With a very broad range of chassis and motors on track, the most pressing decision was, were you prepared to put your brushless ES24 in competition with a retro F1 and risk the possible carnage that could ensure from having to lap the opposition multiple times during a heat.
As it was, the brushless cars of Will Stemman and Ross Grogan managed to take each other out on quite a few occasions as, for the first time at Manor Farm, they fought out the top heats in true competition. 'Brushless Barry' Gilzean joined the fray with his car to make a trio of very fast cars whizzing round a track that had, up until that point, not even seen a strap motored ES24 in general competition.
So, how did they do? Will, who said he never expected to run a ES24 on the tight Luton track, made it his mission to crack a four second lap. This he achieved during a one minute qualifying heat, but unfortunately, an absent minded race controller forgot to lower the minimum lap time setting on the computer software prior to the commencement of qualifying, and the exact lap time was not recorded.
Nevertheless, the outright segmented race total was shattered by Will, who despite the track calls, turned in an amazing 163.24 lap total to better the existing record by about 20 laps (to be verified by Nick Thrower when he analyses the spread sheets). Also breaking the existing record, Ross finished the evening with a very good 152.33 total, with Barry making it a clean sweep for the brushless brigade totalling 146.44 as his best heat score.
For the rest of us, the raggle raggle assortment of cars provided some entertaining racing and dextrous marshalling as we fought amongst ourselves for minor bragging rights.
The photo captions will better explain who raced what, and by way of explanation, and to allow people to run two cars, we ran two complete sets of one minute qualifying followed by segmented heats (because we could) and the best lap total from the two sets of segmented heats would count as the result. This is a non points scoring championship so it did not really matter.
A real eye opener to see the top spec slot cars flying round our track, and clearly a peek at the future of slot car racing. It will be interesting to see how it develops.
It's back to championship racing next week as Genesis kicks off proceedings, with the F1/F2 open wheelers continuing their season as we look forward to full size GP racing in March.
Until then, stay safe and don't sell your com lathe just yet.
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario