Carrera Scramble 2019 - Round 7 - Kozo Raceway Park

[k0z0oo1]

Cars arrived Over the past weekend. I will assemble the troops and post as soon as we have a race date scheduled.

Here is a picture of the track


Kozokas Raceway Park
3-lane routed MDF
Adjustable power supply, set at 10v
Drivers bring personal controllers for better feel
Race Coordinator timing/scoring with Arduino

[kidvoltage]

Great news, thanks for the update!

[arroldn]

No picture.

[k0z0oo1]

Race is scheduled for this coming Tuesday. I think I’m going to try to do some qualifying tonight, I will post updates

[k0z0oo1]

Here are the qualifying results. There is a rather large gap between the fastest and slowest cars, some have speed and handling, some have speed with no handling, and some have handling with no speed... I will add comments on all cars with the race results.

[ALS]

Scott Thankyou Very Much,and your crew for your time on the Q round

[lancelotalove]

Thanks for hosting and the qualifying and upcoming race. Intresting shakeup in the qualifying places.
What are the usual tires used on this track, urethane, silicon, rubber. Also what voltage are we qualifying at and what voltage is the race? lance

[k0z0oo1]

As stated in the opening post track runs at 10v.

As for tire compound, we run everything. Silicone, rubber, urethane... it all goes and it all has good grip. Most recentally it has been urethane as my track has basically sit idle since we were building the DaVols Cup cars for this season.

My track favors a good handling quick accelerating car. When a car takes a while to spool up it usually has soft brakes, and the corners need to be driven deep for best lap times. Also, for qualifying I go for purely best lap time... this does not necessarily mean it is the easiest to drive and may not be capable of maintaining pace for a full 3 minute heat.

I cannot guarantee, but I will try to do a love broadcast for the race. I’ll post links and such if/when I can.

[ALS]

Nice track Scott Thanks to you and your Crew Adrian

[k0z0oo1]

[k0z0oo1]

Race 7 has been completed. I did not drive the A class cars, so I do not have comments about driving characteristics. I do have hot take notes on the B class cars. I was surprised how some of the B class cars changed between qualifying and racing. I was surprised by a few to say the least. One thing I can say, our driver in the blue lane only knows how to drive one way, and he definitely treated each car that same... weather or not that's how the car wanted to be driven.

3Y - noise, a little loose
3W - needs smooth trigger, felt decent
24 - much more loose than in qualifying, in same lane.
19G - smooth, loose at the end
3B - loose when pushed, faded throughout the run
83 - smooth and quick
21 - loose, had to turn down the sensitivity and choke to get it around
3G - quick and good handling
3R - solid, good handling and smooth accelerating

Without further rambling, here are the results.


And the Podium Pictures
A Class


B Class


Congratulations to the builders, I know these proxy series are tough to build for. I am very glad to see this series strong with 18 entries. Congratulations to the podium finishers, building a car that does well on many different tracks is an accomplishment by far.

Thanks to Clem (wrlw), Dave Kennedy, Sean, Bill (bwatkins37), and Joe for coming out to KRP on a summer night for some slot car racing. We had a great time and really enjoyed the cars.

[docdoom]

Thanks for the run. I slapped that car togather and made one test run before I shipped it. maybe if i spent a little MORE time tuning it maybe she would of ran up higher up on the leader boards. maybe the tires are starting to finally get trued in. It also only has a 17k motor. so the wrapper says....

[kidvoltage]

Live video! You guys rock!!!

A sincere thanks for the effort. Also nice to see my car on the podium.

[arroldn]

Congratulations to our podium finishers. Scott thanks to you and all who made the racing happen. See both of my cars went to the back of the pack. Maybe next race. :think:

[ALS]

Congratulations to the Podium winners and thanks Scott and your crew of driver's Thanks Adrian ALS