GVSCC Targa 2

[Retro Racer 44]

Good news is that I am almost 100% on the mend. Bad news is that our track host, Mike will be away all of this weekend.

Here is the new plan.

Thursday afternoon, Dec 1st, Race #6 at Mike's Airport.

Saturday afternoon, Dec 3rd, final race on Luf's Targa.

I hope nothing changes these times, as they are still not firm, and at least a week later than planned.

Cheers,

Keith

Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow to all our friends in the US.

[Retro Racer 44]

We Ran the Surrey Airport

With owner Mike back from his recent trip, we gathered in his shop to run the proxy race on the Surrey Airport. Both Mike and his wife are retired Air Canada pilots, so the setting seemed appropriate.

As any airport track would be, the racing surface is flat with 0 camber on all corners. Mike's track was only built this past spring, so not all the drivers were very familiar with it. A few minutes of testing other cars soon got them ready for the proxy cars.

We started with the class A slowest cars and worked our way up. We wanted to avoid rush hour, so started at 11am and were done by 3pm. We drove two minute heats per lane.

All cars ran well with the exception of one car that we thought had an issue. It turned out to be the controller to blame, so a quick switch and redo the heat and all was well.

Mike's track has 3.5" lane centres with no squeezes. It was CNC routed so had no issues. It was great to see many of these cars running door to door, lap after lap.

Now to the results.

CAR # Entrant Total Laps

100 Dennis Samson 39.8
15 Dariusz Pawlowski 37.7
11 Keith Hines 37.7
152 Barbs Hills 37.1
602 Adrian Pawlowski 36.5
150 Steve Morrow 36.2
142 Dave Capelen 36.2
36 Daniel Heald 36.2
23 Bob Chapman 36.1
148 Mike Buss 35.2
146 Mike Dove 35.1
29 Luf Linkert 34.7
74 Bill Beggs 32.4
104 Alan Schwartz 30.2


1 Chris Walker 43.9
13 Ron Todhunter 42.3
56 Andy White 41.7
2 Leon Luke 41.4
85 Steve Williams 41.4
48 Bob Goulet 41.2
63 Russell Sheldon 40.1
12 Allan Jarvis 39.9
58 Brian Samson 39.7
6 Tony Bovard 39.6
33 Perry Roussy 39.4
3 Dale Carstensen 39.3
33 Tony Palmer 39.1
7 Jon Grainger 38.5
5 Christian Mayer 37.6
36 Robert Bance 37.3
4 Leo Capaldi 36.9
29 Mike Gatey 36.3
111 Keith Wells 35.4


You can see in Class A that Dennis's #100 has regained its form and once again took top spot. There was a tie for second, which breaks my streak of straight thirds. I think I can accept that. The white Cobra of Barbs Hills, continues to lead the Manx snakes.

In Class B, Chris's Chevron pulled away from the pack to post a stunning win. Ron's Lola continues its podiums and there was a strong cluster of cars just off the podium.

I will update the leaderboard shortly, and Luf will post video once he has edited it.

Next and last race of this series will be held this Saturday afternoon, with result following shortly thereafter.

Hopefully, all cars will make it home before the Christmas mail rush.

Stay tuned,

Keith

[Retro Racer 44]

Here is the updated leader board with a few changes of order in the ranks.

Cheers,

Keith

[Retro Racer 44]

Luf's video of today's race is here-



Thanks to Alwyn, Murray, Dan, Brian, Mike and Luf, for your efforts today.

Cheers,

Keith

[Rleog]

Good to see the GVSCC back on track and Keith apparently feeling much better.

Thoroughly enjoyed the video. Lots of oversteering evident on the runways and some very close racing. Wish I knew the secret of getting my urethanes better grip.

Looks like the third step on the podium for both classes will be decided on Luf's Targa Saturday.

Well done, guys. :bow-blue:

[Audi1]

Congrats to the podium cars in each class. Nice horizon job wins for both Dennis and Chris! :handgestures-thumbup: :handgestures-thumbup:

Very cool video, as usual.

On to the big track - in reverse.............

Allan

[Brumos RSR]

Thank you Kieth and the team for a great run and video. Congrats to the Podium guys . That's a really neat track btw

[steeveew]

Thanks to the host,and helpers,for running this round.
Congrats to the podium finishers.
Looking forward to the finale.




Steve

[gascarnut]

As always a great report and video, thanks to all involved. The Airport looks like a fun track, must be pretty confusing at first with all the back and forth movement.

Good to see my buddy Alwyn driving, you know that the cars will get a good workout with him on a controller.

Congrats to the podiumites, and to those who are leading the overall standings.

Dennis

[SuperSlab]

Thanks for the kind words Dennis. And I must say I always greatly enjoy driving proxy cars. There is always something new and different to be learned and the good cars are always VERY good!

But the biggest thing is that I just plain love driving slot cars! :D

Alwyn

[oldslotracer]

Hi Guys
Keith has had a relapse and is back in the hospital. I saw him today and he hopes to be home early next week.
He will post the results when he's feeling a bit better and will be mailing the proxy cars after the Christmas rush.
Meanwhile you can watch the video, but there's no hints on who won...

[Retro Racer 44]

Hi all:
Just a quick note. I got back home today after a week of excellent government health care. I tallied the results last Saturday, but I don't trust my mental math. So tomorrow, I'll get the final results posted.

Thank you all for your patience.

Keith

[Rleog]

Great to see that you're back and apparently feeling much better, Keith.

[Brumos RSR]

Keep getting better my friend

[chappy]

Heres to your Good Health Keith
Cheers
Bob