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 |
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Heat 1 |
Heat 2 |
Heat 3 |
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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 |