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I wanted to open up a discussion on what classes we should be running.
We are starting the club (first official meeting 13th June 7pm) using my Amman Valley Raceway track. Although this will be our "club track" for a couple of months we should ignore it for the purposes of this debate and decide what sort of classes and races we want to run on our club tracks.
James started to have his CNC router built then realised the supplier had started building a 7'9" bed and not the 8' bed he ordered! They got short shrift and had to take it away and there is a delay of a couple of months while they deliver and build what he actually ordered and paid for!!!
Our club tracks are likely to be as follows:
1) a huge NASCAR oval (well more a rectangle with large radius corners).
2) a GT raceway with about 3/4 of the NASCAR oval but with some challenging twisty bits instead of one of the long straights
3) a rallycross track - more twisty than the GT raceway with some different racing surfaces
4) another rallycross track with a different configuration to add variety
All of the above will use the same start/finish section with a 3 lane start/finish straight and a double lane pits. they will all have 3 lanes throughout with embedded scalextric lane changers and copper taped routed slots.
We will also have some rally tracks - some on Scalextric classic track and some routed.
As an aside: we are going to acquire some club cars for the kids club and these will be GTs and the Scaley Start Endurance cars.
At our inaugural meeting we decided that, as most members/potential members have Scalextric Super Resistant GTs (with a handful of high detail GTs), we will run GTs as a definite. So that means Scalextric F430's, GT-R's, 997's, XKR's and Gallardos. I think that covers it. Stock motors, SSD chips and guides. Everything else as free choice. Stock motors because we are running SSD and there is a limit on available power and what the Scaley chips will handle. Stock guides because deep wooden track guides will rip the sensors out of the track and kill the racing.
We also decided at that meeting that we would use the SlotRallyGB classes for our rally tracks. These will be analogue and wired with the standard 3 pin socket.
This just leaves what you want to do with the NASCAR and Rallycross tracks.
Suggestions please
We are starting the club (first official meeting 13th June 7pm) using my Amman Valley Raceway track. Although this will be our "club track" for a couple of months we should ignore it for the purposes of this debate and decide what sort of classes and races we want to run on our club tracks.
James started to have his CNC router built then realised the supplier had started building a 7'9" bed and not the 8' bed he ordered! They got short shrift and had to take it away and there is a delay of a couple of months while they deliver and build what he actually ordered and paid for!!!
Our club tracks are likely to be as follows:
1) a huge NASCAR oval (well more a rectangle with large radius corners).
2) a GT raceway with about 3/4 of the NASCAR oval but with some challenging twisty bits instead of one of the long straights
3) a rallycross track - more twisty than the GT raceway with some different racing surfaces
4) another rallycross track with a different configuration to add variety
All of the above will use the same start/finish section with a 3 lane start/finish straight and a double lane pits. they will all have 3 lanes throughout with embedded scalextric lane changers and copper taped routed slots.
We will also have some rally tracks - some on Scalextric classic track and some routed.
As an aside: we are going to acquire some club cars for the kids club and these will be GTs and the Scaley Start Endurance cars.
At our inaugural meeting we decided that, as most members/potential members have Scalextric Super Resistant GTs (with a handful of high detail GTs), we will run GTs as a definite. So that means Scalextric F430's, GT-R's, 997's, XKR's and Gallardos. I think that covers it. Stock motors, SSD chips and guides. Everything else as free choice. Stock motors because we are running SSD and there is a limit on available power and what the Scaley chips will handle. Stock guides because deep wooden track guides will rip the sensors out of the track and kill the racing.
We also decided at that meeting that we would use the SlotRallyGB classes for our rally tracks. These will be analogue and wired with the standard 3 pin socket.
This just leaves what you want to do with the NASCAR and Rallycross tracks.
Suggestions please
