Surrey & Hants 2.0

[Kelk]

And if you wondered about the consistency and quality of the jumps structure, then take a look at the framework ...

[Kelk]

Not 2 days after a very hotly competed winter series round and Team SHRCCC are back at it again. Even though there were plenty of compliments about the track as it was, the work continued tonight in earnest.

This time the rebuild of the corner table top. Not only improving the infrastructure but also making the obstacle more of a challenge to drivers with the option of several lines through it each with their own particular pros and cons....







Our thanks once again to the guys who turned up and to those who will be there tomorrow night to finish it off in preparation for racing on Thursday evening from 18:30 ( booking in starts) and racing itself from about 19:30

If you like what you've seen so far, why not come down and see for yourself and put some laps in? You will be made to feel more than welcome

[Kelk]

After 2 nights good work from the guys, we have a new corner tabletop. Various lines through it available and allows us to challenge all levels of driving with it.

[Kelk]

There is no stopping these guys I swear. Not only was the new table top a success with the racing guys last night but then Alex, our resident designer of track furniture, came in with ANOTHER prototype for us to test. This time a 45cm high table top.

Can I ask you all to ignore the cheap chipboard in between the up and down slopes. This is a prototype and that is just there to separate the ramps at the calculated distance. The more it got rained on last night the more it sagged.







The funny bit was watching a few of our esteemed drivers enjoying and laughing at a new toy to play with that was only 2 car widths or so wide.



Just look at the quality of the underside and this is ONLY a prototype!

[OneKiwi]

Originally Posted by Kelk

And if you wondered about the consistency and quality of the jumps structure, then take a look at the framework ...

THey look erally awesome, well done
Do you have the drawings for these? Could you send them ?

[Kelk]

Originally Posted by OneKiwi

THey look erally awesome, well done
Do you have the drawings for these? Could you send them ?

I don't personally but let me see what I can do for you as they belong to a club member.

[polocoupe79]

well done guys wish we had the committment here at swindon 10th off road to get upto the same sort of standard u have come up too the design and testing of the new jumps have blown me away could i nick the person who hhas helped you to come and do sum design work for us at swindon i must come and visit when u have a sunday meet on

rich

[Kelk]

Another cheeky update. The framework for the new tabletop in all it's grandeur has been built....



Over the next few weeks we start pulling all the jigsaw pieces together and turn out the finished the items. I'm excited, the club's excited and we can't wait to race on them.

Oh and by the way - there is an open invite to come and try them out if you like. Be good to see some non-regulars come down and race, try our toys and also get some feedback

[Kelk]

Bit of an aside from the usual "..here's what we are building and adding..." type posts this time. Thought I'd share how last night went. In a word...

FANTASTIC !

26 drivers - our highest turn out on a Thursday in quite some time. Yes there were contributing factors - warm night for the time of year and had been dry for a few days but nonetheless, it was lovely to see some faces returning to the club and in some cases returning to racing full stop.

Won't say much more other than it was a night like last night with a real buzz in the pits that makes the efforts worthwhile.

Here's a few pics...









And my personal fave pic of the night from the start of one of the heats...



The nice thing is to see all the hard work starting to pay off in numbers, the level of competition and the atmosphere coming together

[Kelk]

WARNING - PHOTO HEAVY!!!

In a good way I hasten to add.

A lot of the activities so far have been leading to tonight - build night. 4 members and one honourary member of the club spent the evening screwing, cutting, trimming and sealing a lot of wood work for the new track features tonight. These are all having dibond placed on top then with blue outdoor carpet over the top of that....

The rubble and earth that made up a lot of the features that were originally there has finally been moved. All 11 tons of it. This needs a little clean up but the good news is we can expand the track further now it has gone.



That was yesterday's accomplishment, onto tonight's build. Just look at the quality of these jumps. Red sealed end pieces as red is one of the club's colours.



As is black..





The landing side of the new table top pre-carpet attaching


The table top centre section


An excellent shot of how well this has been built






The plans of what we have been building






Every single piece front and back, up and down have been water sealed



Some of the bods involved in the sealing







The astro / carpet surface for all the new furniture


The scale of what we have been working on



The collection of our jumps and table top for delivery to the track this week



And there is more to come too !

[Kelk]

The End of Phase 1

Phew! The end of phase 1 - this was to get the astro relaid, old track furniture off the track and commission and deploy new items to be raced upon.

Well, I'm glad to say we did it. Almost the entire club pitched in to help and here are the visual results...

[Kelk]

The build last stages
















And what the track looks like








A big thanks yet again to everyone who helped

[Kelk]

So phase 2 will start now.

However in the meantime - why not come and see our newly laid astro for yourselves? Next race day is Sunday 15th starting at 08:30

[Kelk]

Another new feature at Surrey & Hants and the first part of phase 2. As from tomorrow - Sunday 12th April, we will have a supply of tyres and inserts on sale

The club isn't making any money out of this, just facilitating the needs of the drivers to give them the club they want.

Tomorrow is the Surrey Championship - anyone not going to the Nationals is welcome to race and see what the club is like after phase 1.

[Kelk]

Yet another big weekend of work from the SHRCCC collective. 2 full days of work parties - giving the club the fresh clean feel it should have and more track furntiure for us to drop in or out of the track as the layout determines.

This is getting so close to completion I can almost taste it. However, none of this would be possible if it wasn't for the club members so once again we find ourselves in their debt.

So what was achieved....

New track furniture

A new style kicker which has been tested both by itself and as a pre-launch ramp to the table top. Which can now be cleared smoothly if one were to want to with the appropriate layout.

















And then the clean up started - we've amassed a lot of debris over the years and most recently the last few months and that needed clearing away. In fact it required an 8ft skip we filled to the brim and then some.



The whole track has been hoovered with the club Henry and Richard Hamme put in a new personal best lap time



Underneath the rostrum is looking amazing


We are even rolling out the red carpet for the regional..



Clean up...




Hopefully clicking the thumbnail below will show young Mr Richard Hamme doing the business with the Henry



All that leaves us :

A new corner table top (for the red carpet)
A new fence around the track perimeter
A few minor additions and we are done
A few minor additions

[cutting42]

Wow, looking very cool. Looking forward to the 2WD regional later this year to try the track for myself.