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Indoor Racing

Indoor racing is very popular as it can take place in the evening at any time of year - irrespective of the weather!

We race at the William Knibb Centre (click on the name to the left for a map), Alfred Street, Kettering on a Friday evening. Doors open at 6:45pm. The emphasis of the night is on fun, but with a great deal of very close racing taking place!  

We race in the gym on the first floor of the Centre, which you get into from the car park nearest to Victoria Street, then go in through the door in the right hand corner of the car park and up the stairs. Racing is on "PermaTrack" carpet laid on woodblock floor covering an area of approximately 12m x 15m, with square section guttering and flexible corner markers used to create the track design. AMBrc handout transponders are used, or you can run a personal transponder to time the races and count your laps, so there's never any arguing about who won.

 

Race Format

We run two, three minute qualifying rounds and two 5 minute finals (both finals count towards your overall placing for the night), everyone gets to race in a final!
Touring Cars must run with Stock Motors, this means 13.5 turn brushless (or higher) or 27 turn brushed. We run 'open' ESC's so timing advance/turbo speedo's are fine. Slick racing tyres with additive is allowed, no mini-pins or spikes. We ask that you set a mininmum ride hight of 5mm, this helps protect the carpet from being damaged. Minimum weight is 1350g, in line with BRCA rules.
Mini's (Tamiya 'M' Chassis) must run with the standard 'silver can' motor. Tamiya M Grip radial tyres or Sweep 33 slick tyres both work well on our carpet. We have a 'gentelmans agreement' to run NiMh stick pack batteries of no more than 2500mah to ensure close, cheap racing. The differential should work as designed, i.e not locked up or replaced with a spool. All other 'hop-ups' are allowed.

 

Race fees for the evening are £4 for club members, £5 for non-members. Family discount available, see race control on race night for details. You can only race three meetings as a non-member before you have to join the Club/BRCA.

To find out more about Club membership, look under "Info" in the navigation bar on the left.

NEW MEMBERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.

FEEL FREE TO COME ALONG AND WATCH
IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT MORE
- WE'RE A FRIENDLY BUNCH!

Track Layouts

There are a number of regular track layouts we use, click on any of the track images below to see more details about that track, including *Personal Bests and short video clips of the layouts as set up on a race night.

*Personal Bests

The RC-Timing software we use allows for Personal Best Times to be colleced for each track we run, simply click on the track images below to see the best times for that track. More results will be added as we run the various tracks and will be updated as we re-run the same track!


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