Racing by post - Round 60 track is up, taking us to a member's imagination!

[Pylon80]

10 minutes ago, Tamiyastef said:

That's exactly the reason I have a M-05 and not a M-07

Me too!

There's a questionable Yeah Racing part that enables shortening the M-07 to 210mm, but then the rear of the chassis would poke out of the body, at least on a Golf. I suspect an Alpine body would be fine though. Then there's the body post holes that might not fit anymore with the M-07 if your body is pre drilled but I'm not 100% positive on that.

[Andreas W]

2 hours ago, Verskis said:

I'm beginning to wonder, why the M-07 is not the king of postal racing, instead of M-05?

If you can live with 225mm then I think the M-07 is the better starting point today. Alone because of the better plastics and the better gearing options. I have now bought a Suzuki Swift Super 1600 shell for the M-05,  so I'll find out somewhere in the future if it's still nice and agile in 225mm configuration. The amount of bodies to be painted is so slowly piling up.

[Andreas W]

2 hours ago, Pylon80 said:

Me too!

There's a questionable Yeah Racing part that enables shortening the M-07 to 210mm, but then the rear of the chassis would poke out of the body, at least on a Golf. I suspect an Alpine body would be fine though. Then there's the body post holes that might not fit anymore with the M-07 if your body is pre drilled but I'm not 100% positive on that.

I don't think that solution is that bad, given that you use a body which comes undrilled. For racing they would use generic bodies anyway. I think the HPI Porsche body I have would fit just fine. There is endless space behind the chassis by 210mm wheelbase. I remember Tamiyastef had a pic in his M-05/08 thread showing that the Porsche body was almost as long as the 239mm wheelbase NSU TT. Running a RWD body on a FWD chassis on the other hand.......

 

And BTW: My Porsche RSR is a backdated 964 C4, like Singer do . 

[TurnipJF]

The results submission form should be active now! 👍

[Re-Bugged]

13 hours ago, Andreas W said:

The amount of bodies to be painted is so slowly piling up.

 Pure bliss situation 

[Tamiyastef]

Can't believe I missed yet another round of RbP 

I just ordered a GT3 body so I can enter the endurance race in the future. Now for a bit more spare time and drier weather 

[TurnipJF]

Last Call for lap count submissions! I will be collating the results shortly. 😀

[TurnipJF]

Position	Username	Lap count	Car	Motor	Battery	Running surface	Surface modifiers / excuses
1	BuggyDad	49	XV-01 Lancia Delta	10.5T TBLM	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
2	Andreas W	48	Carten M210R Porsche 911 RSR	Ruddog rp542 17,5	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
2	Andreas W	48	M-08 Porsche 914/6	Tamiya TT 25t	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
4	TurnipJF	47	FF-03 frontie race blob	13.5t Speed Passion	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
5	Verskis	45	M-05 Mini	Stock silver can	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
5	Andreas W	45	M-05 Golf MK1	Tamiya TT 25t	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
7	Andreas W	43	XV-01 Lancia Delta HF Integrale	Hobbywing justock 13.5	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
8	Verskis	42	XV-02 Toyota Celica	4100kv Hobbywing Ezrun Max10	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
9	Re-Bugged	41	XV-02RS Subaru	13.5t HW Justock	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
9	TurnipJF	41	FF-02 frontie race blob	21t no-name generic rebuildable	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
11	gogsyfinnie	39	XV-01 Delta	Silver Can	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
11	Re-Bugged	39	TT02R Fat Fox	13.5t HW	2S LiPo	Tarmac	I was blindfolded sitting in an ice bath
13	TurnipJF	35	FF-01 frontie race blob	27t no-name generic rebuildable	2S LiPo	Tarmac	Not a car I run often due to limited spares
14	gogsyfinnie (Charlie 11)	34	TA-02S Lancia 037	Silver Can	7.2V NiMH	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.
15	gogsyfinnie (Grace 8)	24	TT-02 Impreza	Torque Tuned	2S LiPo	Tarmac	No - the track surface was clear and dry.

[Tamiyastef]

Congratulations to all competitors. You're very close to the magical border of 50 there @BuggyDad and only one lap short with an M-08 is really impressive @Andreas W, well done gentlemen! The good old M-05, still the first one in the ranking on a basic silver can. Still going strong despite its replacement with the M-07... 

Special congrats to Charlie and Grace. I know for sure I couldn't have done that at that age. 

[TurnipJF]

Considering the blindfold and ice bath, you did very well with your Fat Fox there @Re-Bugged!

[Andreas W]

A nice and crowded leaderboard with participants from all over the world. How nice is that! Congrats to BuggyDad for the win. Nice to have you back. A good performance from Verskis with the M-05 as well running on radials. 

 

I as well bow into the dust  of the performance of Charlie and Grace. I would not have been able to do so well with f.ex. the Dictator at that age. Well done. 

 

I washed off the markers yesterday and now it's raining cats ans dogs,  so the Endurance markers are going on their own. Wonder where we are going next . 

[BuggyDad]

Holy cow, I did not expect that! I was very pleased with my lap count on that run, being as it beat my previous goes by a good margin and I just squeaked in to get that last lap. I knew I wouldn't match it again but I assumed some others would be in the 50s. The car was running like a charm and I think the heat of the day helped - on a rare for this year properly warm day I had a cheeky afternoon when there was no one else in the office. I even swept the tarmac. 

Well done all. Especially @Andreas W because RWD vs 4WD is worth somewhat more than one lap for sure. And Charlie and Grace too - great fun to see some young entries. @gogsyfinnie I wonder whether they would like to design the next track? 

 

[Re-Bugged]

Excellent job @BuggyDad 👍🏻

Great to see some new faces too. 

[Verskis]

The first hasty bite of postal racing was nice! Now I can't wait for the new track to be published 🙂

 

[gogsyfinnie]

On 5/29/2024 at 1:15 AM, BuggyDad said:

Holy cow, I did not expect that! I was very pleased with my lap count on that run, being as it beat my previous goes by a good margin and I just squeaked in to get that last lap. I knew I wouldn't match it again but I assumed some others would be in the 50s. The car was running like a charm and I think the heat of the day helped - on a rare for this year properly warm day I had a cheeky afternoon when there was no one else in the office. I even swept the tarmac. 

Well done all. Especially @Andreas W because RWD vs 4WD is worth somewhat more than one lap for sure. And Charlie and Grace too - great fun to see some young entries. @gogsyfinnie I wonder whether they would like to design the next track? 

 

That’s very kind, and thank you all for the nice comments I know they will both be chuffed!

Im currently away with work but I know they would both probably request Monza (especially Grace who tends to go full throttle as much as possible!) I see we did a simplified version back in 2021 although the pic has expired though?

[BuggyDad]

7 hours ago, gogsyfinnie said:

That’s very kind, and thank you all for the nice comments I know they will both be chuffed!

Im currently away with work but I know they would both probably request Monza (especially Grace who tends to go full throttle as much as possible!) I see we did a simplified version back in 2021 although the pic has expired though?

Nice idea. Searching back I think that's a @TurnipJF designed track. Do you think you might still have the picture somewhere? 

On 10/1/2021 at 10:35 PM, TurnipJF said:

Here we go - for our next round, we have a simplified Autodromo Nazionale Monza in miniature:

I did a few practice runs on it this evening, and it seems to work nicely.

Round 16 will run until midnight GMT on Sunday 31 October. Rules as per Post 1 of the thread. Hope everyone has fun!

As an aside, I was looking back at the archives too. Quite time consuming so I didn't get very far. There is some lovely artwork that really made me smile, eg @Ferruz's on Spa:

On 9/5/2022 at 3:04 AM, Ferruz said:

Good evening, racers. 

My apologies for a weekend without a postal race track, I was busy, anyway here goes.

Prapare your tastebuds for some nice brews and high quality chocolate: we are off to Belgium, to race at Spa-Francorchamps! 

Pending @TurnipJF's approval, I'll see y'all on the starting line! 😎🏁

I love the Scorcher character in the Tamiya manual style. Don't dunk it in a bucket of water! 

[TurnipJF]

11 hours ago, BuggyDad said:

Nice idea. Searching back I think that's a @TurnipJF designed track. Do you think you might still have the picture somewhere? 

Sadly I do not. Shouldn't be too difficult to redraw though. I'll give it a go, unless one of our more skilled track drawers would like to do the honours? Someone like @Ferruz perhaps? (Hint hint.😁)

[Ferruz]

18 hours ago, TurnipJF said:

Sadly I do not. Shouldn't be too difficult to redraw though. I'll give it a go, unless one of our more skilled track drawers would like to do the honours? Someone like @Ferruz perhaps? (Hint hint.😁)

I would be glad to, unfortunately I'm way too busy these days until Sunday included. I may be able to do it on Monday if by then you still don't have a track.

[Andreas W]

I found Monza on Schlitzflitzer.de,  so I can give it a go tonight. Then @Pylon80 can scale it up for the bigger and longer RBP and we are set for the next week . 

[Andreas W]

Here we go. This should give us enough speed within our limitations, I think.

[Verskis]

May I propose one more marker between 1 and 2 to simulate Curva della Roggia?

[Andreas W]

16 minutes ago, Verskis said:

May I propose one more marker between 1 and 2 to simulate Curva della Roggia?

Then we try again with this M-08 unfriendly variant.

[BuggyDad]

1 hour ago, Andreas W said:

Then we try again with this M-08 unfriendly variant.

Looks nice I think. 

Had a first run with my M-08 in maybe nearly a year today (son and I marked out a nice long easier track to race on, not a postal one). I remembered how nice it is to drive, although I see what you mean with that 2 to 3 transition which might be a bit spintastic. Hopefully I can give both this and my XV-01 a good run on this. 

As an aside, does your M-08 drag its belly a bit? Mine (225mm) is very low in the middle with a downward curve to the chassis and I'm not sure why, having not touched it except to run it since the day I built it.

[Andreas W]

1 hour ago, BuggyDad said:

As an aside, does your M-08 drag its belly a bit? Mine (225mm) is very low in the middle with a downward curve to the chassis and I'm not sure why, having not touched it except to run it since the day I built it.

Mine is 239mm and I have not noticed any banana-shape. I'll take a closer look at it tomorrow. But mine is soft in the rear with the kit gold springs and no preload. Almost feels saggy with the huge LiPo installed. 

[Re-Bugged]

13 hours ago, BuggyDad said:

 

As an aside, does your M-08 drag its belly a bit? Mine (225mm) is very low in the middle with a downward curve to the chassis and I'm not sure why, having not touched it except to run it since the day I built it.

Humm, not sure what’s going on there mate, mine’s dead flat right through?