Drop Inn Racing, Craigavon, N.Ireland
 

A few guys are getting together to race mostly 1/10 off road electric & Tamiya TT-01 in Craigavon, right in the middle of Northern Ireland. This Wednesday, 10th December, will be our first night in a new hall with astroturf floor. If you are in the area, please feel free to drop in. It's a superb facility - now all we need are enough racers! (Especially off-road guys!!)

See our website or PM if you want further info.

http://dropinnracing.website.orange.co.uk/

How did the racing on Wed. go? I'll have to get some of the people from the club up when people aren't quite so busy!

Hall was double booked, so ended up in a big old dusty bodyshop :mad: Got to try a TT-01 & a buggy at the end of the night on the astroturf surface though, should be awesome.

Watch out for a big New Year event - details to follow!

I had heard somebody mention Rennicks GP might be held there this year. It would be a great advertisement for the club if you got it running there. Would the surface be smooth enough to run normal touring cars on?

Heard that the Rennick GP is on New Years day....maybe classes for both Touring cars and Buggies with the new Astro Turf being used.

Should be a brilliant day on the astroturf, with a few jumps out for the off-road guys. Guess who has to go to work that day though? :mad:

http://www.modeltune.com/2009%20Indo...ltune%20GP.pdf

Any results?.....:blush::blush::blush::blush::blush::b lush:

I havnt heard of any results Jim, I heard the 2nd place fella was awesome though managing to run 2 cars in a very tight heat structure. He was even graceful enough to allow somebody else to take the glory by winning the buggy final.

By TWO laps.......:blush::blush::blush::blush:

I had warren and mark driving into the back of me repeatedly that cost me 25 laps at least :P

Jim,

Trying to read between the lines here.. ;) Do I detect that hearty congratulations are in order??

What did you think of the track and set up? Saw a quick video from 1-Jan event this morning - can't wait to this Wednesday till I get a go on it myself.

There's life in the Auld Dog yet.....My first win since last Century....:blush:
Never changed a thing from my Fivemiletown set-up and the grip was great with the Yellow spikes.
Andrew hasn't the results on his site yet but it was a win for myself with Stephen (mole2k) and Warren making it a clean sweep for the Clogher Valley Model Car Club.

Congratulations to the Clogher Valley CMCC crew :thumbsup:

Any pics from you guys?

My set-up didn't seem to work that terribly well, I really struggled to turn in at low speed, high speed everything was ok but on the slower sections it was just pedestrian.

I have a few shots, the lighting in the hall is very low from a photography pov so it's quite a struggle to take shots. I don't have the buggys as I was too busy usually getting mine ready but I got a few shots of the touring cars. Some of these where taken by Jim also.

Buggy Final:
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Left to right: Warren Cooper (3rd place), Jim Lee (1st place), Stephen Carson (2nd place)

Touring Car heats
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Here's some that Jim took of the touring car A final
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Full heat of buggies now racing regularly every other Wednesday night at Craigavon, N.Ireland. Should shortly be enough for separate 2wd & 4wd classes. Astroturf surface is ace, computerised lap timing and jumps now also in place for each race night. If you live anywhere within driving range feel free to drop in - great crowd of helpful guys there to race with. Tamiya TT-01 / touring cars also welcome, although they were outnumbered last time out! Our local model shop also at hand to supply what you might need if starting up or starting back to racing!!

See our website for race dates or contact me through the forum here for further details. http://dropinnracing.website.orange.co.uk/

The Drop Inn Racing website has had a bit of an update:

http://dropinnracing.website.orange.co.uk/

(Thanks to Jonathan Bull for several of the the pics :thumbsup:)

http://www.oople.com/forums/picture....348055&thumb=1

One more club night on 4th March, and then in to a mini series with Clogher Valley Model Car Club - Fivemiletown on 12th March followed by the return Craigavon night on 18th March. Bring it on! :lol:

Looking good with the jumps Ed..bit of a softer landing than on our polished floor....;)
Looking forward to the "Them v Us" races.....

Aim for the downramp Jim, nice soft landing then :thumbsup:. I might be away taking photos on the 12th when you're down :cry: but I'll definitely be racing up there on the 18th.

I should hopefully be able to get, it really depends on warren if he's able to go or if I can persuade fiona to go up!

Get anymore new jumps made, Jim loves jumps and was hoping for lots more of them.