- On Board the LD2 at Tiverton
Onboard the LD2 at Tiverton I stuck my Gopro to the front of the LD2 at the last summer round of Tiverton in September 2022. The track was still quite wet and I was using yellow dry tyres, so I was spinning out and going quite slowly. But it’s still interesting to see a buggy’s eye view of the track.
This was the last outing for the LD2 before “Turnbuckle-gate”.
- Prep for last Summer Meeting of 2022.
So Tiverton tomorrow. And seeing as I haven’t quite had the results I’d like there this year, I spent a whole day today preparing to put my best car on the astro in the morning.
The plan went mostly well. Ball diff rebuilt with a new thrust race. Bearings cleaned and dry lubed. ESC remounted with better servo tape. Having got all that done, I was planning to go all out and fix the threads on the front hub. I had a bit of an ooopsie…
Bugger! Oh crap! That said, It might not be the disaster I first thought. In theory, the brass hub is meant to be for carpet only.
Brass Front Hub Installed So in went the brass hub. I have had issues with the nose flying up a bit on the straight and tabletop jump ath Tivvy, and I’m also trying to get the brake to be less rear limited, not easy when you have to have high rear grip for the off camber bends and odd Astro at tivvy. So, I’m going to commit to it.
I’ll let you know how it goes tomorrow, the KD has also been put back to running order, I’m actually hoping I won’t need it.
- End of Mendip Summer Championship
So the Summer champs at my local track came to a close today. Over all, it left me scratching my head a bit. This summer, I’ve learned a hell of a lot about dialling the car into the track and conditions. What seems to be happening, is somehow, despite the car being quite drivable, time just seems to bleed away. The forced health break in the middle of the season had more of an impact than I might have realised. So I think it’s just a matter of patience, persistence and getting my butt in gear to do more practice.
Results
2wd Buggy
Best 5 results and countback apply.
Pos Name Ability Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 1 Keith Halsey 99% 499 99 0 98 100 0 100 99 96 101 2 Gavin Knight 98% 496 0 0 99 0 0 100 101 98 98 3 Kevin Greenway 95% 481 93 97 0 94 99 0 98 90 0 4 Dale Calder 94% 473 96 99 95 0 0 0 0 88 95 5 Chris Cooke 93% 471 88 93 91 92 101 0 0 94 0 6 Gary Simmons 92% 465 92 91 86 0 0 95 97 83 90 7 Alistair Munro 92% 464 86 0 0 96 94 91 94 81 89 8 James Santer 92% 464 0 0 89 0 96 92 96 82 91 9 Michael Halsey (J) 92% 463 89 0 83 91 0 96 95 84 92 10 Sophie Calder 92% 463 90 99 94 0 0 0 0 87 93 11 Wayne James 90% 455 84 92 90 93 0 0 0 86 94 12 Martin Owen 99% 399 0 0 101 100 0 0 0 99 99 13 Andrew Nelson 93% 376 94 0 0 0 95 94 0 93 0 14 Oscar Mills 84% 338 81 85 0 0 0 0 92 80 0 15 Oli Davies 95% 289 0 95 96 98 0 0 0 0 0 16 Jos Hooper 94% 285 95 0 0 97 0 93 0 0 0 17 Ted Calder (J) 90% 273 0 0 85 0 0 0 0 92 96 18 Bradley Satterley 90% 272 87 0 0 0 0 97 0 0 88 19 Daisy Miller 84% 256 0 84 81 0 0 0 91 0 0 20 Martyn Hadley 97% 196 101 0 0 0 0 0 0 95 0 21 Matthew Hodges 95% 192 0 0 0 95 97 0 0 0 0 22 Dan Hurrell 94% 189 0 96 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 Paul Rose 92% 186 98 0 88 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 Paul Curtis 91% 183 0 0 0 90 93 0 0 0 0 25 Cam Pollinger 90% 182 0 90 92 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 John Farringdon 89% 180 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 89 0 27 Leon James (J) 89% 179 0 0 0 89 0 90 0 0 0 28 Miles Harris 87% 176 83 0 0 0 0 0 93 0 0 29 Alan Pritchard 85% 172 0 88 84 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 Nigel Godber-Ford 84% 169 0 87 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 Lewis Hopkins 100% 101 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 101 0 32 Stuart Ball 99% 100 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =33 Charlie Klinkenberg 97% 98 0 0 0 0 98 0 0 0 0 =33 Mark Cox 97% 98 0 0 0 0 0 98 0 0 0 =35 Steve Ashton 96% 97 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =35 Dan Harding 96% 97 0 0 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 =35 John Pape 96% 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 97 0 =35 Dan Osbourne 96% 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 97 39 Ken Fung 93% 94 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 Haiden Hicks (J) 91% 92 0 0 0 0 92 0 0 0 0 41 Nick Langdon 90% 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 91 0 42 Terry House 88% 89 0 89 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 Todd Simmons 86% 87 0 0 87 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 Riley Mills 85% 86 0 86 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =45 Steve Pollinger 84% 85 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =45 Neale Carbis 84% 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 85 0 47 Ethan Owen (J) 81% 82 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =48 Theo Gooding 79% 80 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =48 Luke Harding 79% 80 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 50 Olivia Pritchard (J) 78% 79 0 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bit annoyed that I let Gary pip me at the last today, But he had new shiny bits which seem to have sorted the wallowing rear end of his car. James’ new Associated seems to really suit him, so quite surprised I managed to stay ahead of him.
Congrats to Keith Halsey, consistent performance while doing all the spanner work on multiple cars every meeting is very impressive.
One more Outdoor meeting for the LD2 before it goes into full Carpet setup and the KD comes out for the winter season.
- I’ve had worse days 🙂
Bling. To knackered to do a full report tonight. Sadly, the footage I tried to get didn’t work out. But I’ll give you the full SP tomorrow.
- Tiverton Round 10 – Race report
Driving still scrappy when it matters, but I started the day with a smashing 12 lapper in a clean run. Then the remaining qualifiers and final were silly mistakes that made what could have been a B final and a good result.
That is where the car was 🙂
And 11 laps 310 was where my driving was the rest of the day. One positive to take from the day was I managed to get into the “Steering waggle” over the table top jump, which weirdly, really does seem to work.
