Sprint Season Starts This Week

[Kiltie]

JohnCL said:

Oh boy , check out the latest weather, wintry showers and cold at night. John

... aye, one of these ...



... both days.

Wouldn't want to be camping

Eric

[Kiltie]

tuscan_thunder said:

I see they're using championship numbers - very confusing for spectators ( ie they see car number one, then car number 30 then car number 4 etc)

... run in class order, it all seems pretty consecutive to me ...

Eric

[tuscan_thunder]

Kiltie said:

tuscan_thunder said: I see they're using championship numbers - very confusing for spectators ( ie they see car number one, then car number 30 then car number 4 etc) ... run in class order, it all seems pretty consecutive to me ... Eric

Aye, but then anyone who's not in the championship gets bunged on the end of the running of their class with a random number.

If you got an influx of non-championship runners (as often happens at Fintray and Alford) it gets really messy. It works fine if you only have championship runners but its a bit inflexible and the events secretary gets a severe headache!

[g4addicted]

Me this time - regarding the championship numbers, we started doing this because the competitors demanded it. If the majority feeling is that people don't want championship numbers, please let us know - it is just one more thing to do, so anything we don't need to do is always welcome!

Looking forwards to the weeekend, and try not to worry about the weather - although it said snow showers yesterday, the day before they were forecasting bright and sunny for Ayrshire. In the next life I'm coming back as a weatherman - it is the only profession in the world where everyone expects you to be wrong!

[Kiltie]

Championship numbers get my vote.

Eric

[Corpulent Tosser]

Aye Championship numbers works for me, that way I don't have to change them every meeting, though on saturday they are not using them so I will have to change this weekend anyway.

Not that changing numbers is a big deal but it is good to keep the same number if possible.

Murray

[tuscan_thunder]

Championship numbers are fine with me, it's just I've heard a quite a few folk saying they prefer event numbers - I do think that championship numbers leads to a lot more work for a secretary but if the consensus is for championship numbers, that's ok by me.

How's the weather looking?

[Corpulent Tosser]

tuscan_thunder said:

How's the weather looking?

Not good, 9deg both days but 0deg at night and rain forecast both days, at least thats what BBC say, the met Office is similar but only 7deg on Sat, Monday looks OK though.

[tuscan_thunder]

So how did it go?

Everybody manage to drive with frostbitten toes???

[Corpulent Tosser]

tuscan_thunder said:

So how did it go? Everybody manage to drive with frostbitten toes???

It was cold, very cold, both days, Saturday cold and wet, Sunday cold with snow flurries, but despite that some impressive times were set.

I had a fairly crap weekend, lost all sparks during my third practice on Saturday and couldn't trace the fault -finally got it running on Sunday morning thanks to John Stevenson who brought his laptop and found the problem in minutes.

So I was a very happy chappy on Sunday morning, less happy in the afternoon when I spun off and holed my sump, and not knowing it was holed trailed oil across the track and right through the paddock - Sorry Guys !

Murray

[g4addicted]

Be honest - Saturday was cold but sunny in the afternoon, and Sunday started cold and sunny and pretty much stayed that way until after the prizegiving - the snow came back at 4pm!

Jonathan Rarity broke the class record for C4, as did John Stevenson in A3. Roy Dawson won the FTD battle with a 74.08 in the ex-Fleetwood Gould, two seconds ahead of JR, who was a gnat's tadger in front of Stewart Robb in the Pilbeam MP58 - awesome stuff!