Long-time friend Stanley joined myself, O'Brie, Steve and Keith for our 287th event where we had the usual fun driving around in our various magless cars. Some tweaks, adjustments and repairs were also done as is the norm on any racetrack. Stan said he hadn't driven slot cars since about twenty-five years ago when he got a set for his son. Nonetheless, he enjoyed driving a number of my cars, some challenging him more than others. He had to leave before we got down to running three Clubman races very late in the afternoon, so he didn't do any races.
Despite deciding to race pretty late, we qualified the cars, doing them all together as a 3-minute qualifying session.
Practice
My Mini Cooper and Keith's Alfa have a coming together:
Once again, my Mini has an off as Keith's Alfa approaches in the distance:
The results
Computer qualifying results. Steve and I are very close as are O'Brie and Keith:
Steve's BMW on pole, followed by my NSU, O'Brie's Escort and Keith driving Steve's Alfa:
Three views of action on turn one with Steve's BMW sideways, helped by my NSU:
(How this is computed: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=393)
Congratulations to the winners.
Next event's classes: The usual non-magnet cars across all eligible classes.
Don't forget to see the updated overall fastest times and the fastest times by driver and class for 2020-2021 to know what the benchmarks are for your cars, the updated class average qualifying times and the updated fastest times for 2020-2021. Older stats can be found in the Archive area of the forum.
See you on the circuit...
Gordon