Surrounded by 70 metres plus of Scalextric sport track!!
The first event was Lotus 7 / Caterhams. A contentious class as it has been known for marshalls to take things into their own hands and administer summary justice to those who otherwise had the sweet taste of victory in sight! This is an event where braids can make or break a race and in this event I decided that no one….but no one was going to touch MY BRAIDS!!!
The SEQSCC Megatrack. Is this the largest slotcar track regularly raced in the Southern Hemisphere??
SEQSCC racing is always sudden death racing. No cycling across lanes, no restarts. Just the cut and thrust of the here and now. If you miss your event or cock it up, it’s all over Red Rover!! As it happens, at the discretion of the race controller you may get a second suck of the sav, based purely upon a whim! Fortunately, the whim was aimed at me in this event and to be fair, after walking my first heat by a country mile, I restored the hard and oval tyres to my mount in an effort to restore some parity amongst the contestants.
In the first heat Bill managed, some say by supernatural powers!!, to win his heat in a comfortable contest against lesser adversaries. Heat two was a marshalls delight and I managed to drive my way through the carnage, pushing my fresh MJK’s to a resounding victory, lapping nearly five seconds a lap faster than second place!!! Race three saw Andrew take out line honours after a steady drive while I slipped and slid my way through several laps of the tortuous circuit.
Event 1 Lotus 7 / Caterhams About 7 laps?? Race 1 Driver best lap 1. Bill 31.5 2. Ken 38.1 3. Peter 37.3 4. Kym 42.3 Race 2. 1. Phil 29.9 2. Julian 34.1 3. Paul 38.4 4. Sean 36.5 Race 3. 1. Andrew 34.3 2. Phil 41.4 3. Sean 41.3 4. Peter J. 55.0
From the start of the first heat it was obvious some drivers were racing with their cards close to their chest. One gentleman named Paul screwed his model away into the sunset leaving the rest of the field to sort things out with the marshalls. It was good to see lap times fall into the twenties though!!
Santa paid an early visit this year.
My heat was a soft heat once again with my Lotus 49, like its Lotus 7 stablemate, circulating five seconds a lap quicker than the runner up, inspite of several attempts by marshalls and other drivers to impede my progress. Heat thre became a little confusing when no less than THREE! Peters took part. But to save any confusion, Sean one the event.
Event 2 Classic F1 quite a few laps Race 4. 1. Paul ??.?? 2. Peter H. ??.?? 3. Andrew ??.?? 4. Ken ??.?? Race 5. 1. Phil 24.9 2. Bill 29.4 3. Kym 33.7 4. Peter J. 31.5 Race 6. 1. Sean 24.9 2. Peter H. 28.6 3. Peter S. 32.5 4. Peter J. ??.??
GT40’s ? with one driver jumping the start!
After an undisclosed amount of laps, the results looked something like this (apologies for any omission of critical data!)
Event 3 GT40’s Laps (it’s a secret) Race 7 1. Phil 24 ish 2. Bill 27.8 3. Andrew 29.6 4. Paul ??.?? Race 8 1. Sean 25 ±? 2. Peter J. 30.6 3. Kym 32.4 4.. Peter S. 30.9 Race 9 1. Peter H ??.?? 2. Julian ??.?? 3 or 4 Peter S. ??.?? 4 or 3 Sean ??.??
With the early evening drawing on and nine o’clock fast approaching, we were summoned away by the the long journeys home and we all left Julian to clear up! Good on you Julian! See you next month!!