ROAR - The Concourse and First Race Qualification Run

[Audi1]

[btaylor]

Congrats Guys! some great looking cars in this race.
And thanks to the Judges for their time on this!
Bob

[urbanwarrior]

Thank you to the judges. And I must say I am a little surprised at my second place finish. That car was my later entry at Allan's urging.
Thanks again,
John

[McLiams]

Congratulations to the top lookers.

A shot of the three together?

[Audi1]

OK, but it will be four............... :whistle: Look for the pic tomorrow at the bottom of the first post.

Allan

[TuscoTodd]

Slick way to do the judging as that couldn't have been easy as there are a LOT of nice looking rides in this field!
:text-bravo:

Congrats to our podium finishers!
:banana-dance:

[McLiams]

[Audi1]

We ran today's Race #1 qualification as a series of individual heats. For each car, there was first a 10 lap practice session, so that the driver could get used to the car, followed by a 10 lap heat for best lap time and average lap time. Bob Bianchi from Slot Car Corner ran the cars for all practice sessions and all qualification heats.

We ran the cars numerically, from lowest (#1), to highest (#230); one after the other. Tires on all cars were swiped before the start of the practice session and again before the start of the heat. All practice sessions and heats were run in the white (middle) lane.

The track and lane slot was vacuumed before the start of the qualification run and the surface was further cleaned with a tack cloth.

Best lap times give an indication of what the car can do on this track; the fastest it can go, while average lap times give an indication of how easy it is to drive. When the best lap time and the average lap time are close, the car is easy to drive (very few, if any deslots); when the average lap time is significantly higher than the best lap time, the car is less easy to drive and there are apt to be more deslots.

Here are the qualification run results from today.

Car # - Best Lap time - Average Lap time

1 - 9.474 - 9.71
3 - 7.082 - 7.12
4 - 7.354 - 7.42
5 - 7.556 - 7.69
8 - 8.260 - 8.32
11 - 7.583 - 7.70
16 - 9.651 - 10.06
20 - 7.462 - 7.73
22 - 8.114 - 8.20
23 - 7.911 - 8.07
27 - 7.125 - 7.19
30 - 7.638 - 7.85
36 - 9.283 - 9.68
40 - 9.198 - 9.30 (this is actually car #4T, but since the Trackmate software won't take letters, it races as 40)
44 - 7.538 - 7.58
45 - 7.805 - 7.85
51 - 7.919 - 7.94
63 - 7.020 - 7.04
64 - 8.636 - 8.73
67 - 6.989 - 7.06
71 - 8.674 - 9.18
89 - 7.844 - 8.25
230 8.190 - 8.32 (this is actually car #23C, but, as above, it can't race with Trackmate with a letter, so it races as 230)

That's it for the qualification run. We had a great time running the cars. They're all different and they're all a blast to drive! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Videos to follow once Photobucket and I become "friends" again................

Allan

[Audi1]

[chappyman66]

Well.....might not be fast, but at least it's reasonably pretty!
Thanks for the concours judging!

[steeveew]

I'm just a spectator, but congrats to the # 63 car.
Not only did it win concourse, but was also TQ.

Steve

P.S.
It appears I misread the Q results,my apologies.

[TuscoTodd]

Great to see the videos of some of the qualifying! I hope you are able to get the one of my #89 car to work as I would love to see it zipping around your track! :D

Thanks for sharing the qualifying and videos!
:text-goodpost:

[Rleog]

A huge round of applause for the River Run crew and the factory driver from Slot Car Corner. A lot of effort went into bringing this proxy to its current state and it has now reached the fun stages. Looking forward to Saturday, whatever the results.

For now, I'm a lucky guy!

:text-thankyouyellow:

[btaylor]

Great stuff here Allan! Your efforts are really showing up on this. Great video's. and reporting as well. I only hope I can do half as well at my turn. This is another proxy where we have all won already. Just seeing these cars, and track together is a lot of fun, and that's what we are all here for.
Thanks again to you, and the whole crew.

Bob

[McLiams]

Q DRIVABILITY SORT.pdfQ AVG LAP SORT.pdfQ AVG LAP SORT.pdfSome comparisons in the attached files. Looks like that #63 is going to be tough to beat.

Good luck to all...

Mc