YEARLY POINTS COMPETITION: 1/24 V8 Saloon Cars

Points  are as follows:
1st 10 points, 2nd 9  points,  3rd  8 points etc
Over 21 races (7 at each track,  every 2nd week)
You  can drop your worst 6 (this may  be changed  to  3 TBD)
Barry    26
Darren  35
Dan      36
Daniel   18
Peter    14
Stu       25
Trev      34
Tony     14

A quick meeting before we start racing this Wed

We will have a quick discussion on  the new NASCAR bodies  and the  point  series before we start racing this Wed. Racing will be at  the 16th  ave track  with  LMP style bodies. See you there. 

Wednesday Night Racing 7/3/12

With the 1/32's out again and a full team of 8 on deck, there was always going to be some close racing.
Dan came out tops in qualifying by blasting off a 14.3. Only 0.3 separated the next 3 places with Trevor(13.7) coming out in front of Peter(13.5),  followed by Darren.(13.4)
Stu was in 5th with a 12.5, followed by Barry's 11.3. It was very close between  Tony and Daniel with Tony taking  it out by  0.1 with a 10.6 V's  Daniel's 10.5.
After the  first round it was Darren  setting the pace with a 127.1, 2nd Dan 126.1, 3rd Trevor 123.2, 4th Peter 121.6,  5th Stu 114.2, 6th Barry 112.5, 7th Tony  98.6, 8th Daniel 97.2
In the 2nd round it was Dan 1st 126.9, 2nd  Trevor 126.1, 3rd Peter 124.6, 4th Darren 124, 5th Stu 119 6th Barry 115.1, 7th Daniel 107.8, 8th Tony 102.1
In  the final round Dan blasted off a impressive 129.7, Darren 126.3, Trevor 124.8, Peter 124.1, Stu 120.1, Barry  116.4, Tony 107.2, Daniel 103.2
With the qualifying added in the results are as follows
1st Dan 397
2nd Darren 390.8
3rd Trevor  387.8
4th Peter 383.8
5th Stu 365.8
6th Barry 355.3
7th Daniel 318.7
8th Tony 318.5
Well done Dan. With a points night next week at Dan's, it is going to be hard to beat him on his home track. Tony is really snapping at Daniel's rear wheels now, so  that is shaping up to be a close battle.

Stu's New Track

I will do a progress report on the building  of Stu's new track. I've  got a  bit of catching up  to  do,   so  please bear with  me.  Today was  the  first time I saw it and   a great deal of   work  has  gone into   it and  to  a very  high  standard. The guys have been working very  hard and you should be  proud of yourselves.

Points Night Rule Changes. Let me know what you think.

There  has been  some discussion about   changing the rules  for  the  V8  Saloon  series.
1.  To  allow NASCAR  styles  bodies (limited to about 3 types). This will bring down  the cost  to  about  $12 v's  about $20 from Gill.
2. Changing  the  number  of races  you can drop from  6 (about 3  months racing) down to 3. We will  be still be racing over 21 rounds,  but  only 18 will  count towards your  points. This is to allow  for people been  away  for  holidays/work etc.
Something to  think about  and let me  know  your thoughts on  Wednesday.

YEARLY POINTS COMPETITION: 1/24 V8 Saloon Cars

Points  are as follows:
1st 10 points, 2nd 9  points,  3rd  8 points etc
Over 21 races (7 at each track)
You  can drop your worst 6 (this may  be changed  to  3 TBD)
Barry    20
Darren  27
Dan      26
Daniel   14
Peter       7
Stu        20
Trev      25
Tony     11

Wednesday Night Racing 29/2/11 ----points night and a leap day.----

It was another  night  of fast and furious racing at the 16th  ave track.  With the  saloon bodies back on,  the times were surprising  quick. Darren  set  the  pace right  from the start by doing a 28.2 in qualifying while  most of the rest were  in the 25 lap mark. He  then went  on to post  some solid 80 plus laps in the other races, only to snatch defeat from  the jaws of victory by doing a 77 on the 3rd to last race. Even by doing a record of 84.1 in the next race still wasn't enough  to stop  Trevor from taking out 1st place with 766.3 laps. Darren was 4.7  laps behind with 761.6 laps to take out 2nd place.
It was the closest finish  yet  for 3rd and 4th  with only 0.4 laps between Barry  and  Dan. Now  that Barry has new eyes, he is finally able to see his car  and drove the wheels off his car all night long,  but Dan  came away  with 3rd  with 723.6  laps   just ahead of Barry (4th) with  723.2 laps. Stu  wasn't that  far  behind, but with 716.2  laps 5th place  had his name  on it. Daniel  did some constant laps and ended  up with  660.4 to take out 6th. Tony concentrated on  his driving  and  it  really showed with a good 630.9 laps to round off in  7th.
Next weeks racing is at the  Kinloch track. With it  being  a non points night,  break out your 1/32 cars and I will see you  there.