Awesome day out at TORCH for Team RCLazy
Finally made it to TORCH for their all day event. You know the idea, this is what happened.
Arrived at 8ish and what a turn out, no space for parking near the track so I dumped off the racing gear and bag o’ bacon with Si. Nice to see young Dan Horton roll up for a nice relaxed intro to off road. He stole my RB5 and drove it like it’s never been driven before – more of that later.
First things first – breakfast. Si had a champions breakfast of cornflakes and a chocolate mini roll (in the cereal!).
I stuck to Sprite and chocolate. Get some real milk for a cup of tea Si! Especially now you’ve fixed the melting fuses in the chuckle bus controlling the fridge!
Drivers briefing gave us 4 rounds quali and 3 finals for everyone Yay! Good work gents, plenty of time for charging and chilling. 6 (pretty) full heats with some notable TC drivers arriving fresh faced and eager to get budgie racing!
Bob was nowhere to be seen but apparently was at a disco in London town and Digweed was splendid. Apparently?
Round one was a shocking result- me qualifying first and beating Phil Williams by a mere two seconds. Great racing Phil. Dan started out a tad excitable but a -30% expo curve calmed that down nicely. Si’s wheel fell off.
Round two pretty similar and Dan was storming through the field and had a very respectable 3rd in his heat.. Si rebuilt his diff. Sorry wrong car, he has gears now and is loving his lack of balls.
I have to stop getting cross with marshalls. Even the ones who applaud your crash before picking the car up, stand around chatting or have to do some sort of rain dance before strolling across an empty track to get you. I know it was my fault I crashed, but purlease at least look like you care. Rant over.
Anyway, soon enough it was lunch, another champion feed of chocolate, and bacon.
Si had made A4 while I was A2 in 4wd and Petit Dan had made A10 in 2wd. A fantastic result for him with my buggy first time out. By this point I had had to hide chocolate from Si, now I know why he was cross with my choice of lemon cakes for the Stotfold national!
Finals went pretty smoothly, nice victories for me in the first two legs and an interesting starting technique from Si. Si’s Fandango literally back flipped on the line. Something to do with a locked slipper and a 5.5 on max acceleration. reminiscent of Lee Martin at Stotfold. Is Si a future Euro Champion in the making? Well done to Lee for clinching the double in Austria, go team Tamiya! Dan moved up 2 positions to 8th overall and looked really in the swing of things before handing the car back. I was amazed it never went that well for me!
Si had found the chocolate again and was feeling pretty sick after an entire tub of mini rolls.
My best moment of the day: being asked if I dominated at the nationals after winning the A final 4wd. “Err… no” I replied “I was over joyed with 92nd.” “Oh.” came the response.
Nice raffle to end the day, sorry you didn’t have the winning ticket Si. So close! All in all a thoroughly brilliant day thanks to the TORCH guys for a splendid day out.
Sorry no pics, left the camera at home. Very Lazy.
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