Area Round
BSCRA Area 8 has always been one of the staunchest Areas for Club racing and the change in Nationals qualifying this year hasn't made any difference to that! This week's Area Round at Roedale was a prime example of good clean quick racing in the best of sociable atmospheres - no slot racer could ask for a better day's racing!
After the customary early morning practice, the day began with Production warm-up racing - and no Championship aspirations to worry about! Nice short heats with the best 2 runs counting and no finals, saw Lee Parsons take the top spot from Ian Barker, with Ross Grogan and Ben Tapp not far behind.
Saloon was the first of the serious classes with the customary 1 minute qualifying and segmented Finals. Ross had the perfect car and took the top spot in qualifying in a potentially record time with Vince Lee close behind and just ahead of Ben and Lee. With 'win from any final' this order was to change after the Finals - Ross comfortably taking the overall win but ahead of Lee, Ben and Ian.
F1 was not quite as quick, but Vince took the top qualifying spot from Ross, Ian and Ben. After the finals, it was still Vince at the top ahead of Ross, but Ben moved up to 3rd overall with Lee just getting past the National F1 Champion Dave Stevenson to fill the top 4 places.
The day rounded off with Sports - what should be the quickest class - and it was! Lee Parsons was in superb form to qualify top at near record pace with Ben taking second place from Vince by a single part and Ross completing the 'A' Final line-up. And what an 'A' Final it was - Ross almost immediately dropped out with stripped gears leaving Vince to storm away and take the overall win with Ben just pipping Lee to 2nd spot and 'B' Final winner Dave ending up 4th.
A superb day's racing at Roedale - proving that you don't need a big track and fancy facilities to enjoy good racing!!
After the customary early morning practice, the day began with Production warm-up racing - and no Championship aspirations to worry about! Nice short heats with the best 2 runs counting and no finals, saw Lee Parsons take the top spot from Ian Barker, with Ross Grogan and Ben Tapp not far behind.
Saloon was the first of the serious classes with the customary 1 minute qualifying and segmented Finals. Ross had the perfect car and took the top spot in qualifying in a potentially record time with Vince Lee close behind and just ahead of Ben and Lee. With 'win from any final' this order was to change after the Finals - Ross comfortably taking the overall win but ahead of Lee, Ben and Ian.
F1 was not quite as quick, but Vince took the top qualifying spot from Ross, Ian and Ben. After the finals, it was still Vince at the top ahead of Ross, but Ben moved up to 3rd overall with Lee just getting past the National F1 Champion Dave Stevenson to fill the top 4 places.
The day rounded off with Sports - what should be the quickest class - and it was! Lee Parsons was in superb form to qualify top at near record pace with Ben taking second place from Vince by a single part and Ross completing the 'A' Final line-up. And what an 'A' Final it was - Ross almost immediately dropped out with stripped gears leaving Vince to storm away and take the overall win with Ben just pipping Lee to 2nd spot and 'B' Final winner Dave ending up 4th.
A superb day's racing at Roedale - proving that you don't need a big track and fancy facilities to enjoy good racing!!
