DMCC Indoor Offroad C'ship 2010/2011

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Good days racing!! hope everyone got home ok after todays championship round!!

[Legacy555]

NEXT ROUND IS JANUARY 9TH 2011 (Weekend before the Petit)

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See above - that's this Sunday!

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Results from today (R5) are updated.
Well done to Lee McGuire - great result in 4wd!

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Originally Posted by Legacy555

Results from today (R5) are updated.
Well done to Lee McGuire - great result in 4wd!

Hi Wil,

Thanks for putting the results up so quick

Kevin

[Legacy555]

NEXT ROUND IS THIS SUNDAY JANUARY 30TH 2011
Doors open @ 10.30am, don't be late!

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Championship results have been updated.

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NEXT ROUND IS FEBRUARY 13th 2011

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Championship results have been updated and seperated into Modified and Clubman sections

[Legacy555]

Quick report......

6 rounds completed, 2 to go;

In the 2wd Clubman class, Lee McGuire is currently at the top of the scoreboard. Lee is really getting the hang of the new Tamiya TRF 201 and is scoring consistantly around the back of the A-Final or top of the B-Final. He is not unchallenged however; Eoin Keating and Kevin White, both driving Team Associated B4 buggies are hot on his heals and we will not know who is the victor until all three have registered 6 scores after the last championship round of the season. Kevin and Eoin with only 4 rounds completed, must attend both of the remaining two rounds to catch McGuire who is rarely absent from racing. Another consistant scorer is Dave Bolger. Bolger is a regular front runner and winner of the Clubman class and is currently second on the leaderboard, however with all drivers yet to register 6 scores, he may find himself relegated to 4th at the end of the season. Peter Juramik, Graham Parkes and Rowan Walsh are all improving greatly having only taken up (returned to) the hobby lately.

In the 2wd modified class, yours truly has managed to take his mongral of a losi/atomic carbon/XXX/Street Weapon/BK2/MF2/XX4 to 5 maximum scores so far. I can testify that the pace is the hottest that I have ever experienced in the club and is testement to the fantastic facilities and organisation that we have in The Naul at the moment. The only other round winner is Mark Penny, but Micheal Bolger has been the closest championship challenger with 6 x 99 point scores. Mark will not affect the championship as he has not attended enough rounds to be able to secure 6 counting scores. Third position in the series is currently held by Michael O'Leary, also with a B4. However there are 3 competitors close on his trail. Derek McCloskey, Nigel Dungan and John Dungan will all finish close to O'Leary's point tally assuming that they attend the remaining rounds to allow for their best 6 to count. McCloskey returned to racing at Xmas after a sebatical racing touring cars and 1/8th Nitro and is now back on the pace that he showed when going to win the Irish National Championship on several occasions. His return has led to a strengthening of pace at the front of the field and everybody has to now push that little harder. Nigel and John Dungan have recently swapped to Atomic Carbon CR2 buggies and are showing great improvement in their pace and the fact thet they may challenge for third place in the championship is testement to this. Tony Kavanagh is the other contender for the coveted third place on the podium. The Tamiya TRF201 driver is getting to grips with the new car and is starting to build up his pace - 1 more points score could see him draw level or overtake O'Leary - so the battle will be tough!

In the 4wd modified class, Mick O'Leary is the current championship leader with 2 wins using his Team Associated B44. William White is in second having registered 6 scores, including 4 wins, however he failed to start the final (with a 4wd) in round 2 resulting in a score of 0. Again Nigel and John Dungan are showing a strong and similar pace and may challenge the top of the leaderboard at the end of the season - both have registered only 4 scores so far.

Remaining rounds are February 27th and March 13th - be there!

All news and results are on www.dublinmodelracing.com

[Legacy555]

ROUND 8 of the Championship is this Sunday 27th Feb. With only the rerun of round 3 to go on March 13th everyone really needs to put in the effort now to secure a good result.

Tony, Lee and Dave need one more score to get up to 6 rounds.
Derek, Nigel, John, Eoin and Kevin need to compete at both rounds

Regards,

Will

[Legacy555]

Originally Posted by Legacy555

ROUND 8 of the Championship is this Sunday 27th Feb. With only the rerun of round 3 to go on March 13th everyone really needs to put in the effort now to secure a good result.

Tony, Lee and Dave need one more score to get up to 6 rounds.
Derek, Nigel, John, Eoin and Kevin need to compete at both rounds

Regards,

Will

Hi all,

For some reason, Colin Whelan has vanished from the results. He has competed in 3 rounds and has a current score of 287 in 2wd.
I will stick him back up asap.

If anyone else notices a missing competitor, can you please let me know.
I'll go through all of the results over the weekend.

Will

[Legacy555]

Championship standings are updated - see www.dublinmodelracing.com

[Legacy555]

NEXT ROUND IS MARCH 13th 2011 - this is the rerun of Round 3 which was cancelled due to the snow back in December.

This is the last round of the championship, I hope to have all of the scores checked this week.

[Legacy555]

Just a reminder about the above. This could be the last big meeting of the indoor season so come and support it

[Legacy555]

Well the final round of the championship was a biggy!! There have been position shuffles in all of the classes and the results are now up on the club website - www.dublinmodelracing.com

In the clubman class, Eoin Keating put in a great performance under pressure to win the class and the championship. Lee McGuire finished second cementing his position as runner-up in what is becoming a difficult championship to win. Focus will now turn to the 2011 outdoor championship. Kevin White registered his sixth score to finish 3rd by leapfroging Dave Bolger who was fourth in the championship.

In the modified section, Mark Penney put in another top performance to win the round, but with only 4 scores, he doesn't qualify for the overall positions. William White finished a close second and posted the only 16 lap run of the season to secure the championship win. Derek McCloskey, driving the improving Cougar SV, registered his sixth score of season in third place and secured third overall in the championship. Michael Bolger put in another consistant performance to ensure that second in the championship was his with a 4th place finish.

In 4wd, Derek McCloskey was the pace setter all day and is really getting to grips with the CAT SX2, but a single unfortunate bad-bounce in the final was enough to gift William White with the win - giving him a maximum 600 point tally for the championship. Michael O'Leary hung on to finish 3rd in the final, securing 2nd in the series also. Whilst a battle between the two Dungan brothers saw John come out on top - leaving John and Nigel, third and fourth in the championship respectively.

Other notable performances of the day were;
Paul Penney was a very welcome visitor to the Naul for the last round of the series. He spent the day practicing on Saturday with his Cougar SV and was setting times that would stick him amongst the top drivers in the A Final. Very unfortunately, Paul would break a front bulkhead in practice on race day and without a spare available was forced to use a 10 year old Associated B4 that was less that perfect. I reckon I jinxed him by "talking him up" on the forum last week..... sorry Paul.
In addition to the already mentioned drivers, Kevin White, Tony Kavanagh, Graham Parkes, and even young Ciaran Parkes all seemed to get around the track a littel better today - this bodes very well for the outdoor season.

Well done all

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Hi Lads,

I'd just like to say a big thank you to all the DMCC committee for organising a fantastic Winter series

Special thanks to Dave for bringing his special bottled spring water each week & all the tea and coffee you can drink + all his words of wisdom. (I think they where words of wisdom)

Thanks also to Mick for passing on his biblical knowledge of car setup and general advise on racing + his trackside AE support is invaluable.

Thanks also to Will for running the events & having endless amounts of enthusiasm & energy and for his track layout & design skills

Great craic, great company & great racing, what more could a body ask for

Kevin

[The Doktor]

Totally agree with kevin, its been a really enjoyable championship. Learned a lot racing indoors...Even if i do have a big bucket of broken plastic and bent metal to remind me of it.
Lee

[Eiremaxx]

I agree with all above enjoyed the whole winter series very tight finish only 1 point in the end,thanks to Mick and all members for all the help tips and info great job look forward to the outdoor series now see you all then

Eoin

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Great winter series this year well done to everybody who made this happen.The lads up at the A final were really on it great to see.Roll on the outdoor season