King Willy's Summer Series 2013

[Pontiac Jack]

King Willy's Raceway will again be running a Summer Series during Jan/Feb 2013.
These events will be run on the fabulous "Williamstown Brown" and,if last Summers races are anything to go by,should be heaps of fun with some great close racing thrown in!!

Racers will be battling it out for the coveted ( ) Summer Series Trophy.

Classes for this Summer are:
Flexi-Hawk GT: Any Flexi chassis,JK Hawk 7 motor and a 60's style GT closed cockpit body (i.e. Parma Lola T-70 coupe,JK T-70 coupe,RedFox Ferrari 330P etc.)
Formula 908: Standard Flexi/V8 Supercar with a JK Porsche 908 body.
And the ever popular FJ's.
We will run another class at each race (time permitting) such as V8 Stupid Cars/Standard Flexi's,Plafit's or possibly Womps or Int 32.
We'll let you know a week before the race.


Dates for 2013 are:
Sat. Jan 19,
Sat. Feb 2,
Sat. Feb 16

Hope to see you there for some great racing and loads of laughs !!

Cheers,PJ

[Pontiac Jack]

Here's an example of a Flexi-Hawk GT:


The fabulous Williamstown Brown track:


And last Summers series winner young Geoff Little:


Cheers,PJ

[Koford1]

PJ, can you oblige with some setup details for th Flexi/K Hawk cars ie Gear ratio tyres etc, maybe down there for one of the races

[Pontiac Jack]

G'day Chuck,I'll be testing a couple of cars this weekend.
One is geared 12/39 the other 11/36. I've set one up to run .720 tyres,the other .680. Both use "Fish" rubber.
The "Brown" isn't a big power track. It doesn't have long straights. It's all about corner speed.
I'll put a couple of hundred laps on them and let you know what works.

Cheers,PJ

[Pontiac Jack]

OH dear.......
Due to dissention in the ranks and a couple of deaf old coots toddling down a different path We've made a couple of modifications to the classes...
FLEXI-HAWK GT:ANY flexi chassis,JK Hawk 7 motor and a 60's style GT coupe body (i.e. RedFox Ferrari 330,JK Lola T70,Parma T70 etc...)

FORMULA 908:Standard flexi/V8 Super Cars with JK Porsche 908 bodies. Any flexi chassis,any 16D setup with standard Chinese ,unbalanced 16D arm (i.e. Parma 501-A,501-T or Proformance Deathstar arms...if you can find one! ),1/8 axle etc.

FJ's: No change.

Hopefully this will be the final list for 2013.....
The first race is Jan 19. Racing starts at 1pm.
There will be a test and tune on the "Brown" on Sat. Jan 5.

Cheers,PJ

[Pontiac Jack]

I tested both my Flexi-Hawk GT's this arvo and they performed extremely well.
The 12/39,.720 tyre,Parma bodied car did a best of 3.939.
The 11/36,.680 tyre,JK bodied car did a 3.901.
As a comparison,the current Standard Flexi/V8 Supercar record for the Brown is 4.068.

Both cars were a bit too "snappy" out of the tighter turns and would probably benefit from dropping each pinion by a tooth.

Bruce and Rob tested their Formula 908's. Both cars were in the 4.0-4.1's range.

Rob and Geoffs 908's


Hope this gives you some idea of what's going on with these new classes.

Cheers,PJ

[Pontiac Jack]

OK, Round 1 of the Summer Series is on next Saturday Jan 19.
We will be running FJ's,Flexi-Hawk GT,Formula 908 and Retro F1 or Retro CanAm (Possibly both,time permitting ....)
Get yourself down to KW for a great day of racing on the fabulous Williamstown Brown !!!!

Cheers,PJ

P.S: More testing has shown a gear ratio of 9:39 or 10:39 is best for Flexi-Hawk GT. This should get you into the 3.9-4.0 sec. range.