WHO Racing 2012 Round 1 - Modified - January 11

And here is the photo from earlier.

Still waiting on a black Aurora 4 Gear van and a set of brand new X-Traction chassis for my home track.

Incidentally, who would be interested in popping over for a race in the next month or so?



Andy and Dave worked ruddy hard to get the track running the other week! Time for a full race meeting methinks.

I think the WHO shop could be more popular than ever next Wednesday.

And it will be excellent if the McCann's do end up with the quick Tycos. The more people with ultra quick rocketships the better!

QUOTE (montoya1 @ 5 Jan 2012, 10:27) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>LeeH - you are a nutter, but in a good way. Glad to see you travelling all over for HO, just don't burn out.

Gareth, I think you will have to hand over your crown as KMIHO
I think you might be right! I'm still massively keen but I've had to temper it what with the kid coming. Having fun developing my racing cars and hoarding lots of nice looking cars on the side.

QUOTE (montoya1 @ 5 Jan 2012, 14:02) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Are you racing at Norwich Gareth?
I don't know to be honest still Deane. I'll have a look at the wall planner tomorrow and discuss it with Em to see if she is cool with me going. I am up for more racing obviously!!

I was round at Andy's this evening for a bit of tinker time while he wrestled with pinning a Tomy Turbo lexan BMW to a LifeLike T chassis for me. It was a tougher job than he anticipated and there was some swearing and dremeling of wheel arches going on!!

While he was doing that I was playing with a rear axle. With some fine tuning from Steady Hands himself, I've managed to get a nice new crown on there and have a set of double flange hubs to go on it. It means I have 4 or 5 quite potent cars for next week and possibly the beginnings of an EAHORC Mod car. My Porsche needs repainting for that though. It is in a sorry state.

Anyway if any of these cars go anywhere near as quick as I think they should I may be able to give John a run for his money for once! And Mike, Simon, Robin, Andy and Darren who all have very quick cars as well.

The purple Tycos look fantastic up close. Well worth whatever price they end up with.

Oh and Lee, your LifeLike T is looking very nice too. I didn't bend it or anything either!

QUOTE (Dazmeister @ 6 Jan 2012, 21:38) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Now that is funny!

I think I am ready for Wednesday with my Martech Marchon probably running either one of two newly aquired Scalextric Porsche 911 bodies. Also picked up two more Marchons with Group C bodies and yellow chassis which are up for sale. Callum will probably run a Turbo but those purple things look nice and it is his birthday next week.

Oh and my operation got cancelled by a phone call a few hours before I was due to go in as there was no beds!
Not good news about the operation.

I might be interested in one or both of those Marchons. Have you listed them on the bay?

No worries Mike. I'll put some in my pitbox for you. As I say they do need glueing in so won't be any good for this meeting.

I'm looking forward to finishing race prepping my cars tonight and tomorrow. I'll post some photos when I'm completed.....hopefully late enough to prevent anyone duplicating them straight away!

I will be a happy man if the MR-1 reign of dominance is ended on Wednesday....especially if I'm the one to do it. I do have the usual quandary of not knowing which car to run though as I've prepped three different chassis types.

They'll certainly stand out from the ever growing field of lexans!!

Be good to see them running.

Fantastic evening tonight. Strangely the fastest cars ever seen at The Barn during the longest meeting seen!

And the cars were seriously fast tonight. I loved seeing people with new ultra speedy cars putting them to good use such as Mike M with his Harden Creek Tyco. And Andy's Mega G was stunning to watch too. If he can sort the gremlins then that will definitely be a race winner. Super smooth and incredibly quiet running. I would say John's car was amazing to watch but it was too quick to see.

Nice to meet Lee H. Never seen someone look so glum about being knocked out of the A Final....I suppose I've not seen my own face when Mr Player has repeatedly done it to me in the past!

I think the absolute stand out driver of the evening though was Ned Dadson and not just because he beat me by 4 laps in the C Final! He drove brilliantly through all of his heats and the final as well. I think he even managed a couple of perfect runs with no offs.

I'm fairly pleased with my own car developments. I was experimenting with tyre heights throughout the evening, starting on .448s and ending on .430s which slowed the car a bit but made it super quick in the turns. A 2.8 second lap to match John's early pace isn't to be sniffed at. And if I'd stayed with the same car for Heat 2 instead of trying something else.....Who Knows!!

I'm really looking forward to seeing the stats and photos on this one. And I'm really, really looking forward to placing a further order for parts with Fortunate Robert!

Great job everyone, roll on Nascar.

QUOTE (woodcote @ 12 Jan 2012, 08:16) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Gareth switched from his usual 'Various' to a mere 'Several' last night. One day he will find a couple of chassis to concentrate on

His Life Like was pretty fast, so Ned's 'C' final win was all the more impressive.
Actually I only ran a LifeLike for a single run during my disastrous white lane heat. I went straight into the lead and then stacked it on the first lap which took the body off and then it got dropped on the floor which bent the pickup spring hanger thing so the car was dead.

The rest of the evening I only ran one chassis which was one of my SG+s. Surprising I know! Does anyone have any idea why it was making so much noise? I'm not fussed about it unless it is costing me performance but it would be nicer to have a WhisperJet like Andy's Mega G.

The pinned LifeLike didn't have the poise and grip I was after when I tried it in practise so I left it in the pitbox for the racing. It will be having some serious upgrades though in time for April!

I'm pleased that Andy showed that you can get MR-1 equalling performance out of a different chassis.

I'm very excited about this Mod season. I hope I can make the last 3 rounds.

Great video Andy. And a lightning fast production time. Have you actually been to bed yet or are you still wired from your white lane heat?

My old phone was a Nokia touchscreen which might explain why I was able to view the videos on there whereas now I am a slave to the mighty Android.

I've just been looking at the scoresheet again. Ned's performance is even better than I previously suspected as his 52 laps was good enough for 2nd in the A Final which means he drove that car quicker than Daddy Dadson did! And my 48.8 just edged Darren's score as well although he was a bit held up by Hannah forgetting she was holding his car while trying to help Andy get going. It really shows how important it is to get as much practise as possible before the race, learn your car and drive consistently (and without "outside interference!!) in the heats.

I also like the spread of machinery in the Top 8 with four different chassis types in the A Final and 6 different types across the A and B finals. Andrew mentioned to me that his Artin hadn't changed since the last Mod round so there is definitely more speed coming from that car.

John's car did look ominously quick last night but I think there is a lot more to come from elsewhere and there is a good chance of another car winning next time out.