Had a great time at the recent Border Bash.
Day 1 -Saturday
A morning of practice for all classes followed by lunch and the first event of the weekend.
Retro CanAm
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Kim took Concours with his Qld Mick Loaner
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Caine top qualified with his Akitani chassis followed closely by Ken.
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Great racing in Ams with Sam Benny scoring the win only 1 lap ahead of Peter in 2nd with Ross 3rd.
Caine also managed to just squeeze past the locals to win Pro on 214 laps only 5 seconds ahead of Nick and Ken - all on the same lap. Caine has developed FAST as he won Ams the previous event at Seagulls and was promoted to Pro – bugger we should have left him in Am.
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Day 2 - Sunday
We kicked of with Flexi Production Sedan at 10.30 to be followed by Brushless LMP after lunch.
Flexi Production Sedan
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Andy won concours with one of his great looking creations.
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Nick top qualified after Ken was in P1 and parked his car after 2 laps – Nick then set off and after grinding down his times for the full minute just managed to pip Ken by 0.016 of a second on his last lap. Kim was stoked to pull down 3rd spot with another Qld Mick Loaner.
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In Am’s Ross’s win on 216 lap promotes him to Pro for the subsequent events. Good drive mate. Peter Hall a well earned 2nd place on 213 laps and Steve not far behind on 212 laps.
In the A Main; Ken first on 225, Nick second on 222 and Caine third on 219 for the Pro Podium.
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Brushless LMP
The last race of the Border Bash after lunch in the Seagulls Bistro was Brushless LMP.
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A new class and the first effort for a big brushless race at Seagulls and running: -
JK Aeolos chassis with JK LMP or GT1 bodies (I think every entry ran the Dyson Mazda)
KC 3.2KV motor
Mostly Westrock boards
Max tyre diameter of 720 with fixed 14/34 gearing
Charles took Concours.
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Kim had a bit of a brain malfunction in race control having set the computer’s breakout to 5.000 so Rick missed a couple of fast lap times during his qualifying run. After a computer reset Rick then TQ’d with a 4.974.
Very close with top 5 cars finishing within 0.010 sec of each other.
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In Am Ross did a repeat win of the warm up race held a couple of weeks ago to take Am , 2nd was Peter Hall adding another trophy to his successful weekend and Sam in 3rd after a bad start with a lead wire failure on lap 4 which probably cost him the win.
Rick took out the A main and 1st Pro position. Only two laps behind was Ken and Caine a further lap back followed by Kim who all managed to go under 5 seconds in the race.
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Everyone was pretty happy with with their BL cars with 12 turning up for the event. Racing was so the clean that I had a micro Nanna nap and knocked Charles’ car off with my elbow while marshaling – it was the only time I had to marshall in the race.
No mechanical failures and super close racing shows this class has a real future.
In scrutineering all cars were rev checked at 10 volts to find there was only about 300 rpm different across the 12 cars. ( that’s about 2 % variance ).
Interestingly, two of slowest revving cars went on to TQ and be on the podium. All in all a great start for brushless racing.
Cheers
