"Upside-down" RGT racing this week.

[gordon]

With the introduction of the 2015 regulation requirement that cars in the Modified Production and Restricted GT classes must not stick to a Scalextric Sport track when held upside-down, everyone has had to go back to the drawing board with car set-up. The first test came some weeks ago when we raced our Mod Prod cars and not very surprisingly, Team Bhola topped the results (though not in qualifying), having got their cars better set-up for racing than the rest of the field. Qualifying showed that the cars were about 1.5 sec slower per lap, achieving the main objective of better differentiating them from the more highly modified cars.

Our upcoming event for Restricted GT will be interesting, as it will show what lessons have been learned and whether the other competitors will fare better against the Bholas. I'm sure that everyone has been working feverishly to get their cars up to spec and as competitive as possible. Will there be a new winner in our second "upside-down" class? Don't miss this week's racing at FRC - it may well be something of a revelation!

[steveaca]

Looking forward to it.

[Luke]

Gordon,

Its always good of you & with such detailed observations for the new USD rule and to end off with ... something of a revelation ..!

It all sums up that RGT and MGT in the mix ~ racing will be very thrilling ..

Persons sensations and nerve endings will be, at an all time high for a WIN

Luke

[RameshB]

Hi guys its Mon . my tuning and testing night , so i did make some notes after our last USD event and it was also quite revealing as well, i do hope to see a good turn out especially for mix gt as the rotation is quite exciting. bye Ram

[Luke]

I will be keeping in touch with ...

David (boo), Alex, Kerwin, Paul and maybe Dougie if he's in Trinidad.

So in all, that's 6 persons including myself (God Willing) of course

Luke

[Luke]

The only 2 FRC classes with motors (maximum) 23.5K rpm ...... Restricted GT & Modified Production

Plus the only 2 classes with the new US-D rule for the fastest lap times in ........ 2015

Modified Production

• • 4.849 - 2014 Results @ 30K rpm
  • 6.555 - 2015 Results @ 23.5K rpm

Restricted GT

• • 4.777 - 2014 Results @ 23.5K rpm
  • 6.888 - 2015 Results @ 23.5K rpm

The RGT 2015 time is my likely estimated time with less down-force ...

What do you'll think?

Luke

[gordon]

I say 5.8 to 5.9 sec Luke.

[arden100]

WOW!

You guys are ready for the track.
Hopefully I will make some time tomorrow to work on my RGT.

Arden

[Luke]

GG,

Those guesstimates (5.8 & 6.8 sec.) compared to the actual Mod Prod outcome of 6.555 seconds @ 23.5K rpm ...

The RGT outcome could be very well be closer to or the same 6.555 seconds @ 23.5K rpm.

After all, they both (MP & RGT) carry more or less the same car set-up ... with same rpms

Luke

[RameshB]

Hi guys slot car communication is a lot of fun , i do enjoy reading the details of Luke T posts which always have you thinking, thanks for making the reading so interesting, about my guess on rgt times i would say 5.2 to 5.5 , lets see how close we are on thur bye Ram