Offroad Endurance

[antnee]

Last night at West Bridgford MCC we held our 2nd annual 1/10th le-man 24 hours race, for 1/10th on-road cars running for 2hours 24mins (a 10th of 24 hours)

How it worked was between 3 and 5 people in a team, up to 10 teams one transpoder per team (hand out one) and race.


At the end I was talking to robbiejuk as I had an idea, running the same but off-road. Would anyone be interested in this sort of thing, if held at wbmcc it could either be run indoors (mix of carpet and wooden floor) or outside (on grass with a strip on concrete running down the middle)
I think it would be a lot better as nearly everyone would be running brushless so motor fading wouldnt be a problem.

So who would be interested?

[dbizzle5]

Id be there and Im sure alot of the people from Broxtowe would be up for it. Outdoors would be better though!:thumbsup:

[Robbiejuk]

Be interesting to know if they still run that 24hour race in belgium. Road trip :)

Lets up the stakes though, one chassis only. That will sort the men from the boys and there would be no way sharpy would win win with his lazer ;)

[antnee]

So we could have proper pit stops, but have battery changes instead of fueling!

[ben]

the thing with using one car is that the speedo is only going to last so long before it will thermal :thumbdown:

[Garry Driffill]

Ohh the joys of non maintainence racing Ben....

I love my brushed gear LOL :lol:

[sparrow.2]

the thing with using one car is that the speedo is only going to last so long before it will thermal :thumbdown:

I think my Sphere TC would be up to it with conservative gearing on a 5.5...
It usually comes out of a 7min race at about 45°C and doesnt get much hotter than that...

[antnee]

Well you would have to take thermaling issues into account with your strategy

How quick can you change speedo's?:D

[markwilliamson2001]

Well you would have to take thermaling issues into account with your strategy

How quick can you change speedo's?:D

It was ages ago, but we used to do a 'Team' race which was run at a model show near Aylesbury. I think Richard Bartons dad used to run the meeting, but we had 4 cars per team and just used to swap the transponder over. We had about 8-10 minutes on track per each driver. I think each race was 30 minutes and their was about 8 cars on track at any one time (or 8 'teams'). I think that you could easily do this nowadays so maybe an hour or 45 minutes would be possible. With Spektrum, crystals would not be the problem they once were, since all members of the same team had to be on the same crystal, to prevent interference issues.

There was about 3 30 minute 'heats' in total, and about 2 to 3 sessions (or rounds) so you had time to make repairs and marshall.
It was ace!

Mark

[Northy]

Teesside run a 6 hour indoor every winter for charity, I love the event!

I'm hoping to sort out an outdoor event in the North East this summer (if we get one).

G

[mattym0310]

that would be a good idea G. I have been to the Teeside event for the past 3years and i agree, it's a brilliant event and great cause too.

[RSharpy]

A annual National endurance race would be good, racing for your region.

[antnee]

That would really be upping the stakes mr sharp,more so if we went the whole hog and went for a national 24hrs race, maybe partly for charity, get massive media attendance!:woot:

[Lowie]

Over here in Belgium I know several clubs who do off-road endurance-competitions.
TopRacingClub in Waterloo (http://users.skynet.be/topracingclub/) (French speaking).
If I recall well, this is the format:
Team consists of several drivers and one car (only one chassis alowed but as many spare-parst as you want). They drive for 3 hours, then the cars go into a "parc fermée" and there is a pause with big BBQ for everyone. After this BBQ, the parc fermée gets open, and the cars restart for three hours.
I recall also that the team that won last year used Lipo (offcourse) and a special BL-motor (Cyclon 4000 sensorless, I think it's an airplane-BL) which lasted easely for the 6 hours-run. ESC was a GM Genius 80
I also know, some teams just bought an older Losi 2WD for this race, knowing it would be ready for the bin afterwarts anyway.

Then there are the endurance-competitions of ATR at Stokrooie, next to Hasselt. (GREAT new track, see pictures in this thread:
http://www.modelbouwforum.nl/forums/electro-autos/50950-atr-nieuwe-track-layout.html)
These competitions are driven over 3 hours in the evening so partly under darker conditions.
A team needs a minimum of three drivers, and every driver uses his own car. So all that has to be switched is the transonder. Three drivers: one driving, second as marschal, thirth one preparing his car.
They do this more then once in september-october and the ambiance is always great.

I'm defenitly interested in endurance and will certainly try to participate. I'm also conviced that this could be very good training.