Firstly, my apologies for the poor quality of the streaming yesterday. I was stretched to the limit in terms of time to get everything working as I had only returned from a business trip late Friday night, and had to install all the streaming software and get it working on a new laptop. Next time I am going to try hard-wiring the laptop to our cable modem rather than using the wifi, it may be better that way.
Regardless, we all had a great time running your wonderful cars. In general the quality of the entries is very high and certainly ona par with any of the best sets of Proxy cars that we have run here over the last 6 or 7 years.
Tim Neja did the qualifying honors this time, and the results looked like this:
Once this was in the books, we split the cars into two groups, the slower 10 cars into group 1 and the faster 9 into group 2. Then we ran each group for two minutes per lane twice with two sets of drivers.
Group 1 had Christophe DeLuy, Eddie Shorer and Bryan Warmack as the first set of drivers, then Tim Neja, Phil Nyland and Marc Franco as the second set.
Group 2 saw Mill Conroy, Tom Eatherly and Jim Lane take over for the first round, followed by a repeat from Phil and Tim with Dennis (me) for the second set.
Once the racing was over, the results overall looked like this:
There were some close finishes down the order, and a few surprises comparing race results to qualifying. We had a number of heats with very close races.
Fast times for each car were as follows:
For Keith - I labelled your Chaparral 2A as #65a and the 2E as #65b.
Here are two action shots, and the podium cars;
Later today I will edit the stream into some highlights so they will stay available on Twitch for some time, use the link shown in my previous post.
Damage Report:
Unfortunately there is a little bit of damage to two cars:
Car $: This car had a tendency to deslot on the top of the bridge section and hit the wall a few time, cracking the right front corner of the body. During the racing, I merely taped it back, but should I repair this before sending the cars on to the next venue?
Car 5: The crown gear of this car was already quite noisy during qualifying, and just got worse to the point where it only just managed to complete the last minute of racing. I can replace the gear, I think I have a spare of that size.
Other than that, no cars suffered.
Some impressions:
Obviously from the results here and in previous rounds, Chris' #60 McLaren is the class of the field. The car just has great tires and is very well sorted.
Car 917 was also good, its NSR rubber tires worked well on my track in among all the urethane runners, which surprised me a little as this is not often the case.
Keith's 2A was a nice car to drive, could have had a bit more motor.
Allan's two cars were both good, the #48 worked as one would expect a Slot.it Mclaren to work, and the Brumos 917/10 was a good-handling car especially for an inline and for a first scratchbuilding attempt.
Other cars suffered from a lack of side traction, there was quite a difference in grip levels across the various makes of urethane tires used, and possibly as a result of the way they were ground and prepared as well. In general though the cars were all fun to drive and as usual we had a great day of racing.
Thanks again for letting us play with your toys!
Dennis
