Thursday, June 14, 2007

Racing Line

First of all, please accept our heartfelt thanks for all your interests and participation. It would really help in the administration of this event if you all could quickly complete your registration with payment. As for overseas drivers, you can do that after you arrive.

And we understand it was because of your interest and support that there seems to be some misunderstanding with regards to the release of the racing line. Our original announcement on RCTECH.net was for the racing line to be release on Monday 18th June 2007. However, based on feedback, the committee agree that the local hobbyists would need to work and would not be able to practice while our overseas guest would probably be here during the weekdays to practice. Therefore the committee agree to release the racing line on Friday.

Please pardon us as some of you had misinterpreted this "Friday" as 22nd June 2007. The committee intent is to release the racing line on Friday 15th June 2007. However, I need to appeal to all local hobbyist not to go the track on Friday 15th June 2007. The reason being that we are making final minor works to the track. Basically we had the kind service of a volunteer to cut a new AMB pick up coil line on the straight. Your full cooperation would be most appreciated to allow this kind volunteer to work on the track without risking himself with your cars zipping on the straight. The other minor work would be to add a layer of GuardTop (materials courtesy of Mr. Ong Hie Kie) to the concrete corners to increase traction.

I trust that the above is sufficiently clear and your full support and understanding is most appreciated.

Basically the track racing line is the same one as last year. We (the volunteers) couldn't quite balance our full time job, our family time and our volunteer time to plan and execute any major change to the racing line. However, the committee agree that the line has to be different from last year's racing line, so that it would lend sufficient integrity to the fact that we are promoting the event as an Invitational Challenge with a good percentage of participation from our neighbouring countries. Therefore, as some of you would have guess it, we shall keep the racing line, but we will run in the anti-clockwise direction. Therefore, we need to bury a new AMB pick up wire on the other side of the straight - one of those things we forgot when we constructed the track and it has now come back to bite us. ha ha ha . . . So here you are the racing line image:


The numbers represent the turn marshalling positions.

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