the "Lee Freeman" Summer Series

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No race report from last night, mainly because due to a last minute hiccup I didn’t get there. First race meet in I don’t know how long that I’ve missed other than holidays
More disappointing as I was enjoying getting to grips with the Carpet Dragons last week so looking forward to next week even more now!

Sounds like not too many others made it last night either

So maybe time to start a new race series next week to try to get people back a bit more regularly?

Well it seems to work for Lee freeman anyway so see you next week Lee for the start of the summer series

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Well the Lee Freeman summer series kicked off last night without Lee Freeman!
A better turn out than recently but still more racers needed. The track started a bit slippery but grip was as good as it gets by the end of the night with grip roll causing me a few issues again – that and the fact I made worse starts to every round than Lewis Hamilton.

Good to see Gary back running well after almost as long off form as I’ve had…………and Kyle giving Odd Ball a run for his money in in the buggies.

Hopefully some of the “”missing” will be back soon – what happened to Rob Callendar who made a return a few weeks back with a mate (who was unbelievably good for a first time ever driving an RC car!)

And maybe Zak will get his TC back running soon, dare I say the Richies????

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Well I have to say this week was a cracking night with very high grip levels again and a nice fast flowing track making for some great close racing – and plenty of overtaking opportunities – not often we have a track you can pass side by side over a couple of comers while FLAT OUT!!!

Grip roll caught a few out including me – meaning smooth driving was needed as unbalancing the car by flicking it resulted in flicking onto your roof. If more proof was needed of the grip, after a night of going well my old shed lost drive to the front part way through the second leg final after hitting a crashed car (diff problem, hopefully just loosened completely off) and I drove the second half of the race with a rear wheel drive TC on carpet dragons!

Few down points, firstly quiet again, hopefully Cookie, Richies, Lee etc will be back soon as promised. I assume Pussy Prior was having a rest after a little run out on the bike over the weekend and Snowy was at work.
Others being poor marshalling, 9 seconds waiting for a marshal isn’t acceptable – that’s almost a full lap when we’re putting in sub 11 second laps and it seems racing etiquette was in short supply when being lapped.

Hopefully see a few back next week – might even put out the same track as it seemed very popular.

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Well Lee finally joined us for the series this week J and nice to have Cookie back as well aftrer becoming a dad a few weeks back – take note all those of you who use fatherhood as an excuse to give up or for a few years absence!!!

Grip a little lower than recently last night and in sharp contrast to last weeks fast flowing track, we had a series of 90 degree corners and hairpins,

For whatever reason there seemed to be a lot of retirees this week, Gary and Kyle being first to take an early bath and my car making its best attempt for me to have an early finish as well with continually loosening diff, destroyed front wishbone, broken drive shaft and wrecked shell L

I did race the leg 2 final tho with a rebuilt and not too happy handling car.

Apparently I messed up exporting the results so no updates on the website this week L

And I’m on race control next week too as Ian is missing again, hopefully a few other awol regulars will be back tho

On another note, Rob & Christian popped by and mentioned their 2wd short track truggys or something – happy to run a heat for these if we get a few to race – let me know if you can get along and hopefully a full heat of them will bring Zak back as well?

See you next week for more carnage!

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Having rebuilt various bits of our cars since the previous week, a few of us struggled to get up to speed, being no where near Pikey who was flying all night showing everyone else up for pace.
Finally having my car handling by the final quail and somewhere near the pace only to seize a bearing towards the end of leg 1 final was disappointing – more rebuilding for next week L

Numbers a bit better than late with Chris Dodd, Bubba & Snowman racing, still not good but hopefully as threatened the Richies will come back next week and we’ll have Trev, Ian & Kyle back as usual.

In the buggys Oddball beat the quiet fella, despite Jonny having convincingly hammered Paul at the weekends regional – all sorts of excuses from Odball for his shameful result ;-)

Anyway hopefully see everyone back next week for some more shenanigans J

Results might actually be on the website this week as neither me or Ian were involved to mess up the download!

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A better turn out than expected for this time of year last night with 13 racing – 8 TC and 5 buggies (I think!) with some regulars still missing, (pikey, Fitzy, Trev, Kyle – hope to see you back soon)

A long awaited return for Richie Junior with Fingers along but just watching this week, racing again next – as was Clarky and James Davison – hoping James makes a comeback soon as it’s the second time in 3 weeks he’s been “just passing” and still has all his gear ready to run.

Ian back from a couple of weeks missing meant I was free from RC duties again giving a bit more time to fettle my car. Also Josh becoming a regular racer again and Oddball mentioning that Charlotte should be on track in a week or two J!!!

Grip was low early on with Gary flying on worn minipins but as the track cleaned and grip came up (or maybe as my setup tweaks worked!) carpet dragons proved the tyre for the end of the night and finals with some ridiculously close TC racing, literally jostling each other for 2-3 consecutive corners with lots of door rubbing, very aggressive but fair – great to watch!

Another “freak” problem cost me good points in leg 1 final when a motor mount screw came out and jammed the drive train – no where near as bad a result as Snowman who broke his steering on the first quail tho.

Good to see Cookie now having some reliability – which will allow his speed to improve spending more time racing, less fixing J

See you all again next week for more of the same

An don’t forget the Karting event this coming Saturday, still spaces left as far as I’m aware if you want to join us.