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.
Video: SLCC Round 1 Aldershot 17.5 A Final Leg 2
(Watch in High-Definition, click the little HD button above and then go fullscreen.)
I’m the blue and white car on grid point 6, I think I came in 5th. That big moment at the chicane didn’t really help!
Commentator is Nick Adams from Demon Power Products.
Written by simon.
SLCC Round 1: Aldershot
Today saw the 1st round of the Southern League Clubman’s Cup at Aldershot.
I was feeling particularly lazy, so I drove up this morning and did a handful of laps in practice. The car was okay, not enough turn in, and a bit twitchy.
The recommendations in the pits from Saturday’s practice was to shorten all the top links, to flatten the car out, and make it more stable. So I tried that, and also removed the front anti-dive.
Round 1 was a bit lairy, really twitchy, but I realised I’d not reset droop, and my diff was slipping. I corrected droop, changed ackerman, but forgot to tighten diff for Round 2.
I got it together in Round 3, the car was stable, decent turn in, speed was okay. I put in a reasonable run, about 10 seconds off TQ, so qualified 6th.
Finals went okay, a 4-into-1-chicane incident left me on my roof, entirely my fault I think – I was a little overexuberant! 2nd final was cleaner.
The racing was great fun though, the cars were so even on pace and setup, so it was all down to driving, nice lines and racecraft. Very enjoyable.
The rest of the rcLazy team had fun, they didn’t have much luck in the finals including letting the magic smoke out of a 10.5 with a nice big burning smell.
A great day out, it flew by.
