fillingham are battling for top position, while in F2, Stuart Gates is lining up for top place, but Paul Coleman is chasing hard, and in F3, Daniel Mayes is looking good to take the lead, with Simon Phillips close behind.

Full results from tonight's meeting can be found HERE, and you can check out the Round 6 Series results HERE.

A wonderful opportunity tonight for a few of us to pick up some extra points, as a few of the regular "A" finalists were missing!

Full results from tonight's meeting can be found HERE, and you can check out the Round 5 Series results HERE.

Some new photo's have also been added to the Gallery.

Although we've run with track 13 before, a slightly different layout led to some really quick laps from the top drivers - so quick in fact, that the computer was set at too high a minimum lap time, resulting in a number of lost laps! Once we got that sorted out, the finals were very quick, with John and Tony battling over the lead in the A Final, and Colin, Luke and Jamie, fighting over the B Final. In the C Final, everyone kept changing positions, and in the second leg, Graeme, Kevin and David were within a couple of seconds of each other all race. The D Final was a battle between Simon, Charlie and Robert, with Simon winning both legs to take the win.

Full results from tonight's meeting can be found HERE, and you can check out the Round 4 Series results HERE.

Personal Transponders

Don't forget, we still have a few PT's left, which we are selling at a special price of £50 (bbk software price £55 each) only to KMCC Members. See Colin on a race night if you want one.

Results from the 8th October race meeting can now be found HERE, and you can check out the Round 3 Series results HERE.

The 2nd round saw more close racing, and a few odd results as car broke, and some people forgot to put their transponders in their car - PT's avoid all of that!

It's still a bit early yet, but after two rounds, James Trostler is leading F1, with Anthony Spooner close behind, Stuart Gates has started with maximum points, and in F3, Daniel Mayes is also on maximum points, with Simon Phillips close behind.

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE, and you can check out the Series results so far HERE.

Autumn Championship Series

Tonight saw the start of the new Club Race Series, which will run from Friday 24th September, for 12 weeks, until Friday 10th December, with your best 8 results to count towards your final score. The format for the meetings will be the same as the Spring Series, with 2 x 3 minute qualifiers and 2 x 5 minute finals, with points being awarded for both qualifying position and final result.

If Round 1 was anything to go by, there is going to be lots of fast and very close racing. Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE, and you can check out the Series results so far HERE.

Formula's

We will be using the formula's which were decided after the Spring series - check HERE if you want to see who is in which formula!

At the end of the series, there will be winners for each of F1, F2 and F3 as well as an overall series champion, so everyone has a chance of a trophy.

All race meetings will be sorted basd on "ability", just as we normally do, but your ability will now be updated after each weeks race meetings, so plenty of incentive to get a good result!

Prize Draw

New for this series, we will be charging an extra £1 per week for entry into a prize draw at the end of the series. You will be given a "BLUE" raffle ticket each week you race - make sure you keep this one safe until the end of the series.

All the money put into the prize fund will be used to buy some excellent prizes, such as 3300 Batteries, Body Shells, Motors, Tyres, Wheels, and whatever else we can afford!

All the prizes will be coming from ModelTech and RCMatch who are helping support the Club.

Personal Transponders

The Club has now purchased some more PT's, and we have 10 left, which we are selling at a special price of £50 (bbk software price £55 each) only to KMCC Members. See Colin if you want one, or want to know more about these "plug in and forget" items as they are likely to go fast!

See you next week for Round 2 of the Championship!

Endurance Fun Event

Well, if you didn't come along and take part in tonight's endurance event, you missed a fast, fun and exciting race meeting, which hinged as much on good team work and tactics as it did on driver skills!

19 drivers turned out, so we created 4 teams, three of which had five drivers and one with four drivers, all drivers being placed into teams based on their ability. The teams were:

Then we got going with the first of the three 30 minute legs, which was very close for the first 10minutes or so - before the driver / transponder changeovers started. At the end of the first 30 minutes, it was clear that Team 2 had some problems out on the track, managing to get only 120 laps, which was 32 laps down on Team 1 who were winning at the end of the first leg.

After a 10minute break to review team tactics and have a quick breather, we set off on the second leg. Team 2 seemed to have a much better run this time, finishing 2nd on 144 laps, with only one lap between 2nd, 3rd, and 4th at the end of the 30 minutes. Team 1 won the leg again though, with a tremendous 160 laps and their lead was now a solid 22 laps over Team 4 in 2nd place.

Another 10 minute break later and leg 3 got underway - by now team tactics were starting to become a real issue, with Team 4 determined to try and make a come back, by putting Anthony Spooner out onto track four times in the 30 minutes! Well, it worked, and Team 4 took the win of the 3rd leg, but with only a 4 lap lead over Team 1, it was never going to be enough to pull back the deficit from the first two legs.

At the end of the day Team 1 won the event with a total of 471 laps, with Team 4 having closed the gap slightly taking second place with 453 laps, Team 3 in a respectable 3rd with 424 laps and Team 2 bringing up the rear with 412 laps - which was pretty good going as at the end of the night they only had two working cars!

Well done to all the teams and drivers, it was a great night, with some really good driving, and excellent marshalling - and no interference with everyone on different crystal frequencies!

Full results from the endurance event can be found HERE.

Full results from tonight's race meeting have been added to the site and can be found HERE.

Endurance Fun Event

Next Friday, 17th September, we will be running a fun "endurance" race before we start the Autumn Championship Series the following week.

So what is an endurance event?

Well, it's based very loosely on the idea of the Le Mans 24hr race, except we will be changing over drivers and car during the race, and we will only be running for 2 hours max!

When everyone has booked in to race, we will create a maximum of six teams, each with four drivers (although this may depend on how many turn up on the night). These teams will then compete to see which can do the most laps from 3 x 30minute race sessions - with each session having a 10 minute break between to repair the track and get our breath back!

There will be a few rules (apart from the normal motor, tyres, etc.), just to try and make the racing as fair as possible:

• There will be one transponder per team, which must be passed from driver to driver off the track.
• Each driver must race at least once, ideally for at least 5 minutes, in each of the three 30minute sessions.
• At least one team member must be marshalling at any time during the race sessions.
• Only one driver on the rostrum at any one time.
• The winning team will be the one with the most laps totalled from all three sessions.

Teams will be selected on the night, based on ability, once everyone has booked in, to try and make the team compositions as fair as possible and give each team a realistic chance of winning.

After that, then team tactics are up to you!

Just remember that while you are on the track, the point is not to race against the other cars directly, but just to rack up as many laps as possible without crashing or breaking your car.

Please come along as early as you can next week, so we can get everyone booked in and the teams sorted as early as possible - also don't forget to bring all your crystals and plenty of batteries.

Full results from 3rd September race meeting have now been added to the site and can be found HERE.

Personal Transponders and the AMBrc system have now been ordered and we are hoping to receive them in the next few days. So, if you want a PT and you haven't already done so, get your name down now, or you might just miss out on the reduced price of £50 each - remember, this is only available to Club members.

Full results from tonight's race meeting and those of the past two weeks have now been added to the site and can be found HERE.

For his first time running race control, Stuart did a great job tonight - well done!

Don't forget, we will be investing in AMBrc fairly soon and you will have the chance to buy a personal transponder at a slightly reduced price if we buy a "job lot", so let Colin know if you are planning to buy one when we have them, so we can get the right number.

Well we tried out Stuart Gates' new track design design (track 15) tonight and I'm still trying to decide whether I liked it or not, but none the less it provided some entertaining racing.

Mathew Turner had a couple of good runs to win both legs of the D final, with Kris Kilsby a few laps behind in 2nd. In the C final, David Brown took the overall win this week from Simon Phillips, and in the B final, Jonathan Lucas won both legs to take the overall win. Tony Spooner had another good drive, winning both legs of the A final, with Steve Swan close behind.

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

There won't be any updates to the website for the next couple of weeks, but if there is anything club members need to know, or if you simply want to discuss RC racing, don't forget you can do at the Clubs chat forum by clicking on the "Chat Room" button on the left.

WOW - amazing what a new set of tyres can do!! Tony Spooner had so much grip it's the first time in ages I've seen a car grip roll, but it didn't stop him taking the first leg and the overall win, even though he couldn't keep up the pace against John in the second leg.

In the B final, HPI's dominated with Dave a lap ahead of the rest of the field, and Jonathan Lucas in a close 2nd. The C final saw Simon Phillips and David Brown battling hard in both legs, with Simon just taking the overall win. In the D final, Mark Philips kept his nerve to take both legs from Simon Williams, with the latest Williams family member - Christopher - having a good run on his first outing.

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

One new item added to For Sale section.

We raced on a track I haven't run on for a long time, and it lead to some great fun racing as we also had only 4 drivers per heat! It was especially quick with the new carpet, reflected in the fact that Anthony put in a 30 lap final, which was 3 laps faster than Alex's record on the old carpet from February!

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Some very fast racing this week, with both Alex and John hitting 40 laps in the A final - it's hard to keep up that level of concetration lap after lap - well done guys. The D finalists received a round of applause with two of our youngest drivers battling for the lead for the entire 5 minutes, ending in a first place or each of them.

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Several members have now started saving towards new Personal Transponders and if anyone wants to start putting away a few quid each week, let Colin know.

Personal Transponders!

The next big investment planned for the Club is to replace the lap counting hardware we use, as the transponders become increasingly unreliable. We will be buying AMBrc equipment later this year (probably around October depending on funds), which will mean that everyone can use personal transponders instead of the normal handout transponders if you have one.

Of course the downside is that PT's cost around £50 each, but to help spread the cost we have started a "PT Saving Club" so that members can pay as much as they want to, when they want to and the Club will hold their money until we are ready to purchase.

To find out more, click HERE or talk to Colin on a Club night.

Another weeks fun racing, and full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Truck National News

Unfortunately we have had to pull out of running the Truck National round which was due to be held on August 1st, and this round will now be held at Coventry. There are a number of reasons why we have made this decision and it is dissapointing, but overal, we believe it was the only realistic option for the Club at this time.

What was going on tonight with the placings for the finals - I just don't know! We had an F1 in the C final, and an F2 in the A Final - well done Jamie, where did that extra speed come from?

There were also a few new drivers at tonight's meeting - we hope you enjoyed yourselves whether watching or racing.

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Two new items added to For Sale section.

A bit of a delay putting up the results from last week I'm afraid, but here they are now, along with this weeks results.

Full results from tonight's and last weeks race meetings can be found HERE.

Outdoor Racing

As not enough club members have expressed an interest in the outdoor racing on 4th July, this meeting will now be cancelled. Don't forget, we will still be running Round 6 of the BRCA Off Road Truck Nationals scheduled for 1st August, which should be great event with 1/10th Trucks as well as Monster Truck racing. We will also run 1/10th Buggies so Club members can take part if you want to.

New Item added to For Sale section.

We tried one of the older tracks tonight (track 7), and I really think it showed the difference between running on a tighter track and the more flowing ones we have designed recently - it was certainly harder to get a good line around the track!

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Outdoor Racing

Last Sunday should have seen the start of the outdoor programme of races - BUT as only three people turned up to race, the meeting was cancelled. We really need at least 10 drivers to take part in order to keep the off-road track viable so unless enough of you tell us by NEXT FRIDAY that you will definately be able to make the next meeting on the 4th July, that will be cancelled as well. It's a shame - but if you don't want Offroad racing - there's no point in trying to organise meetings!

We will still run Round 6 of the BRCA Off Road Truck Nationals scheduled for 1st August, which should be great event with 1/10th Trucks as well as Monster Truck racing. We will also run 1/10th Buggies so Club members can take part if you want to.

For More details on outdoor racing, click on the "Outdoor" link on the left of this page.

Congratulations to all the winners of the Spring Series - who were awarded their trophies tonight. We will have a break from competition racing for now, but plan to run an Autumn / Winter Series starting in October - so get practicing!

Tonight's racing used the same format of 2x3min qualifiers and 2x5min finals, that we have been using for the Series and the results can be found HERE.

Don't forget the first Outdoor race meeting of the year is Sunday, 6th June, track set-up starts at 8am, with booking in at 9am.

Bring your Buggy or Truck and get some air on the jumps!

Directions to the track can be found on the Outdoor page.

Based on the results of the Spring Series, Club Members formula ratings have now been re-assigned and can be found HERE.

Well the excitement's all over now, and the Spring Series has finished, to give us our winners in each of the formulas. It's been a close run thing for some of the positions, but even better than that, there has been plenty of friendly rivalry out on the track - which is what makes our race meetings such fun!

So, who won then - well here are the top positions, each of which will recieve a trophy next week (if the engraved plaques arrive in time!)

Congratulations to everyone who took part - we hope you enjoyed it. The complete results for the Spring Series can be found HERE.

All of the results from tonight's racing can be found HERE.

From HERO to ZERO, with one simple mistake - that's how close some of the racing is now in Stock class! Everyone has just got beter and better as the current race series has progressed, and it is now very close in all the finals with only a couple of laps separating the drivers.

Tonight's racing saw some very close racing in all the finals and the results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Just one more week to go now in the Spring Race Series and it is absolutely neck and neck for the overall winner between John and Alex, but it looks like John may just take the F1 win. It looks like Rob Oliver has F2 sewn up with Adrian Heslop 2nd and David Seamark can't be beaten now in F3, but Nik Randall, Nick Burnham and David Brown are all in with a chance for 2nd/3rd. Check out the series results HERE.

Even after driving r/c cars for a couple of years, I still find it really exciting to watch other drivers racing each other in the finals - and then coming off the rostrum and congratulating each other on a great race! Well we saw some of that last night with some really well fought battles. The full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

There is only two rounds left now of the Spring Race Series, so who do you think is going to win each of the formulas?

It's pretty close at the top of F1 with Alex and John looking set to slug it out to the very last round although Nathan is still in with an outside chance!

F2 is another close run thing, with Rob and Adrian only one point apart and James closing the gap all the time - can he make up the points in time?

F3 looks to be more sorted though and David Seamark can't really be caught now unless David Brown gets some big wins in the last two rounds.

Results for the series can be found HERE.

One or two people tried different tyres tonight, but T27's still seemed to give the edge, as Alex romped home to win both legs of the A final from Anthony Spooner. There was plenty of close racing in all the finals, and full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Positions in the Spring Race Series are now starting to sort themselves out, and you can check out the series results HERE.

New Carpet throughout the hall was fantastic and resulted in lap times at least one second faster than the last time we used track 13, which means all previous track records now mean nothing - and Alex Taylor laid down a 41 lap challenge!

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

We are now two thirds of the way through the Spring Race Series and we will start to see who really leads the groups as everyone begins to reach their eight rounds. Nathan Maycock currently leads overall - but that could all change as Alex and John Fillingham reach 8 results! Check out the series results HERE.

Some items have now been added to the "For Sale" section - click on the link to the left to check them out.

WOW! There was a phenomenal amount of grip tonight as we tried out some new carpet on half the track - with the overwhelming reaction - when can we have more to do the whole track?

Well, from next week, we hope to have enough delivered to do the whole hall - I can't wait!

Racing was fast and furious again tonight as Alex Taylor and Paul Upton battled it out in the A final, with Paul finally taking the overall win. In the B final, Nathan Maycock took the overall win with two consistent 2nd places, and in the C final, Colin Williams took the overall win. The D final was won by David Seamark this week after taking 1st in both legs, and Simon Williams won the E final after some close battles with Mike Stonell.

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Positions after Round 7 of the Spring Race Series can be found HERE.

There was a "full house" tonight as 31 drivers turned out to race, which meant a busy evening for Dave on Race Control, but also plenty of action on the track! Paul Upton took 1st in the A final from Adrian Heslop, while Nathan Maycock and Anthony Spooner fought it out in the B final after difficulties in qualifying. David Brown took a clean sweep in the C final, while Nik Burnham won the D final and Mark Phillips took another clean sweep in the E final.

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Positions after Round 6 of the Spring Race Series can be found HERE.

Tyres
Just a point about tyres on Club nights. Treaded rubber tyres are preferred, although one or two people are trying out slicks at the moment. The Committee will shortly be discussing whether a control tyre should be used or not. In the meantime, the following are definitely not allowed:

• mini-pins
• rally blocks
• foams
• any tyre additive

Full results from Friday 2nd April's race meeting can be found HERE.

Positions after Round 5 of the Spring Race Series can be found HERE.

We saw some fast racing tonight with John and Alex swapping 1st and 2nd place every few laps, with both James Trostler and Adrian Heslop hot on their heels! The final score saw Alex wining on tie break, with John in second and Adrian third in the A final. The B final was also hotly contested, with Rob Oliver having a brilliant second round, but not good enough to win overall. Stuart Gates took the overall win, chased closely by Dave Irving. The C final was won overall by David Brown, without having taken a win in either leg, but his consistent 2nd and 3rd places saw him take the win from David Seamark in second and Paul Diver in 3rd. The D final saw some amazing consistency in results, with each driver coming the same in both legs 1 and 2. Overall, the win was taken by Richard Bland, after problems in qualifying, and second was held by Luke Byrne, over Simon Williams in third.

Full results from tonight's race meeting will be posted shortly.

Don't forget, no racing next week on Friday 9th April, and we will be back to normal the following week (16th April).

Well, we're now a third of the way through the Spring Series, and you can start to see who's heading up each of the formula's - although there is still plenty of time for that to change! The fact that we are at this point also means that we have now run all of the tracks once, so next week, we will start with the same track we ran in round 1.

Positions after Round 4 of the Spring Race Series can be found HERE.

Tonight's racing was fast and furious on a new track which wasn't to everyone's taste, but it certainly gave a challenge. Unfortunately a glitch with the computer delayed us a bit, but thanks to everyone's help we were packed away quickly - it means a lot when people help to set out and pack away the track.

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Just a note that while we will be racing next week (2nd April), there will NOT be a race meeting on Friday 9th April, as this is Good Friday. We will then be back to normal the following week (16th April).

We have now added a simple calculator to help you work out the overall gear ratio of your car. All you need to know are the number of teeth on your spur and pinion - most common cars have the internal ratio added.

If your car is not on the list, let me know and we will try and add it.

Gear Ratio Calculator

Well, it all came together tonight and even with 27 drivers, we ran the meeting with two 3 minute qualifiers and two 5 minute finals, and we're out of the hall by 10pm. With so many new drivers joining the Club, there are too many to name - but welcome to you all - hope you're enjoying the racing!

There was plenty of exciting racing to watch tonight, with John and Alex trading 1st and 2nd place in each leg of the A final, with John just taking the overall win in the end. In the other finals, Rob Oliver took the overall B final from Stuart Gates; Steve Ware held off Nik Randall to clinch the C final; Chris Thomas took a clean win in the D final; and Colin Henwood took the win in the E final - although most drivers only managed to complete one round of the E final before breakage's took their toll!

Full results from tonight's race meeting can be found HERE.

Positions after Round 3 of the Spring Race Series can be found HERE.

We now have a bell which will put next to the door each week, so when you arrive, use the bell and someone will come and let you in!

Round 4 next week, which will see the end of "part 1" after which, we will rotate back to the track we ran in Round 1, so we will run each of four tracks three times by the end of the series. Good luck to everyone!

Results from last Friday's race meting have now been added and can be found here.

Positions in the Spring Race Series can be found here.

Unfortunately, due to a theft, we have been advised by the William Knibb Centre that we must keep the outside door closed at all times. Failure to do this will result in warnings and us losing the venue!

So that's how important this is! We are trying to find a cordless bell that will work in the hall but we are struggling at the moment. As was done last week, we will stick a notice on the door with a mobile number, just give it a ring and someone will come and let you in. We'll also try and check from time to time that no-one is stuck outside!

Tonight's race meting was attended by the highest number of drivers we've had at the William Knibb Centre, which created some great racing - especially in the B final, with 4 drivers chasing each other for the whole 5 minutes on the same lap!

Tonight's results can be found here.

Positions in the Spring Race Series can be found here.

Sadly, with so many drivers - a number of whom were new and took longer to book in than we anticipated, and by not running the meeting fully on automatic, this brought difficulties in keeping the meeting to time and we ended up having to cancel the second leg of the finals. This is not what we want to do and therefore we will start to tighten up on the running times of the meetings to avoid having to cancel any part of the meeting in the future.

In future, we will aim to keep to the following:

• Drivers to be booked in by 7.20pm
• First heat to be on the track ready to start at 7.30pm
• There will be 2 minutes between heats, and the next heat must be on the line and ready to run after that time. The computer will not normally be paused unless the race controller feels there is sufficient time. Drivers who cannot make it to the start line on time will have to start part way through the heat, or forfeit that round.
• Drivers must return their transponders and marshall the heat after they race. They must be out around the track before the start of the next heat. Marshalls who are not in place will be penalised by removal of their FTD.

None of these things are new, we just need to tighten up a bit.

This way, everyone benefits and we all get the most race time on the track!

The Club Handbook and Constitution has been added as a link in the "Club" page. Paper copies of this will be handed out with your BRCA membership cards from this Friday.

Another new track design to try out tonight - as we set up "track 10" to try and recreate the track some Club members raced at Cambridge last Sunday. We also moved the rostrum to the "long side" of the track, which may have given slightly less visibility, but certainly didn't spoil the racing - in fact it made the track feel better to race on.

Overall, this latest design felt more "flowing", and we now hope to make up some more corner pieces so we can have more radiused corners and work on some more designs. Several other possible track designs are shown below:

Track 11	Track 12	Track 13

OK, so down to the results! Well, John Fillingham had a cracking race, to win the A final on 30 laps, but he was only 1 lap ahead of Anthony Spooner. n the B final, Staurt Gates won on 26 laps, just 1 lap ahead of Dave Irving and Steve Ware, who had a great race. In the C final, Richard Evans just managed to squeeze in an extra lap, to beat David Seamark into 2nd place.

Full results for tonight can be found in the Results section.

Spring Race Series

Don't forget, the new series starts 5th March (next week!!), and will run for 12 weeks, with the best 8 results to count.

Everyone's been allocated into a Formula, either F1, F2 or F3 for Club racers, and F4 for guest drivers, so you can see how you are doing against drivers of similar ability as well as your overall position. A full listing of Formula ratings for this series can be found here.

Don't forget, the formula's are only meant to be a bit of fun - if your not happy with where you are placed - let us know.

Kettering Krew Conquer Cambridge!

Well in our dreams anyway! The six drivers who went to race at Cambridge RC Circuit Car Club today, put up a pretty respectable showing overall, with at least one driver in each of the top 5 finals (out of 8 in total). Here are final placings for the Kettering Krew:

A Final - Paul Upton - 2nd Place

B Final - Richard Bland - 5th Place

C Final - Dave Irving - 2nd Place

D Final - Stuart Gates - 1st Place

E Final - James Trostler - 4th Place
           - Colin Williams - 6th Place

Full results can be found on the CRCCC club website.

Here's the placings for the Club's on the day, courtesy of Dave:

Well, for me at least tonight's "track 7" designed by Richard Bland was a great track as I managed to qualify for pole in the B final! Of course that was where all my problems started, in my excitement at starting at the front, when the "warble" sounded I turned right and stuffed it into the barrier! Then after recovering from that, and getting back to third, I realised I didn't have a transponder in the car - so that cost a couple of laps before I was put in manually. Oh well there's always next week!

In the D final, Nick Burnham had a close race with Chris Thomas to take the win, while in the C final Rob Oliver took the win (Oops not supposed to mention he didn't make the B final!) from Mark Clayton. James Trostler improved on his qualifying times to win the B final ahead of Richard Bland, and Alex Taylor had one of the closest runs yet with Paul Upton to win the A final, only 0.3s separating them!

Full results for tonight can be found in the Results section.

Club Stickers

For those who didn't see them tonight, we now have some windscreen stickers with the club website address on them, made for us by A.B. Signs & Graphics. You can buy them for £1.50 for one, or £2.50 for 2 - get one and be part of the "in crowd".

Here are three new track layouts, proposed by Richard Bland. Let us know what you think of them on RC Racechat by clicking here.

Track 7	Track 8	Track 9

Click on each track to see it larger size.

Kettering Krew set to Konquer Kambridge

Before the e-mail's come flooding in, I know it's spelt wrongly!

For those of you who don't already know, a kontingent - OK, that's enough with the "K" thing! - a contingent of drivers are planning to take part in an open meeting at Cambridge RC Circuit Car Club on Sunday 22nd February. This is a cross club race meeting, just for fun, to see how they compare against other clubs stock drivers.

So far, the following drivers have registered to go:

Stuart Gates
James Trostler
Richard Bland
Dave Irving
Paul Upton
Colin Williams

You can find out more about this race meeting on RC Racechat by clicking here, or on the CRCCCC website here.

As part of this, we have ordered some bodyshell stickers with the club website address on them - they will be available for anyone to put across their windscreen sun visor (or anywhere else) from next Friday, priced £1.50 each. Get yours and be part of the team!

More new racers joined us this week, so welcome to the Club. We also had a few guest drivers from Silverstone, including Phil Degavino, who had some very close heats with Alex Taylor, but Phil won the A Final from Alex by 1 lap in the end.

In the B Final, racing was very close, but Stuart Gates took the win just 1 second ahead of Dave Irving. In the C Final, Marcus Trofimov beat Colin Williams by 1 lap and in the D final, Darren Parris won with a 3 lap gap over Nik Burnham.

Full results for tonight can be found in the Results section.

Spring Race Series

You might notice that in the results for this week, most people have been allocated into a Formula (Form), either F1, F2 or F3 for Club racers, and F4 for guest drivers. This is so that during the next series, not only will you be able to see your overall standing, but also how you compare to racers in your Formula of a similar ability.

The new series starts 5th March, and will run for 12 weeks, with the best 8 results to count.

We will probably be running the series with 2 x 3 min qualifiers and 2 x 5 minute finals - less qualifying and more racing!

For those who would like to take a look, you can see how well the Burton Boyz / Kettering Krew are doing in the DMS Winter series at Watford. I've highlighted all the Club drivers (past and present) in blue. Click on the links below to view the various classes:

Stock Class - 27T

Super Stock - 19T

Modified

We saw a few new drivers at tonight's meeting - we hope you enjoyed your evenings racing, so welcome to Nik Randall and Charlie Ware - hope to see you again next week!

Well, there was a lot of "controversy" over track 5 when we raced it two weeks ago, and after discussion on RC Racechat a modification was agreed to the "Trostler Gate(s)" to make it less of a car breaker. So how did it race this week? Clearly the changes made had a big reduction in the amount of damage inflicted (none at all from what I saw!) - but was it still fun to drive?

Certainly from looking at the lap times of some of the top drivers, it hardly slowed them at all - but for us mere mortals, it was definitely a challenge.

Alex had mixed fortunes this week, but in the Final, John Fillingham beat Alex to the line by just under a second, with only 2/100's of a second separating their average lap times. In the B final, Dave Irving took the win, but after a dreadful start from pole, which left him in last position, Rob Oliver fought his way back to 2nd place - who said you can't make a come back in stock racing! In the C final, Tyler Liggins took the win on an excellent 26 laps, four laps ahead of Greg Farnden.

Full results for tonight can be found in the Results section.

Another new track layout tonight - this one designed by Matt Upson, brought a few challenges, but was a good track to run on once you had sorted the line. So, this new track layout has now been adopted as "Track 6 ".

The new track led to some very close racing in the A final, with three drivers on the same lap - but John Fillingham just squeezed in ahead of Alex and takes the track record for this new track.

In the B final, Stuart Gates just held off Adrian Heslop to take the win, and in the C final, Tyler Liggins was 3 laps clear at the end of the race.

Unfortunately, Harriet Eames, Colin Henwood and Garry Starks didn't make it as far as the final this week!

Full results for tonight can be found in the Results section.

The Outdoor page has now been updated to include the dates for this years Off Road race meetings.

We are really pleased to be hosting Round 6 of the BRCA Off Road Truck Nationals at our venue in Burton Latimer on the 1st August.

For More details on outdoor racing, click on the "Outdoor" link on the left of this page.

It was nice to see a couple of new Club members tonight, so welcome to Harriet and to Chris, we hope you enjoyed your first evening and will be back for many more!

Well the general consensus was to try out Stuart Gates and James Trostler's new track design and it certainly proved to be very different to our usual layouts. It was a fast track, with many drivers below the 10second lap, and the "sweeper" was quite a challenge to get the line right. A bit more controversially, the "Trostler Gate" was unforgiving if you tried to go through it flat out and didn't judge it right - reflected by the number of broken wishbones! We'll sort that out for next time we use it. So, this new track layout has now been adopted as "Track 5".

Alex Taylor has set the record for this new track, with a blistering 35 laps, and fastest lap time of 8.16 seconds!

Full results for tonight can be found in the Results section.

Chairman  - Dave Irving
Vice Chairman / Publicity- Adrian Heslop
Secretary - Wayne Spooner
Treasurer / Web Master / Health & Safety - Colin Williams

General Committee Members volunteered their services:
James Trostler - Junior Representative
Gary Butterworth
Paul Oliver
Jamie Oliver

Full results for tonight can be found in the Results section.

Don't forget, the AGM will be held on Wednesday 14th January, 8pm at the Leather Craftsman Public House, St Stevens Road, Kettering (click on the link for a map). This is an important meeting, because we need to elect a new committee and all members are invited to attend.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hope you all had a great Festive Season and have have a few new goodies to "hop-up" your cars for this weeks racing. Bring it on!!

Don't forget, we're racing on Friday 9th January.