TORCH Winter Series – 27.01.13
Titchfield Car Club recently was successful in gaining a 2013 National event and will be holding the F2/Junior/Vets event at the back end of the season.
Work has already commenced in preparation for all the 2013 events and this week they were trying out another layout on their track
It sort of makes you think why hasn’t a club or even an individual opened an indoor permanent facility that just keeps us dry.
Woke up in the morning and it was dipping it down and now I had to make a decision.
Drive an hour in this relentless rain on a maybe or go back to bed and the warmth.
Knowing that the TORCH crew would do everything in their power to get the event running, and the car was already packed and ready, off I went. Worse way is say hello if it was all cancelled.
Around 8.15 ish it was announced that open practice would commence and i was ready. I was pitting under my usual gazebo with Scott Faulkner and Simon Fearn. Goods lad the pair of them and we had a laugh through the day 🙂
I was running yet another set up on my RB6 Kyosho as I get towards the fine tuning option of a base set up.
Car felt very good from word go and had 2 full practice sessions without any major changes
Of we went and not starting behind Steve it theoretically should be an easier run following him round.
Its never that easy (LOL)
A good run but the wind got heavier and heavier and everyone was suffering over the jump section.
At one point i thought my car turned into a glider.
Got 3rd in round but could of been so much better.
Steve TQed once more with Mark Sadler in on the 2 spot
Steve would lead the top heat out, followed by Mark Sadler and myself.
Steve was really driving very well indeed and he had his RB6 pretty much dialed to his liking.
An early mistake by Mark let me through and i set off to catch or to at least minimise the gap between Steve and I.
The weather certainly didn’t help matters at all.
The wind would just randomly take the flight of the cars at any given lap and we were all in the lap of the Gods when this happened.
On one lap in the run the car just sort of hanged in the air just waiting for someone to snap some pictures but only to land on the track marker and yet again ruin another fair and decent run
Same for everyone though so no complaints at all
Chris has been an ambassador for the sport for many many years and now enjoys his racing more than ever.
Chris and I go back over 20 years and it is very pleasing to see him getting good results
Well dome mate
The buzzer went and we all started very clean. From 2nd on the grid i put some early pressure on Steve with lap 2 being my actual fastest lap of the final and the 3rd fastest of the main.
Steve kept cool as ever and went about his business.
Mark and Sam to be fair were not being dropped…far from it in fact.
Sam got by Mark for 3rd and when i made a small error he didn’t hesitate to go by into 2nd place.
Many places swapped between all of us all the way down the main final but Steve held off Sam to take the win.
I was possibly trying a little too hard and a few error really took me out of the equation for the win but finished 3rd at the end.
Conclusion is simple here.
Compliments to everyone at TORCH for yet another smoothly run meeting manner in horrible weather conditions