HSC 2018 Retro Series Rnd 9 - Short Track (STR) 07/10/2018
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:14 pm
Hi guys,
Well I guess we had a pretty good turn out of 'Quality' Drivers for this event, even though there were some 'usual Suspects' who were 'Missing in Action',.. lol
Was great to see both Brad and Darryl (recently back from his usual US sojourn) and both Jason and Ben, appearing to continue being 'Keen' to race Retro's with us
The Brambles turned up 'In Force' !!,.. 
as perhaps can be seen from the Pic' of their rather 'Extensive' Pit BOX and Compliment and Quantity of Cars !!,..
I had spent the week building up a recently purchased Warmack 'Kit' and contemplating/re-building a couple of recent and older 'builds' and was in some ways quite Happy in managing to get my more recent and previously annoyingly unpredictable handling 'Fox Clone' style car to Finally start working/handling in a manner I had always Hoped it would. (So with a few extra Mods and additions of Weight/lead) may be even Better Next time out
Considering How Long I have been doing this Scratch-building 'Lark' I was rather amazed that I somehow managed to get the overall Chassis width on the Warmack Wrong !!,.. it being 33 thou Oversize DOH !!,.. lol, (so am going to have to Re-Do all my Nice work to correct my Very Silly 'Mistake',..lol).
Seems I was also Not Alone in building a new car, as Neil fronted up with both a New CanAm AND F1 chassis (as can be seen in the attached pics below) and I must admit, was also kind of hoping to See Ben's recently acquired 'Jersey John' chassis running, but would seem he has Yet to actually get them together.
Anyway, onto the racing.
Coupe's
Heat 1.
Here we had Wayne, Cody, Jason and Ben and as can be seen from the results below, was a pretty damn good race.
Jason was certainly giving Cody a very good run for his Money (at least for the first three brackets) and managed to keep him pretty Honest for the Whole race really, with there only being 2 laps in it until the 7th bracket when Cody gained another lap advantage.
Wayne was also seriously 'in the Mix' until about the 5th bracket, where Jason's previous 22's on both Purple and Black, compared to Wayne's 21's caused the eventual 2 lap difference.
Ben was I guess just slightly off the 'Hot' pace being set by those ahead of him but managed to turn in some pretty reasonable lap totals, running another 'Loaner' from Darryl and am sure once he has some More Laps under his belt and also perhaps the familiarity of a 'Regular Ride', will also be another Very serious competitor !!
Both Cody and Wayne managed to turn some Very quick times during the race, with Cody even doing a 4.987 sec' lap on White, with his Only lap in the 5.2's being on Black !!
His car was a Further Modified Version of the Warmack car he had run in the recent Nat's and as suggested by himself, is on a 'Mission' to Prove he can get a Light Car to Work on the Short track, which he certainly seems to be doing so far (although one could perhaps argue that it is still just a wee bit Too Light !!),..especially as I think (at least initially in Practice, was about 96 grams), so when it is 'adjusted' to his Liking and also,.. 'Ahem',... Legal,.. will probably continue to be the 'Weapon' it has so far Proven to be !!,..
Heat 2.
Here we had Darryl, Neil, Brad and Myself and was (at least at the start), also another quite good race, although perhaps Not as good or as fast as the previous heat but similarly to Cody's performance was (apart from a one bracket 'blip' when Brad took the lead), was an All the way win by Darryl.
Neils' New car seemed to be performing quite well, although probably not all that happy about His Purple bracket
Once again, Brad's car was Very Much 'On the Pace (as can be seen by his totals and times in the first few brackets, but ran into some trouble late in the third bracket, when an accident Broke the chassis
causing him to withdraw. Although he did turn a few More laps on Black and later also on Orange trying my "Old Faithful", ahead of it's Possible use in the upcoming SSME 4 Hour Enduro).
In all Honesty it must be said that My 2nd place in this heat was Only due to Brad's withdrawal, as whilst the Mod's to my recent chassis were a definite Improvement, it is Still Not Yet completely 'Perfect' and Sadly, Neither was My driving on the Night,.. quite a few Too May De-Slots for my liking and a slight Lack of Focus I fear,..sigh,.. lol
F1's
Heat 1
Hmmm Well What can I say Other than this was Another absolute 'Creaming' by Young Cody and that Damn Fine Chassis of Tommy Flythe's !!,.. lol
For Most of the race it looked like he Was definitely going to do Another 190, with at One stage the Estimated Total being shown as 190.5 !! It was Only a few 'Un-Forced' errors in the later stages of the race that dropped his overall Total to a 'Meagre' !!??,..lol 186 !!,.. LOL
It also has to be suggested that Cody was (at least initially), being relatively closely 'Shadowed' by Wayne, until the end of the 4th bracket when Cody gained a few extra laps and this was with (apparently) the Less effective 'New' F1 chassis !!,.. The Quicker/better one being put Back in the Box for the Upcoming State Titles !!
I didn't actually See it running, but guess it will possibly also be a bit of a Weapon !!,.. lol
That being said, Wayne's eventual total ,of 178 laps is pretty impressive anyway, were it Not for Cody !!!
Jason once again had a Very Solid run turning good laps and ending with a still very impressive and competitive total of 172, whilst Ben was perhaps Not having such a great Night, with a Loaner from Joe, having a bit of a hard time on both Black and red, which dropped his overall totals a bit. Perhaps he may have had More fun had he run the Previous Loaner of Mine, as he at least had some previous experience with it and had actually run quite well with it in the Nat's race ??
Heat 2
Well whilst Not on the Same 'Pace' as Heat 1, this was for the Most part a very close and competitive race between Darryl, Brad and myself, (although I don't think my driving did My cars Normal performance the Justice it deserved !!,.. lol) and Unfortunately Neil Experienced major Gear Problems Early on the 4th bracket and chose to withdraw.
With the exception of Neil, all of us took a couple of brackets turn in the lead and swapped places a couple of times during the race, with there Only being a Single Lap between us until the 5th and 6th brackets, when I lost a Lap to Brad and Darryl got a couple Up on Brad.
At the end of the 7th bracket, we had Darryl on 150 laps, Brad on 149 and myself on 148 !!, so it was still a pretty close thing, but Darryl Creamed us in the Last bracket turning a 24, and myself possibly causing Brad a slight problem with a rather strange Off when on red in the last bracket that had Brad running into the back of my de-slotted car,.. Sorry about that Brad, although the outcome would probably Not have changed, it might have been a bit closer at the end.
For myself, even though 169 isn't a terrible lap total, it is perhaps a reflection of my own less than stellar driving on the night, when compared to the 179 I had done with Fox in the previous round with the Very same car !!,.. sigh,.. lol
Anyway,.. all in all another typically enjoyable night's racing at HSC and once again thanks as usual must go to James and to Joe, Greg and Steph for their Help and marshalling on the Night
Sorry about the Poor quality of the Race Sheets.
Overall Placings
Coupe
Well I guess we had a pretty good turn out of 'Quality' Drivers for this event, even though there were some 'usual Suspects' who were 'Missing in Action',.. lol
Was great to see both Brad and Darryl (recently back from his usual US sojourn) and both Jason and Ben, appearing to continue being 'Keen' to race Retro's with us
The Brambles turned up 'In Force' !!,..
as perhaps can be seen from the Pic' of their rather 'Extensive' Pit BOX and Compliment and Quantity of Cars !!,.. - The Brambles Pits
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Considering How Long I have been doing this Scratch-building 'Lark' I was rather amazed that I somehow managed to get the overall Chassis width on the Warmack Wrong !!,.. it being 33 thou Oversize DOH !!,.. lol, (so am going to have to Re-Do all my Nice work to correct my Very Silly 'Mistake',..lol).
- My New Warmack 'build'
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Anyway, onto the racing.
Coupe's
Heat 1.
Here we had Wayne, Cody, Jason and Ben and as can be seen from the results below, was a pretty damn good race.
Jason was certainly giving Cody a very good run for his Money (at least for the first three brackets) and managed to keep him pretty Honest for the Whole race really, with there only being 2 laps in it until the 7th bracket when Cody gained another lap advantage.
Wayne was also seriously 'in the Mix' until about the 5th bracket, where Jason's previous 22's on both Purple and Black, compared to Wayne's 21's caused the eventual 2 lap difference.
Ben was I guess just slightly off the 'Hot' pace being set by those ahead of him but managed to turn in some pretty reasonable lap totals, running another 'Loaner' from Darryl and am sure once he has some More Laps under his belt and also perhaps the familiarity of a 'Regular Ride', will also be another Very serious competitor !!
Both Cody and Wayne managed to turn some Very quick times during the race, with Cody even doing a 4.987 sec' lap on White, with his Only lap in the 5.2's being on Black !!
His car was a Further Modified Version of the Warmack car he had run in the recent Nat's and as suggested by himself, is on a 'Mission' to Prove he can get a Light Car to Work on the Short track, which he certainly seems to be doing so far (although one could perhaps argue that it is still just a wee bit Too Light !!),..especially as I think (at least initially in Practice, was about 96 grams), so when it is 'adjusted' to his Liking and also,.. 'Ahem',... Legal
,.. will probably continue to be the 'Weapon' it has so far Proven to be !!,.. Heat 2.
Here we had Darryl, Neil, Brad and Myself and was (at least at the start), also another quite good race, although perhaps Not as good or as fast as the previous heat but similarly to Cody's performance was (apart from a one bracket 'blip' when Brad took the lead), was an All the way win by Darryl.
Neils' New car seemed to be performing quite well, although probably not all that happy about His Purple bracket
Once again, Brad's car was Very Much 'On the Pace (as can be seen by his totals and times in the first few brackets, but ran into some trouble late in the third bracket, when an accident Broke the chassis
causing him to withdraw. Although he did turn a few More laps on Black and later also on Orange trying my "Old Faithful", ahead of it's Possible use in the upcoming SSME 4 Hour Enduro).In all Honesty it must be said that My 2nd place in this heat was Only due to Brad's withdrawal, as whilst the Mod's to my recent chassis were a definite Improvement, it is Still Not Yet completely 'Perfect' and Sadly, Neither was My driving on the Night,.. quite a few Too May De-Slots for my liking and a slight Lack of Focus I fear,..sigh,.. lol
F1's
Heat 1
Hmmm Well What can I say Other than this was Another absolute 'Creaming' by Young Cody and that Damn Fine Chassis of Tommy Flythe's !!,.. lol
For Most of the race it looked like he Was definitely going to do Another 190, with at One stage the Estimated Total being shown as 190.5 !! It was Only a few 'Un-Forced' errors in the later stages of the race that dropped his overall Total to a 'Meagre' !!??,..lol 186 !!,.. LOL
It also has to be suggested that Cody was (at least initially), being relatively closely 'Shadowed' by Wayne, until the end of the 4th bracket when Cody gained a few extra laps and this was with (apparently) the Less effective 'New' F1 chassis !!,.. The Quicker/better one being put Back in the Box for the Upcoming State Titles !!
I didn't actually See it running, but guess it will possibly also be a bit of a Weapon !!,.. lol
That being said, Wayne's eventual total ,of 178 laps is pretty impressive anyway, were it Not for Cody !!!
Jason once again had a Very Solid run turning good laps and ending with a still very impressive and competitive total of 172, whilst Ben was perhaps Not having such a great Night, with a Loaner from Joe, having a bit of a hard time on both Black and red, which dropped his overall totals a bit. Perhaps he may have had More fun had he run the Previous Loaner of Mine, as he at least had some previous experience with it and had actually run quite well with it in the Nat's race ??
Heat 2
Well whilst Not on the Same 'Pace' as Heat 1, this was for the Most part a very close and competitive race between Darryl, Brad and myself, (although I don't think my driving did My cars Normal performance the Justice it deserved !!,.. lol) and Unfortunately Neil Experienced major Gear Problems Early on the 4th bracket and chose to withdraw.
With the exception of Neil, all of us took a couple of brackets turn in the lead and swapped places a couple of times during the race, with there Only being a Single Lap between us until the 5th and 6th brackets, when I lost a Lap to Brad and Darryl got a couple Up on Brad.
At the end of the 7th bracket, we had Darryl on 150 laps, Brad on 149 and myself on 148 !!, so it was still a pretty close thing, but Darryl Creamed us in the Last bracket turning a 24, and myself possibly causing Brad a slight problem with a rather strange Off when on red in the last bracket that had Brad running into the back of my de-slotted car,.. Sorry about that Brad, although the outcome would probably Not have changed, it might have been a bit closer at the end.
For myself, even though 169 isn't a terrible lap total, it is perhaps a reflection of my own less than stellar driving on the night, when compared to the 179 I had done with Fox in the previous round with the Very same car !!,.. sigh,.. lol
Anyway,.. all in all another typically enjoyable night's racing at HSC and once again thanks as usual must go to James and to Joe, Greg and Steph for their Help and marshalling on the Night
Sorry about the Poor quality of the Race Sheets.
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Coupe
1st Cody 2nd Jason 3rd Darryl 4th Wayne 5th Stoo 6th Ben 7th Neil 8th BradF1
1st Cody 2nd Wayne 3rd Darryl 4th Jason 5th Brad 6th Stoo 7th Ben 8th NeilDidn't manage to get an awful lot of pics (and Not All of the various Winners), but here is a few pics of cars & people from the nights racing along with some pics of some New cars from Neil and Wayne etc.