2021 Touring Car Proxy Round 2 - Andrew's track

[Sports Racer 160]

Just waiting for Andrew to let us know what day this week suits him.

[Sports Racer 160]

Racing will be on Wednesday night.

We were supposed to be racing yesterday (Sunday) but a couple of the guys weren't feeling well. Andrew ran each car for a couple of laps to get a feel and see if any had any issues. All the cars ran well and Andrew commented that they were all better than last year's cars. 

He did say give him 30 min and he could get some of the middle runners on the the winners podium. 

[BARacer 7]

He can have 60 for mine.

[bov 22]

I'm just hoping the Orange Merc gets to show it's true potential - it should go quite well on Andrew's track...

[Shaynus 90]

Mine might need a 30min head start!

[Pepsi62 13]

think the MG would take longer than 30 mins!!! but let's hope it goes OK, at least it's better than last year

[Sports Racer 160]

On 11/2/2021 at 11:25 AM, bov said:

I'm just hoping the Orange Merc gets to show it's true potential - it should go quite well on Andrew's track...

Andrew loves your car, says it would clean up in a Slot.it only proxy.

[BARacer 7]

On that, how easy would it be to put a simple spec list together of each entry, just to add a bit of context to results? 

Have fun tonight! 

[Sports Racer 160]

Race results and finishing order.

 

Name	Round 2 Laps	Round 2 Lap Time	Lap time last year	Round 2 Points
32coupe	60.43	5.623	5.886	25
Sports Racer	59.88	5.666	5.651	24
Alvaro	59.84	5.682	6.012	23
Brooksy	57.97	6.014		22
Nev	56.57	5.851		21
DP201	56.09	5.983	5.982	20
old man	55.85	5.952		19
lancelot	55.35	6.004	6.165	18
jimmyslots 1950	55.27	5.964	5.914	17
Peter Gunn	54.47	5.903	5.876	16
bov	54.02	5.895	6.200	15
ArroldN	53.82	6.233	5.878	14
Dixie	53.60	6.143		13
Supercharged	53.49	5.973	6.103	12
sticks	53.20	6.078	6.305	11
Aloha	52.35	6.200	5.773	10
JohnnieE	51.54	6.109		9
Nonfractal	51.27	6.390		8
Shaynus	51.06	6.347	6.128	7
ALS	50.84	6.485	6.125	6
Pepsi62	50.70	6.454	6.461	5
curef99	50.10	6.652	6.293	4
BARacer	49.11	6.318		3
BrumosRSR	48.02	6.322	5.746	2

 

Andrew's post race review. 

As he's the track owner and has the 1st place car i thought who better to review each car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22C2f6m-9hE

Race videos to come.

Cheers

Paul

Edited November 4, 2021 by Sports Racer

[bov 22]

Thanks to all involved for putting on the round, and congrats to the podiumites....

Thanks for the kind words re: my entry...

It'll take quite an impressive effort to take on the locals.... send 'em up here to see how they do 'out of their comfort zone'......

[jimmyslots 1950 42]

Thanks for the run guys,really enjoyed the Vid & comments from Andrew & Paul on everyone's cars performance.

Now the hard part trying to find more speed,is it motor or gearing or both?

[Peter Gunn 114]

Video interesting what have you done to my car looks dreadful Paul.

[BARacer 7]

I'll take "looks fast", but PM sent to Old Man about how to actually make a Honda Civic fast!

[ArroldN 4]

Man I got to do better. Looks like the White Taxi from last year was the better car. I have to wait and see how this plays out to determine my move for 2022

[Pepsi62 13]

car is stable I just have to sort a better motor or change gearing to make it quicker

[curef99 9]

the ratlting on my car is due to the type of front tyres i used... very noisy. 

[Sports Racer 160]

WHAT? CAN'T HEAR YOU!

Edited November 10, 2021 by Sports Racer

[sticks 10]

 Hi Guys 

We haven't seen any videos or numbers for a while, so I thought I would do some numbers  based on the data we have.

So about the only thing I came up with is an efficiency percentage,  based on laps you have done in the race and a theoretical lap score (TLS) based on the your fastest lap time

e.g for 32coupe   laps 60.43              fastest lap 5.623

So from that we can find a theoretical lap score (TLS), The time of the race 360 sec is divided by fastest lap  360/5.623 = 64.02

so then you can divide the actual laps by the TLS in this case  60.43 / 64.02 = .944 or 94.4%

so here's the list

 

Name                            Laps                 fastest lap                               TLS              Efficiency percentage

 

32coupe                         60.44                     5.623                                  64.02                      94.4%

Sports Racer                 59.88                     5.666                                  63.54                      94.24%

Alvaro                             59.84                     5.682                                 63.36                      94.44%

Brooksy                          57.97                    6.014                                  59.86                      96.84%

Nev                                  56.57                    5.851                                  61.53                      91.16%

DP201                             56.09                    5.983                                  60.17                      93.22%

old man                           55.85                    5.964                                  60.48                      91.22%

Lancelot                          55.35                    6.004                                  59.96                      92.18% 

jimmyslots                      55.27                    5.964                                  60.36                     91.56%

Peter Gunn                      54.47                   5.903                                  60.99                      89.32%

bov                                  54.02                    5.895                                  61.07                      88.46%

ArroldN                           53.82                    6.233                                  57.76                      93.18%

Dixie                                 53.60                   6.143                                  58.60                      94.46%

Supercharged                 53.54                   5.973                                  60.27                      88.75%

sticks                                53.20                  6.078                                  59.23                      89.82%

Aloha                               52.35                   6.200                                  58.06                      90.16%

JohnnieE                         51.54                   6.109                                  58.93                      87.46%

Nonfractal                      51.27                    6.390                                  56.74                      91.00%

Shaynus                          51.06                   6.347                                   56.79                      90.00%

ALS                                  50.84                   6.485                                   55.52                      91.58%

Pespsi62                         50.70                  6.454                                    55.78                      90.89%

curef99                            50.10                  6.652                                   54.11                      92.57%

BARacer                           49.11                 6.318                                   56.98                       86.19%

BrumosRSR                     48.02                 6.322                                    56.94                      84.64%

 

I hope is helpful

 

 

 

Edited November 13, 2021 by sticks

[Peter Gunn 114]

Seems like your bored sticks of the whole scene chuckle , this series is over and dusted the leading 3 cars have no competition, out on their own, and i do wonder why they are so far out in front.

The real racing looks to be in the middle , through no fault of Paul's well not on this one a proxy needs to have regular updates and info , found before Covid interest was waining in proxy racing generally , you could see by the entries , then the costs of sending cars , from here is just about finishing my interest, and that's without all the problems when the cars got there.

Think our 3 cars left here pretty early in the year, and everything is Covid affected , i did want to withdraw our 3 cars when the mag issue arrived , but Paul sort of talked me out of it , wished i had now , only left them there as it was John's and Dixies first time , well it has turned into the one and only time .

[Sports Racer 160]

Sorry guys, I've been busy with a few things in real life.

Now that the covid restrictions have eased I was finally able to drive down with my boys to spend some time with my wife who's working in Melbourne 800 ks away. We haven't seen her in 2 months and she's much more important than racing toy cars. 

Our cars are quick because we're racing on our home ground. We have tested our cars on these tracks but they still aren't as quick as Radarek's cars which dominated this proxy for the first 2 years, and he's never seen our tracks.

If someone wants to run a similar proxy on their local tracks I'll be the first to build a car and send it and because it's only a toy car I won't care about who builds a better car that suits their local tracks. That's what proxy racing is all about, you build a car as best as you can and compare it against other builders. And you learn a little bit more each year. There will always be cars faster and some that are slower but they are still only toy cars.

If anyone wants to withdraw let me know and I'll get their car in the post.

Next round will be next weekend.

Cheers

Paul

 

[Sports Racer 160]

Sticks, I love the efficiency percentage.

It shows which cars are easy to drive fast. Something that isn't easy to quantify but definitely relates to proxy cars.

Will be interesting to see if these numbers change much as the proxy continues.

[jimmyslots 1950 42]

Well said Paul,I think some people are in Proxy racing for different reasons to me.I personally love building slot cars & it's a bonus if a group of guys want to go to the trouble of racing them on 10 different tracks ,doing video's & reporting on how each car goes just shows their passion for the hobby.

My cars are very different to the competition & is a challenge to compete with them,some of my best slot races have been sitting in front of my computer watching a stranger drive one of my cars & if they give my car a compliment then I'm a winner.

Keep up the good work Paul,really appreciate all the time & effort you put in to this Proxy.

PS I'm a bit worried about Sticksy,I think the air might be a bit thin up on his mountain retreatDo offs get factored in to the Einstein equation

Cheers Jimmy   

[old man 3]

I agree with jimmyslots.  This is my first proxy and I'm loving it.  Seeing my car finish a race is a bonus, not to mention being so far up in the field (at the moment). Appreciate all the work involved.  Keep it up.

Thanks

Oldman

[lancelot 4]

Thanks Paul,  It's great to hear you can finally visit your family since Australia has eased COVID restrictions.

I m not sure what or why Mr Gunn is having some issues? Maybe it is UK humor? Need to loosen your drawers?

home track has big advantages, car tuned on these tracks are going to be at the top. It is expected. They tune all types of cars and run on these tracks consistantly, so their car and tuning is going to be better than someone that has never seen or driven the track. That is proxy racing.

This proxy is far from being over (only round 2 completed, 8 more to go), Australia seems to have the tightest Covid restrictions, so that is why the proxy and reporting seems slow (I am sure that is OK with all of us). 

The proxy seemed to have a slow start, but Paul was waiting for all the cars to arrive. I sent my car to australia 2-3 weeks before shipping deadline, it took 62 days to arrive. 

This proxy is the only one that has had regular reporting (before covid), and race videos on almost every track. This year race 2 has had a commentary of the cars, sometimes helpful on each car.  Not many proxies have a body off reveal at the end of the series, Paul did it last year and i am sure he will do it again.

Looking at race 2 results, Mr Gunn is at the top of all the UK entries and above most of the other entries from around the world, (so quit complaining).

If you wish to withdraw you car, you can, but it already there and lets see what shakes out. (I don't know you but now I hope you don't withdraw so i can watch and see my car beat yours). 

Lance

Edited November 14, 2021 by lancelot

[Peter Gunn 114]

Lance ii could not care  a toss if your car beats mine  it is already doing it, it ain't gonna beat the top 3 who as i have said have the series sown up, as far as your other comments are concernd again i don't care a toss.