By popular demand, SEQSCC results July 09

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Graceville was once again the scene of slotcar activity and with a diminished turn out, possibly due to the cold and wet, those that did take part had the usual variety of extreme slotcar racing. With a technical fault on red lane causing a considerable delay racing eventually got under way even if it was a little layer. But it didn’t stop a session of tuning and running class models on the working lanes. Eventually, first class was called and it was DTM’s over 20 laps.

Some nice models on the field with Scaley DTM’s well represented. A couple of Carrera made steady progress for their drivers and I eventually had some luck with an ancient SCX Astra with a pro turbo. Results were.

Race 1			DTM			20 laps

Heat 1						Best lap
1.			Peter			30.95
2.			Sean			26.081
3.			Mick			34.08
4.			William			44.08

Heat 2
1.			Phil			23.55
2.			John			28.03
3.			Julian			26.05
4.			Mark			DNF

Event two was a potential destruction Derby with one of Scaleys quickest model being the subject matter. But I suppose with a lap length of more than seventy metres, drivers would be passing each other vary rarely in the scheme of things!! A chance for Mark, who was dogged by bad luck in the previous class, to shine here, and he did.

Race 2			A1GP			15 laps

Heat 1
1.			Phil			20.06
2.			John			22.91
3.			Peter			24.00
4.			Mick			23.12

Heat 2

1.			Mark			24.29
2.			Julian			23.83
3.			William			26.56
4.			Sean			DNF

Next was one of my favourites and I was torn between racing an SCX DBR9 or the Scaley one, both very quick and very driveable. In the end I went with the Scaley and it didn’t let me down. Mark again stamped his authority on his heat with a very nice had painted DBR9 Gulf!!

Race 3			Aston Martin DBR9		

Heat 1

1.			Phil			25.24
2.			Julian			25.19
3.			Sean			25.26
4.			Peter			26.89

Heat 2.

1.			Mark			24.55
2.			John			24.67
3.			Mick			26.69
4.			William			31.16

With time moving on the next heat was destined to be the last and weapon of choice was going to be the Slot.it Le Mans cars. Slot.it cars can be very quick but they are very sensitive to set up especially on a Scaley Sport circuit of this size. The main problem was with models slipping and sliding all over the place as they tried to get some traction. Eventually both heats were run and the results tallied

Race 4			Slot.it			12 laps

Heat 1

1.			Mick			27.08
2.			Sean			25.31
3.			Peter			27.21
4.			John			31.36

Heat 2

1.			Phil			29.25
2.			Julian			26.82
3.			William			30.72
4.			Mark			DNF

Another good meeting in decidedly cool conditions but good fun none the less. The SEQSCC next meet at Graceville on Monday 3rd of August. Stay posted!

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