I can’t claim today’s spiffing result was due to genius wheel-smithing or Adrian Newey like setup. I hit the weather jackpot in round 1 which flattered my overall performance quite a bit. But having stood out in the pissing rain for 20…
After the last, rather disasterous outing at Tivvy, A bit of a confidence builder was what I wanted out of my club championship visit to the old home track. I was up for being the race director as well as driving, so…
Kept putting the wrong tyres on all day. Really shit performance. I’d rather do it today than at the reigional. Balls. Picture is Taki Inoue, because I was as bad as he was today.
Just 2wd fun today. Practice was greasy, back end fine on line, despite dry setup. Steering non existent in the shaded twisty bits. A bit more roll, silvers and an under servo weight was my first round bet. Heat 1 was good.…
Cracking night’s racing! I fitted the Phat Bodies Rear wing to the old Mardave body. And it seems to have worked nicely, the whole car much more stable on the straight. Also got the ride height settings sorted at 3.2mm at the…
Busy, busy day. In the height of summer, RC meetings tend to be a bit less well attended. Either folk are on holiday, or they are going to the bigger events further afield that take advantage of the better weather. So running…
At Mendip, we have a Gary. Garys are useful things that restart generators all day when they keep conking out, patch in spare generators when the first one permanently pegs it, and a billion other things that you don’t realise need to…
The paint job looks even better in real life. The red is Hobbynox Red Pearl. An it has a very fetching colourshift effect between primary red, and it mostly is in the pictures, and a bright hot pink. Very chuffed with the results.
Ever since I was asked to join the Mendip comittee at the end of last year, it pretty quickly became aparent that the whole year was basically going to Pivot on this meeting. In the intervening months, which seem to have whistled…
