D1RC Round 4 colchester

Hi all,

Well its been a while since the eurocup event nearly 2 month's ago to be precise, and with that in mind i guess everyone was getting withdraw symptoms of track action.

With the great british weather promising to become wet and stormy the weekend was not looking promising at all, so we all made it to the track and the the weather seemed to be on our side so with without further time wasteing a track was designed by myself and fellow drifting partner Steve Davies and what a track once the direction had been reversed, it proved to be quite a stinker (before it had been reversed it was almost undrivable)! It followed an old classic Colchester drift circuit at first, a longish drag off the line down to the first 180 degree hairpin, then back through a right/left kink into a 90 left, 90 right then a left kink, 90 right and 140 left to the finish line. The 90 right, kink, 90 right was the problem because to score points you had to hold a drift off the first 90 through to the next and the kink in between placed a kerb right where the rear half of your car needed to be to accomplish the feat!

Well the qualifying started and proved to be a little tuff on everyone due to the complex track layout, the club class started and driver Adam McEwen who posted a best qualifying score of 95 points, matching the best the Pro Drivers could muster. Adam was followed by Ben Moore on 89, Pete Gray 87, Robert Papworth 85 and Richard Lincoln Smith bringing up the top five on 78.

And the Pro Class Stu Cave managed to match Adam's high 95 score with Phil Warner chasing with 93, Yumeda following on 92, then Michael Fryett on 90 and Steve Davies on 88

Best body went to myself, with my kyosho KPGC10

And best chassis went to the man himself John Turner with his XRay rever

well the club drivers got down to the semi-finals for it was Adam McEwen and Robert Papworth who set off first, Rob taking the first run 6/4 but on the second run Adam spun and gave Rob a 10/0 victory. then it was Pete Gray to take on Ben Moore, the first run being judged a 5/5 but this time it was Ben’s turn to drop a 10/0 infringement and Pete was through. Ben stayed on the rostrum to battle Adam for 3rd place, Ben running off road on the first run giving Adam the trophy 10/0, 5/5. The final then was between Rob and Pete. Rob secured a 7/3 lead on the first run as Pete struggled to drift a good line but it was Pete, showing his greater experience, that took the Club first place by pressuring Rob into a 0/10 off road error on the second.

Rob and Pete in the final

In the Pro finals it was Stu Cave, Steve Davies, Maz Yumeda and myself who made it into the semis. Unfortunately the scores for the Pro finals were mislaid in the tidying up session but Steve beat Stu and Phil beat Maz in the semis and Stu saw off Maz in the 3rd place battle. This left myself and Steve to battle for the Pro Class victory and It was a very close battle indeed as they posted a 6/4, 4/6 which lead to a “one more time” from the crowd and another two runs, this time Phil taking the win.

Steve and myself

The winners!

A big Thanks to Genki Dori Dori for all his support!