DFCP 2019 Race 3 Ivoryton Raceway

[RichD]

Time trials are scheduled for Sunday afternoon with the races being held on Wednesday evening, June 5th.

[ALS]

Thankyou Very Much Rich .Thanks Adrian

[RichD]

[RichD]

COT field


COT TQs


COY field


COY TQs

[k0z0oo1]

Rich, thanks for posting! Can’t wait for the race

[REL13]

I ran the time trials today. I ran on the white lane. Sandy and I ran all the cars the same way, Sandy ran the COY class and I ran the COT class. First we cleaned the tires and ran about 15 laps, Then we cleaned the tires again and ran about 5 to 10 laps more to make sure we got all the speed we could. We hope to run the race this Wed. 6/5. REL13

[arroldn]

Rel,
Thanks for hosting and qualifying. Looking forward to race results. Can my COY cars race into the top ten? Maybe the #43. COT cars just seem to be tired. Or I need to get a new chassis engineer.

Hats off to all the top qualifiers. May everyone be pleased with how they finish :o

[Pepsi62]

Congrats to both of the classes top qualifiers, and to the hosts for getting it done, look forward to the racing action, hoping for a little better results than Qualifying

[RichD]

The four outside lanes were used. We had eight drivers available, so four drivers did the COY race and the other four did the COT race. The drivers stayed with their lanes and the cars rotated. We only assigned fractional laps when there were ties.

[RichD]

COY podium


COT podium

[k0z0oo1]

Congratulation to my fellow podium winners! Thanks to Robert and crew for hosting, and to a RichD for posting the results.

Looks like very competitive racing through the middle of both classes.

I’ve had a Flash Drive meltdown, and may have lost my spreadsheet with all the points calculations... so it may take me a few days to get points updated.

[arroldn]

Congratulations to all of the podium finishers. Team Martin's cars struggled at this venue. On to the next round.

[Pepsi62]

thanks to the host for getting the racing done, congrats to those that made the podium, well done

absolute shocker for me!! over 20 laps down on 2 cars and the best result was 13 laps down, got a looong way to go with this proxy stuff

[ALS]

Will there be any times posted for the race. Laps are great I need to see the times. Thanks Adrian ALS

[RichD]

Trackmate is supposed to save the race results as a text file, it would be nice if it saved the race as an Excel file like Race Coordinator does. It is too bad that I did not shoot a picture of the screen at the end of each race. There were a lot of ties and Trackmate does not always break ties correctly, so were were mostly concerned with those. When the cars were done they were parked in an unused inside lane. In the case of a tie a fraction of a lap was added to break the tie, often Trackmate had it wrong, for example in the COY race cars 2, 84 and 62 all had 129 laps. The actual finishing order was 84, 2 and 62. 2 and 62 were VERY close in fact. When you race on a small oval your lap times will not be consistent. If you catch a slower car that is on your inside and that car is sliding all over the place you will have trouble making a pass and you could easily lose a lap or two. If you did try a pass and got bumped off you would be likely to lose at least half a lap. Another issue is that each driver would only have a particular car for a single heat. When the power comes on you never know how the car will drive. We usually tell the next driver that gets the car how much brake it will need, in any case it will usually take a few laps to get up to speed and a controller adjustment might be needed. It is difficult to make on the fly controller adjustments when you are racing on a small oval.
The fact is that many cars will not have race laps that are as good as their qualifying laps. For the next race I will try to get screen shots of the results.