Well,..First up, my sincere apologies for Not having been 'On the Case' regarding the writing up of the Race Reports for Both Plafit and Retro of late.
For Most of this year, I have Only been racing in the 1/24th 'Historics' class, as Both my 1/32 cars needed some 'attention'.
To be honest, whilst the numbers of racers has been particularly small, they are made up from the 'Usual Suspects',..lol and Have ALWAYS provided for both Very Enjoyable and 'Spirited' racing !!!
So, after having re-fettled my Ferrari F40 for the previous round, I was Keen to give it another run, especially as I was hoping for More Div'2 cars to have a run this time, (mind you the F40 does OK against the Div1 cars anyway !!,..lol), plus we have had John, one of HSC's Main Scalextric guys Join us of late, so we atleast had 1 x relative Newcomer interested in competing in the 2 x classes.
I guess it MUST be said though, that generally and unfortunately Usually, we have Only had at times 3 or 4 racers in the 1/32 class and invariably Only 4, 5 or 6 racers for 1/24th 'Historics'. All a bit Sad really, although it Must be said, as is usual with that assembled Group of Locals, both the racing and Social atmosphere has Always been Very enjoyable !!
LAST NIGHT though,..was in fact THE FIRST Time I have turned up for a Race,..for it to NOT Eventuate,..due to 'Lack of Interest' !!!
When I arrived, Only Joe and Steph were there (apart from James ofcourse), but They were packing up and preparing to leave,... AND Did so,..not long before firstly John and eventually Dale arriving,..which realistically did Not really provide for enough Humans to both Race, marshall and Run the race.
This 'Situation', along with the previous and continuing Poor numbers, would appear to be "Sounding the Death Knell" for Plafit racing in General at HSC !!!
The Next Round probably will Also Not be Raced/Run, due to the Scheduled Track Maintenance/Re-Braiding, that was partly completed earlier this year and will allow for the re-braiding to be fully completed, (which Will be Great !!), so am assuming that realistically the upcoming State Titles will be the Next and (Who Knows,..Possibly Last), Plafit races held at HSC !!! an arguably Sad situation.
Might be quite a few Plafit cars and stuff appearing on eBay and the relevant Forums for Sale soon,.....sigh,...
Must add that I also 'Feel' for James, having made a more than reasonable commitment to Plafit in general, who still has a Wall filled with seemingly unwanted Plafit parts.
Hey!,..Just think How Much better it Could have been, had we made the Rules even Stricter and Enforced and made Wheel Inserts 'Mandatory' !!!
Sorry,...couldn't help myself,...
All in All,..a rather Sad situation,....
