Tag Archives: Rally Cross
SWORDS Round 5 Practice and Racing
As most of you now know this weekend (11th & 12th August) is SWORDS here at Plymouth.
We are doing a Saturday Practice from 12.00 till 4.00 on the Saturday for the standard £5.00 per person. You are also able to pre-book ready for Sunday if you should wish to make life easier for the organisers on Sunday.
Sunday the gates open at 8.00 and booking in closes at 10.00 Racing is £10.00 a person. There will also be hot and cold food and drink on offer in the burger van.
Classes being run are:- 1/8 Rally Cross Nitro Buggy, 1/8 Rally Cross Electric Buggy & Truggy
See you all there and hope you all have a great weekend.
Endurance Race 2012
Hi All,
As most of you now know the Plymouth Endurance race is back again for a 4th year now, and we are trying to make it bigger and better.
For More information on it please look at the Thread :- Endurance Race 2012
Places are starting to fill up so to get an idea of timings and interest if you can all start emailing in your team deals with following information to Chairman@PlymouthRC.co.uk
– Team Name
– Members of Team
– Frequencies
Also there is going to be a raffle at the event.
Club AGM & Trophy Giving
Hi All,
Just a quick update, the club AGM this year is being held at Colebrook Community Hall. Doors open at 6.30 for the meeting to be under way at 7.00. The meeting will be over by 10.00
There will hot and cold drink available and plenty of parking.
See you all there.
Sunday 14th August – SWORDS
Well just a quick update – SWORDS is coming to Plymouth for Round 5 this Sunday (14th August).
The grass on the track has been cut so grass guards are a good idea, along with suntan lotion as the weather is looking to be very good.
The gates will be open from 8.30am, booking in will close at 10.00 as per previous events so we can have drivers meeting at 10.15 and racing to commence at 10.30.
See you all there for some close fast racing.
SWORDS 2011 is coming to Plymouth
May I start the news off this year with some great news, and that is the SWORDS 2011 is coming to the Plymouth Track after work.
We were invited to hold 2 rounds of the SWORDS this year along with the Torbay Club and Springlease club.
For more information, news and dates please look at link – CLICK HERE
We look forward to see as many of you there and supporting this event, not only at our track but also at the others. Let’s show the other clubs what we at Plymouth RC Racing are made of.
Endurance 2010
Hi All,
This is just a quick note for anyone that was not able to make the event to let you all know it was a great success again, and this time with 5 teams lots of fun was had.
The finishing result was:-
1st – Chaos Theory – Drivers Jason, John, Chris
2nd – Team OS Reservoir Dogs – Drivers Mike W, Abi, Jonathan
3rd – Team Truggies – Darren, Josh, Tim
Best Themed Team
Team OS Reservoir Dogs – Mr Pink (Mike W), Abi (Mrs Green), Jonathan (Mr Purple)
HDA 2010 – 8th & 9th May
Hi All,
Just a further quick update about the event.
First just a quick reminder I am after registration plate numbers to get people in the gate easier.
Secondly to make the booking in process easier I am doing pre-booking. For this I need the following information:-
Full Name
Class – 1/10th, 1/8th, 1/5th Monster Truck/Truggy
Frequency
Both Days or just Sunday
Remember the fees are £10.00 for the weekend per class or £6.00 for one day per class. Camping is free and is available Friday night and Saturday night.
Do not forget to tell all your friends, and fellow club members of all clubs to please come and support this great event.
Last thing before I go, please everyone help make this event better than last year and let us break the £200 mark to the Huntington’s Association.
HDA – 8th & 9th May 2010
Just a quick update, after the great success this year when we did the 2 day racing as part of the Huntington’s Disease Assocation Fayre we have been invited back already for next year.
This time the event is being help at the old race course at Buckfastleigh and this time we are going to have a bigger area more central to the whole event so visitors the the fayre do not miss the racing or miss any of the event.
Watch this space for more information.
Formula 1 Light Box
For those of you that run at our club regularly this video is nothing new. But, for those of you that have not been on a race day you will not know we not only use the standard computerise audio system that most clubs use, we also have a Formula 1 style light box.
Here is a video of it in action in one of the finals with the audio form the computer at the same time.
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Track Work and Changes
Over the weekend of 8th and 9th August we carried out a major weekend of maintenance improving and tiding up the track. The whole thing started with the idea of moving the rostrum, the end result was moving the Rostrum back about 6 feet and raising it around another 9 inches. This has given a lot clearer view of the track and minimize the chance of drivers blocking other driver’s view by leaning forward. The other big thing that has been done to improve the rostrum is a decent roof has been put on it, this is so in the sun the Drivers are kept cool and in the winter the Drivers are keep dry.
Also the main straight has be widen allowing for higher speeds and a better run up to the backed corner before
the triple jump. The other benefit of widening the main straight means the edging to the Pitlane Entrance has been moved out of the run line that most the Rallycross drivers take.
By the end of Sunday the track was open for tests and trial runs to see what everyone thinks and the end result was a thumbs up from the 1/10th Nitro and Electic Buggies and Stadiums, Rally Cross guys flew round the track with out any problems, Truggy drivers (including the new ones) Bounced around leaped as high as they could. As for the 1/5th that tested the track, well he well and truely tested it by bouncing off the edge of all the new sections of the track, and yes the track did survive.