EAHORC 2010 National series - 21/3, Round 3 of 6, Kings Lynn Options

[montoya1]

This will serve as the thread for Round 3 of the EAHORC 2010 National HO championship. A race report will appear here as well as links to Photos and result sheets, for now the thread will serve as an advert for the race.

When: March 21st - 10:00am start, doors open 9:30am
Where: Mussel Bay Raceway HO, The Conservative Club, 11-12 London Rd (opposite Providence St)
King's Lynn, PE30 5PY

Check out eahorc.com for directions including coordinates for sat-navs.

[loosesalute]

Good luck, hope it goes well Deane..
Cheers
Kev

[montoya1]

Thanks.

HO in the UK just continues to get better and better. I think the last vid shows how fast the cars are and how hard everyone is competing, and yet the fun and camaraderie is still there - better than ever in fact. I would be the first to admit this is more by luck than anything anyone did, and is down to the character of the great bunch of guys we have.

I am working hard to add a venue just north of Walsall. Near enough to tempt you to come along and give EAHORC race in a go?

[montoya1]

Early entry list:


Tony Stacey (SCHORC)
Jim Kelly (NSR)
Martin Hill (MBR HO)
Deane Walpole LHORC)
Andy Player (WHOR)
Paul Homewood (SCHORC)
Craig Homewood SCHORC)
Robin Cornwall (WHOR)
Clive Harland (FLBT)
Julian Allard SCHORC)
John Chell (SCHORC)
Roy Masters (SCHORC)
Marc Townsend (FLBT)
Dave Rouse (MBR HO)

[montoya1]

Report:

A slightly surreal meeting to start with, as host Martin Hill and Dave Rouse turned out to be the only locals present. The much vaunted EAHORC 'vibe' was further tested by electrical problems in blue lane, and yet I think the association came through with flying colours. In all 13 racers pitched up for F1, and it quickly became apparent that behind a flying Martin everything was to play for so competitive was everyone's scores. With Clive Harland's brilliant new spreadsheets being used for the first time it was once again possible to sort the scores mid way through the heats, and this really showed everyone's fortunes changing heat by heat.

In the end Clive Harland was best of the rest behind Martin (the only two to use Mega-Gs), with Andy Player making his first A final by right and second since starting out in HO last October. The step up was taken by Roy Masters with a comfortable win in the B, leaving mate John Chell (with a career best 5th overall to show for his morning), Julian Allard and impressive newcomer John Ferrigno in his wake. John had qualified well given the tight margins between scores, and then took some major scalps on the way to a popular win in the C final, namely Dave Rouse, Paul Homewood and Tony Stacey. Tony had something of a wild day, pushing too hard on a track he could not master, but a stonking 20.55 in the unfavoured yellow lane, beaten by nobody and 1.7 better than Martin, showed raw pace was still there.

Dave meanwhile has recovered from a woeful qualifying by his usual standards to win the D final, but had nearly been undone by Craig Homewood (who had driven really well in the heats but had lost out in the closeness of it all, as well as a fourth score tiebreaker), and then moved up a couple more spots to take 8th overall. Robin Cornwall and Deane Walpole were left to fight out last place, with Deane victor but unable to finish higher than 12th.


For the Afternoon 6 drivers chose to be merged with the Pro Modified runners, down to three due to the absence of Marc Townsend, with four choosing Nascar, including Paul making his first foray into closed wheel racing. Martin was once again untouchable, not massively faster than Clive in any one area, but enough on all lanes and with so few mistakes the margins just built and built. Robin was a fair way back, awaiting new parts to get his Storm on par with the competition. Andy seemed to be struggling to live with Roy in Nascar, this championship really shaping up to be one to watch, with Deane showing more pace but making far more errors. Roy and Andy would actually run quite close come the final, with Deane in the mix early on, but one always felt Roy (a wily EAHORC campaigner by now) had plenty in hand and so it proved.

Similarly Dave Rouse was to take yet another win in Modified, leaving John Chell and Craig (also making his closed wheel debut) behind him and Tony struggling once more but very fast when he could stay on. This made it three win from three, with fellow MBR HO member Martin taking 6 wins from 6 and still on maximum points in the EAHORC cup. As a result that club have built up what could be a decisive lead in the club championship but the battle behind is intense with three clubs practically level at half distance.

[woodcote]

Who was racing the Vodafone Ferrari on Sunday ?

You'll see why I ask when you watch the video - which is now up

[montoya1]

Cracking vid.

How did you do the camera car? I never saw that.

Here are the F1 results, read how close we were in F1 qualifying and blink in disbelief

[montoya1]

a few pictures:





Nascar final



Typical HO pit box

[montoya1]

Here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTLy2GC1Rxk

[woodcote]

How did you do the camera car? I never saw that.

I taped my camera to an old Turbo chassis (without motor or magnets), pushed it gently by hand and then speeded up the footage. It's crude and needs some refining

I've always had to use the full 'embed' code to post YouTube clips on Slot Forum otherwise you just get a link, not the video.

I still want to know who was showing off in the Vodafone Ferrari - was it Julian ?

[Julian_Boolean]

Who was racing the Vodafone Ferrari on Sunday ?

You'll see why I ask when you watch the video - which is now up

I've got a red Tyco in Vodafone livery, so it was probably me, I can't watch streaming video at work, so could you please enlighten me to what I've done.

[montoya1]

A really neat 360 spin Julian, at the door end of the track.

Andy P caught it on vid, and has done a slow-mo. Cracking stuff from both of you...

[Julian_Boolean]

Well, if I can't win I like to throw in an impressive stunt show.

[montoya1]

Here is the lapchart for the F1 A final:

[loosesalute]

Great pics lads..Deane I can`t view that video..
Cheers
Kev