37th Scalextric Club (9th July 2013)
Tonight’s racing at the London Scalextric Club is for Group 5 racing cars, running 5 lanes for 3 minutes per race. These are basically historic GT cars which don’t really interest me. But it was a nice evening so I cycled to the club as usual.
Tonight Steve lent me a red Porsche 911 and I really got along with it! The room and the track were warm and Terry lent me an adjustable controller.
Although I wasn’t a front-runner on outright pace I was driving consistently with relatively few crashes. The racers were in good spirits so this all made it a really enjoyable evening.
Group 5 is now a class I look forwards to racing again.
Blue Lane
| Fastest Lap | 9.44s |
|---|---|
| Laps: | 18.25 |
| Position: | 2nd |
| Crashes | 0! |
Yellow Lane
All but me and Bob crashed lap 3. A bit later on Bob crashed and I was blocked by him! We went from 1st and 2nd down to 3rd and 4th. In other words, last. I had a few crashes just out of frustration after that.
| Fastest Lap | 9.66s |
|---|---|
| Laps: | 17.30 |
| Position: | 5th |
| Crashes | 3 |
Green Lane
The tightest and slowest lane. (That’s my excuse.)
| Fastest Lap | 10.16s |
|---|---|
| Laps: | 16.40 |
| Position: | 4th |
| Crashes | 1 |
Brown Lane
| Fastest Lap | 9.61s |
|---|---|
| Laps: | 17.95 |
| Position: | 4th |
| Crashes | 0 |
White Lane
Just behind 3rd after he crashed and recovered.
| Fastest Lap | 9.42s |
|---|---|
| Laps: | 18.55 |
| Position: | 4th |
| Crashes | Not sure. |
Finals
We always race 12 laps in the first round of finals and only the leading two go through.
I was on white lane – the easiest one. Drove well but couldn’t quite catch Rino. He was fighting to get into the grand final at the end of the evening.
| Fastest Lap | 9.41s |
|---|---|
| Time: | 1.56.47 |
| Position: | 3rd |
| Crashes | 0 |