Laugh? He Fell Off His Chair! (at TORCH)

May 23, 2010 · Posted in Off Road, Racing · by simon

I was having a crisis about the Tamiya 511, so I wanted to do some TORCH astro and try and get it sorted. Oh, and I wanted to try Bob’s Cat, just in case my crazy idea of buying one happened…

It was a stupendously hot day, Kat and I got too hot just on the drive over at 7am, and by 9am it was a scorcher.

I flung the 511 around, and it seemed okay, the Hupo setup seemed to work, perhaps a bit twitchy though. Later in the day I ran Bob’s Cat, and between us we faffed about with tyres, and they both ended up good.

Thankfully I loved the 511, it was ace, and had some very nice runs with it. The final was the best run of the day for me, coming in 2nd behind a far too quick Steve Brown, ie I won, cos he doesn’t count. Yay!

Comedy incident of the day: Bob falling out of his chair backwards, without letting go of his staggered ribs.

Here’s a bunch of pics Kat took, including of course pictures of flowers and weeds.

The TORCH track is looking a little unkempt, but don’t worry, new astro has half arrived and soon the whole lot will be re-laid with new astro! Awesome, then a changeable track layout with more features will be created.

So it’s a bit of a work in progress right now!

Roll on next week when TORCH is hosting an all-day meeting (they usually finish at 1pm), and fingers crossed some chaps from EPR will be coming down to challenge Steve’s track records… Even Ellis “hero” Stafford was checking his calendar…