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2008 Round 6 LHORC Edmonton

 

2008 month 6 AM results

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2008 month 6 PM results

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1/6/08

The first day of June saw LHORC hosting it's third EAHORC national event, and the return to the Edmonton venue after the successful race there in April. Turnout was well done on that race, but everyone nonetheless enjoyed the more chilled and relaxed atmosphere that resulted. F1 racing started promptly at 10am with 8 attending, joined later by the returning Steve Stacey and his lads Daniel and Scott, who had come back from Banger racing at Mildenhall the night before very late. As has become the norm, Martin Hill was top dog but his main challenge came not from Andy Whorton or John Ovens, but from Deane Walpole, his normally a little down on power 440X2 suiting the tricky layout.

As Martin progressed serenely to another pole position, Nigel Sykes briefly popped into Q2 before Deane sealed the deal in the final heat of the morning. These three would contest the A final by right, joined by Andy after a crash filled set of heats but a solid performance in the B final to put himself back in contention. Before that Daniel and Scott had contested the D final, with Scott being the one to move onto the tough yellow lane to join his Dad and the two Johns, Chell and Ovens (the latter somewhat below his normal pace). Mr Ovens comfortably took the win, but then had a torrid time in the B final in white lane, to end up classified 7th. With 5th place, Dave Rouse took a huge step toward the F1 Main grade title, the gap to his rival Deane increasing by a fairly large amount, but with the possibility Deane will be promoted to Premier grade before season's end increasing too.

With Andy taking the final step up and now driving sweetly, he must have had hopes of getting in the thick of things and at least beating the two Main grade drivers in the 'A'. An early off put him on the back foot and it was Deane giving chase to Martin early on before falling back. On lap 12, pushing hard to regain second, Andy sustained crash damage in the tricky final turn and had to withdraw. From that point on the remaining three stretched apart, Martin ending up 8 laps ahead of Nigel with Deane almost exactly in the middle of their scores. Martin's win and Andy's crash now make it very hard for the former to lose the Premier grade F1 title so long as he stays consistent.

Roy Masters deserves a mention at this point. During setting up on the Saturday, Deane had discovered it was possible to get a Wizzard club car behind a cabinet (!) so John was dispatched to make a substantial barrier. When he returned from the venue stores after an inordinate amount of time, he had constructed holes in the front layer of the barrier (the rear part covered the opening beside the cabinet) as targets. Despite moving the front element several times on the Saturday, Deane and John left for the night convinced nobody could get a car through any holes, never mind the very small ''100 points'' one. Not only did Roy manage to do so in F1, he did it again in the afternoon, both times to raucous cheers and good natured comments along the lines of the object of the exercise being to stay on track! Nobody else managed the feat even once.

For the Afternoon, it became apparent that Deane had given up on beating Martin in Wizzard class (temporarily switching to Modified) but that Andy had not and was very much on a mission. He outscored Martin in all but red lane, but his rival had scored a almost unbelievable 47.80 (note 100ths being used for the first time here) in that lane, to show that when he could tame his car he was still a major force. Crucially Andy took pole by 0.65 laps as so was able to keep Martin away from red lane for the final. They would be joined in the A final by the two Stacey lads, Scott taking the final grid spot having beaten his Dad in a very close B final.

With Deane moving to modified he would be taking on Nigel, John Ovens and Dave (edging ever closer to the title). His all-new G3R complete with magnets of unknown type gifted him by a friend in Canada was extremely quick but would finish its heats down on power before finally cooking it's armature in round 3! Clearly matching the magnets to the 18V, 1200mA available is key to using such cars. Dave Rouse had no such problems with his Wizzard Storm fitted with Phase II polymers and an Aurora hard body, but the amount of grip he had mean offs would tend to be large and unforgiving ones, so he too struggled. To complete the misery, Nigel and John also struggled to better the top F1 scores, everyone finding it tough to get the downforce level correct for the twisty 60' track.

Similarly, Roy once again faced off against John Chell, but could not put together the kinds of scores expected, the powerful but very narrow magnets in his Life-like not lending themselves to super confidence attacking the turns. He did duly take another win, and posted a 40.10 in the final, well up on his heats scores when of course he would have cars in all lanes around him. He was joined as an A final winner by Deane and Andy, the former nursing an armature borrowed from the latter through his 4th heat and the final and vowing to send his magnets back to Canada! Dave was still struggling to tame his Poly Storm and it was Nigel, upping his game considerably from his heats, that took P2 with John Ovens taking the wooden spoon.

If the Wizzard A was expected to be a fitting end to day, sadly it did not turn out to be so. Martin had two early offs, lost his composure a little and had a couple more, and from then on Andy was away. Just as Jim Kelly used to do though, Martin tends to bounce back from such things with vengeance and Andy will need to bring nothing but his A game if he is to win the title. For those of us neutral about such things, the prospects for this championship are very exciting. Martin still topped the EAHORC Cup points haul for the day, jointly with Deane, but will be looking to get back to 320 maximums sooner rather than later.

EAHORC now enters its summer break, with action resuming at Pinewood for the HOGP on August 10th

 

	Formula 1											LAPTIME	LAPS	LAPS	LAPS	qf	a-d	LAPS	LAPTIME	LAPS	LAPTIME	AV	Speed
Pl	name	club	laps	time	laps	time	laps	time	laps	time		Best in heats	Best heat	Best 3 heats	Total of 4 heats	qf pos	fin	In final	best in final	Most in 1 race	best overall	Lap Length	MPH
1	Martin Hill	MBR	36.85	4.43	38.50	o	32.60	o	35.05	4.51		4.43	38.50	110.40	143.00	1	A	37.20	4.36	38.50	4.36	60 feet	9.38
2	Deane Walpole	LHORC	32.30	o	30.20	4.95	33.65	4.92	35.20	4.57		4.57	35.20	101.15	131.35	2	A	34.05	4.60	35.20	4.57	60	8.95
3	Nigel Sykes	LHORC	31.85	5.04	33.85	o	32.30	4.87	34.50	o		4.87	34.50	100.65	132.50	3	A	29.00	4.78	34.50	4.78	60	8.56
4	Andy Whorton	HOSS	31.85	4.77	24.60	4.92	33.80	4.67	33.35	o		4.67	33.80	99.00	123.60	4	A	12.85	4.66	33.80	4.66	60	8.78
5	Dave Rouse	MBR	32.60	4.62	30.35	4.95	29.65	4.47	35.40	4.53		4.47	35.40	98.35	128.00	5	B	34.80	4.60	35.40	4.47	60	9.15
6	Roy Masters	DHORC	31.90	o	32.30	5.09	31.35	5.10	31.35	4.98		4.98	32.30	95.55	126.90	6	B	29.60	5.07	32.30	4.98	60	8.21
7	John Ovens	LHORC	31.10	5.21	28.50	o	30.30	4.90	32.25	5.07		4.90	32.25	93.65	122.15	7	B	24.25	4.85	32.25	4.85	60	8.43
8	John Chell	DHORC	29.80	5.25	28.80	5.33	26.65	5.31	31.05	5.35		5.25	31.05	89.65	116.30	8	C	30.75	5.12	31.05	5.12	60	7.99
9	Steve Stacey	LHORC	26.90	5.41	26.90	5.41