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Autorama wrote:

Each truck needs to race for a minimum of four minutes per lane, bringing the total track racing time to four hours; after adding time to change lanes and test the trucks, this proxy race should last 5:30~6:30 hours.

Sorry guys, little correction needed. I forgot that we would be racing 3 trucks at a time. This will bring the racing time to around 2:30~3:00 hours for both classes with lane changes and testing.

It will take 5:30~6:30 hours if we don’t have enough drivers/marshals (one person driving one car at a time with other 2 marshaling).

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I ordered a Lowenbrau from Pendle Slots, total came down to $115 — just need to wait a little longer.

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Got some money on the side to buy a BRM, this way someone else on the club can use Marty’s 2nd car. Let me know if anybody plans to race the Porsche Coke or the Porsche Lowenbrau, all the others have unattached wings and I’m not going for it.

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Some of those rules are simply to increase BRM’s sales. The weight rules that Marty already pointed out is one of them, followed by braid and spacers — kind of annoying.
The slot car I’m setting up is illegal already :roll:.

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Man,

I just did some research and we could also be running Slot.it Challenge Regionals — I would vote to do that ASAP. (https://www.slotcarillustrated.com/portal/forums/showthread.php?p=498922)

Back to the subject; I’m guessing we will follow the BRM Internationals Rules Book for this one? (file attached)
[attachment=0]BRM_Intl_Rules_Book_Rev00 Jan 09 Final (1).doc[/attachment]

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porsche917 wrote:

There is a possible date conflict with the next round of the Slot It Challenge. If we keep to our current schedule we will have a race on the 23rd of April. This is the Saturday before Easter. The date works for me but I wanted to make sure it works for everyone else.

Marty

Not a problem.

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I’ll be there sometime this afternoon. I need to adjust the El Piloto cars.

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Autorama wrote:

Bellator wrote:

I don’t understand the question… everyone who has raced four or more races has a line plotted for the total number of laps in round. It’s just a png file… you’re seeing something different?

I can only see Shaw’s results from Round 3 and Round 5 (straight line up), there are no graph bullets on Round 1,2 and 4.

Forget it. Shawn did not race on Round2. His “bullet” is just a vertical trace and it was hard to see. All good.

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Bellator wrote:

I don’t understand the question… everyone who has raced four or more races has a line plotted for the total number of laps in round. It’s just a png file… you’re seeing something different?

I can only see Shaw’s results from Round 3 and Round 5 (straight line up), there are no graph bullets on Round 1,2 and 4.

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turboman93 wrote:

The part I find most humorous is that when I met Ary and showed him some of my painted cars, he told me there was no way he would do that. “I can’t paint” he said to me iirc. 😆

 

Shawn,

I still think I can’t paint; I’m just practicing.
Painting the models is the only think I’m still not comfortable in doing, it was also the most stressful .. but I will try to buy the yellow lane car, that’s my favorite.

Here are some close-ups:

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Did something happen? I can only see to results on Shawn’s graph.

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Any news about the date for the meeting?

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After further testings, we will be racing the series at 11 volts — and yes, it is final this time :lol:.

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El Piloto Race Calendar:

March 17: Test Run. Racers will be able to test the cars before the first race.

 

March 24: Race #1 (Races repeat every other Thursday)
April 07: Race #2
April 21: Race #3
May 05:Race #4
May 19: Race #5
June 02: Race #6 (Tire Exchange)
June 16: Race #7
June 30: Race #8
July 14: Race #9
July 28: Race #10

For points & general rules, visit the club race series framework: Race Series Framework.

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Marty, the interiors come painted — thankfully. All the models are pretty much done, I still have to apply all the decals and clear — which reminds me that I should have not installed the windows, dammit. No lights, the budget is tight, there are no deep guides either.

I was thinking about sending the armatures to get balanced but the company that does that service is yet to tell me if they can do it or not. I have just started breaking-in all the motors, they will work just fine without balancing.

All tires have been trued, sized and I have applied nail polish to the fronts. Chassis have been baked, pods & pod beds have been sanded, front axle height has also been set. I still need to figure out the rpm at the wheel & COG of all cars.

Here are the latest pics:

 

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