north west stages 4th feb 2012

[stuart slmcc]

The south lakes model car club are going to be doing a demo for the public at the Norbreck Castle Hotel's Norcalympia Exhibition Area Blackpool on saturday the 4th feb 2012 . We are opening the offer to join us for a meeting to show the public what rc racing is all about . If you are interested in joining us and handing out some info on your club your more than welcome as long as your racing too . The cost will be a FIVE POUNDS for the day with the money raised being given to the Marie Curie Cancer Care that the north west stages are supporting .

Please pm if your interested .

Touring cars welcome with 2wd and 4wd buggys and mardaves . Please note no spikes or pins please . We will be racing on our indoor track that is being brought down for the day .

http://www.nwstages.co.uk/index.html

[adamjimny]

im sure a lot of people will be interested in this but what tyres are allowed as i race mini pins indoors as do alot of other racers at our club

[stuart slmcc]

We are running on foams or dirt hawgs . You can run anything as long as its not spiked .

[andy110m]

Hi Stuart, I'm sure alot of people from local clubs would want to come and support this but by saying no spikes your probably going to struggle.

Ribble runs on mostly mini pins, as does Roundabout and Southport. As much as I've been agruing the benefits of foams in the Batley section, if you want a good turn out I think you're going to have to be flexible.

Out of interest why is it foams only, I'm discounting the Hawgs because they're crap. I'm sure Pete from Ribble would agree our club was worried spikes would damage their carpet but they haven't at all.

[singin pete]

We have run pins at Ribble for over a year now, with very good numbers down every week but the carpet is not showing any sign of wear. The club did worry it would ruin the carpet but it looks fine.

But if stuart is saying you can only run Hawgs or foams, you run with these or you don't race.

Every club has rules it up to the racers to run to them.

Saying that Andy, Hawgs are c**p, foams would be the better choice, but since I only have pins and Hawgs I will be running Hawgs.

Peter

[andy110m]

Hi Pete, I think the event sounds worthwhile and I'd like to see it well attended. Anyone who puts the effort in to something like this deserves a good turnout. I just wanted to highlight something that could prevent that. I know a few lads that would be interested but foams only will put them off.

[stuart slmcc]

Or carpet is showing signs of wear (it was new to us when we got it ) and we are not in the position of replacing it at the moment. New club transponders for the regional that we hold and lap top are on this years shopping list both are in need of replacing . For the 12 or so meetings we hold every year indoors the moneys best saved for a rainy day to keep us going.

Some people have cut the off the spikes on schumacher yellows and still done well as im sure most will have an old set of spikes that are past there best to do this .