After securing all three trophies of SCHORC’s second race series for the second season in a row, Paul Rose was no doubt hoping to extend that record. With the emergence of Roy’s truly super SRT in Super F1 and with the Homewoods joining the series for 2014 the defence of his titles was set to get more tricky…
The Track
Nick’s first solo track design was an interesting circuit with a challenging technical section with a pair of alternate hairpins. It also featured some nice flowing bends and proved to be well balanced between the competing chassis in Super F1.
Micro Scalextric Club Class
Qualifying
The pair of hairpins caused a fair bit of trouble in qualifying with people flying off in all directions. Al managed to stay out of trouble and avoid getting caught up in anyone else’s accidents here and that no doubt helped him take pole. Paul Rose was just 1.8 laps behind him and also took the fastest lap of the class with a 4.270 in the yellow lane which was unusually the fastest. Nick took the last guaranteed spot in the A final just two tenths of lap behind Paul. Paul Homewood acquitted himself well for his first time driving the Micros and lined up in fourth a lap ahead of Roy in fifth. John and Tony completed the grid in sixth and seventh respectively..
B Final
Roy took the red lane for the B final and after taking the early lead, he didn’t let go of it and took the win from Paul Homewood in yellow by just over a lap. John in blue took third after a spell of holding second in the latter phase of the race. Tony was running nicely in P2 for the early phase of the race before he a big off dropped him back to fourth and he decided to retire.
A Final
Al in yellow and Paul Rose in red diced for the early lead of the A final before Al managed to pull out a small lead. An off on lap 8 caused his motor to pop up and the fast but ultimately unreliable yellow car was off the track for nearly 20 seconds while Al jiggled the motor back into place. Meanwhile Paul drove off in to the distance to take the win followed 2.8 laps later by Roy in blue. Al and Nick had a good battle for third with Al eventually taking the position and at least salvaging a podium after his incident.
Super F1
Qualifying
With Roy and his SRT being firm favourites going into Quali, it was a slight surprise when Paul Homewood took pole from him by nearly 10 laps. Nick again took third place and was just over a half a lap behind him in fourth. Reigning champion Paul Rose wasn’t entirely happy with his car for much of the session but salvaged fifth ahead of Tony and John.
B Final
Paul Rose had the early lead in blue but Al wasn’t far behind him in red. A couple of small offs for Paul handed Al the lead on a couple of occasions but Paul’s pace was superior and after catching Al for the second time Al binned it leaving Paul to sail off and take the win. Tony quickly decided he wasn’t very keen on the yellow lane and retired. With the yellow lane vacant John decided hop in it for a more pleasant drive to third.
A Final
Paul Homewood stormed off the grid from the yellow lane and in to the lead. Roy couldn’t quite match his pace from the blue lane but wasn’t far behind him. Nick matched Roy’s pace from the red lane for the first 40 seconds of the race before a couple of offs dropped him back. Paul Rose usual a master of the white had a few too many offs at the tighter of the two hairpins before retiring. Up front Paul Homewood powered on to take the win by just over a lap from Roy.
Thanks to all who attended and apologies for the delay in writing this report.