2004 AARCMCC ACT Titles
07-25-2004, 08:41 PM
#121
Re: Re: What happen to the Plow4
Originally posted by black-knight
Mod was fun, not sure where i finished.?
Mod was fun, not sure where i finished.?
07-25-2004, 10:11 PM
#123
Tech Apprentice
BK are you sure you were at the same meeting i was at ?
When the race director tells you to go away on saturday when you are trying to point out a problem in the first 3 races of missing laps, short last lap, wrong lap times and cons. (fastest 540 10.1, 1/12th 11.9) and its not until after the end of 2nd round of qualifing that they decide to stop the meeting to decide what to do (Nothing was done to fix the problem).
Sunday was better but still had its fair share of problems, missed laps where still there but not as bad, incorrect lap times and cons. and still the odd short last lap was present.
Why clubs still use allycat i will never know when there are great programs free to download on the net that the americans use without a single problem.
As for the driving standard in mod A it was like watching a mod E final, cars taking out the leader after they had been lapped,stopping on the race line and not calling dead car then when hit blaming the other driver for the crash.
BTW: concourse was won by Snr. Zarb cause his soldering was better and tires didnt have any foam dust on them. Not upset still won but what do you expect when you do concourse after qualifing.
When the race director tells you to go away on saturday when you are trying to point out a problem in the first 3 races of missing laps, short last lap, wrong lap times and cons. (fastest 540 10.1, 1/12th 11.9) and its not until after the end of 2nd round of qualifing that they decide to stop the meeting to decide what to do (Nothing was done to fix the problem).
Sunday was better but still had its fair share of problems, missed laps where still there but not as bad, incorrect lap times and cons. and still the odd short last lap was present.
Why clubs still use allycat i will never know when there are great programs free to download on the net that the americans use without a single problem.
As for the driving standard in mod A it was like watching a mod E final, cars taking out the leader after they had been lapped,stopping on the race line and not calling dead car then when hit blaming the other driver for the crash.
BTW: concourse was won by Snr. Zarb cause his soldering was better and tires didnt have any foam dust on them. Not upset still won but what do you expect when you do concourse after qualifing.
07-26-2004, 03:30 AM
#124
Tech Apprentice
To all at the ACT club.
Great event, great racing in F1 and great result by all. The top 3 guys just in a class of their own and raced well, so did everyone.
The allcat problem, well was a problem and you guys did the right decision to continue on with Saturdays racing. Added an extra round of quilifying so nobody was disadvantaged in anyway.
The only problem for F1 and it's not a major one but l would like to bring it up is the tyres! The F201 only comes with rubber not foam and as the ACT guys only use foam not rubber and the interstate guys only use rubber, l think we have a little problem?
With foam tyres they look a little silly, more like formula ford's than F1? Touring car tyres should only be for touring cars.
This is only my opinion and the ACT club have rules for this event and we all in F1 who raced, raced by these, so l raced by them.
l will return again next year and if foam & rubber are what you can use, well that's the rules.
Again, enjoyed my 3 days in the ACT, the heaters worked well, great event and venue.
Cheers Peter Sprenger
Great event, great racing in F1 and great result by all. The top 3 guys just in a class of their own and raced well, so did everyone.
The allcat problem, well was a problem and you guys did the right decision to continue on with Saturdays racing. Added an extra round of quilifying so nobody was disadvantaged in anyway.
The only problem for F1 and it's not a major one but l would like to bring it up is the tyres! The F201 only comes with rubber not foam and as the ACT guys only use foam not rubber and the interstate guys only use rubber, l think we have a little problem?
With foam tyres they look a little silly, more like formula ford's than F1? Touring car tyres should only be for touring cars.
This is only my opinion and the ACT club have rules for this event and we all in F1 who raced, raced by these, so l raced by them.
l will return again next year and if foam & rubber are what you can use, well that's the rules.
Again, enjoyed my 3 days in the ACT, the heaters worked well, great event and venue.
Cheers Peter Sprenger
07-26-2004, 03:15 PM
#125
F201 tyres
I don't see it being a problem. F1 winner was using rubber tyres so thats no advantage to us using foams. Racing was good and would expect next year that more cars will be competitive, not 2-3 cars.
07-26-2004, 05:57 PM
#126
Thanks for you support guys. I wasn't expecting to see any positive comments on here after the balls up on Saturday.
I would like to address and acknowledge a few things:
Fair comment, I'm unsure which of the several people you are, but once the problem was pointed out we did'nt need to be told about it another 5 times. Once we were sure it was a genuine issue we started investigating what the cause may have been. We didn't think there would be much point in stopping the racing at that point as it seemed to be more of a missed lap problem then what acutally evenuated.
Are you sure you were at the same race meeting as the rest of us? We found the major cause of the problem during the 2nd round, allowed racing to continue and observied the results as the computer took them in, then during then during the third quater of the second round of qualifying we called a drivers meeting, explained that we had found the problem, took a vote on adding an extra round (subject to the fix continuing to work) and continued from there. Things were pretty much peachy for rounds 3 and 4 (hence we deleted 1 and 2) with the one exception, a 2nd bunch of lap time issues arrose during one of the 540 races while I was removing the results from the 1st and 2nd rounds so we had to re-run it, this was the 2nd problem we found (and a new one on me) that having another process in operation would cause problems with the computer.
I would like to address and acknowledge a few things:
When the race director tells you to go away on saturday when you are trying to point out a problem in the first 3 races of missing laps, short last lap, wrong lap times and cons
and its not until after the end of 2nd round of qualifing that they decide to stop the meeting to decide what to do (Nothing was done to fix the problem).
07-26-2004, 06:00 PM
#127
Originally posted by nerdling
Thanks for you support guys. I wasn't expecting to see any positive comments on here after the balls up on Saturday.
I would like to address and acknowledge a few things:
Fair comment, I'm unsure which of the several people you are, but once the problem was pointed out we did'nt need to be told about it another 5 times. Once we were sure it was a genuine issue we started investigating what the cause may have been. We didn't think there would be much point in stopping the racing at that point as it seemed to be more of a missed lap problem then what acutally evenuated.
Are you sure you were at the same race meeting as the rest of us? We found the major cause of the problem during the 2nd round, allowed racing to continue and observied the results as the computer took them in, then during then during the third quater of the second round of qualifying we called a drivers meeting, explained that we had found the problem, took a vote on adding an extra round (subject to the fix continuing to work) and continued from there. Things were pretty much peachy for rounds 3 and 4 (hence we deleted 1 and 2) with the one exception, a 2nd bunch of lap time issues arrose during one of the 540 races while I was removing the results from the 1st and 2nd rounds so we had to re-run it, this was the 2nd problem we found (and a new one on me) that having another process in operation would cause problems with the computer.
Thanks for you support guys. I wasn't expecting to see any positive comments on here after the balls up on Saturday.
I would like to address and acknowledge a few things:
Fair comment, I'm unsure which of the several people you are, but once the problem was pointed out we did'nt need to be told about it another 5 times. Once we were sure it was a genuine issue we started investigating what the cause may have been. We didn't think there would be much point in stopping the racing at that point as it seemed to be more of a missed lap problem then what acutally evenuated.
Are you sure you were at the same race meeting as the rest of us? We found the major cause of the problem during the 2nd round, allowed racing to continue and observied the results as the computer took them in, then during then during the third quater of the second round of qualifying we called a drivers meeting, explained that we had found the problem, took a vote on adding an extra round (subject to the fix continuing to work) and continued from there. Things were pretty much peachy for rounds 3 and 4 (hence we deleted 1 and 2) with the one exception, a 2nd bunch of lap time issues arrose during one of the 540 races while I was removing the results from the 1st and 2nd rounds so we had to re-run it, this was the 2nd problem we found (and a new one on me) that having another process in operation would cause problems with the computer.
Regards
07-26-2004, 06:05 PM
#128
You should read this post after my preceeding post:
'Scuse us for supporting local product. If your talking about Slyfox, I understand it also had problems.
Remember, it's not just Alycat in play, you have an operating system from Microsoft, drivers (from various vendors), hardware that would have been manufactoured to the lowest dollar (ex-government PC) and a fairly old transponder loop.
That would be a pretty fair call, there was a broad range of skill in the A finals of Mod, and I'm pretty sure most of us would be pretty stuffed by that point.
Why clubs still use allycat i will never know when there are great programs free to download on the net that the americans use without a single problem.
Remember, it's not just Alycat in play, you have an operating system from Microsoft, drivers (from various vendors), hardware that would have been manufactoured to the lowest dollar (ex-government PC) and a fairly old transponder loop.
As for the driving standard in mod A it was like watching a mod E final, cars taking out the leader after they had been lapped,stopping on the race line and not calling dead car then when hit blaming the other driver for the crash.
07-26-2004, 06:08 PM
#129
The F201 only comes with rubber not foam and as the ACT guys only use foam not rubber and the interstate guys only use rubber, l think we have a little problem?
07-27-2004, 01:07 AM
#131
Tech Apprentice
Totally agree with you about getting more F1's racing not just there in the ACT but everywhere? The foam vs rubber tyres question was just that..a question and not critisism. The event was great and l really enjoyed the racing.
Everyone there who ran the event did a great job even with the little hick up.
Cheers Peter
Everyone there who ran the event did a great job even with the little hick up.
Cheers Peter
07-28-2004, 06:44 PM
#132
Thanks Pete, I think I corrected the spelling of you name for the website. BTW, you can see the ACT titles Results from the website, go to www.actmcrc.org.au, click to enter, then go to the results section.
07-28-2004, 09:31 PM
#133
DVD
Anybody that is interested, I am compiling a DVD of the ACT state Tittles. The DVD is just raw race video with some extra things included. I could not get any Stock or Mod finals but I did get F1, Mini, 540 triple A finals and one 1/12 scale race, along with about 10 mins of Pit area footage and practice of many stock and Mod cars and others.
If your interested let me know, $15 just to cover my cost.
Coxy.
If your interested let me know, $15 just to cover my cost.
Coxy.
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