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Steve - you are correct the short sprint races just don't work in Digital
It is just a crash fest every time
The longer endurance races work the best, but this means that we can't run 2 classes in a race night
So some simple maths
If we start nexts year Calender on the first Thursday of the new year we get 26 race nights up until the 19th of Dec
Currently we have 4 classes to fit in, as we are adding the other club cars class, this would make it 5 next year.
So if things stayed the same we would race our cars 5 times in the year
This is if we carry on only racing one class per night
As I think Lee had down for 6 NASCAR championship rounds
LeMans night is a whole night event plus we need the hall so extra cost - to work best we would need 3/4 more racers for this night to be self funding
SCX NASCARS personally I like this class, lots of different liverys to be had and pretty close racing
One mod we could do is to replace the SCX rear wheels with slot.its thus alowing us to run silicones very easily
This would also remove the need for any tyre prep in this class and once again even the playing field
Cost would only be in the region of £7.50 per car as the slot.it wheels slip straight on
American Muscle personally this is a difficult class, as I can see there are lots of cars to choose from but only one or two will be any good
There is no way that the Pioneer motor is the same as the scalextric one
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Also the race format did just not work at all, was a stock car race night
So this gives us 5 classes to fit in, personally this is enough for just meeting every 2nd week
Now if we ran more often ............
So Race Formats
I don't know if you all know or are even aware that in SSDC I can vary the fuel usage, the fuel tank size, the rate at which you refuel and also the power loss from an empty tank to a full tank.
NASCAR Championship is a 100 lap race with current numbers this does leave a little spare time at end of evening as a race takes about 8 minuets in this class and with no need to ID cars etc it moves along nicely so each heat is completed and swapped over in 10 minuets so we are done in under an hour and a half
This leaves us with possibility of a class on the end. I would say let's have the muscle cars here. Race format could be
A 40 lap race but with fuel, but very minimal power loss for a full tank but a tank Flat out would only do 25 laps maximum
Thus if you drive carefully you could stretch that to race distance or do you stop? But let's slow down the refuelling so you loose a few laps? Will your speed gain be enough?
LeMans LMP & GT class runs well just need to be more organised with car IDing and car choice
SCX NASCARS runs well as a timed endurance
Steve - you are correct the short sprint races just don't work in Digital
It is just a crash fest every time
The longer endurance races work the best, but this means that we can't run 2 classes in a race night
So some simple maths
If we start nexts year Calender on the first Thursday of the new year we get 26 race nights up until the 19th of Dec
Currently we have 4 classes to fit in, as we are adding the other club cars class, this would make it 5 next year.
So if things stayed the same we would race our cars 5 times in the year
This is if we carry on only racing one class per night
As I think Lee had down for 6 NASCAR championship rounds
LeMans night is a whole night event plus we need the hall so extra cost - to work best we would need 3/4 more racers for this night to be self funding
SCX NASCARS personally I like this class, lots of different liverys to be had and pretty close racing
One mod we could do is to replace the SCX rear wheels with slot.its thus alowing us to run silicones very easily
This would also remove the need for any tyre prep in this class and once again even the playing field
Cost would only be in the region of £7.50 per car as the slot.it wheels slip straight on
American Muscle personally this is a difficult class, as I can see there are lots of cars to choose from but only one or two will be any good
There is no way that the Pioneer motor is the same as the scalextric one
Also the race format did just not work at all, was a stock car race night
So this gives us 5 classes to fit in, personally this is enough for just meeting every 2nd week
Now if we ran more often ............
So Race Formats
I don't know if you all know or are even aware that in SSDC I can vary the fuel usage, the fuel tank size, the rate at which you refuel and also the power loss from an empty tank to a full tank.
NASCAR Championship is a 100 lap race with current numbers this does leave a little spare time at end of evening as a race takes about 8 minuets in this class and with no need to ID cars etc it moves along nicely so each heat is completed and swapped over in 10 minuets so we are done in under an hour and a half
This leaves us with possibility of a class on the end. I would say let's have the muscle cars here. Race format could be
A 40 lap race but with fuel, but very minimal power loss for a full tank but a tank Flat out would only do 25 laps maximum
Thus if you drive carefully you could stretch that to race distance or do you stop? But let's slow down the refuelling so you loose a few laps? Will your speed gain be enough?
LeMans LMP & GT class runs well just need to be more organised with car IDing and car choice
SCX NASCARS runs well as a timed endurance
