Results from today's racing at DMS

[jrenton]

The full results from todays racing are on-line

Go to www.dmsresults.co.uk

Click on the Regional Results & Standing link

Then click on DMS 2WD Regional 2012

[chuckie stella]

Today was sooooooo close just to make the A. I can't believe over 3 legs it finished as it started apart from Me and Kev H! B*****D

[Dudders]

FTD today then, no round by round?

[Darren Boyle]

Originally Posted by Dudders

FTD today then, no round by round?

Yep

There was a few questions raised this morning when we went FTD and we put it to the vote which saw a few opposed to it, but RBR was always designed for tracks that would perish (or indeed get faster) as the day went on - which this didnt and almost never does, and also outdoor venues where good old mother nature can intervene and play her part, which indoors it cannot, so that is what we opted for.

The end result, some VERY (and I mean VERY) close racing, nail biting right up to the end of the very last qualifier (with Scott Faulkner just edging out Steve Ibbotson by 0.01 of a sec!!! to snatch the 10th A final spot).

Being the only track on the curcuit this year that is "not" astro it is the most alien surface to the racers, so the fact they only had to find "one" good fast 5 minute run rather than two good fast consistent ones "should" (in theory) of been easier, plus we also got see what was the "fastest" 10 drivers in the A today and not the 10 most consistent (which RBR gives you).

Plus the A final had 4 people on their round 2 time, one on their round 3 time and 5 on their round 4 time, showing that A final pace was their all day long on the track. In fact across the whole field in 2wd, 10 people were quickest in round 1, 21 in round 2, 20 in round 3 and 32 in round 4, showing again that the track could run quick all day........

[Darren Boyle]

Originally Posted by chuckie stella

Today was sooooooo close just to make the A. I can't believe over 3 legs it finished as it started apart from Me and Kev H! B*****D

I forgot to mention that, apart form Kev Lee and Glenn Westwood, who were the only two people to get 19 lappers, 18 laps stretched form 3rd in the A to 6th in the B, 17 lappers from 7th in the B to 10th in the D, 16 lappers from 1st in the E to 9th in the F, 15 lappers from 10th in the F to 10th in the G with 7 more then on 14 laps, 4 on 13 laps and 2 on 12 laps.

One simple error saw you often fall a whole final or more.............

[Oxygen]

Originally Posted by Darren Boyle

One simple error saw you often fall a whole final or more.............

Yup...dont i know it!

Super close racing today and the A final made some great viewing! Well done to all!!

[AmiSMB]

Had a great time at the DMS regional and it was fair to put it to a drivers vote even if FTD did not suit me Strange about the tyre issue but the only track I have raced on which mini pin were any good was Belgium GP. Well done to everyone who put in a lot of hard work and effort to make it all happen!

Darren, seems like there is a bug in the results as the link to the finals keeps taking you to the heats again. I think this was a bug in the 2006 version of BBK and was fixed in the newer versions 2011-1 being the latest.

[JCJC]

Originally Posted by AmiSMB

Darren, seems like there is a bug in the results as the link to the finals keeps taking you to the heats again. I think this was a bug in the 2006 version of BBK and was fixed in the newer versions 2011-1 being the latest.

Is that only from the Heats page, meetings index goes to finals, and finals works from the first page, results index takes you round in a circle, but not sure where its sposed to go. Just trying to say they are there.

Great work getting them up so quickly

[RudeTony]

Originally Posted by AmiSMB

Had a great time at the DMS regional and it was fair to put it to a drivers vote even if FTD did not suit me .

I personally totally disagree with the drivers voting for the format of racing.
Half the drivers and I mean half the field did not even know the difference between FTD and Round by Round. And over 60% have never raced there before. Some 10 juniors too. There were many that really didn’t even know what the letters FTD stood for.
Now I am very old fashioned and grew up with FTD and on certain tracks I wish they did that but indoors on a tight track with very little overtaking area, in my opinion it was wrong.
And Darren before you jump, J the fact is also simple that the best run HAD to be done in the last round as proved by Kev and Glen in the last heat setting the fastest time of the day by a long way (Kevs time) ..... I will also point out Darren that other drivers were on to improve their times too but obviously made errors hence their non improvement (me one of them).
The FTD basis is great on a consistent outdoor track to find out the real quick guys but NOT on an indoor track of 15sec laps.

By the way the track was nice but for me not FTD
Please don’t shoot me down for giving an honest opinion otherwise I just won’t give you an opinion LOL