We are predominatly a Trackside Trader backed by Internet mail order sales – for the SEQ guys these are the races I know about – updated each week. Where I’ll be in RED and other races in black.
In. Sorex Premounts – 36 with Yellow inserts (our normal)
- 36 with Red inserts (Worlds control tyre)
Coming- Sorex premounts in 32 and 28.
In – Speed Passion 21.5 V3
Coming – Speed Passion 21.5 V3MMM
Coming – Speed Passion 17.5MMM and ORCA 17.5 RX2 (good).
Coming – HobbyWing motors and speedies.
Dates announced 14th – 16th September.
Classes
21.5 clubspec (any 21.5 motor from the ROAR list)
17.5 blinky mode – no change
Mod no change.
Venue to be advised late June
Matt is top of the leaderboard after 10 holes day 2 in Korea playing in the SK Telecom Open.
In RC Speak he is TQ in Mod half way through Qualifying to make the A finals on the weekend
The iphone app is ONEASIA
The Internet site is http://www.oneasia.asia/ click on live scoring .
Don’t think I will get much work done this morning
It’s a pretty rugged week here at Action R/C this week.
Sunday Bayside Onroad. Ran the CXL as usual in 17.5 zero. Had some good races especially with Tony and Duncan. Inexplicably the motor decided it was too old in the last final and let the smoke out – total mystery to me why that happens when it hadn’t been overheating on that ratio or higher for ages. Also ran the Mini which was a total exercise in frustration trying to get the tyres and springs etc etc right. Did a lot of doughnuts and rollovers.
Tuesday 1/8th Offroad. Spent the 4 to 6 practice session at the Gold Coast laughing along with Bob as he tried to learn jumping – he doesn’t need to learn barging, he has that down pat. The LRP was a lot better as a result of the work I did last week but popped both side front inner pins out at various time – found the problem when I got home a couple of broken off screws in the lower rear suspension mount, fixed it thanks to my prodigious amount of spare parts for that car.
Wednesday. Logan Onroad. I had invited my cousin, Adam Lynch, to come along and drive my car. Adam has done a lot of GP and EP Offroad but had never driven a Onroad car before. Took to it like a duck to water Q4 and 2nd in the final behind class fast man Nat Riddle. Welcome to ActionR/C team Schumacher Adam – you Wednesday night boys watch your backs there’s a fast man coming.
I tried the Mini in SWB form and it was worse – spinning out even on the straight. Totally frustrated as the last Mini I drove belonging to the Beggsie Mini Fleet was glued to the track and a pleasure to drive. The Mo5 S Spec is looking like a good deal at the moment and the 2 old borrowed Mini might be going back to their owner earlier than planned.
Thursday. RC free day as it’s the wifes birthday. Unless there is a practice session at Chargers tonight maybe.
Friday. Nothing planned.
Saturday night . Logan for a couple of hours only this week.
Add to all that all the Action R/C stock ordering, mail orders etc etc you can see there’s plenty on.
Lucky I don’t have a job, wouldn’t have time for it.
Schumacher shipment, Spares replenished.
Sorex Premounts – still $40 per set of 4. (no discounts)
28′s, 36′s (yellow or red inserts – same tyre, same rim different brand insert hard to tell the difference but red is the control insert for the Worlds.)
Sorex Glued 36R+Red+Stiff Lite pk4
THE control tyre for IFMAR 2012 World Championships!!
Great tarmac performance for warmer European conditions. Built with the 36R tyre, with a Red insert and Stiff light wheel.
Schumacher Racing have an automated in house gluing process which accurately controls the glue flow rate and quantity. This has helped us to establish an excellent reputation for quality and consistency of pre-glued tyres. However, the driver should check that the tyres are firmly glued before each race.
Plenty of Mazda Speed 6 bodies in stock (regular weight) and as usual a good assortment of odds and ends.
For those who don’t like Sorex we also have the Ride 36 in premounted form – these are $35 a set of 4.
A few souls turned up to race on what was expected to be a quiet day. We had a full heat of 21.5, 17.5 and a composite Nitro heat and a small but vocal group of Mini drivers.
In 21.5 Steve led Jacinta in the qualifying and so it was in the finals with Steve winning two legs and Jacinta one leg. Ryan Smith came home third. The club announced today they will go the same way as Logan and allow approved 21.5 motors from the list from now on and also speedies from the Sportsman list set to zero – 21.5 blinky as it is known around the world. This will give drivers a wider range of motors and speedies to choose from without increasing the speed too much in the class and will be a better stepping stone to 17.5 for those moving up.
In 17.5 I think the TQ went to Johnny with some pressure for Tim and Kingsley. In the finals Johnny managed the win in all three legs from Kingsley with 2 seconds and then there were 4 tied on 15 points Tim, Tony, Heavy and Duncan with third going to Tim on qualifying. There was some very close racing in the finals with Tony Duncan and Heavy in particular having some race long duels – all good stuff. The close racing in this class is set to be a thing of the past with quite a few drivers agitating for 17.5 boosted to be run in preparation for the Nationals – this will happen at Logan from July where all the Nationals classes will be offered, personally I hope it doesn’t happen at Bayside, if so I suppose I can drop back to 21.5.
The Gas race was a composite and I’m not sure who was Pro and who was GT but the TQ went to Clayton from Darren but in the finals Clayton continued his winning ways followed home by Trevor and Darren.
Mini was a standout win to Kingsley in the new M05 S Spec from the VW M03 of Mitchell with Heavy in 3rd after a trouble filled day. Will be interesting to see how this class develops in the lead up to the nationals and even more interesting to see if it survives after the Nats.
A good day, thanks Melissa for your work.
Question – where is Wayne Sutton
Our first setup sheet for this buggy around the gold coast can now be found on our SETUP page.
More info will be available as we come to grips with the fun generated by this class of racing and this buggy in particular.
The Interclub committee has released a new set of rules for Gas Tourer for the remainder of events for this year – they can be reached through our Interclub page here
These cars worked ok early this century when we last raced Mini in Brisbane so why not for this years Nats, with a little TLC.
I’m hoping to be ready to cut some laps sometime soon.
On a rare fine weather night there was plenty of good racing at Logan tonight.
The numbers in 17.5 blinky and 21.5 blinky are holding up very well and there were 2 heats in both classes, with some very close racing as drivers tried to make the A final over 2 rounds of qualifying.
It has to be said that the standout drivers in both classes were the pole sitters, Clinton in 17.5 and Brad in 21.5 but behind them the battle raged. Both those drivers won the first of 2 to count A finals and then went home early for different reasons leaving the podium wide open. In 21.5 it was Michael Belby who took the top step followed by Nigel Woods and Noel Gordon. In 17.5 it was David Guyatt on top (tied with K Scott) after a countback to qualifying, So Kahla second, relishing in the handling and pace of the Schumacher CXL after a period in other cars, and followed by Nat seemingly unable to replicate his fast qualifying pace in the finals.
The other classes – Mod, F1 and gas had small numbers but still provided some good racing. In Mod Corey got the TQ and he and Chris won one final each giving Corey the nod on qualifying with Leonard third, the 2 lone gas cars were in this race as well but neither featured in the results. In F1 it was all Corey from Nat and Shane in a very low numbers affair.
From next Friday night the 11th Logan will be open in the evenings fortnightly for timed practice in Nationals classes only (Mod, 17.5Timed, 1/12th and Mini ).
Want to do a race with a difference? Winter, in Tassie? Check out the second annual Tiger Models Launceston Cup – indoor for EP on-road and off-road classes.
The boys got their new Serpent EP8 buggies dirty today. The smiles were bigger than this at the end of the day – a great way to spend 2 hours. We’re with you Bob, keep smiling.
It’s the anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s death at Imola in 1994. If you don’t have access to the Senna movie (and you should, it’s fantastic) check out this piece from Top Gear on the life and times of arguably the best F1 driver ever.
Totally focused, brilliant individual. Flawed? Yes. Brilliant? Absolutely.
