SCRCCC - Sunshine Coast Remote Control Car Club

We had a great day for our Christmas Breakup, everybody appeared to enjoy themselves and there were smiles on all the faces. We started of with a "Normal" race....ie...going the correct way around the track. That was fairly uneventful with Graham H comming first in 540, Corey first in Stock Electric, Peter in Pro and Stock Nitro and Drew in Mod. Then came the "Funny Races".....

Reverse Track:---- After William "padding" the Entrance to pit lane the drivers took of around the track in an anticlockwise direction. Aparently this is not as easy as it sounds and there were quite a few straying from the Track onto the green. We did have a few collissions with the end of pit lane so it was lucky that the "padding" had been put there or that would have been the end for a few of our cars. The end result was pretty much the same as the normal track except Heath beat Peter in the Stock Nitro.

Significant Others Race:----The main "problem" with this race is that the drivers had difficulty seeing the track because they were laughing too much!!!!! There were a lot of unusual moves made on the track and with the fastest lap being a blistering 30.707 seconds the pace was mindblowing. With hecklers on the side line and suicidal drivers on the stand it was amazing that all the cars completed the race intact. The winner of the race was Gee-off with an incredible 10 laps in just 5.28 minutes, with Shirilee coming in second with 9 laps, then came Gemma, Kathy , Heather, Lailani, David and Debbie (not sure how Debbie went her transponder didn't work). Thankyou to all who bravely loaned cars for this event.

After that ehausting round it was time to have lunch and a big thankyou goes out to all who manned the BBQ, I think it was a group event and also to everybody who supplied nibblies to add to the great spread we ended up with, Special thanks to Lailani who brought down her wok and cooked spring rolls on the spot.....very yummy.

Then came the Caravans we had 17 Caravans with a great variety of designs, Chance was the winner in the best looking Caravan with a van that included Airconditioning and Awnings. We had a Electric and a Gas race with Sarah arriving at the finish line in one piece and in first place in the electrics and Heath beating all contenders in the Gas race. We had a few finish with no wheels, one finished on its roof, quite a few rollovers and a couple of disintergrations....two cars had smoking engines at the end (not a pleasant smell)...I never want to ride in that back of a caravan pulled by any of those drivers!!!!!

Then came the Group Race....we had 5 groups Dashers, Dancers, Commets, Cupids and Blitzens. In the Dashers we had Brooke, Drew, Tom, William and Bailey. In the Dancers John D, Greg, Sam, Graham LJ, Brian the Commets were Graham H, Nathan Kerrie, Lars and Heath and the Blitzens had Hannah, Chris, Peter, Brock and Gemma. There was a mixture of abilities and classes in each group, the idea of the race was to work as a group, no more than 2 from any one group on the stand, one in the pit area and one out marshalling. The order of the race was 540, Stock or Mod, Gas with five minutes for each group and no break, the race went for 60 minutes. Judging by the grins on all the faces and the cheering the race was a huge success, what was really amazing was that after one hour of racing the results were as follows: Comets 138 laps, Blitzens 138 laps, Dancers 136 laps, Dashers 133 laps and Cupids 130laps. There was .3 of a second between first and second place. At the start of the last 5 minutes 2nd, 3rd, and 4th were all on the same lap. Thankyou to Heather who helped me on the computer doing some of the commentary and calling the times. (Next year we will set up a monitor on the stand)

Then it was time to present the trophies for the season which were as follows: I have listed them as first, second, third, Endurance.

540: Chris Hyde, Sam Muller, Corey Broadstock, Endurance Sam Muller
Stock: Chris Shevelling, Graham Hyde, Andrew Clough, Endurance: Chris Shevlling.
Mod: Drew Crawley, Andrew Clough, Endurance Drew
Pro Gas: Peter Giblin, John Wuersching, Kerry Lloyd Jones Enduro Peter
Stock Gas: Peter Giblin, Graham LJones, Heath Douglas: Enduro Peter.

As it was 4pm we decided not to hold the Pit Garage races, maybe another time. Thankyou to all who helped make our Christmas Breakup a great day.

Merry Christmas to all our drivers and "significant others".

Kathy


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