People's thoughts on 2013 racing at The Falcon Raceway

Is the ability to run more cars needed? At the moment if we run in the hall we can run 6 drivers, could probably do with 4 marshals and 1 race controller so that is 11 add a couple making the tea and putting the cakes on the doilies and licking their tyres in prep for the next race(or just because they like the taste).

I'm always up for the excuse to buy another car, because in order to get free postage it usually means buying 2.

I think Ninco 1 with ear defenders would be a good class, either that or we set a dB limit and part of the setup is to get it below that level

How about a fast race, 100 laps, 1 point for first down to 6 for sixth, no fuel. Should be able to get 2 rounds in on a night, total the points lowest number wins.

Or a handicap race, every six months. To set a handicap run two minutes, 1 car on the track and driver not able to see the lap counter, handicap is percentage of the laps behind, so if the best is 100 and someone does 95, 5 laps behind 100 which is 5%. Run the race, final positions dictated by handicap, based on the actual result recalculate the handicap, but only reduce it not increase it.

Ok on Lee's thought of adding Oxigen to the track.

This is not so much for us to run but fact that it can be added to allow it to be run on our track for only the cost of a dongle and some magnets
The main cost is then down to the controller and chips etc

I think that he is looking that Oxigen cor some reson get looked at more seroiusly that ssdc

Maybe in the future allowing the holder of a big event

So in short dont worry the club will be remaining true to close cheap racing and CAKES

Is anyone in favour of a Club car GT Track. championship or dont forget we do not have to add more classes

or how about an open wheel class?

Like I said previously, I'm pretty much up for running anything, as long as this adds variety. Open wheels therefore would be good.

QUOTE Is anyone in favour of a Club car GT Track. championship

Not sure what you mean here. Are you talking about a club class to be run on the GT track, or a GT club class (ie with club GT cars, colour coded etc)?

If it's the former - then yes. This could be a touring car thing, or something similar. If you mean the latter then I'm not so sure. Would this replace the existing LMP/GT class?

Or have I totally got the wrong end of the stick?

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A club GT Track would be a good idear

Michael

We need a race format where I win, that would be good.

I think no more than 6 classes, otherwise the pit box needs to be too big

2nd in one race tonight Martin that was good beating me into 3rd in that race

We have 3 classes that we use own cars, with one class having 2 cars

So is it 1 out for 1 in?

Or stay with our 4?

SCX NASCARS
LMP class
GT class
Muscle car class

Hi all,

I'd prefer to keep all the classes we have. Having bought cars, it would be a shame to not use them.....

If we add a class or two, how about classic British touring cars ('60's) ? Good choice & mix of cars !
A second club class using Michael's cars as discussed last night would be good too.

I'm not fussed about format, length of races etc., some sprint, some endurance is good.
If we can find a practical way of racing in the way the cars we are using did, that would be even better !
How about an Indy 500 ?

just my 2p worth, but hope it helps

So, the consensus seems to be drifting towards adding more classes rather than losing one. I'm happy with that. Although I said earlier that I wasn't fussed if we dropped the Muscle Cars, we have only run these once so I suppose it's a bit harsh to drop them so quickly.

So, does adding two classes work? One club class and one with our own cars? The club class could be - as George suggests - run with Michael's cars if he's OK with that. The other class could be anything, I suppose. Lot's of suggestions out there so far. 60s touring cars sounds like another nice idea - and this pretty much covers everything from Mustangs to Minis. Not sure what other models there are out there which would be right for this though. Scalextric have done a Mark 1 Escort which would fit in this class. What else is there (apart from Mustangs and Minis)? I have a Revel Lotus Cortina, and this is probably the worst handling car I have. It doesn't so much crash at the corners, more like it just falls over onto its side!

What other cars did you have in mind, George?

I understand the reasons why we need to have the majority of the races on the oval rather than the GT track. How often do you think the GT track should be used? Does bi-monthly work? I suppose this would work out roughly as 1 in 4 races on the GT track. So, 6 times a year, plus any special events that you might organise. That sounds fair enough to me, but I'm not the one working out the finances!

As I've said before, I'm pretty open-minded about what we run. LMP/GT is by far my favourite class, but as long as we're running a variety of other classes I'm happy!

Pretty easy when it comes to race formats too. I don't have any ideas or suggestions for this, but again, I suppose variety is the spice of life. One thing which has become clear during my brief racing career is that short sprint races seem to just end up as a crash fest! Everything else we've tried seems to work pretty well.

Cheers
Steve