Dartford Centralised Event - April 22nd 2001

The 3rd UK Centralised T/R competition of 2001 was held at Dartford on April 22nd following a late change of venue due to flying at Odiham being prohibited because of the ongoing foot and mouth problems. Only 5 teams turned up as a result with several of the top teams missing.

It had been intended to run British Goodyear as well but only 2 teams turned up and the event was consequently cancelled.

The Dartford surface is on a slight slope and the circles have to be "squeezed" into position but it does afford us a good surface with room for three practice circles. Weather on the day was cool but dry with a slightly blustery wind blowing in from the south.

Considering the low turnout there was a lot of carnage during the day with a number of models being either written off or quite badly damaged. The standard of racing was rather poor and only Ross/Turner managed to put in respectable times.

At one point during the day Dick Miles fell over in the middle and the result of this was a write-off of Walker/Pearts model. Fry/Whorton lost a wheel in-flight and could not work out how - considering that the retaining bolt was still in place (albeit a bit loose)

No final was held due to lack of interest.

F2C - Team Race Results

Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

1

Ross/Turner

3

21.9

3

18.1

3

22.3

2

Fry/Whorton

dq

4

03.6

3

41.4

3

Miles/Yeldham

4

51.3

dq

ret

34.0

4

Barker/Tompkins

6

23.0

ret

28.0

dnf

5

Walker/Peart

ret

90.0

ret

63.0

dnf

League Points were awarded as follows :-

Ent

Plc

Fin

Imp

Tot

Ross/Turner

1

2

0

0

3

Fry/Whorton

1

1

0

0

2

Miles/Yeldham

1

0

0

0

1

Barker/Tompkins

1

0

0

0

1

Walker/Peart

1

0

0

0

1