September 2014 Off Road competition

For some unknown reason, our September off-road event just seemed to draw a whole bunch of unexpected, but nevertheless very welcome group of visitors! When we loaded the race onto the computer on Saturday evening, there were already more than 30 entries. And as usual, on Sunday morning, an additional 6 or more guys showed up at the track. All in all we had 39 class entries. The Secunda crowd made up a great part of these entries, which we were very happy about, because they really are an extremely nice group of guys to associate with!

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What a lovely, sunny day it had been?! After a long, cold winter, it is always pleasant to experience warm weather again, but even more so when you are dealing with outdoor activities. And warm summer weather is what we got for our monthly on road electric race meeting!

The turnout wasn’t too bad either. 36 entries split up into 6 heats.  17.5 and the Mini classes being the biggest, with 9 entries each.  This amount of entries allowed the drivers to be a bit more relaxed, but still enough to keep race control relatively busy. The beginner class only saw 3 entries this month, due to one withdraw and the others (like me, Anette) that has now moved on to the 540 class. The 13.5 class only had three entries, but boy! did they put up a show for us!

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GENERAL:

While the National event was on in Midrand, Meyerton Raceway entertained those who were not interested in Nats this year and those who are still new to this game with a club race.

As I have previously mentioned, we recently introduced a novice / beginners class. People who are new at the RC hobby, including young children and women, usually are to scared to drive with the more proficient drivers. We now allow them to race totally is a class of their own, to get over their jitters and it seems to be working well.

And all of a sudden, Meyerton Raceway boasted a Truggy class too, this month. Something we haven’t had in a very long time! There is every reason to believe that there will be a couple more truggy racers next month. We are really looking forward to building a strong representation in this exciting class.

We started the day’s race with a slightly wet track, after the light drizzle of the previous day and night. But to overcome this slight obstacle, we sent the truggies on first and after their first heat, the track was dry…. problem solved!

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