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[hoffy]

Hi all,

Firstly, I have decided to create this thread for the South City Raceways guys to discuss anything & everything. I will also use this thread to display calendar's & latest results.

Feel free to join in (for South City Raceways members & non members alike!!)

Cheers

[lenny broke]

Hi Hoffy
Thanks for setting up this thread. Though I'm not really a South City Member I do really enjoy racing with you guys on the Friday night races and the proxy races. I must get down there for a Monday night race or two but racing on Tuesdays with T bird and going out on the Monday night as well might be stretching the marital bliss thing a bit.
I look forward to seeing more involvement on the forum from you Guys.
Cheers Alan

[triggy]

Good idea Hoffy!
Will we have the latest programme before June 18th? If possible can the programme include the class of cars to be raced on each night? ( saves me bringing all my cars out ).
It would also be interesting to post results of each class from each Monday night (outside of championship nights ) for curiosity value and to know which of your own cars perform well on whose track.

Triggy.

[triggy]

lenny broke, on Jun 2 2007, 10:34 AM, said:

Hi Hoffy
I must get down there for a Monday night race or two but racing on Tuesdays with T bird and going out on the Monday night as well might be stretching the marital bliss thing a bit.
Cheers Alan

LB.... remember old Chinese proverb... The one you miss out on..you will never catch up on!!!

[imugford]

you might need to update the tracks aswell.... some have changed and some are RIP

[triggy]

imugford, on Jun 2 2007, 10:58 AM, said:

you might need to update the tracks aswell.... some have changed and some are RIP

Yep, appears a good "refresh" or "update" on the club is required..... Hoffy?

Triggy

[hoffy]

IF YOU WOULD HAVE READ THE NEWS SITE, I acknowledged that the website needs a refresh.

Give me time...& lots of it

[lenny broke]

hoffy, on Jun 2 2007, 09:09 PM, said:

IF YOU WOULD HAVE READ THE NEWS SITE, I acknowledged that the website needs a refresh.

Give me time...& lots of it

Don't worry about those ingrates Hoffy, I reckon your doin' a top job mate

have I mentioned about the Friday night scratch built racing

Alan

[Imkouwl]

Hi Hoffy
Great to see some action on the web site.
I agree some track info is probably the first thing to change. Removing Adams and Wades track and adding in the new ones.
I know Wade is still around but as he has not attended any meetings for some time I think its time to let him go.
Keep up the Good work
PS you have plenty off time say 1 week sould be enough (joking)
CYA Monday night

[kalbfellp]

I think the "latest news" should be the first page upgraded!

Phil

[rick1776]

Dont give Hoffy a hard time about the site. Well done to commit some time. The easiest wasy to get around the "latest news" page is to change the title to "old news". Will save you a lot of time and effort.

I also noticed that the 2007 results are only provisional and not final. Is it too late to lodge a protest against Steve on the grounds that he is a far better driver than me and should therefore be excluded from the results?

cheers
rick1776

[rick1776]

I think we need to reintroduce a handicap championship like we ran last year. With a bit of tweeking I think it has merit. That way everyone in the club has the possibility of winning. I number crunched the results from last year by capping the lap time improvement to 0.25 seconds. This eliminated anyone that was sandbagging in the normal championship. ie If you where lapping in 6.0 seconds (ie sandbagging) and then sudenly started lapping in 5.2 seconds in the handicap race after being given a huge head start then your lap times were capped at 5.75 seconds and the total laps covered adjusted accordingly. It really compressed the results with the top three places being altered and a few minor places being shuffled lower down.

Anyone else want to reintroduce a handicap system?

cheers
rick1776

[triggy]

rick1776, on Jun 4 2007, 02:00 PM, said:

Anyone else want to reintroduce a handicap system?

cheers
rick1776

Rick,
the times from this years championship would need to be analised to come up with an accurate capped figure, therefore making it fair.
However, I was happy with the set up this year, where if someone was quicker than you , then you had to improve your own skills. If someone can do a quick lap in a club championship car then the car could obviously go that quick, so as a driver you needed to get the pace out of the car, because it was possible.

Having said all that, Steve is a class driver and a hard man to beat, if he can go that fast then so should we.....
back to the track for more practice

[hoffy]

OK, here are the final results from Monday's teams Slot-it race (the final was over 60 laps. I don't have the results from the first race, which was used to determine the teams):

1st - Team 5 (Wayne/Blake) - 408.816 seconds
2nd - Team 6 (Ashley/Brett) - 410.152
3rd - Team 7 (Matt/Dennis) - 418.843
4th - Team 3 (Steve/Keryn) - 425.380
5th - Team 1 (Shannon/Ken) - 432.659
6th - Team 8 (Kym/Damo) - 435.699
7th - Team 2 (Jordan/Bob) - 446.392
8th - Team 4 (James/Kane) - 452.586

Dont forget, due to the Public Holiday, officially we are having Monday night off this week. Keryn has said though, that if people would like to come around to his place they can have a bit of a casual session.

Please also remember that the next official race is at my place on Monday the 18th, for the 2nd annual Candy 500 race for Indycars (or late model open wheelers if you dont have one!!)

[Imkouwl]

Hi guys
If you have the time please head over to Home Track I have started a thread Hill top reloaded please feel free to comment.
Cheers
Wayne


Sorry guys looks like my post has moved to discusion

Edited by Imkouwl, 17 June 2007 - 06:13 PM.

[hoffy]

Hi all,

Just a reminder, Monday night is the Candy 500 at my track, Six Pines, for open wheelers (Indy/Champcars preferred, but if you dont have one a F1 will get you by).

For something different, there will be a qualifying session, but with a twist. Just like in the real thing (the Indy 500), you can attempt to qualify more then one car. Obviously, if you attempt to qualify a different car, the higher finishing car will be the one that you have to race...Complicated enough for you? It will become apparent on the night!!

See you all there

[Slider]

Sounds like fun Hoffy , Have a good nite
Cheers

[rick1776]

Hoffy,

Who won the Candy 500 last night and what were the qualifying results.

We lost volleyball last night so all in all a really average Monday night for me.

cheers
rick1776

[triggy]

rick1776, on Jun 19 2007, 03:46 PM, said:

Hoffy,

Who won the Candy 500 last night and what were the qualifying results.

We lost volleyball last night so all in all a really average Monday night for me.

cheers
rick1776

Rick,
To save him the embarrassment, I will tell you.

1st Hoffy ( home track advantage!! )
2nd Steve
3rd Wayne
Fastest Qualifier: Blake ( finished 4th )

I can't remember the time differences. It was a timed event where every driver ran 35 laps on each lane, then your times for each lane aggregated.

It was a great night on fast track, the bank is certainly fast . Hoffy will post pics and times on our web site soon.

Qualifying was interesting. Everyone ran 3 laps on blue lane solo. We had the opportunity to better that time in a second run, however, if you took a second run then your first time was scubbed. The first 3 drivers on their second run fell off, too much pressure, and recorded slower times. Only 3 of the 10 drivers that had a second run , bettered their first time!

Qualifying didn't count for anything come race time, just a bit of fun, but will next year for Candy 500 III.


Triggy

Edited by triggy, 19 June 2007 - 06:19 PM.

[hoffy]

OK, the results are in. Firstly, qualifying. As suggested by Triggy, qualifying was just for a bit of fun. You had the chance to have 2 attempts. You could also attempt to qualify a second car, if you wish. The idea was that the car that you qualified with, was the car that you used for the remainder of the night. If you went for the second attempt, your first attempt was scrubbed.

The first time was the time kept for qualifying. The other time in brackets was the time that was scrubbed:

Blake - 18.357 (19.650)
Ashley - 18.922 (20.082)
Steve - 19.124 (18.152)
Wayne - 19.425 (19.407)
Matt - 19.568 (21.248)
Brett - 19.788 (19.976)
Kane - 20.036 (18.875)
Damo - 20.574 (18.872)
Dave - 20.669 (19.137)
Shannon - 21.103 (23.487)
Ken - 25.203

Ken was the only one to attempt the qualifying once.

& the final results:




Yay for me!!!