A Day In The Life Of The Baby Lazy
[Welcome wee Daniel Horton to the Lazy 'team'... S.]
As the newest addition to the World Wide Web phenomenon that is RC-lazy, I (self dubbed “the baby lazy”) feel that I should give a tidbit of my 17 year old wisdom. This particular tidbit is 1/365 of my annual tidbittage and for those mathematicians out there that would make this tidbit about one particular day, which is of course today. (Saturday 6th March, i dunno when or if Si will post this.)
It is 9:02 am and my driving instructor arrived 2 minutes late (which did not get added on the end by the way). Anyway, outside my mum’s house is a lay-by which I would have to pull out of to get going. Amidst the panic, fear and celebration of pulling out of the lay-by without getting flattened by a mega death lorry of Dan squishing doom I had forgot to put on my seatbelt, however my driving instructor had not noticed. So with complete subtlety I tried to reach my seatbelt, in a way not unlike a samurai reaching for his sword (albeit a life saving, torso restraining sword) and I admit I did feel a bit like a ninja, unfortunately my seatbelt just happened to be the most distance ever a seatbelt could possibly be from a seat and Mr Instructor was less than impressed with my assassin-esque seatbelt techniques (if I tried a nonchalant whistle I may have got away with it).
Note to self: Brush up on assassin/ninja moves, preferably by pretending my arm is a sword and stabbing mum when she’s not looking.
Fast forward 12:56 and we’ve just arrived at Aldershot club and we plan to test my brand new Mi4 LP. Fingers crossed. Pressure’s on. Need a wee. Toilets locked. Damn. My first impression was, I quote, “like driving a cloud”; perfectly pleasant, not much substance, bit soft and too many of them wouldn’t look nice. As I haven’t raced since the first round of the Thrashnalls I drove it cautiously like hedgehog on a motorway at night who has a “bad feeling” that something may “go down”. Anyhow after a few runs we discovered that the front droop was 0.5, the shocks were the wrong springs and back to front. I really should not have built this car (LOL as the kids say) but after we (Derek) righted these quintessentially unblameable wrongs… I got really cold and wanted to go homeL. However, we persevered and got the LP running very well indeed (High Five!) thanks to the fabulous XXX Main Chassis Setup Guide. I strongly recommend this to beginners and veterans but not to Si because he does off-road now, he doesn’t deserve it.
20:38- Listening to Ant and Dec making some sort of derogatory joke about holes, *sigh* they don’t know what it’s like to feel the pressure of racing toy cars. They’re so naive…so naive…
From the Desk of Daniel Horton’s mum
Written by dan.
SLCC Round 3 – Yateley
rcLazy.com Team Including Tiny Mascot!
The whole rcLazy team was out in force at Yateley Model Car Club. at the weekend for round 3 of the Southern League Challenge Cup. We had fun, laughed at blue bits, fed chips to small children and went reasonably quickly.
The track is very similar in size to Bashley, a longer straight, and a KILLER downhill chicane. They’ve lowered the kerbs in this chicane for ‘09 thankfully, and it’s a lot safer, you get it wrong and you just end up out of shape, on the wrong line, slow, or on the grass. But you don’t end up in the air, or with a broken car.
New Shell Showing Battle Scars Already
Saturday was setup day, my 416 worlds was almost perfect on kit setup, I just changed springs. The rest of the Tamiya guys spent hundreds of laps trying to find the perfect setup, and ended up near mine! I added a bit of anti-dive on Sunday morning following their advice, thanks for all the hard work guys!
We did okay in the end, scattered around the A and B finals in all classes. I qualified 3rd in Stock, and had a nice second final, getting up into the lead, before throwing it away, falling into the grass and letting Scott Hauser through for the win!
Rob 'Sandbagger' Howett Posing Like A Pro
Some of us even got some trophies, Rob Howett resorted to sandbagging the pro-stock B final to show us all how to smile at a camera, hold a trophy, hold a car, ensure team logos are clear, all at the same time. Ol’ dog Howett gets it right every time! His B final winning performance would have been good in the A-final, too late in the day mate!
Ed Clark and Mark Townsend made the A final, and Mark had a nice battle in the second leg for position two. Sam ended the race in front of Mark though. We doubt Mark would have been up there if he hadn’t rebuilt his diff minutes before the final. Ed suggested he did it about 28 hours before, but of course that would have been far too sensible!
A great weekend, not perfect by any means, but being rcLazy isn’t about being perfect, it’s about not trying too hard!
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- rcLazy.com Team Including Tiny Mascot!
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- New Shell Showing Battle Scars Already
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- Mark Townsend Trying To Pass Sam Martin
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- Ed Clark Hand Painted rcLazy Sticker
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- Ashley Finch Sits It Out…
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- Jason Findlay Shows Bottom of Car
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- Reuben Manning Loses Feeling in Right Hand
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- Matt Sedgley Gets Newtonated In Sponsor Shirts
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- Rob ‘Sandbagger’ Howett Posing Like A Pro
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- SHMCC Team – Naughty Ed!
Group photos courtesy of Jason Moggridge.
All other photos thanks to Dan Pitter of Blink Studio.
More event photos at: YMCC
How was your SLCC Yateley? Comment below and tell us all about it!
Written by simon.
rcLazy.com T-Shirts
A photo of the back of a rcLazy team member appeared on the SLCC website, from the Aldershot meeting. I can’t tell who it is though!
The t-shirt looks good! I’ve got a few more on the way, let me know if you’d like one – you gotta wear it trackside though, and you’ve not got to try too hard!
Written by simon.
rcLazy.com Stickers
I just printed up some monochrome stickers of various sizes on transparent laser sheets, they’re not bad, better than I expected. Here they are on my mini and touring car.
rcLazy.com stickers
If you’d like to put a sticker or two on your car let me know.
(I’ve also got T-shirts and caps on the way.)
