12 hour endur ????

[RobW]

Originally Posted by jim76

ouch! Ross will beat you when he sees you!

I obviously can't speak for Schumacher at all, i was just messing around with a biased hopefully fast team! But if you get a decent level of anticipated drivers and are running it as a control tyre on minispikes then it can't hurt to approach Schumacher. They may be able to help out in some way. Possibly make it an annual event!

the 4th Sept is the weekend of the regional finals/F2's
the 18th is the F3/4/5's
So may be better to push it back into Oct? But i don't know how that clashes with other local club events and RallyX

Thanks for the info on dates, Jim.

Starting to look like we might need to slip into Oct when the calender is slightly less full.

25th Sept - Clanfield club series
2nd Oct - Remote club series
16th Oct - Remote club series
23th Oct - Clanfield club series
30th Oct - BRCA AGM (not sure how many people would be attending this)

So how does the 9th Oct sound to everyone? Really do not want it much later as likelihood of good weather is getting smaller.

Rob

[SteveB]

Originally Posted by RobW

Thanks for the info on dates, Jim.

Starting to look like we might need to slip into Oct when the calender is slightly less full.

25th Sept - Clanfield club series
2nd Oct - Remote club series
16th Oct - Remote club series
23th Oct - Clanfield club series
30th Oct - BRCA AGM (not sure how many people would be attending this)

So how does the 9th Oct sound to everyone? Really do not want it much later as likelihood of good weather is getting smaller.

Rob

Ok, the date looks to be the 9th October, looks to be a clear date from all other major meetings.

Thanks Rob for looking into dates, hopefully will see a great turn out

[racingben]

In the diary.

Hopefully will be able to field a bracklesham model car racers team.

[dibble34]

October is great, that should be fine

[MrMagoo]

Ooh, this sounds like a good wheeze. I'd be in for a bit of enduro action, we'd have to have a 'dash across the track' Le Mans style start though

I'm sure a fair number of Clanners will be up for it, I'll make sure everyone knows at Slough on Sunday.

[r1horn]

This is looking very popular and now we have a date i would let stev or myself now if you are coming so you are not disappionted

[Deano577]

I'm in and two others
may be set up a pay pal account so once u payed ur in
I would be more than happy to pay pal
let the racing begin!!

[hotrodchris]

9th Oct looks like a date!
Count me in.

[Crazy L]

Sounds like a plan stan

[r1horn]

if you want to pay before to get a place i would get in tuch with stev b .
once we have fill all the teams that will be it

[gwesty]

count me in too, will get a 2wd b4 then . cheers gw

[Dudders]

I reckon SHRCCC could raise a team!.

Sounds exciting!

[Dudders]

Perhaps you could make it a single make, maybe just use a cheap RTR model and a shop have a stock of all spares (motors/speedo's etc) and just use the one car per team?

[maseace]

Just to make sure you count me(adam) and craig in will be a good day

[The Chef]

i'M IN.

[RobW]

Originally Posted by Dudders

Perhaps you could make it a single make, maybe just use a cheap RTR model and a shop have a stock of all spares (motors/speedo's etc) and just use the one car per team?

Oh, I really like that idea - you can get a madrat RTR car for £100 on ebay so I am sure someone would do a deal on 6 or 8 of the things.

Cars get handed out an hour before the start of the race and you get that time to trim it out, glue a set of tyres on, drill a hole for transponder and change the battery connection if necessary. No other modifications allowed.

Winning team get one of the knackered cars each instead of a trophy

Be much more an endurance test as you'd have to drive carefully enough not to trash the car in the first hour.

Main negative would be that the entry fee would need to be fairly high to pay for the cars - probably about £20 each to cover car and a set of decent tyres. I guess this would put a lot of people off?? Plus would cars be stupidily slow?

Rob

[Dudders]

RTR are quite quick, it's maybe something that a manufacturer might be keen on (or not!!!!) I'm sure people would stump up the cash as it would fun. At least if we all have the same car changing cells would be the same time for everyone, unless you had a mandatory 'pit stop' of 3 minutes.

[jim76]

i do really like the idea of a level playing field car wise. the only issue that crops up for me is if the speedo blows up, what do you do? Do you let a team member put in their own speedo and risk losing that too, or does the team have to stump up for an exact spec replacement part to keep the car "standard"?
Also most RTR cars come with wheel radios, so what about those who want sticks? Can you swap over the radio gear - assuming the whole team use sticks?

[racingben]

I have a mad rat rtr.

You'd need to ball race them - £10

The brushless rtr is actually pretty fast, the servo however makes an acoms as7 seem fast!

You also have to spend a lot of time on the gearbox to free it up when ballracing it. The idler gear has to be filed down and some plastic taken off the gearbox to make it work well.

Next time Im down I could try the car on standard tyres to see what they're like.

As this is just a bit of fun I think mixed teams with own cars would be better. Take a look at the 24 hour thread for an example of the issues that using a spec car causes.

As mentioned above the less rules the better. Less rules =more fun!

[MrMagoo]

Kit tyres in the Rat are a joke, no way you'd want to use them... although we could probably use them to handycap Mr Brown