[asjwood]

That's great news Lee! Hopefully it will be a good night and get him interested...

In what may or may not be good news, my SRT arrived yesterday. No time to do anything to it so it will hit the track tomorrow, and who knows how it will go... The F1 body certainly isn't the prettiest, the angle on the nose is not unlike those on the majority of the 2012 F1 cars!

 

[LeeH]

Great nights racing all very close in every final in both Super F1 and Club Class. From a personal stand point very happy with two 4th places. I think that a good showing at the premier club in national rankings.

 

[Jimb0]

Great laugh last night. Really enjoyed both classes, particularly the GT cars. Real close racing. Good to see KMIHO again who brought KMIHOBIL Karl along for his first HO meet.

 

[Gareth]

QUOTE (asjwood @ 14 Feb 2012, 22:37) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>That's great news Lee! Hopefully it will be a good night and get him interested...

In what may or may not be good news, my SRT arrived yesterday. No time to do anything to it so it will hit the track tomorrow, and who knows how it will go... The F1 body certainly isn't the prettiest, the angle on the nose is not unlike those on the majority of the 2012 F1 cars!
How did it run?

I've always liked the Turbo/SRT F1 body as it was the first car I had. And if you wikipedia the Williams FW-10 from 1985, you can see that the SRT body is actually pretty well modelled on that car. Ok they weren't the best looking F1 cars ever but it is accurate!!

Cheers

Gareth

 

[Leet]

Very good event last night, well done to all the came. I thought that the Scaley GT cars were brilliant and there were some amazing close heats, inparticular the race where Roy beat Jim by an inch. As for the 'Super F1' the racing was crazy at time with Jim's 'Super F1' putting in some gob-smacking laps and only narrowly beaten by Paul R.

Had a quick look at some of the video footage and some of it looks quiet manic. But hey the SCHORC for ya.

 

[LeeH]

My KMIHO title I'm going to have to retire for someone else to claim

 

[Gareth]

What do you mean you are retiring from being KMIHO? Are you giving up racing or just scaling back (no pun intended) on the amount of events your are doing?

I saw your FB post that you were thinking of quitting karting as well. What on earth is going on!!

 

[montoya1]

My guess is Lee has overdone it during the week and needs to cut back. He has two major hobbies when some struggle with one. He gives both 110%, but things like 370 mile round trips to run an obsolete dhorc club car will burn him out.

We will miss him, but I think we will see him climbing the Kart rankings too. Things have a habit of changing, who knows in 3 years time we could have both the former KMIHOs duking it out for a national title....

 

[LeeH]

Not stopping all together just scaling back as need to do more karting as captaining my own team at the British 24 hour kart race and want to go to the world championships next year still going to do schorc and eahorc but need to get more regular kart practice in

 

[Gareth]

You broke your last post on SCHORC announcement! Tut tut!

I agree, I think it is burn out. I had a suspicion this would happen. I love going racing but I wouldn't want to do it more than every couple of weeks. That way it keeps the excitement level brimming and ready to rock. And trying to travel that long to so many mid week races is just asking for burn out! From doing band rehearsals three times a week and with additional song writing sessions as well, I can say with confidence that even the most pleasurable of our hobbies can become a burden when done to excess!

Lee, pick and choose the meetings you most enjoy doing and possibly the ones with the greatest chance of success. I don't think that scaling back loses you your title.

And I cannot wait to get back to racing nationally again. And eventually bringing Junior with me as well.

As soon as we're moved out to the sticks (outskirts of Brighton!), we'll get wheels which will make it so much easier for me to attend meetings.

 

[montoya1]

Makes sense Lee. That 24hr looks intense.

Gareth - I did not think about this being in the SCHORC section. Oops. Let's see what happens...

 

[Gareth]

QUOTE (LeeH @ 16 Feb 2012, 13:58) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Not stopping all together just scaling back as need to do more karting as captaining my own team at the British 24 hour kart race and want to go to the world championships next year still going to do schorc and eahorc but need to get more regular kart practice in
Does this mean I should head to Ladbrokes and stick a tenner on Ned Dadson being crowned WHO Rookie of the Year?

 

[LeeH]

Very possibly yes it a shame but got a lot of hard work between now and the 24 hour and hopefully worlds next year

 

[Gareth]

Going back to the SF round 1 event!

I'm looking forward to seeing the stats and results from this race along with the photos. The class bears some similarity with WHO's F1 class (although there are some rule differences between the two) so I'd like to see what chassis were running well and who was driving what.

Photos should be good too.

 

[LeeH]

My mega g ran so much better cos was able to have .418's on it

 

[montoya1]

Gareth - It's also a throwback to an old EAHORC class called class I. This was for the strong magnets, mostly closed wheel but occasionally we ran it morning and afternoon, with F1 in the mornings. Those double headers would be balanced by class II doubles, Tyco vs M F1 in the morning, Tyco vs Turbo Nascar in the afternoon.

The class I F1s were fun, I ran a Marchon of course especially with all the flak going around, but I did not miss those fugly bodies when we dropped Class I and Class II and moved on to the early version of what we see now at nationals.

I'm sure seeing the pictures from last night will give me a sense of de-javu therefore.

Lee - did you run with a Wizz front end? Sanded O-rings?

There, that's two posts

 

[Gareth]

QUOTE (montoya1 @ 16 Feb 2012, 14:15) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>There, that's two posts

Three actually!

Being able to run 418s on a Mega G is a definite difference compared to WHO which retains the 458 height. Man, I cannot wait for that race!!

 

[montoya1]

Do you mean 453 Gareth?

 

[LeeH]

Yes wizzard front axle but not been sanded at all. Was hoping for better finish in a final but after winning b final and the intense battle that me, al and Tony had I didn't care just happy had won that.

 

[slowracer]

QUOTE (montoya1 @ 16 Feb 2012, 14:26) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Do you mean 453 Gareth?

And that now makes 4 in one day!!