[lee thorndike]

Hope you feel better soon steve.
Thought you were put off by the muscle cars.
We did a bit of car prep and ran them with fuel strategy and they ran very well.
This will be a great class eventually.
We also tested the new mod for pace cars and got up to 13 cars on track.
The next race night is on 15th of november and it will be club class.
Hopefully we can get more of an idea on the handycap system.
It seems to be working.
We ran it on the muscle car class and although george and I still took 1st and 2nd spots it was a lot closer.
One of the races finished with 3 of us crossing the finish on the last lap without us knowing who had won.
regards Lee

 

[Jango]

Not at all, Lee. I had been looking forward to it, but started feeling unwell on the train home from a meeting and just had to go home.

See you on the 15th.

Cheers
Steve

 

[lee thorndike]

So this thursday 29th november is the last scx nascar endurance of the year.
Hopefully be running 15 cars on track.
The only cars with power reduction is george and myself so should be a close last race.
Lee

 

[MPJBud]

I'll be there, how many laps do I need in order to win

 

[Jango]

I'll be there.

 

[Mr Modifier]

Hi guys -thought you might enjoy this photo!

 

[MPJBud]

Mr Modifier, that looks good but is not representative of racing style, my car would be spinning on its roof having mistimed my braking again, lee would have run out of fuel and crash would have grouped every one else onto the same cake

 

[lee thorndike]

I hope you all had a good xmas.
So now its back to some slot car racing.
This thursday the 3rd is a qualifying round.
Bring all your cars as we will be doing a quilifying for each class.
6 heats per class of two minutes each.points totaled up at the end of the night.
this is basically to get us all up to speed for the new years racing.
Lee

 

[Jango]

Happy new year.

Is Thursday's session going to be at the usual venue? You mentioned previously that you might have to move a number of meetings elsewhere early this year.

Looking forward to the new season!

Cheers
Steve

 

[lee thorndike]

The usual venue steve.(the garage/work shop)
We won,t be moving as the planed work has been posponed.
We may be moving elsewere on hall dates but in the basildon area still.
I wiil let everone know as soon as I can
Lee

 

[grimboracer]

Hi Lee

Just to let you know, i'm in the process of shift swapping, so insted of being on nights i will be on double days. 6-2, 2-10.

so as long as club night falls on earlys i should finally be able to come to your club

.

As soon as i know whats going on and when i'll call George as i dont have your number to find out what class you are running.

See you all soon.

 

[lee thorndike]

Excellent news Lee
Hopefully it falls right then.
I have posted a scheduale under the falcon raceway section.
We have plenty of spare cars you can use until you pick them up.
Regards Lee

 

[lee thorndike]

Time for an update
There will be no more racing at St Martins hall as they can,t accomodate us any more.
I am working on another venue for the 31st of January but the new building is being refurbished at present.
I will keep everyone updated this may meen we have to use the oval for this round.
This thursday will be the first round of Club nascars weather permitting.
Lastly have a look at the club website I have been building.
Hopefully see you all this thursday.
Lee

 

[GeorgeM]

Looking good Lee... !!

see you Thursday

 

[Jango]

Nice!

Is there an option for hosting video on there?

I notice the join/log-in function at the bottom of the site isn't working at the moment - is this a 'Work In Progress"?

Shame about the hall, hopefully you can sort out an alternative venue for the 31st. If not, do you plan to run the GT class on the oval, or will you swap it with one of the American Muscle or NASCAR rounds planned for later in the season?

See you Thursday.

Cheers
Steve

 

[lee thorndike]

Hi Steve
Yes there is an option for video.
The only problem is this is a free website so there are limitations.
You can pay for more but I only intended it to be a first point of contact.
I was quite impressed with it considering its free.
Once you get your head round it its also fairly easy.
I havn,t finished it yet but needed to get it up and running.
If I don,t get a space to run the gt round I think the best thing is to swap it with an oval round.
That way we don,t miss a Gt track race.
See you all thursday.
Lee

 

[lee thorndike]

Just had a call from the church today saying they will now let us have the hall for the 31st.
So the Gt race is on at st martins hall.
The results are on the website for the first club class round.
Also I have put some photos of the six new sections I have been building which will
lenghten the gt circuit by 12 feet and add another four lane changers.
It will also go to making the 84 foot Indy circuit.
Lee

 

[Jango]

Excellent news!

Cheers
Steve

 

[MPJBud]

Apologies for not having been around of late, Linda's medical problems continue and I am struggling to juggle my time enough to make it.

Website looks good, I'm afraid being a system tester, and pedant, on the schedule page you have 'o' in place of '0' in 2013

 

[lee thorndike]

No worries Martin
We will keep a place for you.
Wish Linda well from us all.
Thanks for pointing out my mistake I will check it out.
Im better with a hammer than computors.
Lee