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22-06-2011
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Only thing I can think of that would be a nice is a change of body style, obviously everyone should run the same body to not give any team a advantage. but something like the Peugeot 908 Le mans style body would be cool.
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22-06-2011
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We did three car sets of axles, at £10 a pair = £60, three pairs of diff outdrives at £10 a pair £30, a few uprights and wishbones in the race and testing, rounded a couple of wheels out and trashed two sets of slick tyres, around £100 the lot, I've retired three LiPo packs since the event as the continued cycling finished them off, so abouit £180 perhaps and the bodyshell I had painted is dead so to replace that would be another £30 plus £45 for the painting, I bought several sets of bumper foams to custom make some front and rears, I bought a LiPo protector and some LEDS, a few spare belts and wishbones just in case so abouit another £100 all up, not to mention all the motors (7 in total) which was £70 up in smoke, and a couple of spare ESC's on standby all pre wired up just in case, so another £50 there. Rough total not including the fees for testing and club race days to get it set up, so I blew somewhere in the region of £500 easily, so no matter what car you chose, endurance racing is not cheap. Have a 6 hour race if you want, maybe a 12 hour race too, but I think 24hrs should be once a year, and that is enough! It was special, let's keep it that way 
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22-06-2011
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I think we (Doris Racing) spent something like £750 inc testing and that was after calling in favours and discounts. We did have to but 6 cheap lipos as there were no touring car drivers on the team but there is no residual value in those after 24hrs of abuse. Car stiil needs about £50 spending on it before it would be ready to go again. So we don't want to be doing that too many times a year.
Best keep it as a special annual event in mid summer in my opinion. jason
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22-06-2011
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Why not copy the 1.1 scale Le Mans series????
A series of four 6 hour 1000lap races (to keep up interest) with a 24 hour as the crown jewel? The 24 was an amazing event, but I can understand the pressures of running too many events of that sort. It’s a large commitment, not only financially but on people’s time. Having said this, nobody is forcing anyone to do an event September. It would be great if there was some drop outs so other teams get bitten by the bug… Then run an endurance series 
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#489
26-06-2011
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Sorry it took so long to get this together chaps, but here is the timelapse video for the 24hr with the rest of the usable GoPro footage from the pace car:
The timelapse video runs continuously over 5 minutes and I've tried to insert the other clips at the correct points to show the progress of the race over the 24 hours. A modicum of artistic licence may have been used... 
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27-06-2011
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Thank you for taking the time to do it :-)
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01-09-2011
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Hi Guys, looks like we are going to just make this an annual event, i've been trying to get really cheap brushless systems so we could include it in the next race fees, and HPI are clear out of the Sprint cars at the moment and their brushless systems are a bit pricey (too good a quality and too fast for what we need).
So i've decided to keep this as an annual event, so you have until next July to get your car up to tip top condition and we will be running 17.5 brushless systems. More info and news to follow next year. Hope you all understand. It will be the same weekend as Le Mans again. :-) John.
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03-09-2011
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13-09-2011
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Before you say "you can only get ezruns on ebay because nobody in the UK sells them" Etronix (CML) have just launched a range of brushless motors which are ezrun motors with a different sticker on them & Speed Passion do the Inspire system which is an ezrun system but painted black - for about £100 the set (double what ezruns go for on the bay of E) which just goes to show in the UK we get ripped off for our RC stuff... faling that, get a trade account set-up with Dinball & get a job-lot of cars & motors.
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13-09-2011
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Our Sprint flew with a 13t ezrun setup in it during a cheaky warm up enduro at the club. They'd go the distance too. I know a few people racing minis at the club that have been running the same motor for over a year!
Giant cod sells them in the UK.
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13-09-2011
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Just ran the normal 35a ezrun speedo. The justock would be ideal, probably overkill.
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