Power boat racing in Aberdeen this weekend

[Tinohead]

Thought this might be of interest to the Aberdeen locals.

http://www.zapcat-racing.com/Calendar/Aberdeen1112...
http://www.zapcat-racing.com/News/ArticleDetails/t...

Could be good for a watch, especially if this weather keeps up!

[standfree93]

Ohhh, that looks interesting!
Unfortunately, I think i'm away this weekend

[onlynik]

May toddle along. Cheers for the info.

[scz4]

I had a shot on one of these a couple years back as a passenger\"cornering weight". My muscles and insides have never hurt as much, they can pull 4G cornering, unbelievable, was such a rush. I was only out on the water for 10 minutes, felt like I'd endured a 10 hour work-out the next day.

Edited by scz4 on Thursday 19th August 12:09

[Tinohead]

If you fancy a shot, it look like you can get one here

http://www.scottishwildcatz.com/

[Ian974]

Will probably nip down a bit later and have a spy, cheers!

[911sse]

I am going back down again today, this was good yesterday.

[standfree93]

Just home from Alford, but gonna nip down right now and see if i can catch the end of it.

[standfree93]

Think I just missed it.
Got down there about 3.30 and hung around for 10-15mins but couldn't see anything...

[CO2000]

standfree93 said:

Think I just missed it.
Got down there about 3.30 and hung around for 10-15mins but couldn't see anything...

Tell me about it, was there just before that & ziltch. So much for a 4.30 kick off for the final........

It must have been over quicker than a AFC title bid

[istoo]

scz4 said:

"cornering weight"

does this mean tyour car is really good at right handers as well

[Tinohead]

They must have got through it quicker yesterday. I was down on Saturday and it was really good actually. Not a huge amount of overtaking but each team had to do a 'pit lap' in every race which was basically an extension of the course. This caused a couple of close run finishes.

It was good to see ACC actually supporting something like this though. I live 2 minutes walk from the beach and I don't think I've ever gone down to watch an event of any sort. They should make more use of the beach!

[onlynik]

We went down on Saturday afternoon. Watched a couple of races, seemed good fun. The DJ was quite funny too. Not sure it would my attenion for the whole day though.

[Tinohead]

Yeah the other half and I went down around 2, stayed until the end. He did add to the entertainment value and the music was generally good. Glad to hear him refusing to play any chart crap

It also helped that the weather was so good on Saturday!

I would have loved a shot out in the passenger seat like those 2 lucky guys.

[CO2000]

Tinohead said:

They must have got through it quicker yesterday.

To be fair the Sea was like a Mill Pond so maybe that hastened the finish ?