Track work days 1&2 March

[racingdwarf]

I'm doing loads of work to both the tracks this week and weekend,I have the digger and dumper up there tomorrow making the new massive but car friendly jump on the dirt the new parts of the track and moving the table top further down the back straight to vastly improve visibility.

On the grass I have boarded the side of the table top so it can be made about 3Ft wider thus brca legal and also improving the take off and landing ramps.

This weekend I need help recovering the tabletop with better astro and astroing the possible new low tabletops, I also need help with the new cement dome corner markers on the dirt, plenty of cement to barrow about and hopefully sunday they can be painted red and white

Also a bonfire to please any pyromaniacs we have amongst us.

[jonesi]

I have a pretty busy weekend at work coming up but I will try and get down to lend a hand if i can.

[jcb]

I can help out on Sunday

[racingdwarf]

Good stuff see what the weather brings

some big changes today, we have a new mega jump,Banked bends and off camber sections moved about 25T of soil today big plans for tomorrow then last thing tonight Quirks dumper broke down

[simonrhart]

Sounds cool. Will the BRCA regional be run on the dirt or grass?

Simon

[racingdwarf]

Grass as most are afraid of dirt thats why I'm making the big table top wider on the grass track so its BRCA track rules width,I offered the dirt when the email went out about clubs holding a second meeting, said they could use ballistic buggy tyres as they would work,and we could use the grass if the dirt was wet and I would change the layout, but no we gave 2 meetings to Harts nice track but don't support the region much as I believe most of there drivers support mid south.

I would do more to the grass track, but anything new really needs to be astro turfed, If I start digging massive features in the grass track it will become a dirt track! and grass seed takes to long to grow, I am doing a few bits to the grass track but only so much that we have spare astro to cover, I do have more to astro use on the grass track as I have taken most of the astro off the dirt track as I felt it was wasted there and more use on the grass if you see my point.

[racingdwarf]

on another note I have the digger all weekend so we can really get things sorted

[racingdwarf]

Photo of the new jump and new layout after it, it was wet as you can see from chainsaw in photo I was about to set about making the wooden posts shorter and hidden etc looks far better and car friendly now

[Dandare]

'Ere, you've ruined my 1:18 SCT 'short' circuit

Good work, is this revised section to be a permanent part of all 10th club dirt track days or still bypassed on occasions ?

[racingdwarf]

should be fine to use all the time, the whole idea was to keep the big jump BIG, but make it far more car friendly, the takeoff ramp has not been touched, It launches the cars just as it did before I have just made it so you are no more than a couple of feet off the ground instead of 6feet off the ground with the possibility of nose 1st into the up ramp of the table top, you now jump over the top of all the new jump and land half way down the down ramp, but now if you bin it you just land early, no more badly broken cars.

[jcb]

Looks like a good improvement to me.


What time were you thinking of getting there on Sunday?

[simonrhart]

This will be awesome in the summer.

[jonesi]

I should be able to get down the club for around 12:30 tomorrow if anybody is going to be there?

[racingdwarf]

Yep I will be there all day saturday and sunday, tomorrow I want to get all the soil moving finished, digger work, raking compacting etc then sunday finishing and putting the new apex markers in.

Should be there from 9 at the latest tomorrow, don't worry to much on times ,I plan to be there all day no matter so any time anyone can give even if its just an hour…I can find a job to give you blisters in an hour

[racingdwarf]

good day today, thanks for Ian and nathans help, some more big changes done, plenty of pipe to do etc tomorrow and still need to finish the table top on the grass track, I should be there from 9-9:30 ish.

[racingdwarf]

Got a lot done today, grass track all down with astro section, table top finished, new double jump all covered in astro Big thanks to jonathan,craig,Dan chilvers (not sick note Usher) and connor who spent most of the afternoon doing laps of the grass track with a vibrating plate

I think we may have broken JCB tho,he maybe asleep at his desk tomorrow

Just some pipework to finish the dirt track and we are all done, again big thanks to all who helped

[jcb]

Yep a few aching joints and a tad sleepy today!!

Was a good day though and is great to have both tracks looking so good.


Thanks has to be given to Dave for all the time he has spent at the track recently

[jonesi]

Yep, I'll second that! Big thanks to Dave for all the time and effort!!!!!

[racingdwarf]

cheers folks.

Anyway nipped up tonight for couple of hours to do some pipe work, few photos ,not that good as light was fading fast by the time I got camera out.according to met office this week should be dry if it lasts we may get to see a track without puddles,Oh and we now have a pair of ducks on our lake

[SimonW]

Looking good, will try it out Sunday. Well done all