Tonight's results for Rounds 11 & 12 of the Championship are now available;

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Well, there were plenty of points on offer tonight with a few of the regulars missing and one or two drivers suffering from breakages. Adam Burgess was the driver to make the most of things, qualifying in the A final and then getting two 3rd places has helped him shrink the gap to Kris Irons in his bid for the lead of F2. Andy Love had a good run as well, and now has the effective lead of F3, with only one point dropped over 8 rounds . Nathan is still sitting on top of the Club table and F1, but he really needs to pull out all the stops while John is out of action for the next couple of weeks if he wants to stay there and 2nd behind Dan just isn't going to cut it!

Check out all the results and championship positions below:

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Personal Transponders

Don't forget, we now have some MRT personal transponders, which we are selling to Club Members for £35 each - a nice Christmas present maybe?

Championship

We are halfway through the Championship now with all four tracks run and although there's still a long way to go, let's see who's leading:

But it's not over yet, and everything could change in the next 4 weeks

Tonight's race results and full Championship results can be found below;

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Courteous Drivers......

John's been running the "little black book" for a couple of weeks now, and you can see how people have been voting in the table below:

Don't worry if you have -ve points, there's plenty of time to show just how "courteous" you can be

Tonight's results for Rounds 5 & 6 of the Championship are now available;

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Results

Another week of very close racing tonight with a few drivers left out of their usual qualifying positions due either their problems or others good luck

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We've now started updating driver abilities based on your results, so some drivers will start to see their qualifying positions change. Of course there may be one or two drivers who have still only managed one weeks racing, so if you feel that you are well outside where you should be qualifying next week, then let race control know.

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Thanks....

...to those drivers who stayed behind tonight to help pack away, but it was dissapointing that so many people left before the end and were not there to help pack away. Remember, it's your Club and everyone needs to take responsibility for track set-ip and putting away.

Little Black Book

As part of our looking for the Most Courteous Driver, John Fillingham has started a "little black book" (well a large black folder anyway!) in which drivers each week will be encouraged to give one of their fellow racers either a "tick"or a "cross" based on how courteous or discourteous your fellow racers have been either during the race, or when marshalling your race.

We don't want anyone to be upset by this, and it is meant ot be a bit of fun, while giving everyone the opportunity to see what your fellow racers think of your driving! If anyone feels worried or bothered by any of this, please let race control know, as the last thing we want is anyone feeling picked on or bullied.

We hope to publish some of the results in future weeks.

Personal Transponders

We now have some MRT personal transponders, which we are selling to Club Members for £35 each. If you want one, see Colin on a Friday night.

Close Racing......

Well tonight's 1st round of the Autumn Championship just showed how close racing has become at the Club, with everyone trying hard to improve at every level, and you can't afford to make any mistakes against the faster drivers or you'll get left behind .

Results

Unfortunately, the memory stick has been "misplaced", so I can't post tonight's results, or the first round of the Championship, so these will have to be put up next week - sorry!

Most Courteous Driver?

Do you care what other drivers think about how well you drive? Well Charlie and Steve Ware do, and to prove the point, Charlie's donated a large Hudy set-up board which will be presented to the "Most Courteous Driver" at the end of the Autumn Series. To keep at least a degree of independance, Mike Smith will be the main judge of this over the next eight weeks.

So what makes a courteous driver? Well here are just a few thoughts;

• Not shouting at other drivers while you are on the rostrum
• Waiting patiently for a marshall to get to your car
• Not shouting at the marshalls
• Moving quickly out of the way of faster drivers during qualifying
• Waiting for another driver to recover after a "collision"
• Being out ready to marshall quickly after your race
• Staying attentive while marshalling
• Being quick to marshall crashed cars

and I'm sure there's plenty more......

2.4GHz Equipment For Sale....

One of our Club members has a Spectrum 2.4GHz transmitter and receiver unit suitable for a Futaba 3VC or 3VCS. If anyone is interested, check with Race control of Friday - price £60

Check out this weeks results:

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Don't forget......

Next week sees the start of the Autumn Championship Series, so get along and let's see some great driving! I think we've now settled on four track layouts that we will use throughout the eight weeks, and these are tracks 13, 15, 19 and 21.

Personal Transponders

We have ordered some MRT personal transponders, and when they arrive (hopefully before next Friday) we will be selling them to Club Members for £35 each. If you want one, see Colin on a Friday night.

New Design.....

Hope you all like the few tweaks that have been made to the site header - thanks Mike for the help!

Tonight's results have also been added;

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Nice to see a couple of new faces tonight, so welcome Paul and Andy. Also nice to see old members return again, Simon & Ryan.

Check out this weeks results:

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Autumn 2008 Championship Series

If you are interested in contributing to a discussion about the next championship, head on over to the Club Forum on RC RaceChat and let us know your views. In particular, we'd like to know which are your favourite 4 track designs so that we can chose some in advance of the series starting!

Personal Transponders

If anyone is thinking they would like to avoid the hassle of remembering to pick up a transponder each race, then why not invest in a PT? We have tried the MRT personal transponders, each of which has 20 different numbers that can be set to avoid any duplication with another driver, and they work perfectly well with our lap counting equipment and they are a lot cheaper than the AMBrc units. We would probably be able to sell on the MRT units at £35 each, whereas the AMBrc ones would be more in the region of £70 each!

Anyone interested should see Colin and let him know so we can judge if it's worth us buying a bulk set (10) or not.

Tonight's results are now available;

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Sorry that the site hasn't been updated for a few weeks, but what with holidays and all.....

Anyway, all the results for August and September are now up to date, so go ahead and take a browse:

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Autumn 2008 Championship Series

Now we are over the holiday season, numbers should start getting back to normal and it's time to start thinking about the Autumn Series! The Autumn Championship will start on Friday 17th October, running for 8 weeks until Friday 5th December. Best 5 results will count towards your final score, so you can drop your worst 3 runs, or simply miss 3 of the weeks!

The format of racing will be the same as every Friday, with 2 x 3 minute qualifiers and 2 x 5 minute finals - not quite sure how we will do the scoring just yet - more to follow on that shortly!

As for the Spring Series, we will allow any pre-glued slick tyre or any treaded rubber tyre. However, for F1 drivers we will be insisting on a control tyre of the STCC tyres and we would encourage all other drivers to use this tyre as a preference. To help with this, the Club will be selling sets of STCC tyres at £17.50 for four tyres, a saving of £6 off the normal web price (Thanks Mike!).

Any Stock motor, or 13.5T (or greater) Brushless motor will be allowed for the Championship, as of course will LiPo batteries. A minimum weight of 1500g will be rigidly enforced, especially for those running LiPo cells.

Cars will be scrutineered (especially weight) during the series, just to check everyone is playing fair!

At the end of the series, there will be winners for each of F1, F2 and F3 - so everyone has the chance of a trophy.

Formula’s

The formula’s have been updated slightly to take into account new drivers, and you can check out the link below to see who's where:

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The Championship is a good opportunity to show how well your driving has improved during the year, and everyone's "ability" levels will be re-assessed during the series which may influence where you start in the qualifying heats on a Friday. It will also be an opportunity to move up a formula if you do well enough!

We've kept all the all older news items, so you can go find them if you feel the need!

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