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Hi all or should I say Bonjour!!!
Welcome to the next installment of the SCX World Proxy rally event.
We have picked up the gauntlet at the last moment to run a UK 3 round replacing the cancelled French round
I hear some of the entrants lower down saying "Oh no not another pasting by the Fiats well there may be a few surprises.
We have some more stages tucked away in the corners of our club ready for use plus our shall we say main race track to open up the cars down some long straights with fast corners
So without further delay and waffle from me, lets get on with the track guides this week.
Firstly
Stage 1
Le Airfield 15 laps of twists and turns
Not a bad course for any car but the sharp turns (at the far end on photo) need some mastering, with either deslots or guide snagging the problems if you are to slow
10 second laps If you are lucky!!
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Stage 2
Le Quarry another small compact course with surface changes you need to be nimble,
fast, good at cornering with quick acceleration. 5 second laps here!!!
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Stage 3
Le International White lane Smooth long straights banked corners with some tight fast turns good balance required again 10 second laps
12 laps on this one
A shot taken at the last SCX Proxy of the International (Zero 5 John in green shirt Jexy in the White shirt)
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Once again our expierenced club members will supply the trigger fingers, and each will drive all the cars on the same stage they are nominated to run
For those who missed the shake down comments from the last round here they are again:-
We cleaned the braids,tyres etc and three of us inspected the cars last night and gave them a test shakedown run on a non event track
The findings were limited to six words max if required
so
mini 177 Stable drives well
Stratos 26 Poor braking effect
renault 8TS 101 Good All round
Stratos 05 jumps around under acceleration
Alpine 01 Good and stable
131 04 Poor braking effect rolls on
124 07 good and stable
5 turbo 15 good and stable
escort 10 tips very easy on corners
alpine 14 corners poorly
Sunbeam 16 good speed everywhere
sierra 18 very smooth, but tips
escort 50 lacks straight line speed
131 52 fast all round
131 55 stable but brakes to one side
sunbeam 56 lacks speed
131 61 smoooooooth
131 102 handles poor in tight corner
citroen DS 195 corners well for big narrow car
131 20 good speed brakes to one side
gto 03 unstable but quick
celica 11 bumps and jumps
959 09 smoot and steady
celica 11 bumps and jumps around, brakes awkwardly
037 17 brakes to one side
S4 19 nice in corners
037 28 smooth
RS200 66 also smooth
959 99 corners well hops under acceleration
gto 103 handling is nice
037 305 brakes to one side
These are the opinions of a couple of our younger members and may not be of use to gauge the event as we have differing types of circuit to be used, but they did test them on the International circuit but not the stage lane!!
Should be interesting and very different from last time, I can assure you! watch this space.
Bon apetite (or something like that)
Ian J
Welcome to the next installment of the SCX World Proxy rally event.
We have picked up the gauntlet at the last moment to run a UK 3 round replacing the cancelled French round
I hear some of the entrants lower down saying "Oh no not another pasting by the Fiats well there may be a few surprises.
We have some more stages tucked away in the corners of our club ready for use plus our shall we say main race track to open up the cars down some long straights with fast corners
So without further delay and waffle from me, lets get on with the track guides this week.
Firstly
Stage 1
Le Airfield 15 laps of twists and turns
Not a bad course for any car but the sharp turns (at the far end on photo) need some mastering, with either deslots or guide snagging the problems if you are to slow
10 second laps If you are lucky!!
Stage 2
Le Quarry another small compact course with surface changes you need to be nimble,
fast, good at cornering with quick acceleration. 5 second laps here!!!
Stage 3
Le International White lane Smooth long straights banked corners with some tight fast turns good balance required again 10 second laps
12 laps on this one
A shot taken at the last SCX Proxy of the International (Zero 5 John in green shirt Jexy in the White shirt)
Once again our expierenced club members will supply the trigger fingers, and each will drive all the cars on the same stage they are nominated to run
For those who missed the shake down comments from the last round here they are again:-
We cleaned the braids,tyres etc and three of us inspected the cars last night and gave them a test shakedown run on a non event track
The findings were limited to six words max if required
so
mini 177 Stable drives well
Stratos 26 Poor braking effect
renault 8TS 101 Good All round
Stratos 05 jumps around under acceleration
Alpine 01 Good and stable
131 04 Poor braking effect rolls on
124 07 good and stable
5 turbo 15 good and stable
escort 10 tips very easy on corners
alpine 14 corners poorly
Sunbeam 16 good speed everywhere
sierra 18 very smooth, but tips
escort 50 lacks straight line speed
131 52 fast all round
131 55 stable but brakes to one side
sunbeam 56 lacks speed
131 61 smoooooooth
131 102 handles poor in tight corner
citroen DS 195 corners well for big narrow car
131 20 good speed brakes to one side
gto 03 unstable but quick
celica 11 bumps and jumps
959 09 smoot and steady
celica 11 bumps and jumps around, brakes awkwardly
037 17 brakes to one side
S4 19 nice in corners
037 28 smooth
RS200 66 also smooth
959 99 corners well hops under acceleration
gto 103 handling is nice
037 305 brakes to one side
These are the opinions of a couple of our younger members and may not be of use to gauge the event as we have differing types of circuit to be used, but they did test them on the International circuit but not the stage lane!!
Should be interesting and very different from last time, I can assure you! watch this space.
Bon apetite (or something like that)
Ian J
