Hey all..

Never raced at Cov before so will tackle whatever they throw at me anyway...if your good enough regardless of home advantage you will do ok.. :)

I must add that I also do prefer grass but am not fussed really, just want to race :)

See you all there..

totally agree, I have done all the mam meetings at cov bar the snowy one, thats my choice though and I am not a member and far from being a local, I do also like the grass track there, I have no preference which to race on though, unless its wet then astro all the way

Could anyone answer these questions please, also with regards to Balistic "Wet" tyres which compound do you guys find are the best ?

Thanks

greens fella, wet or dry :thumbsup:

Cheers Belsten.. any particular insert ?

shumacher green (medium) is a popular choice and the easiest to get hold of

Hi Guys,

I'll drop in and try and give you some answers to things.

The track: The region never holds any influence over the track used at events, many clubs are not fortunate enough to have 2 different tracks. Due to this, it is entirely the choice of the host club as to which track is used for each event. When allocating meetings, as we are now aware, due to a lack of venues, we are going to 3 venues on 2 occasions during the year, one of these said venues is Coventry and it would seem logical that they wish to use their 2 tracks for the 2 events, a luxury many venues don't have. In addition to this, the thinking when awarding the opening event to coventry was that they COULD run the first event on their astro track if the weather was poor as is likely in the UK during april. So they appear to have decided to run the 4wd event on the astroturf, and it is their right to do this. It is also their right if they wish to hold the 2 events on the grass, which if the situation changes I'm sure they will let us know in time. (to make it clear, regardless of which track is chosen, the same controlled tyres will apply: bb spikes and schumacher minispikes) I understand some people's concerns about the astro track, it is limited in terms of layout and is also very technical but it is another option within the region and we should be grateful of that.

Timetable: We are heading towards 70 entries for sunday, which is great, thank-you all for your support. Therefore we will look to get things moving and will aim to get booking-in under way some time between 8 and 8.15. 5 min practice in heat order will then commence at 8.45am followed by drivers briefing and hopefully qualifying will get underway by 10am.

2WD heat: until now, no-one has requested a 2wd heat, so currently we have no intention of having a 2wd heat. As said, the entry is quite big in the context of a regional event so it may not be logistically viable, for those that don't know, we have 3 legged A finals at MW regionals so we have to take timings into account.

See you all sunday :)

is there any reason why he can't run his 2wd at 4wd weight and points score?

He can by all means do that yes if he is not entering with a 4wd car

Apparently Taly is mainly Astro now anyway (only just saw!), so maybe Astro is the way to go in that score anyway!

Cheers for the info Tom! Good news on the entries!

Isn't Tallywain 75% astro now.

The only thing that puts me off is it's quite rough compared the grass, that said I'm still going.

Im with Simon on this one. I could do with all the practise on grass that is possible before the nats start. Again like sy i dont want a fuss kicking up about it, it was mearly a thought :)

also, is there going to be a 2wd open class?

Cheers

Danny

My personal choice would be grass but saying that if the club choose to run on the Astro then discussion over. It is not local for me either but if it means travelling 2 hours to win a meeting then so be it :woot::thumbsup:

:lol: Your a Legend Jonesy

According to Yardees comments above, no 2wd class but having said that there are a few of us from the Hinckley club with 2wd's but no 4wd who'd be interested in racing if possible.

The question has been asked on the Coventry club forum. Although it may be a bit optimistic this late in the day.

If not I'll be adding weight to the car and run in with 4wd.

Yes it is a bit late, i believe that it would need to be the region that decided about extra classes due to it all being central booking now, and as the numbers are quite high already then i dont believe there will be a separate 2wd heat, but as stated you are more than welcome to make your car 1588g and race in the 4wd heats :)

Might suprise us all and run it clockwise! Been to a couple of meetings with the track clockwise and all the fixed features become a totally different kettle of cod!!

Yahoo are giving rain every day between now and Sunday but sun on sunday:cry:

Does the astro waterlog at all?

Have no fear.. just put the postcode into met office..

See link

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...t_weather.html

:)