Australian Slot Car Racers Association

Hi All,

The last Retro race for 2018 was the final round of the HSC Club series for Coupes and F1 on the Big Track.
We had six starters for the two races and with the ever energetic Greg Erskine and James armed with his trusty track-call clicker as marshals we set off.
Coupes

Going into this race it was going to be Darryl or myself crowned as HSC CanAm/Coupe pointscore winner for the year with Darryl starting 2 points up.
My plan was to try and win the race so I would then have at least 2 points on whoever came 2nd and my better win rate would carry the day.
However as you will see it did not quite pan out as planned (my plan ).

Wayne B using Cody’s weapon just blasted away to finish 3 laps over me followed by Joe who held down 3rd spot all the way.

Darryl and Stoo had a good battle with Stoo holding sway to lead by 2 laps going into the final two brackets. Unfortunately Stoo lost his way a little on White and Red (easily done I can assure you ) to drop 4 laps on Darryl who took out 4th followed by Stoo and Neil.
Wayne set fastest laps on all but Red lane where I was able to do so somehow. Cody would have been proud and Wayne showed that there is a lot of life left in the ‘old man’.
This result had Darryl and I tie for the year but I was deemed the annual winner due to a higher win rate whilst Neil secured 3rd spot for the year.
F1

Same story here with Darryl 2 point up and me with the same old plan – I never give up (some say never learn ).
I got the jump on Wayne for the first 2 brackets but then he found his rhythm and just took it away with me holding down 2nd for the rest of the proceedings.

Darryl just settled into 3rd and stayed there for the whole race to be always a lap or 2 ahead of Joe who grabbed 4th off Stoo in the 2nd Bracket and held on tight.

Neil was having some unusual fun launching up the main straight into the bank wall much to his delight - not .
Interestingly though Wayne, Darryl and myself did more laps with F1 than CanAm while Stoo did the same laps. Wayne set fastest time of the night on Red and fastest time overall on 6 lanes with Cody’s F1 !

This is the car that Tommy Flyth built for Lindsay Byron and as far as I can recall it has only been beaten once – by me in the 2016 Brabham Trophy race on Race World's King track when Cody was piloting it – certainly a great chassis.

So Darryl finishes a point ahead of me for the season and takes out the F1 honours with Neil again in 3rd spot.
So that’s it for 2018, as usual a big thanks to James for hosting the racing we love.

Big thanks to Greg who turns up for every race to have a chat and help out by marshaling.

The 2019 Calendar is posted and the first race is on Australia Day weekend.

See you there.

Thanks Marko
Really appreciate the time you take to put these reports together.
Neil

Thanks Mark, great report as usual,,,,,,,and keep those extended O.S. TRIPS an ongoing thing,,,ha,ha,,,,,,,,,Wayne B mentioned that he and Cody will be at all retro racing next year,,,,that plus the planned attendance of Jason and Ben getting into it,,,could be some big turn ups, and very fast racing indeed and not forgetting Stoo and Brad, who are always up at the top some where, Wayne Walker who is just getting faster all the time,,,,hope he can do the club retros as well as the SRC stuff,,,,,,,,,,looks like a big year ahead for retro,,,and is going to be harder to be at the pointy end,,,,great for retro
Darryl

dtslot wrote:Wayne B mentioned that he and Cody will be at all retro racing next year,,,,that plus the planned attendance of Jason and Ben getting into it,,,could be some big turn ups, and very fast racing indeed and not forgetting Stoo and Brad, who are always up at the top some where, Wayne Walker who is just getting faster all the time,,,,hope he can do the club retros as well as the SRC stuff,,,,,,,,,,looks like a big year ahead for retro,,,and is going to be harder to be at the pointy end,,,,great for retro

You are so right - I am so looking forward to it.

Jake will also be back racing retro.

Great report Mark

Thanks Darryl for the kind works just need to get them laps in

Lets hope the numbers build for club racing next year as the numbers were good for SRC this year

Wayne W