27th-Oct-21, 09:13 AM
October 23rd
Something a bit different this time. Two classes never seen at the B St E club.
Shaun brought along these Superbikes, which were run with magnets! How else?
Acceleration and speed were phenomenal, cornering not so. Fortunately braking was really good, so once we'd figured that out lap times tumbled and scores increased accordingly. Rob won by 0.9 laps, with Mark and David in a dead heat for second place on 34.2. Barely half a lap back was Shaun in fourth, then there was a big gap to the rest of the field. That number, 0.9, came into play again though, this time covering fifth to eighth place, so some surprisingly close racing.
Good call to run them for two minutes. Just enough of a taster to be fun.
After a short break for cake - another birthday - these made a surprise appearance.
Pioneer Legends.
No one was more surprised than me that the majority of club members had neither seen nor heard of the 5/8th's sized Racing Legends series, nor their 1/30th counterparts from Pioneer!
This was their first outing, the cars only being powered up directly from a PSU whilst being set up at home. Prep' was down to completely stripping all six - they were pre-owned and pre-built but unused white kits intended for another club's IROC racing, which fell through. The strip-down took the cars back to their kit form, including removing all heat welded body parts then carefully rebuilding them to factory spec'. The only changes from box stock were leaving out the magnets and the gluing and truing of all the wheels and (stock) tyres.
How did they perform? Apart from a couple losing a pickup braid - I'd inserted two of the twelve upside down! - they were faultless, very stable, ran smoothly, were evenly matched and great fun to drive - and watch, with lots of drifting and sliding through the corners but with great traction and acceleration out of them.
Four fifths of a lap covered the top five, David taking the win from Shaun, Rob, Mark and Vic, with Bill, myself and Martin bringing up the rear.
Finally .. Owner/driver sports/GT's.
Basically mag-less 'unlimiteds'. Any motor, any chassis config. However I'm not sure scratch builds are allowed. They all seem to be tuned-up off-the -shelf cars covering a wide range of 1:1 and 1:32 manufacturers. Scale-auto, Scalextric, Slot.it, Ninco and NSR all made an appearance, representing eight different 1:1 makes. Mark assumed his customary position here - but only just. Two fifths of a lap behind was Rob, the top five being covered by 2.2 laps after 40 minutes of racing, eight 5 minute heats.
(Slo-mo video courtesy of B St E member Rob Sayers.)
Next meeting: Nov 13th. Classes? Who knows?
Watch this space.
Something a bit different this time. Two classes never seen at the B St E club.
Shaun brought along these Superbikes, which were run with magnets! How else?
Acceleration and speed were phenomenal, cornering not so. Fortunately braking was really good, so once we'd figured that out lap times tumbled and scores increased accordingly. Rob won by 0.9 laps, with Mark and David in a dead heat for second place on 34.2. Barely half a lap back was Shaun in fourth, then there was a big gap to the rest of the field. That number, 0.9, came into play again though, this time covering fifth to eighth place, so some surprisingly close racing.
Good call to run them for two minutes. Just enough of a taster to be fun.
After a short break for cake - another birthday - these made a surprise appearance.
Pioneer Legends.
No one was more surprised than me that the majority of club members had neither seen nor heard of the 5/8th's sized Racing Legends series, nor their 1/30th counterparts from Pioneer!
This was their first outing, the cars only being powered up directly from a PSU whilst being set up at home. Prep' was down to completely stripping all six - they were pre-owned and pre-built but unused white kits intended for another club's IROC racing, which fell through. The strip-down took the cars back to their kit form, including removing all heat welded body parts then carefully rebuilding them to factory spec'. The only changes from box stock were leaving out the magnets and the gluing and truing of all the wheels and (stock) tyres.
How did they perform? Apart from a couple losing a pickup braid - I'd inserted two of the twelve upside down! - they were faultless, very stable, ran smoothly, were evenly matched and great fun to drive - and watch, with lots of drifting and sliding through the corners but with great traction and acceleration out of them.
Four fifths of a lap covered the top five, David taking the win from Shaun, Rob, Mark and Vic, with Bill, myself and Martin bringing up the rear.
Finally .. Owner/driver sports/GT's.
Basically mag-less 'unlimiteds'. Any motor, any chassis config. However I'm not sure scratch builds are allowed. They all seem to be tuned-up off-the -shelf cars covering a wide range of 1:1 and 1:32 manufacturers. Scale-auto, Scalextric, Slot.it, Ninco and NSR all made an appearance, representing eight different 1:1 makes. Mark assumed his customary position here - but only just. Two fifths of a lap behind was Rob, the top five being covered by 2.2 laps after 40 minutes of racing, eight 5 minute heats.
(Slo-mo video courtesy of B St E member Rob Sayers.)
Next meeting: Nov 13th. Classes? Who knows?
Watch this space.
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