The Construction of The THORNDIKE OVAL

Just to let you all know Lee has started work on the NEW Sections for the GT Track

Hopefull he has remembered to take some Photo's then I will update the thread

Michael

Thanks Mike

Any race night feel free to pop down and the first night is on us

ps we have donuts as well

So as promised here is the latest update to the track

A new curve being constructed



New STRAIGHTS Being "Routed"



The NEW Jig for keeping it all inline



Don't think it's going to fit in there





Looking Good



More to follow once it's braided and painted and ready to race

Michael

Not sure yet as it will need to be in a hall

Just need to find one that is reasonable to hire

And the Oval will allways run every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month

To be fair to Lee There were no real issues with the track

The track started out life by going to be a plain Analogue oval then myself and Lee was talking at the club one night and I said about making it digital

Some errors were made early on but more thru Lee thinking like an analogue track rather than digital
And also down to the fact that the track is modular and can be erected and rigged ready to race in well under 1/2 an Hour from it being in the back of his truck

The only other problems we have had were with SSDC V5 not seeming to like the large race data we built up by running in a club race environment
over many race meetings and in trying different connectors to extend the controllers that caused us some issues and the powerbase USB cable conectors being a bit tempermental with the junction box to use the laptower

Last Summer the Track ran for 2 hours at my son's summer fate with over 25 races run without any problems
we were using SSDC V4 and a bunch of 5 to 10 year olds and to say it took a pounding is an understatement

I would confidently say that if we were to design and build a track from scratch I would be able to say it would work from the word go

All the problems were actually easily sorted once I got a chance with Lee to run a TEST session one morning
just the two of us as the track had had all its testing in a race night environment ( not a good idea )

Also SSDC is a lot more complex to get all the settings right than a general analogue race program that only counts laps

Michael

So only a couple of pictures

Lee's FIRST Custom ROUTED Lane change giving you your last chance to get to the inside for the Pits



A NEW Addition for the OVAL A BANKED CORNER



More to come soon

They connect together with Bolts and rest on a wooden plate

Each section has connectors that daisy chain around the track so no loss of power

And I will say it is the JOB and can be put up in 15 mins easy