Kidderminster National - May 12th + 13th 2007. - Page 6

notlawnomis · #**101** 13-05-2007

Any results??

How'd u do??

spenner · #**102** 13-05-2007

It's funny how the tyre situation at Kiddy was changed due to complaints about expense!!!!

2wd on saturday was the bomb even with dribbles of rain, no problem at all track was great as always.

My tyre bill for this weekend in total was over £300!!!!
Ok, so most will be used again as we use spikes mostly everywhere, So no problem.

But then along with about 50 others i now have one blown speedo.
All totals too nearly £500, thats not including everything else for the weekend!!

There was a few of us that couldn't believe round 2 was run, i thought the meeting should have been cancelled after the 1st round ??

To be honest i am quite p£#$%d off after today, and im sure there are many others. I know some people will gain from today and they will say it was the right decision, well i think that is crap!! When you watch and only see on average 4 cars finish each qualifying run that makes US look stupid. Ok, some will say you didn't have to go out there, but isn't this the British Nationals??

So i have some questions:

1. After Round 1 when it was very clear there was large puddles and plenty of standing water on the track, why was the meeting cancelled ???
(There was less standing water at previous Nationals and the meetings were cancelled)

2. What happens now to the 50 + people who have blown speedo's ???

3. Does Helger and CML have enough stock for people to purchase the various speedo's??

I have never moaned about anything from Nationals before but today was a very expensive and pointless day.

Rant over.

spenner · #**103** 13-05-2007

Double post

jimmy · #**104** 13-05-2007

David Church · #**105** 13-05-2007

What a great pic!!!! Thats Joe Cockhill's car, and he finished the run, I think!?!?!?

footey · #**106** 13-05-2007

jimmy that looks mad cant wait to see the rest u tease

notlawnomis · #**107** 13-05-2007

OMG

http:// www .oople.com/rc/photos/misc/kid "sub".jpg

Like it!! \o/

mattym0310 · #**108** 13-05-2007

that is toatlly crazy!

NeilD · #**109** 13-05-2007

Plain stupid running in those conditions.

ashleyb4 · #**110** 13-05-2007

Water proofing????

Its amazing what you can use to waterproof speedo's and recievers etc.

A

losidan · #**111** 13-05-2007

blimey...i reckon the round the world yacht race doesnt even race in those conditions

losidan · #**112** 13-05-2007

blimey...i reckon the round the world yacht race doesnt even race in those conditions.....

£300 for the race....that would bankrupt me for the year

PaulRotheram · #**113** 13-05-2007

to be fair, the start of round two looked 'OK' after the water was brushed away. if the water was brushed after each heat then it'd of been better.. but the brca dont have a huge timescale to work with.

i watched the majority of round two, and the amount of people who ran absolutely no waterproofing was absolutely crazy.

one car stopped after 1 lap, i opened the car up to see no undertray and exposed elecs plastered in water.

I'll be honest, if i was in the heats towards the end of round two.. id of had seconds thoughts of racing.. but id of went ahead anyway as i made sure my car was leak proof!

tyres? i think pins would of worked better for the fact we would of knew what to run from practise one to the final.
I saw peoples pit tables with schumy greens, yellows, ballistic pinks and greens and a variety of 2wd/4wd tyres just for 2wd!
however, we were all in the same boat and it made for interesting racing with weather changes.

KevLee · #**114** 13-05-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimmy

Its about time you cleaned your car anyway joe !

ashleyb4 · #**115** 13-05-2007

I dont think people have an exscuse about saying they had nothing to waterproof wit anyways th BRCA where giving out black bin backs yesterday for rubbish. Adn 90% of drivers have grease in there pit box and insulation tape.

A

spenner · #**116** 13-05-2007

Someone get a picture from any of the first 3 heats and show me where the water was brushed away ??? Yes they brushed the water into larger puddles off the racing line, and that was about 3 people for 2-3 mins tops!!!! I was in heat 3 and was standing watching heat 1 and 2, there were large puddles from the beginning!!
Also with regard brushing the track after each race, the BRCA rules don't allow the track to be touched till the end of the round.
Myself and a couple of others who had speedo's go all had water proofing on them or as much as you could, bottom line in my eyes we shouldn't have been running.
I think the puddle in Jimmy's pic say most of it.

Stu · #**117** 13-05-2007

That's the coolest thing I've ever seen.

Jimmy's got loads more of them to come, he's crazy.

Mine are all a bit standard,

jimmy · #**118** 13-05-2007

"all a bit standard" ------ bust out the magpie stu!

Stu got surrounded by 10 chavs on saturday night, threatening to take his camera and burn his negatives - whatever those are. Stu pulled of one of the slickest 'defusing' operations I've ever seen however, he bored them away.

strobe · #**119** 13-05-2007

Saturdays 2wd meeting for me was the worst days racing i have had since i started. 1 good run all day. Thought it was the transmitter. Car would run for about 3 mins and then cut out (no power to anything). By the time the race had finished and i got to car it would be OK. 4wd car ran ok for the 2 heats that i raced in today.
So not sure what is wrong with it as it has occured in both cars prior to this weekend with different electrics in cars.

In 4wd i taped up all the holes in shell and chassis and even after round 2 and the puddles the car was dry inside, Did not want any more expense and have to buy more electrics.

PS Has any one had to deal with Ripmax in returning Sanwa Radio gear. Will be sending transmitter back to see if they can find anything wrong with it.

PaulRotheram · #**120** 13-05-2007

LMAO maggie!!!!!

indeed, stu is one slick dude, it was as if it has happened before as he reacted so quickly haha.