AUGUST 10: CLUB CHAMPS ROUND 11

BenH · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: AUGUST 10: CLUB CHAMPS ROUND 11

Absolutely gutted. I had the 4WD championship pretty much in the bag and bad luck strikes to give that nooby John Myall, with what would have previously been described as the "slimmest of chances", the "slimmest of chance" and handed it to him on a plate! Laughing

I haven't checked, but I am pretty sure the Myall has taken the 4WD championship today. Congratulations John! Well deserved fella, and maybe next year there will be handle full of us making you sweat a little for it in the new season. Wink

Anyway - back to today. Zippers back and what's more he realised which is the better car for him - All together "We told you so" Laughing

2WD was really good again, although there were some moments when the 4WD started to show promise of some good and close races.

Learnt a lesson today: - I started behind Steve. His motor or cells was making his car slower than usual which held me up in my pursuit of the resurgent BJ4. Eager to get past, I tried a couple of passes with a slim chance of success and sure enough, no success. Sorry Steve Rolling Eyes

Tangled up and more panic. Lesson - If you are behind someone in a final, that's because they out qualified you. Sit back and take your medicine. If you don't like it, do better in the heats. My lesson learnt with a broken wishbone and a DNF to drive it home! Wink

Big thanks to Sal who persevered with us and our uselessness! Before we get a deserved roasting by Sal or Jim, it may be worth acknowledging how useless we were at times and make an extra effort to know what race is on and get our backsides out to Marshall and/or cars on the line quicker.

Good to see the enemy, sorry, I mean George and Paul Laughing

here today. I think it might have been reconnaissance for round 2 of the EATC, but don't tell them we've got their number! Wink

Pics - Well, Zipper and I had it on the wrong setting for most of the time. I haven’t been too ruthless on the deleting and I’ll edit a link to them here soon. http://lawfordbuggyclub.myfastfor...astforum.org/sutra10023.php#10023

John Myall · 2007-08 CLUB CHAMP; 2007-08 4WD CHAMPION

LBC · 2005-06 CLUB CHAMPION, 2008 2WD CHAMPION

Bit of a hectic and tiring day - with Kev and Matt not being able to make it through illness (hope you both soon get well); drivers disappearing without saying a word, Sal suffering with toothache; and (as Ben has already mentioned) not much in the way of co-operation from others as to regards marshalling and/or readying themselves for racing!
Please, please, please make an effort! -the racecharts are quite straight forward, it doesn't take an honours degree to work them out, and it would make the meetings a lot more enjoyable for Sal and I. It's difficult enough running a meeting without all this unneccessary shouting and rounding-up of marshals.
Besides that, it was a good days racing, and for me personally 'normal service was resumed' after my last round performance of 'tit of the day'!
I've already mentioned John's title win in the Announcements & News, so I'll not dwell on that other than to say he won it by a Myall!
The 2wd title is far from decided- the top 4 are still in contention, and it's gonna be a titanic struggle to last round.
Driver of the day for me was Phil - I don't know whether his car was going slower or that he has taken my advice to slow things down a bit, but either way it paid off with his best 4wd score/result to date - well done Phil!
Good to see George (and Pa...Paul!) racing with us again, and I hope we see more of him (and Pa) in the future!!
As always, many thanks to all who took part.
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LBC · 2005-06 CLUB CHAMPION, 2008 2WD CHAMPION

John Myall · 2007-08 CLUB CHAMP; 2007-08 4WD CHAMPION

PHIL · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject:

What a day had a really great time

Thanks for your comments Jim I was taking your advice (slow down keep it on its wheels) sometimes it's too easy to push your thumb alittle further foward than needed

looking forward to the next club champs
Very Happy

Phil
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LBC · 2005-06 CLUB CHAMPION, 2008 2WD CHAMPION

BenH

Juddy · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject:

I had no idea just how hard it is to drive a R/C car till i tryed it without sleep,
ITs a mission!
I hate night shifts, i've also got to miss the next round cos i'm at Reading!
So i think two champions my have been decided yeasterday!

It was good to see the Fairweathers again, plus some more new faces.

Sorry Jim for going early but i could bearly stay awake, or be philisopical about what a bad day i was having!!

Also well done the Steves, they were both laying it down for the so called top boys to deal with, niceone!!

Well done to JohnM, if you can do it again next year you'll be the first to do the hat trick! Bring on the X6 i think we need some more 2wd's to shack things up!

Juddy · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject:

Jesus how many spelling mistakes!!

Zipper · 2007 LBC TRUCK CHAMPION

A thoroughly enjoyable meeting, made even better by out qualifying the Botch!

I swapped to the BJ4 after Peter destroyed the diff in one of the Durga's and never looked back... the BJ was flying and Botch was finally where he deserved to be... in my dust! It was also great to see Alex's "bag of nails" Predator destroy the orange crunchie wrapped S4 of the Botch! Great work Alex... more of the same please! Laughing

As per usual, I didn't get to do much spectating, trying to keep two cars running. Mad

I now have a mountain to climb to try and catch that Steve T... who managed to out qualify me yet again.... but be warned... the BJ4 is BACK and ready to blast that ugly red car into submission!! Laughing

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