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Scx Classic Rally Proxy Round 8


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Welcome to all viewers to the latest round 8 of the 2011 SCX proxy rally to be run at the Wolverhampton club UK

 

Tracks used will be

 

Our brand new Aldersley Paddock Stage, which is formed from the infield section of the Aldersley club tack which we ran on last time (2009)

This is a copper tape on matt painted wood giving changeable grip very twisty, 50 feet long circuit. Picture to follow of new circuit but see the overall circuit photo from last time.

Where the grand stand is pictured is now our first section, and the fire exit area is the other remodelled area.

 

10 second laps If you are lucky!!!

 

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New fire door end being cut by young Andy Bartle and Me on the Hoover

 

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Orlerton Park

 

fast small compact circuit good cornering and quick acceleration required 4-5 second laps here!!!

 

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Blakeley Green

 

Smooth with tight turns good balance required again 5 second laps

 

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Our expierenced club members will supply the trigger fingers, and each will drive all the cars on the same stage they are nominated to run

 

Should be interesting watch this space

 

Ian J

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Gary

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We are nearing the off for stage one this evening.

 

times will be posted tomorrow (hopefully)

 

Could someone from the event please post them on a thread on SCX forum as we do not have access (this year)

 

We cleaned the braids,tyres etc and three of us inspected the cars last night and gave them a test shakedown run on a non event track

 

The findings were limited to six words max if required

 

so

 

mini 177 Stable drives well

Stratos 26 Poor braking effect

renault 8TS 101 Good All round

Stratos 05 jumps around under acceleration

Alpine 01 Good and stable

131 04 Poor braking effect rolls on

124 07 good and stable

5 turbo 15 good and stable

escort 10 tips very easy on corners

alpine 14 corners poorly

Sunbeam 16 good speed everywhere

sierra 18 very smooth, but tips

escort 50 lacks straight line speed

131 52 fast all round

131 55 stable but brakes to one side

sunbeam 56 lacks speed

131 61 smoooooooth

131 102 handles poor in tight corner

citroen DS 195 corners well for big narrow car

131 20 good speed brakes to one side

gto 03 unstable but quick

celica 11 bumps and jumps

959 09 smoot and steady

celica 11 bumps and jumps around, brakes awkwardly

037 17 brakes to one side

S4 19 nice in corners

037 28 smooth

RS200 66 also smooth

959 99 corners well hops under acceleration

gto 103 handling is nice

037 305 brakes to one side

 

These are the opinions of a couple of our younger members and may not be of use to gauge the event as we have differing types of circuit to be used

 

our Ferrari 103 was a little battered as was rico's, all fixed

 

I had to carefully straighten the screw posts in our to prevent the wheels rubbing constantly, tyres had gone off one was like concrete with the other not far behind (just too old I guess) plus the front had been compressed some how, all the other cars are fine and run well, no mechanical faults evident

Rico's Ferrari front end was also straightened.

 

Good luck to one and all

 

watch this space.......

 

Ian J

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Gary

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Are the Poms starting to get desperate Ben, as they still have you as one of there's.Maybe you should do a rename of your forum name to Ben the Pom M :o . 6 Aussies up in the top ten again. Glad to see that my car is still a chance . Thanks to all those who had a hand in the running of this round.Congrats to the podium winners in each of the classes. Wonder whats going on with Rally P's Toyota as my prediction is going down the toilet :huh:

Cheers Craig

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Craig

 

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Tore ,sorry to hear your opting out but if your work load is to much then no probs. You've done a fine job so far . Thanks to Ian and Malcom and his crew from the Wolves club for the efforts of the last round.To the guys who got podiums ,congrats. As for the next round I was reading my schedule and the French run was on the 4th of June,but now cancelled, the following round is the 18th June in Spain (Sig's).If the cars can be shipped by what ever means possible (why not get the TOP GEAR guys to do a run to Spain,they like doing that sort of thing :D)by the 18th and Sig is happy with the postal service there,his round would only be a few days to a week out . If this can happen ,the whole event would be only out by a week or two. I'm not worried with that.With Tore being busy ,the last round would be at PSRRFH ,still in Denmark where Tore could then send the cars back anyway. I would like to see it finish and see my car grab some more points .

 

Post anywhere in the world these days is a bit iffy.I suppose we can be thankful they were'nt going from here with the ash cancelling flights out. I dont mean that as a bad thing to any of the postal workers who are avid slotters .My car has now competed in last years and this years Proxy Rally so far and yes I would be annoyed if somewhere it got lost ,but to lay blame to any one person involved with the Proxy isnt right unless it was posted by SEA (Did that come up again sorry ). All jokes aside we take those risks,we dont want see it happen but we have to accept it may.I'm happy for mine to carry on. This is only my opinion as I know some of you guys have two cars involved if not 3 . I will post this on SCX as well as Auslot.

Cheers Craig

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Sad that you've come to that conclusion Tore, i thought you had asked for and had received a helping hand, or hands, with the running and i.t input by a couple of hosts.

 

Oh well ... i'm all for letting it run it's course

 

You take a chance when you enter a proxy, due to the nature of the event, the cars can be damaged, lost or even destroyed at any time during their travels, whether it be from town to town or country to country, It'd be nice to get the car(s) back in one piece, but that's why you keep the costs down when building a car, and that is the appeal of the SCX proxy as most of the entrants are stock.

 

At the end of the day they are only toys

 

If postage is a problem maybe a courier (UPS or whatever) is the answer for the Spanish and Italian leg

 

See what's in the kitty ..... might have to wring the friggin cats neck for the courier

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OK, some work has been done "behind the scenes" and the proxy circus will continue as planned.

 

The remaining events in Spain, Italy, Denmark (and Norway) have been re-confirmed and re-schduled.

 

So, in short we will continue the series with the originally planed events, but with a new scheduled.

 

More info will be posted later.

 

Tore

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