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Serious idea for winter racing.
Rob and I were chatting today about winter plans.
Neither of us are terribly confident about outdoor racing in winter - people say they are up for it now, but given how quick everyone scampers off home when it rains I'm not convinced yet. Getting an indoor venue is tricky though - we need a lot of space, and we'd also need storage for carpets, track hose etc, and all at a really cheap price. But following on from Matts thread about the Tomy GX's; What about if we ran Micro T's and or GX's? They are much smaller, and we could easily find a room - even a pubs function room should be large enough. We might want carpet and track hose - but we are talking one roll, and garden hose which will fit in a car boot. I'd favor the Micro T over the GX because its fully rebuildable and has proportional steering. JE sell them for £58, but I'm fairly sure if instead of buying individually we ordered in bulk through the club we could knock it down to under £50 (is this possible Stu?) which is no more than you'd spend on tyres racing 1/10ths indoors. We'd run them stock, everything you need is in the box, but damage is repairable - a whole new gearbox cost me £7. Only problem I can see is timing would have to be manual - they are too small for handout transponders and the stock electrics have no way of powering a PT. Who's interested?
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Im going to race indoors, im going to book in for chadderton defo and maybe worksop and then theres always batley indoors inbetween if we dont find an indoor venue.
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Well yes thats great Matt - but none of those are anything to do with Bury. We could do with doing something ourselves, whatever that something is.....
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i have got an idea ill pm you,dont discuss it in the open as eveything normaly is. lol
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I think winter racing outdoors is definatly possible depending on which type of weather comes out. Winter can be cold but dry, which would be ideal!! However if we get days like today, when it pours down for 2 mins, 4 times within an hour, its not very fun! Problem is were setting up for 'Hi-grip' ie not getting any grip roll, as the carpet is very very grippy. But when its wet, the carpet does the complete opposite. Which is fine if youve got time to fiddle about changing things, but wont be nice when its -2 outside in winter. |
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I don't think changing cars to suite the venue is a good idea to be fair. Especially when people spend that much money on cars in the first place.
Surely there is some sports hall available over winter? or some large space? in the Bolton/Bury area. Or maybe even look to racing on a Saturday? is there no space at Coney Green on the Saturdays? Like Matt says, People will just go elsewhere otherwise. I don't think i would get a Micro. |
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We've raced previously at the Bolton Community College at Horwich and at the Excel Centre in Bolton.
Are these still possibilities? |
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Mid week pleeeeeeease
If it was mid week indoors i would join, attend, set up and put away! I promise!!!
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no to micro dude ...we race 10th thats what we do
reckon we try outdoor track see how it go s cant be worse than summer season called at kieghthly today and got sunburnt marshalling for 5 min manchester weather rules
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winter racing
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What about that warehouse that one of the racers has in trafford. Roger was telling me that one of the guys had an empty warehouse in trafford that we could use. You need to ask him about it. |
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budfish is going to bell him in the morning mate.
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Hehe, i raced touring cars at Millenium way back.
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Would it be big enough for buggy's?
Ive never seen the inside, but it looks a fair size. |
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Big enough... yeah, but ideally you'd want a bit more room, however if it's still got the pits area there it might make up for it being a bit tight.
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I remember that!!
did you ever go to Jubilee Arena in Bury i while back? purpose built indoor venue? also tourers at Geoffrey Kershaw Centre in Bury was always fun!! |
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indoor racing
if you are thinking of raceing micro or mini t i am in the middle of signing for a unit in whitefield its about 2450 sq foot it wont be big enough for 1\10 cars as i am using it for a doggy day care centre but i can hire it out for micro racing plenty of room you could use it on wed nights aswell as sunday it would help me out with the rent and help u guys out for a bit of fun racing
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Chris, nope, nope, never went to those, after Millenium closed i quit TC's and went buggy racing at the old goshen track. Always preferred off-road anyway.
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Whats happened to everyone, I remember racing in the mud and sleet - take a flask, gloves and warm coat. I'll find it loads easier to attend from this week onwards and joined Bury 24 years ago when people didn't scarper when they got wet.
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outside sounds best for me i did that 10+ years ago at bury and i sure dont mind doing it again just need to make sure the kettle is on after all when it snows dont need track markings then just shovel a track out lol
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how much dous it normaly cost to rent a sports hall on a sunday?
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