 Open Day 7th February 10.00-4pm, Church Cottage Silverless Street Marlborough SN8 1JQ |
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Following fire, currently between clubrooms and meeting in church halls and around members houses in Marlborough, Swindon and around Wiltshire.
We race many different types of cars and tracks - loan cars and controllers always available.
We're also involved in inter-club and national racing, raising money for charity through racing and running the odd World championship here and there.
Contact Details: Rob Lees - rob9lees@yahoo.com
Opening Times
Every Tuesday, 7.45pm. Full 2009 calendar available below.
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Top Tuner  
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Here's the latest configuration of our Ninco track
 As well as meeting every Tuesday evening we are holding an Open Day on Sunday February 7th, 1000-1600 at Church Cottage Silverless Street Marlborough SN8 1JQ All welcome, free entry. We will be running our cars all day, or bring your own! The meeting is for people to enjoy running on our track and to gather increased membership for the Tuesday sessions and perhaps extend the weekend meetings to a regular session. Hope to see you there!
Reason for edit: correct postcode
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27 Jan 2010, 15:11
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 Deane Walpole (eahorc.com)  Group: Members Posts: 2,579 Joined: 14-December 04 From: Shotgate, Essex Member No.: 1,702 |
Good luck with this Guys.
Are you running the HO track and Drag strip as well? --------------------  |
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27 Jan 2010, 16:32
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We're focusing on the Ninco unless we manage to persuade the dancers to swap rooms with us :-)
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28 Jan 2010, 09:39
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 Top Tuner Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 24-September 06 From: Chelmsford, UK Member No.: 4,774 |
Rob, just tell em we need the bigger hall for 'the strip', they'll want to come in as well!!!
Would be good if the strip was running, I'd be down for the day. Cheers Steve D -------------------- Steve D
The older I get, the faster I was!!! |
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29 Jan 2010, 00:01
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QUOTE (Steve D @ 28 Jan 2010, 09:39)  Rob, just tell em we need the bigger hall for 'the strip', they'll want to come in as well!!! Would be good if the strip was running, I'd be down for the day. Cheers Steve D You Dirty Dog you... As Rob says, there's simply not room that day as we've got to have the small room due to the dancers. Even if the main hall were free though. it's still not really big enough. Unfortunate but true. I do plan to run 3-4 rounds of drag racing (somewhere) for the FLBT this year. I think I might use the UK Nationals rules, which reminds me, I'd better go and edit them (again) and get them back to you... -------------------- D-D-D-R-A-G RAP
Drag Racing will never die, as long as there are Traffic Lights!!! |
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29 Jan 2010, 07:38
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Top Tuner Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 24-September 06 From: Chelmsford, UK Member No.: 4,774 |
Yeah right, you just want to peep don't you!!!
-------------------- Steve D
The older I get, the faster I was!!! |
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2 Feb 2010, 09:51
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Note to anybody who is thinking of attending, we have yet to decide what class to run in the afternoon so if anybody has any input say so here so we can discuss at club tonight.
Input from members and attending non members welcome. |
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3 Feb 2010, 00:45
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Hot news!
We have the big room as the dancers are having the day off! Drags anyone?: |
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3 Feb 2010, 13:00
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Top Tuner Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 24-September 06 From: Chelmsford, UK Member No.: 4,774 |
Yes please.
-------------------- Steve D
The older I get, the faster I was!!! |
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7 Feb 2010, 21:57
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A big thank you to all who attended today, a total of 22 racers competed and time was found to run three classes. Everybody seemed to be having a great time and slot cars were run for over five and a half hours solid.
First up was Impact Resisting Scalextric cars with the entry consisting of juniors, people who walked in off the street and the odd ringer. Everyone did really well with most scoring between 13 and 19 laps in two mins. The totals from two heats each decided lane choice for the four finals. In the D final Louis scored a personal best for the day at just the right time to edge out Alfie, a first ever step up final win for the second generation of the Townsend slot racing dynasty. The C final was a high scoring affair with Darryl taking second from Marcus who had been quick all morning but both were well beaten by William with a score that would have won the A final! B final saw an amazing dead heat for second between mother and son Marie and Evan Webster. Evan finishing top junior. Both were trounced by Julia who duly stepped up to the A final where she finished an impressive third just edging out the consistent Tony. Steve was the first member of his family not to win his first final but second overall was pretty good. Marc came through against all the odds to take the win in his Fiat. Public Cars Open Race 1 Marc Townsend 2 Steve 3 Julia 4 Tony 5=Marie Webster 5=Evan Webster 7 William 8 Darryl 9 Marcus Lover 10Louis Townsend 11Alfie 12Matthew 13Martin 14Henry 15Andrew 16Florence Next up the regulars joined in as Marcus and Neil stayed on. Box standard Scalextric Nascars were used and the racing was pretty fierce. A proper four heats and step up finals affair, here are the results. 1 Robin Clark 2 Marc Townsend 3 Graham Mattingly 4 Rob Lees 5 Kevin Gee 6 Karl Bryant 7 Clive Harland 8 Andy Wharton 9 Neil Lover 10Marcus Lover Next up we had one min solo qualiifying with the public cars, finals decided using those times and then all kinds of machinery was brought out for open practice. Pictures to follow. |
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