Race Report

[lazysurfer]

Well here goes for the first race report on or new club page…
Well a rather disappointing turn out last night for the new chairman’s first night tho I’m sure it was more down to the weather than to Nev being in charge!
Maybe it was down to subs being due tho those that came prepared to pay, me included were out of luck with no treasurer in attendance.
Only 12 racing, 7 TC & 5 Buggies, the low numbers resulting in a simple fast track setup with a single jump for the buggies (sorry Gary - more next week when you and Jim are back building)
Only 2 heats meaning 4 rounds and a 2 leg final at a fairly relaxed pace with even a dummy heat in to space out the first 3 rounds.
Richie ZXR put in his promised appearance with his son, hopefully to be on track in a week or so and even an appearance from Kevin Jones promising he is about to make a comeback - again - go on Kev, do it this time!

Hope to see more back on the track next week and hopefully I’ll have some new tyres, and a new servo saver which will make putting in a new servo worth doing.

[RichieZXR]

Yes... Thanks to those who came and said hello to us....it Was like stepping back in time for me ! Ray does not look a day older ! I never got a chance to talk to Buckle, but he has not changed either.... Probably wont remember me either... Nobby's comment "I Dont know you?" Made me chuckle i keep forgetting i was twelve back then....mind he was barely recognisable too... All them steak dinners I reckon Nathan's replacement bits and tyres arrived today so we are going to have a wonder down to Seaham on Sunday to have a try. Gives him a lead in for Monday I guess.

[gar]

Originally Posted by lazysurfer

Well here goes for the first race report on or new club page…
Well a rather disappointing turn out last night for the new chairman’s first night tho I’m sure it was more down to the weather than to Nev being in charge!
Maybe it was down to subs being due tho those that came prepared to pay, me included were out of luck with no treasurer in attendance.
Only 12 racing, 7 TC & 5 Buggies, the low numbers resulting in a simple fast track setup with a single jump for the buggies (sorry Gary - more next week when you and Jim are back building)
Only 2 heats meaning 4 rounds and a 2 leg final at a fairly relaxed pace with even a dummy heat in to space out the first 3 rounds.
Richie ZXR put in his promised appearance with his son, hopefully to be on track in a week or so and even an appearance from Kevin Jones promising he is about to make a comeback - again - go on Kev, do it this time!



Hope to see more back on the track next week and hopefully I’ll have some new tyres, and a new servo saver which will make putting in a new servo worth doing.

Hi Mark

Had to much to do at work but will be back next week and get that track sorted out one jump one jump
lol


Not a good turn out though where is everyone

See you all next week

Gary

[lazysurfer]

Originally Posted by gar

Hi Mark

Had to much to do at work but will be back next week and get that track sorted out one jump one jump
lol


Not a good turn out though where is everyone

See you all next week

Gary

Weather put some off I reckon. Zumba girls cancelled all-together. Guess there was lots of snow in some places :-(

[richie.]

I would have been there if not for an anniversary, did wonder if it would be low turn out with the snow though......

[lazysurfer]

Well a good turn out last night with 19 cars on track, 10 buggies and 10 TC’s split into 3 heats, all getting 4 rounds of quali and a final.
Good to see Richard and Richie back racing, and Richie and Nathan with Nathan racing this week, and Richard Ingram still running buggy.
So anyone out there called Richard or Richie, we’d love to have you along racing so we can start a new class, we only need 1 more!!
Gary and Jim shears returned to build the jumps so 3 jumps/rumbles for the buggies again last night with a rather unusual “crossing” between the buggy & TC circuits J

And thanks to Chris Heptonstall, an old racer from Longbenton for donating all his old gear to the club including 2 cars!!
With a little time and input we’ll get a car up and running fairly easy so people interested in the sport will have a car they can try for a few laps courtesy of the club J

Hopefully see good numbers again next week at “THE BEST TC & BUGGY CLUB IN THE NORTH”

[gar]

Originally Posted by lazysurfer

Well a good turn out last night with 19 cars on track, 10 buggies and 10 TC’s split into 3 heats, all getting 4 rounds of quali and a final.
Good to see Richard and Richie back racing, and Richie and Nathan with Nathan racing this week, and Richard Ingram still running buggy.
So anyone out there called Richard or Richie, we’d love to have you along racing so we can start a new class, we only need 1 more!!
Gary and Jim shears returned to build the jumps so 3 jumps/rumbles for the buggies again last night with a rather unusual “crossing” between the buggy & TC circuits J

And thanks to Chris Heptonstall, an old racer from Longbenton for donating all his old gear to the club including 2 cars!!

With a little time and input we’ll get a car up and running fairly easy so people interested in the sport will have a car they can try for a few laps courtesy of the club J

Hopefully see good numbers again next week at “THE BEST TC & BUGGY CLUB IN THE NORTH”

Yes had a great night. Glad you liked the cross over section in the track thought we would try it and seemed to work fine.

I hope the numbers keep high like last night makes the club feel better.
And I made a full night without something braking on the car

See you all next week

Gary

[FastWheels]

“THE BEST TC & BUGGY CLUB IN THE NORTH”

I'll second that !

[lazysurfer]

Ok just a reminder, not that you should need one, to get charged and prep’d for racing on Monday night. See if we can gat back up to 20 cars on track - close last week with 19 tho there were a few drop outs during the night.

See you all Monday - I’m running a sweep on how many “buggy sections” Gary and Jim put out this week after their excellent track layout last week!

[gar]

Another good nights racing last night with 4 heats and three jumps must find space for more jumps lol

see you all next week

Gary

[lazysurfer]

Well guys a good turn out again last night with 19 racing although at one point I did have 20 booked in as I’d put Shawn in both classes for some reason!
10 TC’s and 9 Buggies meaning 3 rounds of 4 heats and finals at a reasonably relaxed pace and a slightly early finish J
3 buggy sections thanks to Gary (Jim calling in sick this week - get well Jim).
Another first time driver on track was Sean Lancaster getting around very well for his first time ever racing!!
A couple of old faces from years back looking to maybe return to racing - yet another father and son tag team- nice to see you Dave & Ken, hope to see you on the track in the coming weeks
And finally after over 4 month I’ve managed to get my car sorted and handling properly again J

I’m looking forward to next week now for a change - see you all there.

[lazysurfer]

Oh and just a reminder, membership is due :-(

[TangerineDream]

I might be a bit late paying mine

[lazysurfer]

Well it’s that time of the week again to start thinking about getting things prepared for Monday’s racing.
19 racing the past 2 weeks, lets see if we can get 20 this week - what happened to the times when we had mid 20’s on a regular basis.
Those of you who haven’t been for a while, dig it out, dust it off and drag it down on Monday J

[RichieZXR]

Me and Jnr should be there, I might have my lazer running if the bits come.... Vintage class anyone ?

[lazysurfer]

A decent turn out last night with 17 cars on track, 11 TC’s and 6 buggies getting 4 quali and 2 finals each so 6 rounds of racing for everyone!!!
Another new face on the track was Michael joining the TC class.
While new drivers are always good to have so are old hands and we seem to be maintaining numbers but continually recruiting new drivers so where are all the old ones, Watson, Fairbairn, Davidsons, Ferris, Andersons, Campbell, Oldroyd, to name but a few that I haven’t completely given up hope on???

Would be good to see some of you guys back next week as well as the new drivers.

Also we were a bit short of Richie’s last night and could do with the others back next week please!

Cheers till Monday

[lazysurfer]

Ok lads weekly appeal to you all to get along racing on Monday night. We got 6 races in last week !!!
A couple more of those missing in action turning up would be good - other faces we’ve been missing for a while are Dan Burrows & Nigel Hastie.
Where has everyone got to. We’re still getting decent numbers but with lots of new racers making up the numbers - a good thing but would be nice to see some old faces back too.

[lazysurfer]

Well a decent turn out again with 19 drivers and 20 cars comprising 9 buggies and 12 TC’s. 6 rounds of racing in all, 4 quali and 2 leg finals meaning a smooth run to fit them all in.
Seems my naming and shaming has brought a few old faces back, good to see Gary Campbell, Ian Watson and Jonny Clark all making a welcome return - and all being competitive winning at least 1 round each.
Hopefully more of the same next week.
See you then

[lazysurfer]

Well 20 cars on track last week so can we finally get back up to 20 drivers this week?
Hopefully have some more of the part timers back - Westy?-
A few more turning up closer to 7 than half past to help with track build to save Jim and Gary doing most of the work will easily get us racing by 7:30 again.
Which means if there’s only 3 heats, we get 4 rounds and a 2 leg final again.
That’s 6 rounds of racing for everyone!!!!!

See you all monday

[lazysurfer]

Well we finally made it back up to 20 racers last night with 21 cars on the track. Surface seemed a bit slippy early on but picked up as the night progressed.
A 7:30 start to racing thanks to Jim and Gary leading track build as ever meant again, 4 quali and a 2 leg final for all heats comprising a 9 car TC heat and 2no 6 car Buggies. Even managed to get cleared up and out with 5 mins to spare, guess track builders, tidiers and race control must all be getting more efficient!!!
Couldn’t believe how many people were fighting to put stuff away J

Only the downside was the absence of our illustrious chairman from the finals which he claims was due to a broken car - tho I’m sure he dismantled it purposely as he qualified for the B final ;-)

Back to the TC next week then Nev?

I won’t make next week - another boarding trip but racing will be on as usual with either Westy, Scowen or Nev running race control so have a good meet and I’ll see you all when I get back.