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At last Tony has updated the current championship positions on his website. Unfortunately, he still hasn't corrected the errors we pointed out to him in the round two results. Tony has two points too many, and Nick's score has been swapped with mine, depriving me of six championship points!

Peter

 

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QUOTE (Mr.M @ 20 Feb 2007, 10:33) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>As for front-engined GP, any of the Cartrix cars that come in tins - apart from that American thing, Wurlitzer or whatever it's calledHello there, it's me, Picky Peter.
The Indy Roadsters do qualify as fifties GP cars because the Indianapolis 500 was also an Official World Championship Grand Prix from 1950 until 1959. The yellow Cartrix car is actually a model of Johnny Parson's 1950 Indy 500 winning Kurtis-Kraft Wynn's Special. The 8 points awarded for this win earned Parson's 6th place in the 1950 F1 World Championship. The Kurtis-Kraft Offenhauser is a very famous car in American Motor Racing history, having won Indy five times; in 1950, 1951, 1953 , 1954, and 1955.
I am now hanging up my anorak (but I haven't said I won't put it on again later!)

 

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The short answer is no. The white Scalextric model is a (rather poor) representation of the 1964 winning car, a Watson-Offy as driven by AJ Foyt.

And aren't the other Scalextric Offy's the same car moulded in different coloured plastic?

 

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I was referring to the front engined cars. There is also a red one and a yellow one, both front engined, but only released in Australia and New Zealand.

 

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A couple of Scalextric classes? I can only think of one. Am I going senile?

 

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We're in the papers, lads! There's a great article in the Portsmouth News today, complete with colour pictures of some of our ugly mugs.

 

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They say "Seeing is believing" and "Don't believe everything you see in the papers".
Well here is a picture from the aforementioned Portsmouth News article:

It shows me with Tony on my left and, ummm...........Tony on my right. No wonder he won that night - he had us surrounded!

 

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The resemblance is uncanny, Jim. We decided at club that Tony must be your love child!

 

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Good news! I shall be able to come to tomorrow's meeting after all. I know, I can already hear the groans of dismay.

Hopefully I will have a new recruit in tow.

Peter.

 

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I see the latest results are posted on Tony's website - hoorah!!
I thought you finished third on Monday, Chris, but it looks like you weren't there after all!

Peter

 

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Slot racing was cancelled on May Bank Holiday. Look at the link and you might see why.

Bolwextric latest news

I hope it rained all day!

 

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The announcement on the above link has changed, but at the time I posted the comment it referred to "RC practice, Monday 7th May, 1pm to 8pm"

 

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The Scalextric Escort is a model of the RS1600 as introduced by Ford in 1970 which means it doesn't qualify, so we'll all be racing Revells on Mondays as well as Thursdays. That'll teach you not to exclude large capacity cars!

Peter.

 

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QUOTE (Mr.M @ 24 Jun 2007, 22:54) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Both the original and the recent Scaley Escorts are RS1600s. That particular version of the Mk1 didn't arrive till 1970. The previous car was probably a Lotus engined "Escort Twin Cam". It's academic anyway, as for the purposes of this class it's a Mk1 Escort.......from the '60s.

Chris, I found out today that the Renault 12 was introduced in September '69, so if you've got a French Scalextric R12 Gordini..............

The can of worms is well and truly open. Wasn't Robin's "sixties" BMW 2002 a 1973 model?

Peter.

 

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Team Slot's Alfa Romeo Giulia should be legal, for the same reasons as the Spirit BMW and the Scalextric RS1600. Although the Team Slot models are of cars raced or rallied in the seventies, the first Giulia was made in 1962.
Mind you, I hear that Team Slot cars handle like garden sheds!

 

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Why isn't the RC meeting cancelled too? I would have thought that letting a hundred plus racers and their vehicles onto farm land was at least as risky as the eight or so that turn up on Monday nights. Don't get me wrong - I totally agree with the precautions being taken at Manor Farm. I just think that non-essential travel should be kept to a minimum until Foot and Mouth has been eliminated.

Peter.

 

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Jim,

re: 1979 Renault 5 Turbo. I have the proof! Click below.

R5 turbo

Peter.

 

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There are other SCX cars that should give the Spirit Renault a run for its money, like the Fiat 124 Spyder and the soon-to-be-released Renault Alpine A110. Then of course there's the SCX version of the Renault 5 turbo.
Unfortunately, I don't expect the Escort to be a match for any of them because of its high C of G and narrow track, unless SCX make it wider than scale (What! SCX out of scale?

Never! Only NSR do that.

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I might end up being pleasantly surprised by the Escort, but my feelings are that the class will quickly become a Ford-free zone, just like the current sixties saloon class.

Peter

 

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I have just got my new Ninco XK120, having waited eagerly for about a month.
I was hoping to find out what the new NC8 motor performed like, but what did I find fitted to the car - an NC1! Bummer. I thought Ninco had discontinued the horrible, sore thumb inducing, underperforming, overpriced, pieces of junk.

Peter.

 

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I have just done a bit of research and found out that grooved tyres were first made compulsory in 1998, so Big Steve's Jordan is fine.

Peter.