North West regional series round 1 - Southport

[PaulRotheram]

http://paulrotheram.doughtyuk.net/misc/nw2007resize.jpg

Next sunday is the first round of the north west regional series, round one being at Southport.

Booking in and free practise will commence at 11:00

Fees are £7, both 2wd and 4wd classes will be raced on the day.

Can people please email me their pre bookings for the event please, it will make things an awful lot quicker on the day

I require:

Name
xtals
brca
class
ability

my email is: gotmilk@hotmail.co.uk

Look forward to seein you all there.

[Stu]

Any 'NE' drivers that wish to attend, please come along. As most of you know Southport club always put on a good meeting.

Prior to finals we will sort a 'Non-region' final - hopefully there will be enough for a decent grid.

PLEASE email Paul with your details, it speeds up proceeding no-end.

[PaulRotheram]

Had quite a few pre bookings over night, please keep them coming to my self, club member or not, please email me with details so i can have a rough idea on numbers.

[Oscar]

Is anyone intending to do 4wd ? If so is anyone considering doing enough rounds to make it count for the series? (ie: to count towards a formula)

[jimmy]

I'm 'thinking' of coming over to do 4wd, but not sure I will get time to complete enough rounds.
I could do with moving up a couple of formulas though as I'm having a hard time attending nationals now.

[Kopite]

when you say next sunday, do you mean 6th May? I know it's a dumbass question, but just making sure :wtf:

[jimmy]

No, 29th, this sunday coming up

[RobHatcliffe]

Are you able to give us an idea of numbers booked in so far Paul?

No particular reason, just curious really.

[PaulRotheram]

I'm in need of some tyres for this weekend.. front schumy yellow mini spike.. new, money waiting of course.. can any one help me out?

Entrys.. I've had 10 pre bookings, in all honestly i never expected anyone to pre enter.. as no one normally does in the west... :rolleyes: How ever all of the 10 entrys are people i didnt see at last years series. So with the normal croud and these added extras it should be a good meeting.

I've had quite a number of people asking about 4wd on entries.. please get your asses booked in to 4wd for a clear entry number.. as people are not booking in and rarther just asking.

You can always cancel your entry for 4wd if you dont wish to be apart of it on the day.. but numbers would be nice.

[Stu]

Really good day today - pleased with the turnout.

NW Regional - RD1 - Pics from taday (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/racenorthwest/southport07)

Having hosting problems with northernracer currently :wtf: , so it's on the back of my tiacali web-space.

[jimmy]

haha, I see you got one of my 'Arse Stain' - from sitting on the wet grass, honest.


So, I assume I am now racing the North West (4wd) series yes? I tried to make sure people knew, since I've not done any north east regionals yet, and I want to do the west. Might be easier for me to stop from moving to F5 next year :eh?:

my photos up here:
http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/southport290407/ (http://www.oople.com/forums/../rc/photos/southport290407/)

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/southport290407/bigimages/OOP_5875.jpg

[PaulRotheram]

yep your in the west for 4wd jimmy, welcome aboard!

[PaulRotheram]

Ace pictures! just looked through um all. I had a good day, although i know there was more to give out of the car.. i qualified 7th in the A, finished 6th being the top F2 of the day, huzzah!

what did people think of the layout? me, stu e and G laid it out abit different from the norm to spice it up a little.. seemed to work out well?

[jimmy]

Duno how different it was since I rarely come, but the back section was a bit long - its hard to go fast down there when you're crap like me. I'd prefer it broken up a bit more but not really sure how that would work.
Good tho, enjoyed miself.

[PaulRotheram]

haha, indeed.. it caught me out a few times also. although i think it gave people a chance to get used to it.. as the main comment made about the track is the tricky back section being local knowledge..

The lack of straight caught me out in practise a few times.. winding up through the revs and BAM track marking!

[PaulRotheram]

results:

2wd http://www.srcc.co.uk/index.php?pid=20

4wd http://www.srcc.co.uk/index.php?pid=21

[rcracer]

didnt know they had hammerhead sharks in southport :eh?:

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/southport290407/imagepages/NO5E0324.html

[bigred5765]

nice work guys, great pics,

G your a porn star http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/racenorthwest/southport07/44.htm
illegal use of tyre additive
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/racenorthwest/southport07/22.htm

and ten out of ten on the pics Stu
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/racenorthwest/southport07/34.htm

[Scouser]

What a great day. Awesome weather, loads of racers and absolutely loved the track layout (despite being last in 4wd!!). I did think it was a bit unfair that only Jimmy was allowed the go-faster saliva though.

[jimmy]

did you see that first corner though! that saliva doesn't bed in until a few laps into a race. I was in last place after the first corner - until northys special juice (tm) kicked in :D

[Scouser]

Get him to eat a few chocolate bars just beforehand and you will be able to run your car across the ceiling!!

[Stu]

It was not actually spit, G was licking feshly glued treds - when Jimmy set off, ouch.

[Spencer Mulcahy]

I realy enjoyed the meeting fantastic track and my best qualifying position ever third on the grid in the B maybe I am turning a corner as I made no mistakes all day (apart from the final where I rolled it twice). Thanks to Paul Rotheram for the setup advise at the start of the day the car was fantastic, thanks to Jimmy and Stu for the photos two from each of my car, and thanks to Matt Latham for the tow in the last round so I could get an 11 lapper:) . Now lets see if I can keep it up.:)

[MikePimlott]

My first time at southport and the track was excellent. ill definatley be going again through the year. I improved every heat with my new car which im still getting used to. Shame that somebody elses crystal mixup spoiled my final which i didnt even start cause of interference.