TORCH 27th March 2011

Started with a brisk sunday morning with a fair few people already there at 8am, I was excited to get the rango back out after a few weeks. And with the weather looking promising it was looking like a great days racing. Until Chris S brings out his -15 rear camber Rango WTF.. either way he lessened the obscure amount of camber, and got into the A so hey maybe he's onto something!

With the normal turn out there John Clarke, Tony rc, Chris s, Cammer's, Rob R, and the RC Lazy crew of simon and mark.

Q1: For me, it went solid coming in 2nd just behind local wizard Steve B and Rob R bringing it in 3rd. I decided to stick with Schu Yellow's but added some more camber to my norm setup. As the track was very dry.

Q2: Went perfect with only 1 silly mistake but coming in 1st with Steve B just behind followed by Mark T, I decided to decreas my steering throw from 100 to 85. Which helped with the high grip track, and I tried hard to avoid cutting more spikes off my very new tyres.

Q3: Went ok, another ok run just wasn't putting down consistent lap's and struggling with a bull cup popping off. Which seems to be a very annoying point, which I will amend for next time. Steve B Rob R then me coming in 3rd.

Q4: Was a dissaster, DNS for me as somehow had killed my pretty new Savox servo which was new in the rango! But hopefully its just the gears and not a whole new servo needed. Steve B, Mark t, Rob R

Final's
A Final 4WD

Final was mixed, I was going well for the 1st few minute's but yet again lightly clipped a pipe. And by ballcup popped off. So it was a bit of a blow, but eventually came in 3rd.

1. Stephen Brown
2. Rob Rasey
3. James Kerr

Overall a great day, and the track layout was brilliant was a lot more flowing-which aids in some closer racing tbh. Car was great all day, and was changing small thing's all day which I tend to avoid. But car was getting easier to drive as the day went on. After the racing, A few of us decided to stay for some fun and some testing. I got to try some DBoots MultiBytes-which were impressive to say the least. And provide some crazy forward traction. They are a tad aggressive but some small setup changes can alter that. I did some testing for Martin, with a few track changes and it was the best layout as of yet. And decided to discuss some track features and ideas. Which will work very well and cant wait till its all done. A big thanks to the Torch chaps for a great days racing and look forward to the next time-Hopefully sunday!!

Clanfiend Winter Series Round 7 Final Round

Prizes for winter series

Clanfield Winter Series Round 7

Sunday the 20th March 2011

The day started with a very smooth and clean Clanfield Track, thankfully the weather had been very good. And a dry track was a great sight, and with a report of 9 hours of sunshine. It was panning out to be a fantastic days racing.

Qualifying started, and for myself it was mixed Q1 I came in 3rd which I was happy with. As I had been struggling to get my new A8 to feel the way I like to drive and the rear always seemed to stiff. I decided to drop the shock weight and a few other change's, which in turn my car was a tad on the soft side for the smooth track. Which I was impressed at how smooth it was, but It made the car very stable and easy to drive. So I left it as it was at the start of the day. Qualifying in general went solid for me, nothing special but no issues so I was 5th in the 30 minute A final.

Quali

Final's were 10 mins away, and I was still 50/50 on what tyre choice to run. I had tried some used M2 revolver's last 1quali, which made the car very forgiving and even less edgy on the banked section. Which my avg was down .10 seconds from some New Med CityBlocks which I ran in Q1,2,3.

I was going to run the revolver's but a last minute choice to go back to Cityblocks was a good call. Considering the length of the final.

The start went well for me, getting into 2nd after turn 2 with some great overtaking. With people doing the common overshooting the first few turn's trying to win the race on lap 1. I was snuggly behind P1 Jamie Holmes, who was driving very well with his MP9. The frost 7 mins was consistent, but making a silly mistake and letting Jon Wolfe through. So we both pittied at the 7:30 mark Both came out the same time, but unfortunately for Jon he cut on turn 1 causing us to both get tangled. And then costing me 10+seconds on Jamie Holmes.

Me chasing down Jon

Pit Stop 

So it was time for me to really focus and hunt down p1, I was slowing closing down up until the 24 min mark. When (sods law) my front wheel decides to overtake my car!!!

It was a big Blow to me, having driven well the 1st 25 mins, and finally getting the A8 where I want.

So then I eventually came in 7th place, Jon did a fantastic job and crawled his way back up to a very respectable 2nd place with Mark Thomas in 3rd.

Cracking Pic Ross

Air Time

Final Podiums of the Clanfield Winter Series RC Sure-Start

BUGGY Final Series Podium

BUGGY

1ST Place Jon Wolfe

Agama A8

O.S./Novarossi

MK Racing-NemoRacing

2ND Place Jamie Kerr

Agama A8

O.S.

MK Racing-Nemoracing-RcDisco-Kifopaint-RC Sure-Start

3RD Place Grant Fribbens

JQ The Car

Nitrotec

RC Sure-Start-Pit coach Rob Rasey:p

TRUGGY:

Truggy Final Series Podium

1ST Place Mark Byrne

Associate RC8T

O.S.

MK Racing-RC Sure-Start

2ND Place James Tatlow

Losi 8ightT

O.S.

3RD Place Adam Bailey

Hyper ST

Alpha

Congratulations to the 2011 Clanfield RC Sure-Start Winter Finalists Series

Full series results http://www.clanfieldrc.co.uk/results/current/index.htm

Photos courtesy of Ross Whitelock, Adam Bailey + John Clarke

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