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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.
Maintenance Weekend 4th & 5th August Ready for SWORDS
Hi All,
Just a quick update for those of you that do not already know we are having a maintenance weekend at the track this weekend. We could do with as many people as possible helping out.
We have plenty to do including new jumps, new surfaces, different obstacles.
For more information go to :- http://www.plymouthrc.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1723
SWORDS 2012
The dates for SWORDS 2012 have been released, for more information and to keep up to date about it please look at the following link:-
http://www.plymouthrc.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1616
Here you will find the dates, rules and more information about it.
SWORDS Round 6 Moved Location
Quick Urgent Update.
Due to the bad weather forcast for this weekend the location of the Race has been moved from Springlease to Torquay.
There is still camping available and practice on the Saturday will be practice from 12.00.
Please do tell everyone that the new location for racing, and this will count as you Springlease Round.
Also remember being the end of Season race it is also the Trophy and medal giving.
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 Round 3 Re-Run at Springleaze & Round 5 at Plymouth
Just to remind everyone that Round 3 of SWORDS that was meant to be a Springleaze is being re-run on 24th July at Springleaze and this time the sun has been booked in.
Then on 14th August is Round 5 at Plymouth – just a head’s up on this, on the same day is the Plymouth Mega Ride so to avoid missing booking in please give a little longer to get to the track. Mega Ride does not start till after booking in closes but there could be a lot more traffic on the roads.
See you all at these events.
SWORDS Round 2 booking in and practise
The track will be open from 12:00 – 16:00 on May 7th for SWORDS booking in and practise.
Booking in for the Sundays SWORDS (8th MAY) is £10.00 per entry as per Torquay. This will allow you to run on Saturday and Sunday.
The track will only be open to SWORDS drivers ONLY. If you want to use the track on Saturday but are not entering SWORDS the fee is still £10.00.
Sunday the Gates will be open from 8.00am for everyone to book in and setup pit tables/area and get ready. No Engines will be allowed to be started before 10.00. Drivers meeting will be at 10.15 with the aim of racing to start at 10.30.
Let’s all make this round as successful as the first round.
Track Maintenance
After the heavy winter we have had this year the track has taken a bit of a hammering, especially with all the frost the track surface does need some work carried out on.
As a result we are doing a 2 day maintenance weekend to do a good track surface repair and general tidy up.
If as many people as possible could attend to lend a hand it would be much appricated to enable to get the track ready for the up and coming SWORDS races plus the new split championshipts for the Nitro and Electric guys.
Work being carried out on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th January.
See you all there even if it is for 30 minutes over the weekend, every little bit helps.
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.
Friday Electric Racing
Well the Electric Championship has 1 event left to be raced and there is still a fair amount to race for.
The only thing that is going to have to change for the last race of the season is the time the racing starts, due to the nights getting darker sooner we are going to have to get things underway by about 6.45 as the track is getting dark about 8.30. Saying that though as long as there are no MAJOR problems we still have plenty of time to run the 3 qualifiers and the finals in both classes.
Final note. As most of you will know we have been running the Electric Championship for 2 reasons, first is it is something different to do so we can cater for more racers. The second and in some ways the more important reason for running the Electric Championship was to help the BRCA get the Electric SWORDS up and running again, unfortunately we are the only RC Car Club in the South West that has shown any interest in getting this going again. Watch this space for more information on it.