Bury Metro 29th April

[jimmy]

9:29 it is then , see you there !

[RobHatcliffe]

Finish time is a bit hard to predict Paul, too many variables.
I would expect it to finish 5.30 - 6.00 pm approx.

We need to start early as we expect around +80 drivers

[AndyG]

Is it deffo 4WD on the Sunday (as I think was suggested earlier in this thread) as my calendar has it down as 4WD on the Saturday.

Anybody?

Also, I haven't been able to log in on the brca-northeast site for some reasonso I've email Brian Hoppps. Can anybody confirm he's the best person to have contacted?

Cheers

Andy Grason

[jimmy]

Yea brian is da man.
if you want me to ask him anything via MSN let me know.

are you doing both Andy ?
who's camping then ? duno if we are since we live 25/30 mins away but ya never know

[RobHatcliffe]

Originally the calendar said 4wd Saturday, but it did get changed, meaning that it's 2wd on Saturday, 4wd on Sunday.

2wd calendar taken from Full Throttle North East website:-

EV012WD2WDTeesdale 2WD (1 of 5)02-04-2006
EV032WD2WDBury Metro 2WD (2 of 5)29-04-2006
EV052WD2WDBatley 2WD (3 of 5)21-05-2006
EV062WD2WDDurham 2WD (4 of 5)11-06-2006
EV082WD2WDYork 2WD (5 of 5)29-07-2006

Brian Hopps is the man to contact regarding booking in, I'm sure he will help you.

Rob

[Richard Lowe]

Could we have the full banked turn for 2wd, but not for 4wd? It's fast already in 2wd but you carry so much speed in 4wd and being banked the slightest touch on the steering sends you a foot off line and into the concrete slabs

[Stu]

At the 2004 national the track was run as Richard suggests, turning 180 deg right on the exit to the banking. It was a very fresh layout.

On another tack, the track can be run the opposite way round. The banked corner is awesome in this format, the car squats down into the exit giving a 'slingshot' out. It's very, very rare that the club drivers will run that way round, I'm not sure if it's due to the loss of some of the 'local-knoledge' advantage. Last time I was there when this was done one of the top club drivers packed up and went home, unhappy that it was the 'wrong way round'.
This may be ideal for Saturday when many of the local drivers will be in the non-region part of the meeting.

[Northy]

Originally Posted by Stu

.......It was a very fresh layout.........

Stu, you turning gay on us?

Will you and Dammo be camping or is it too close to home?

[Stu]

G, last year when I seen you in that McFlurry bra it reminded me that gay is defo not me, I rekon it'd have turned Julian Clary straight.

Mr W's got a new gay car, you may have seen the pics.

[jimmy]

Leave him alone, he looked gorgeous :sunny:

[Northy]

Did I?

Is the new car a bit pink?

[Stu]

Jimmy?

G, sorry, didn't answer your oringinal question. Not sure what we are doing, still not answered I suppose.

See PM.

[AndyG]

Originally Posted by jimmy

Yea brian is da man.
if you want me to ask him anything via MSN let me know.

are you doing both Andy ?
who's camping then ? duno if we are since we live 25/30 mins away but ya never know

Just doing 4WD dude. I'll be doing all 4WD regionals, and some 2WD thrown in, but no full weekenders.

AG

[Chrislong]

The Whittlers new car huh, is that the Mk2 Escort? I saw that on Sunday, I wanted a closer look but didn't get round to it, I like them.... not as Gay as a Berlingo I hear :bigsmurf:

[Stu]

It's the Pink/Yellow XX that's gay chris.

[PaulRotheram]

good weekend all?

i had an okish day in 2wd, my car was abit of a nightmare to drive. it just didnt seem to like the sand tried lots of different set up changes, the car had loads of dodgy oversteer moments on the sand, went to the extreme and put a new set of rear boots on for my last shot and had massive understeer

put some oldish yellows on for the final on slim rims and it seemed to be slightly better. nice race with stu also, was it the xx you was running?

stripped the car today and find the servo post has cracked, so im assumeing the servo could have been moving around a little bit mid run, which could explain the randomness. and a slightly bent rear lunsford turnbuckle either of which i didnt notice during the day as it was only minor.

hoping i can get my car race ready for the bury NW round.

howd 4wd go today?

[jimmy]

I had an excellent day both days, I missed out on the B but still got a C2 in 2wd which im happy with all things considered.
My b4 was amazing, I liked it so much I ran it in 4wd also, it was easily as fast as most of the 4wd cars when It was dry, shame it rained as I had to use 4wd after round 3.

The tracks both days were really good.

[jimmy]

added photos now

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/bury290406/

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/bury300406/

[WHITTLER555]

Jimmy, Hats off to you on the photo's mate!!!

The pictures with my car in them all show exactly what happened in my final, the first corner where Jim D's car went flying off to the left! I lead for about 4 laps and then my nerves set in resulting in shaky leg syndrome! Then battling with Andy Fox to try and keep second place, it looks as though there is just one stange car going through that corner.

What a brilliant A Final 4WD, even though I was marshalling I managed to watch it unfolding, it has to be said that the quality in this region (North) is right up there, well done Dan, no longer the Tangerine man!

Thanks for putting those pics on

Damo

[Richard Lowe]

Good pics as always Jimmy

I had a good time in qualifying both days, the B4 was amazing by the end of the day. I tried some new stuff on the BJ that worked really well in the dry, but not quite fast enough to catch that pesky Bradders bloke

Finals were a different story front of the grid to the back on the first corner both days, wasn't too impressed with some of the 'overtaking' moves attempted in the first corner
I wish I could have joined in with the 4wd battle, sounded good from everyone watching

That's the line Tom