At the IconicRC day at SHRCCC on Sunday 1st Feb, the new surface and glue was put to the test. 6 solid hours of all manner of cars going round ranging from Tamiya Holiday Buggies, Clodbusters, Optima Mids, Lunch Boxes all the way through to Schumacher KFs went round at various paces.
And it was all successful
and most importantly everyone had a great day.
As for the prototype jumps, these were tested in differing locations and differing styles of jump with all sorts of modern race buggies and again we've learnt what we need to and revisions to the designs have been made.
So what's next?
The new jumps have been commissioned for build today and are going to take a few weeks to be constructed. All CNC cut and the build quality, as per the prototypes (except for the top surface) is exceptional. We will then seal them from this lovely British weather and place different coloured outdoor carpet to make them truly stand out from the astro base.In the meantime we are having the old astro removed from the compound completely and the rubble and earth from the old jumps taken away.
Then its all new hoses, changes to the rostrum, new banners to be hung around the walls of the compound, additional speakers etc etc
So why are we publicising this?
To entice new people and re-inspire old members to come and try the track as we make the improvements. You are all welcome by the way
Share what we have done so other clubs may learn from our efforts if it helps them at all.
And most importantly to thank those club members who have worked so hard at doing all this so far in no particular order - James Lucas, Chris Ellis, Neil Richardson, Terry Dickinson, Stuart McCabe, Carl Howard, Keith Meredith, Alex Tudor-Hart, Duncan Hedger, Richard Hamme, and many others
Next update in a few weeks time. I hope you enjoy reading this thread and in case you weren't aware we race on alternate Sundays (next one is the 15th Feb for the Winter Series) from 8:30am and every Thursday evening from 6:30pm. Thank for reading so far