[Graham]

We were honoured to have you attend, Graham, and to have the opportunity to run the wonderful variety of proxy entries on our tracks! It was a busy day, but if you are going to build these type of temporary tracks, it's great that they get the use once they are up! 

We did rotate the driving duties, but at some stage, Woodcote and myself were always going to end up piloting our own vehicles somewhere. I hope the videos show that we treated all entries the same, but I was not aware that I had driven my Touareg to Pro-car victory on 'Oasis'. I think you have checked the times against the videos, so I am suitable embarrassed about that one! But I did have a giggle at how you automatically had my MAN truck as the victor of the Dune of Doom for the podium photo, having resigned yourself to the bridesmaid slot, only to later discover you had easily beaten me to the line.

With regards to the size of the attendance for the later evening's entertainment, credit must be given to Woodcote and the other club officials who have carefully curated these various events over the years. We make sure there are always club controllers and cars available so that anyone you attends can be sure of experiencing the flavour of the hobby as offered on the night. With regards to Wednesday, there was an hour for everyone to get some idea of how to run these strange cars on these strange tracks, but once the stop watches came out, it was foot (and the occasional club cars) to the floor and everyone's competitive spirit took over as per normal...

I think you are unduly feeling conscious about your driver role, in every Round we had to involve the entrants who had these cars because of the limited interest in the theme, so perhaps there could be driver bias, but bearing in mind that these tracks are put up in a ad hoc fashion and in with this round the drivers did not have time for any pre runs of the cars beforehand (because of the time constraint), you really have to conclude that any drivers cars being favoured is virtually concidental, especially as all the vehicles will suffer significant time losses on one Stage or another from literally being "off road". 

One thing I did notice in this Round was how well Oxo Cubes cars appearantly run on both your Stages getting on Winners Podiums for different Categories for the first time in this proxy, but he was not one of the drivers and I am pretty sure that no money passed hands during the course of the evening 

So have no worries, with relatively few cars in each category which are all very similar and with the difficulty of the Stages causing them to fall off the track with regularity,
my impression is that sometimes you get lucky....to make up for the other times

As for my Merc Truck, when I was doing the podiums my mind was pre-occupied with what had caused my truck to come to a halt on the 2nd run, and assumed that the issue had started previously so not read the timing results correctly, so it was a pleasent surprise when I got home and found that it had been running well enough on the first stage.