DMCC Indoor Offroad C'ship 2010/2011

[Legacy555]

Hi all,

I'll be proposing an 8 round championship with 6 rounds to count for the indoors (The Naul).

Here are my proposed dates (all Sundays). Any objections?
7/11/2010, 21/11/2010, 05/12/2010, 19/12/2010, 09/01/2011, 30/01/2011, 13/02/2010, 27/02/2010

Other events
Thursday 30/12/2010 - Xmas Event
15/16 January - Petit RC

[mixer]

sounds good,looking forward to the indoors racing,any ideas about track layout:)

[Legacy555]

sounds good,looking forward to the indoors racing,any ideas about track layout:)

No plans as yet, but there are some features that I would like to see used (as used at Petit RC last year)

Cross-over tabletop (wire mesh or rope bridge on top)
Slippy surface section (mdf sheets laid down)
A table top or vertical wall with a hairpin on it.
A rough area (lumps under carper or more mdf laid down)

[MiCk B.]

All sounds good.

If we run foams maybe re-think the slippery section.
(But depends on how the foams work.)

MiCk B. :-)

[blade]

Dates all look good ,looking forward to a big indoor track ,are we using thursday nights for practice

[Legacy555]

Dates all look good ,looking forward to a big indoor track ,are we using thursday nights for practice

Yes, racing every Thursday night. Makes every weekend feel like a long weekend.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[mini_brian]

No plans as yet, but there are some features that I would like to see used (as used at Petit RC last year)

Cross-over tabletop (wire mesh or rope bridge on top)
Slippy surface section (mdf sheets laid down)
A table top or vertical wall with a hairpin on it.
A rough area (lumps under carper or more mdf laid down)

Lumps and Bumps WAHHHHOOOOOOO

[mini_brian]

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tsan76#p/u/47/gWtV5KQVBdU

a vid with a few ideas for the Naul.

[mole2k]

The jumps in that video look awesome really nice and smooth. For a rough section we have a load of uncut door saddles (6ft long) which we lay out across the track staggered with some carpet over it.

We had planned on a crossover with a clear top but never got around to building it. We had been thinking of using a thick clear perspex with a mesh covering to give some grip should you end up driving over it.

Here's a video of the big tabletop at DiR, it's chicken wire table top which works ok but you cant drive over it particularly well as it sags too much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXtJ3QF8TI

[blade]

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tsan76#p/u/47/gWtV5KQVBdU

a vid with a few ideas for the Naul.
Nice smooth free flowing jumps with some form work should"nt be to hard to make o yea only have one hand at the moment:cry:

[mini_brian]

http://www.freetradeireland.ie/item_detail.php?item_id=60154

Would this be any use to us, I am not really sure what it is but we will lumbar and this could work as a raised section??

[MiCk B.]

Or this carpet?

http://www.freetradeireland.ie/item_detail.php?item_id=59195

MiCk B. :-)

[mini_brian]

Looks good. I have no van or storage but I could help with muscle.

[blade]

http://www.freetradeireland.ie/item_detail.php?item_id=60154

Would this be any use to us, I am not really sure what it is but we will lumbar and this could work as a raised section??
yea i would say we could use them

[mini_brian]

I got a reply from that guy with the wooden podium. It is still available and its in Clonskeagh. He said its quite big so a van would be needed.

If its any use, Will could you go and have a look as its near you?

[Legacy555]

I got a reply from that guy with the wooden podium. It is still available and its in Clonskeagh. He said its quite big so a van would be needed.

If its any use, Will could you go and have a look as its near you?

Yeah could do, wednesday eve?

[mini_brian]

Cool, I will let the guy know and pass you his details.

[mini_brian]

Will, that guy is there till 5pm in the evenings. He is in the old Smurfit place so its quite close to you.

His details are:
Sean Nolan
087 225 7179
snolan@sln.ie

[Legacy555]

I should be meeting our landlord, James, at the hanger in the Naul at 12 midday on Sunday to get keys etc.

I plan on sweeping, laying out the carpet that is already there and setting up the tent (nowhere else for it to live over the winter!!).

Ivan, Mick B and Tony will be bringing out more carpet and the hoses from Grifeen

[MiCk B.]

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Ivan, Mick B and Tony will be bringing out more carpet and the hoses from Grifeen

The plan for the hoses is to pack Ivan's van after the racing in Taney on Saturday. So any volunteers to pack hoses & track marking?

Sunday: Plan is for Tony & volunteers to pick up carpet from Stilorgan, (Tony will have a van). Then head to Naul. Any volunteers for the carpet?

Everyone else to head to the Naul. We will need to clean the place out before we lay the carpet. So if anyone has a yard / large out door brush, bring it along on Sunday.


MiCk B. :-)
MiCk B. :-)

[mixer]

The plan for the hoses is to pack Ivan's van after the racing in Taney on Saturday. So any volunteers to pack hoses & track marking?

Sunday: Plan is for Tony & volunteers to pick up carpet from Stilorgan, (Tony will have a van). Then head to Naul. Any volunteers for the carpet?

Everyone else to head to the Naul. We will need to clean the place out before we lay the carpet. So if anyone has a yard / large out door brush, bring it along on Sunday.


MiCk B. :-)
MiCk B. :-)
we'll be available tomorrow after taney to help pack the hoses, etc.

[Legacy555]

Hi all,

There is a massive tabletop and a flat track laid out in the Naul. It's not the best track I've ever seen, so I can see it being ripped apart and remade.

Graham Parkes is getting some MDF sheets to complete the on-ramp to the table top. I want the clubmen able to flop onto the top of the jump and the madmen to go for it with the car 3 or 4 meters in the air :)
Graham is also getting about another 20 pallets to build the rostrum with.

The track is 12m deep, with the tabletop in the furthest lane from the rostrum - this means that there is about 6 lanes of track - plenty.
The straight is only 17m long instead of the regulation 20m, but this will be fine for 6 car finals.

ENTRY TO THE SITE ON THURSDAYS AND SUNDAYS.... All, there is an electric gate and barrier leading onto the site. Please do NOT press the "CALL" button as this phones the landlords mobile. Phone me instead (086 8165440) and I will give you the code for the gate.

[Legacy555]

>>>VIDEO<<<

Here's a bit of video from the track this evening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdYSbrprLs0

[mini_brian]

Just a thought.

Loved the big jumps and I'm not giving out. But if anyone knew where we could could get something like gym mats for some of the landing areas, might help to soften the landings and cut down on breakages.

Shame I couldnt stick around today as I was getting the measure of the jumps. Looking forward to a fun indoor season.

Cheers

brian

[Legacy555]

Hi all,

I'll be proposing an 8 round championship with 6 rounds to count for the indoors (The Naul).

Here are my proposed dates (all Sundays). Any objections?
7/11/2010, 21/11/2010, 05/12/2010, 19/12/2010, 09/01/2011, 30/01/2011, 13/02/2010, 27/02/2010

Other events
Thursday 30/12/2010 - Xmas Event
15/16 January - Petit RC

Hi all,

These dates will be confirmed by the committee within the next week or two. But as there have been no objections, I'd say it is fairly safe to say that these are you championship dates.

Regards,

Will

[eda]

All sounds good.

If we run foams maybe re-think the slippery section.
(But depends on how the foams work.)

MiCk B. :-)

So what tyres are everyone using at Naul? Would green mini-spikes work?

[Mugenextreme]

I was using yellow mini spike eda worked fine for me.

[Legacy555]

Hi all,

Championship dates have been confirmed as the following
7/11/2010, 21/11/2010, 05/12/2010, 19/12/2010, 09/01/2011, 30/01/2011, 13/02/2010, 27/02/2010

First round if this Sunday coming - 7th November

[Legacy555]

Best of luck to everyone this Sunday :)


Hi all,

Championship dates have been confirmed as the following
7/11/2010, 21/11/2010, 05/12/2010, 19/12/2010, 09/01/2011, 30/01/2011, 13/02/2010, 27/02/2010

First round if this Sunday coming - 7th November

[Legacy555]

Results and B Final Video are up. Great days racing!!! www.dublinmodelracing.com (http://www.dublinmodelracing.com)

[Legacy555]

Hi all,

The next indoor offroad championship round is on November 21st - this could be a tough one. Both Mark Penny and Derek McCloskey have said that they may be in attendance..... should be excellent!

Please remember that if the gate to the site is closed, please phone me (086 8165440) rather than pressing the "call" button which phones the landlord's mobile.

Regards,

Will

[mixer]

Here's a video of the b final from the frist championship round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4-pWDK8a6o:thumbsup:

[Legacy555]

Round 2 of the Indoor Offroad Championship is this Sunday - 21st November

Best of luck to all

[dmcracing]

Both Mark Penny and myself will be there on sunday for round 2.

[Legacy555]

Absolutely fantastic days racing today. 17/307.00 was achieved, sadly not by me :(

[MiCk B.]

Just sorting out the results into a web friendly format!!

MiCk B. :-)

[Legacy555]

NEXT ROUND IS DECEMBER 5TH

[Legacy555]

NEXT ROUND IS DECEMBER 5TH

This club round has been postponed.
A replacement date will be detailed on the club website.

[Legacy555]

This club round has been postponed.
A replacement date will be detailed on the club website.

Hi all,

Hopefully the end of the cold spell is in sight. Yesterday's cancelled club round has been postponed to the end of the championship and will be run on March 13th.

All results have been updated on the www.dublinmodelracing.com (http://www.dublinmodelracing.com)

[Legacy555]

Hi all, with round 3 being postponed to the end of the season;

ROUND 4 IS ON DECEMBER 19th

There are still 6 rounds left - time to get your championship started!
8 rounds with your best 6 to count - good luck!

[mixer]

Good days racing!! hope everyone got home ok after todays championship round!!:)

[Legacy555]

NEXT ROUND IS JANUARY 9TH 2011 (Weekend before the Petit)

[Legacy555]

See above - that's this Sunday!

[Legacy555]

Results from today (R5) are updated.
Well done to Lee McGuire - great result in 4wd!

[Click]

Results from today (R5) are updated.
Well done to Lee McGuire - great result in 4wd!

Hi Wil,

Thanks for putting the results up so quick :thumbsup:

Kevin

[Legacy555]

NEXT ROUND IS THIS SUNDAY JANUARY 30TH 2011
Doors open @ 10.30am, don't be late! :)

[Legacy555]

Championship results have been updated.

[Legacy555]

NEXT ROUND IS FEBRUARY 13th 2011

[Legacy555]

Championship results have been updated and seperated into Modified and Clubman sections

[Legacy555]

Quick report......

6 rounds completed, 2 to go;

In the 2wd Clubman class, Lee McGuire is currently at the top of the scoreboard. Lee is really getting the hang of the new Tamiya TRF 201 and is scoring consistantly around the back of the A-Final or top of the B-Final. He is not unchallenged however; Eoin Keating and Kevin White, both driving Team Associated B4 buggies are hot on his heals and we will not know who is the victor until all three have registered 6 scores after the last championship round of the season. Kevin and Eoin with only 4 rounds completed, must attend both of the remaining two rounds to catch McGuire who is rarely absent from racing. Another consistant scorer is Dave Bolger. Bolger is a regular front runner and winner of the Clubman class and is currently second on the leaderboard, however with all drivers yet to register 6 scores, he may find himself relegated to 4th at the end of the season. Peter Juramik, Graham Parkes and Rowan Walsh are all improving greatly having only taken up (returned to) the hobby lately.

In the 2wd modified class, yours truly has managed to take his mongral of a losi/atomic carbon/XXX/Street Weapon/BK2/MF2/XX4 to 5 maximum scores so far. I can testify that the pace is the hottest that I have ever experienced in the club and is testement to the fantastic facilities and organisation that we have in The Naul at the moment. The only other round winner is Mark Penny, but Micheal Bolger has been the closest championship challenger with 6 x 99 point scores. Mark will not affect the championship as he has not attended enough rounds to be able to secure 6 counting scores. Third position in the series is currently held by Michael O'Leary, also with a B4. However there are 3 competitors close on his trail. Derek McCloskey, Nigel Dungan and John Dungan will all finish close to O'Leary's point tally assuming that they attend the remaining rounds to allow for their best 6 to count. McCloskey returned to racing at Xmas after a sebatical racing touring cars and 1/8th Nitro and is now back on the pace that he showed when going to win the Irish National Championship on several occasions. His return has led to a strengthening of pace at the front of the field and everybody has to now push that little harder. Nigel and John Dungan have recently swapped to Atomic Carbon CR2 buggies and are showing great improvement in their pace and the fact thet they may challenge for third place in the championship is testement to this. Tony Kavanagh is the other contender for the coveted third place on the podium. The Tamiya TRF201 driver is getting to grips with the new car and is starting to build up his pace - 1 more points score could see him draw level or overtake O'Leary - so the battle will be tough!

In the 4wd modified class, Mick O'Leary is the current championship leader with 2 wins using his Team Associated B44. William White is in second having registered 6 scores, including 4 wins, however he failed to start the final (with a 4wd) in round 2 resulting in a score of 0. Again Nigel and John Dungan are showing a strong and similar pace and may challenge the top of the leaderboard at the end of the season - both have registered only 4 scores so far.

Remaining rounds are February 27th and March 13th - be there!

All news and results are on www.dublinmodelracing.com (http://www.dublinmodelracing.com)

[Legacy555]

ROUND 8 of the Championship is this Sunday 27th Feb. With only the rerun of round 3 to go on March 13th everyone really needs to put in the effort now to secure a good result.

Tony, Lee and Dave need one more score to get up to 6 rounds.
Derek, Nigel, John, Eoin and Kevin need to compete at both rounds

Regards,

Will

[Legacy555]

ROUND 8 of the Championship is this Sunday 27th Feb. With only the rerun of round 3 to go on March 13th everyone really needs to put in the effort now to secure a good result.

Tony, Lee and Dave need one more score to get up to 6 rounds.
Derek, Nigel, John, Eoin and Kevin need to compete at both rounds

Regards,

Will

Hi all,

For some reason, Colin Whelan has vanished from the results. He has competed in 3 rounds and has a current score of 287 in 2wd.
I will stick him back up asap.

If anyone else notices a missing competitor, can you please let me know.
I'll go through all of the results over the weekend.

Will

[Legacy555]

Championship standings are updated - see www.dublinmodelracing.com (http://www.dublinmodelracing.com)

[Legacy555]

NEXT ROUND IS MARCH 13th 2011 - this is the rerun of Round 3 which was cancelled due to the snow back in December.

This is the last round of the championship, I hope to have all of the scores checked this week.

[Legacy555]

Just a reminder about the above. This could be the last big meeting of the indoor season so come and support it :thumbsup:

[Legacy555]

Well the final round of the championship was a biggy!! There have been position shuffles in all of the classes and the results are now up on the club website - www.dublinmodelracing.com (http://www.dublinmodelracing.com)

In the clubman class, Eoin Keating put in a great performance under pressure to win the class and the championship. Lee McGuire finished second cementing his position as runner-up in what is becoming a difficult championship to win. Focus will now turn to the 2011 outdoor championship. Kevin White registered his sixth score to finish 3rd by leapfroging Dave Bolger who was fourth in the championship.

In the modified section, Mark Penney put in another top performance to win the round, but with only 4 scores, he doesn't qualify for the overall positions. William White finished a close second and posted the only 16 lap run of the season to secure the championship win. Derek McCloskey, driving the improving Cougar SV, registered his sixth score of season in third place and secured third overall in the championship. Michael Bolger put in another consistant performance to ensure that second in the championship was his with a 4th place finish.

In 4wd, Derek McCloskey was the pace setter all day and is really getting to grips with the CAT SX2, but a single unfortunate bad-bounce in the final was enough to gift William White with the win - giving him a maximum 600 point tally for the championship. Michael O'Leary hung on to finish 3rd in the final, securing 2nd in the series also. Whilst a battle between the two Dungan brothers saw John come out on top - leaving John and Nigel, third and fourth in the championship respectively.

Other notable performances of the day were;
Paul Penney was a very welcome visitor to the Naul for the last round of the series. He spent the day practicing on Saturday with his Cougar SV and was setting times that would stick him amongst the top drivers in the A Final. Very unfortunately, Paul would break a front bulkhead in practice on race day and without a spare available was forced to use a 10 year old Associated B4 that was less that perfect. I reckon I jinxed him by "talking him up" on the forum last week..... sorry Paul.
In addition to the already mentioned drivers, Kevin White, Tony Kavanagh, Graham Parkes, and even young Ciaran Parkes all seemed to get around the track a littel better today - this bodes very well for the outdoor season.

Well done all :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Click]

Hi Lads,

I'd just like to say a big thank you to all the DMCC committee for organising a fantastic Winter series

Special thanks to Dave for bringing his special bottled spring water each week & all the tea and coffee you can drink + all his words of wisdom. (I think they where words of wisdom:p)

Thanks also to Mick for passing on his biblical knowledge of car setup and general advise on racing + his trackside AE support is invaluable.

Thanks also to Will for running the events & having endless amounts of enthusiasm & energy and for his track layout & design skills:D:woot::D

Great craic, great company & great racing, what more could a body ask for :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Kevin

[The Doktor]

Totally agree with kevin, its been a really enjoyable championship. Learned a lot racing indoors...Even if i do have a big bucket of broken plastic and bent metal to remind me of it.:woot:
Lee

[Eiremaxx]

I agree with all above enjoyed the whole winter series very tight finish only 1 point in the end,thanks to Mick and all members for all the help tips and info great job look forward to the outdoor series now see you all then:thumbsup:

Eoin

[blade]

Great winter series this year well done to everybody who made this happen.The lads up at the A final were really on it great to see.Roll on the outdoor season:thumbsup:

[Freakypen]

Would like to say a big thanks to everyone at DMCC for a great weekend-loadsa track time-and made to feel very welcome etc!!

I enjoyed the track- was great fun-and the racing was very close. ( Unfortunately I had plenty of time to watch as I seemed to break everything I layed my hands on-not only my SV-gutted-as it was so good in practice-but my electrics and borrowed car also! )
Regardless-was great to see you all again-and I'll certainly come back. Well done to Will and Mark on the day was a great final!!

P.S. A big thank you to Mark / Mick / Derek and whoever donated parts to me to at least get running any car-sorry I don't rem your name.:blush:

[MiCk B.]

Hey,

To was good to see you again. Glad to hear that you enjoyed the trip over.
It was Tony, that gave you the bits to get that car going.

At least you got all of the Saturday running before you broke the SV.

You're more than welcome any time!!

MiCk B. :-)

[tony6187]

no problem,only to glad to help out:thumbsup:

[noreargrip]

Don't come back..u gave me a nightmare...once a cougar...them became a kitten...it's not that I'm queer I just like it at the rear..lol

[Freakypen]

Don't come back..u gave me a nightmare...once a cougar...them became a kitten...it's not that I'm queer I just like it at the rear..lol
Queer :p