We raced F1 today – 14 cars, 14 happy drivers.
We checked out the Chargers Onroad track at Toowoomba – nice grass roots facility on 2 netball courts in Highfields, happy friendly club.
We witnessed the launch of the AGR a new locally designed and built F1 car, available soon as a full car (saddle or stick ) or as a rear pod conversion for a Corally or Tamiya etc. There were two prototypes running today – one had it’s front end damaged in a collision with Heavy and the other took out second place – not bad for a first track test – watch out for these ones.
The racing in F1 was quite frantic and sometimes close but in the end Big Mac took the TQ from Martin and Bob – these 3 looked the goods all day really. Big Mac had a dnf in one leg of the finals but bounced back with a FTD in the last leg. Overall it was Martin 1st Bob 2nd and Grant 3rd. So that’s Corally, AGR, Corally, Tech, then 6 more Corally’s.
I had a mixed day with the Tech – ended up qualifying 6th and ran out 4th in the finals. The car is good but gee the plastics are soft I broke 2 front wings, 1 rear wing and a front stub axle today. Still 4th in a field of top quality cars is not too bad (and looking at the drivers I couldn’t have expected to finish much better whatever car I was driving) – several times today though I was wishing I still had a Tamiya F103.
The second round of the F1 world titles takes place at Logan on 4th July – get a car before then and join the fun – the F1’s are fantastic around Logan.