2021 Round 1: Hillingdon, Sunday 16th May

Ah, it was simply him not being set to DNF, resulting in an early finish time and a higher average speed.

Same goes for Tony in the second round; he stopped with eye problems before the end of the race.

I've updated Tim Macdonald's class, and fudged some times for Geoff Booker.

 Race 1, (Fast)  from the fat lad at the back.

Race 2 (Fast), ditto.

Hmm, can't seem to load them as live links.?

Not your fault.  I should have done a proper head count.

Normally tag problems tend to be intermittent reads, which are (now we've improved the sign-on system to handle the fast and slow groups separately) reasonably obvious during the race.  Yours weren't reading at all, so it looked like you simply weren't there.  (I was paying more attention to the data than what was going on on the track.)

I upgraded the firmware on the RFID reader to a much newer version during the lockdown enforced maintenance period last year.  Along with performance improvements, this dropped support for some of the older tag standards.  When racing resumed at Darley Moor we found that both Lee and Slash's tags - which were both from an early batch - were simply not reading (which is the sort of thing that's hard to miss).  So it seems likely that this has happened to yours.  If you ask for new tags next time, that should solve the problem.

(If anyone else has 'vintage' timing tags, please do ask us to confirm they're working before the race.)

They definitely don't work when attached directly to metal or carbon fibre (we do mention this on the how-to-race page), and you'll need at least 5mm, preferably more like 10mm, of dielectric material between the tag and the body work.

We keep a supply of ~5mm thick self-adhesive foam with the timing kit that works for this (just ask for some), but feel free to do something a bit more elegant.