Sports Racer Posted August 4, 2022 Report Share Posted August 4, 2022 Round 9 will be held on Dave's track in 2 weeks time - 14 August. This will be the 2nd last race of the proxy (about time ). Cheers Paul 2 1 Quote May the downforce be with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gunn Posted August 4, 2022 Report Share Posted August 4, 2022 Completly agree with you at that last comment , might be one of the very rare times i do chuckle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlesx Posted August 4, 2022 Report Share Posted August 4, 2022 That is one fast track.by the look of it. All the best to everybody. Regards Charles Le Breton (charlesx) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaynus Posted August 9, 2022 Report Share Posted August 9, 2022 It does look like a fast track, with flowing corners, so hopefully it may suit my car (relatively speaking - not expecting miracles here! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports Racer Posted August 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2022 Race has been run, won, lost and some surprises. Here's the finishing order. Name Round 9 Laps Round 9 Lap Time Round 9 Points 32coupe 67.51 5.158 25 Sports Racer 67.50 5.109 24 DP201 66.61 5.089 23 Dixie 65.88 5.282 22 lancelot 65.83 5.176 21 Aloha 65.66 5.250 20 Alvaro 65.51 5.317 19 sticks 65.19 5.252 18 BrumosRSR 64.97 5.283 17 Shaynus 64.65 5.379 16 Nev 64.63 5.324 15 jimmyslots 1950 64.31 5.308 14 bov 63.86 5.454 13 Peter Gunn 63.49 5.374 12 Nonfractal 63.13 5.376 11 Brooksy 63.03 5.486 10 Supercharged 62.22 5.551 9 ArroldN 61.71 5.376 8 JohnnieE 61.03 5.910 7 old man 60.01 5.676 6 BARacer 59.80 5.471 5 ALS 59.58 5.701 4 Pepsi62 58.83 5.769 3 curef99 57.02 5.937 2 Drivers for the day were me, Alvaro and Dave (track owner). We had no marshals so when someone came off we put the car back on (roughly) a lap down and added a lap to their score. If it was a big accident involving a couple of cars we re-ran that heat. Luckily there weren't too many offs but for some reason it usually happened on the heat that was being filmed. We don't normally have that many deslots - honest. Surprises on the day were Brumos's car, which was beautiful to drive, and Shaynus which finally lived up to it's true potential and didn't deslot when pushed hard. Aloha's also had a great heat racing next to Lance's lap after lap, the 2 blue cars driving in perfect formation the whole heat. And the worst thing was Andrew beat me by .01 of a lap. Damn, I knew I was driving his car too fast. Videos to come but no post race review this time, it was getting late and you've all had lots of reviews of your cars from previous races. As usual it was great fun racing all your cars. Paul Quote May the downforce be with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaynus Posted August 15, 2022 Report Share Posted August 15, 2022 Thanks guys! Great to see another round dine. Hope you enjoyed yourselves New personal best from my car -whoop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepsi62 Posted August 15, 2022 Report Share Posted August 15, 2022 Thanks Paul, one round to go and the retirement of that MG! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gunn Posted August 15, 2022 Report Share Posted August 15, 2022 Does this take the record for the longest running proxy ? anyone know, won't congratulate the first two foregone conclusion before the racing started , but would like to congratulate Shaynus, well done , and Brumos for both getting improvement in their cars as the series finishes. Perhaps if the series was longer you might hit the top 4 seems your cars are just running in chuckle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumos RSR Posted August 16, 2022 Report Share Posted August 16, 2022 Thank you for he run. Congratulations to those who are happy with their results and best of luck to the others on our final Raceday. Peter Gunn, the car was fast last year, it has appeared slow most of 2022, so yes, I am surprised by the finish. It’s only 5 grams heavier than the season before and handled better than last season, but the veterans have really upped their game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gunn Posted August 16, 2022 Report Share Posted August 16, 2022 As i said Tony car might just be reaching that sweet spot of overall performance , some cars start well but taper of as they are past that sweet spot of tyres just right, motor run in , bearings are not causing drag , many things contribute to that including the temp of the room . Forget about the top two we all knew they would be right up there , take Dixie for instance just look at the varied results that car has had through the series , this time 4th , or 111 last time out 6th this time 14th it's the consistancy the top 2 have that we don't have, DP201, Lance are getting there but the rest of us are not as consistant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlesx Posted August 16, 2022 Report Share Posted August 16, 2022 Hi Shaynus. What do think of the way the racing is scored? This is the same or very similar to all the proxies I have competed in for the last 10-12 years. To me it seems very simple, easy to understand and the racing remarkably close. While the fastest cars will usually win in the end it certainly makes me feel better if I can see a way to improve my position. One refinement that is often applied to rally events is to record the number of off's. This is normally a reflection on how easy a car is to drive. A must for proxy events. Regards Charles Le Breton (charlesx) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports Racer Posted August 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2022 Compare lap times. If the time is similar to another car but the completed laps are widely different then one car was hard to drive and the other easy. I spend a lot of time on my cars getting the front end set up so they never come out of the slot (within reason). Also, my proxy car feels like it's overgeared or has a motor that doesn't have much torque. You can punch it early out of corners and it doesn't fishtail like the longcan motored cars. I think this is why it's so easy to drive consistently quickly and almost never deslots. Quote May the downforce be with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports Racer Posted August 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2022 Time to get out the popcorn BARacer, Pepsi and curef JohnnieE, ALS and old man bov, Brumos and Supercharged Nev, Brooksy and Shaynus Alvaro, Arrold and Jimmy Dixie, sticks and Nonfractual DP201, Aloha and Peter Gunn Sports, 32coupe and Lance Quote May the downforce be with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gunn Posted August 19, 2022 Report Share Posted August 19, 2022 As always interesting video lot of the cars are actually not that far apart in differant parts of the tracks, some have it on braking, cornering speed , quite a few are not quite there as regards acceleration and top speed, and i'm guessing the drivers have diffearnt styles , one thing i found very interesting is i now know where Santa Claus hangs out chuckle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancelot Posted August 21, 2022 Report Share Posted August 21, 2022 I have been checking in every now and then. Great to see proxy is still going. Thanks to everyone for running the cars. Great to see Aloha's car up there. Really hard to keep up the hometown favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports Racer Posted August 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2022 13 hours ago, lancelot said: Really hard to keep up the hometown favorites. You think so? Have a look at the results from Round 10. Quote May the downforce be with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gunn Posted August 22, 2022 Report Share Posted August 22, 2022 Home is always an advantage Lance where ever you are , and your car is up there with the two odds on favourites so your keeping up pretty well and consistantly , unless you come up with something really special then you might beat the status quo but Paul might just ban it chuckle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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