Re: Group 5 Proxy - Round 6 Calgary

by **F1Fan** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:34 pm

The cars arrived in Sumas,WA today and they will ship onward to Calgary tomorrow. The race is scheduled for the end of the month and we can expect Edmonton and the two rounds in Kelowna soon after!

Happy racing, soon we will be in the capable hands of Giddyup and his merry group of men at RMR - good luck to all!

Chris

by **Kevan** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:49 pm

Are we likely to be seeing videos of race action?

by **F1Fan** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 7:03 pm

by **Giddyup** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:06 am

FYI - cars arrived this morning. Good thing I was home as the postie just left them on my doorstep. :roll:

Unpacked them, everything seems in order. And for you would be Proxy organizers, take note of Chris's packaging - reinforced corners (check), directions on how to open the box (check), well packaged and secured cars (check), built-in tire cleaner LOL (check), customs doc/envelope included (check).

Proud to be part of a well organized race. :text-bravo:

The cars look to be in good shape. Although Lez's car sounds like it has something loose in it. But nothing falls out? I wonder if he's gone the way of internal ballast that moves with the car. Anyone remember the red Strombecker Chapparal 2H with the steel ball in the rear? While the cars won't be racing on my track (Mugello), over the weekend I'll take each car and look at them more closely for a few laps to ensure all are in good working order for the race. This is your *hint* to start the bribes :lol: :lol:

The race is scheduled for Sunday March 31st. Likely early afternoon (Mountain time). The plan is run qually and then run straight into the race. We don't mess around :lol:

The race will be hosted on another our club's tracks, Silverado which is a 3 lane braided track...around 63' lap length IIRC. More info about the track can be seen here in posts #1 and 3:
http://www.slotcarillustrated.com/porta ... rs-calgary

This is the same track that has hosted the Group 5 cars the last two years, so there is a benchmark these cars will be racing towards. The track will be well rubbered-in as we will be racing our regular club races earlier in the day. I expect nothing less than a new track record from numero uno Sir Cameron.

Someone asked about video? We always provide video and unlike others ours will be live. Our plan is to livestream it over Facebook here on our club page: https://www.facebook.com/RockyMtnRacers/

You can watch, comment and interact with the action, comedy, thrills and spills to your heart's content. For those who'd rather watch F1 or NASCAR, go for it....you can catch a rebroadcast of teh qually/race that will be recorded and available at the above FB page.

Cheers for now, eh!
Tom

by **Kevan** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 6:46 pm

Bahrain GP followed by Sunday roast followed by a great evening of Gr5 racing...can't wait!

by **GAS41T** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 7:43 pm

Damn
I’m not a Facebooker ....
So I’ll be waiting for results the old fashion way....

by **F1Fan** » Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:15 pm

by **Smokeio** » Sat Mar 23, 2019 6:29 am

You found the cash I left you in the box with the note about the green car?

by **Giddyup** » Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:51 am

by **F1Fan** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:54 pm

Race day tomorrow!

Good luck to most of you..... :D

by **Giddyup** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 1:17 pm

Qually to start in about 30-40 mins, just wrapped up our regular club race

by **F1Fan** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 1:43 pm

:banana-dance:

:auto-driving:

by **Giddyup** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 1:56 pm

Just gone live now, qually to start.

The Shadow will be doing qually on the middle lane. First car up, Leadfoot

by **Giddyup** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 2:15 pm

First box of cars quallied

by **Giddyup** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 2:30 pm

Box 2 of cars quallied