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2022 - Gravesend - 17th and 18th September.
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    Posted: 04 September 2022 at 7:22pm
Race Format:

Saturday 17th September (we have the track from 12 noon)

   12 noon – register that you are there and warm up

   1.00pm – 0.24 mile oval track. 2 x 20 or 3 x 15 minute races dependent on number of racers

   2.45pm – 0.84 mile lower track. 2 x 45 minute plus one lap races split into slower and faster racers.

 Sunday 18th September (we have the track from 10am)

   10am – register that you are there and warm up

   11am – 0.84 mile lower track. 1 lap time trial

   12.30pm – approx. 1 mile combined oval and lower track. 90 minutes plus one lap, all racers together.

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Can the oval track race go round clockwise this time? With LH drive on my trike, I was getting a lot of wheelspin last time going anti-clockwise.

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Hmm.  We'll need to allow time to move the timing gear and tent between upper and lower tracks on Saturday.

Where were you proposing we put the finish line on the lower track?  I think last time we considered it, we decided the flat straight was a bad idea, as it put the timing tent directly in the run-off zone.  Possibly in the middle of the lower hairpin would work (I *think* that's grass, rather than bushes?), if we made sure the races only went in the direction that wouldn't cause spurious tag reads.
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Originally posted by LWaB LWaB wrote:

Can the oval track race go round clockwise this time? With LH drive on my trike, I was getting a lot of wheelspin last time going anti-clockwise.

Something something wrong hemisphere...
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Originally posted by LWaB LWaB wrote:

Can the oval track race go round clockwise this time? With LH drive on my trike, I was getting a lot of wheelspin last time going anti-clockwise.
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Stickier (wider) tyres?

All the best.
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I think the other reason we went anti-clockwise last year was because of Slash’s close encounter with a tree going clockwise the previous year.

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Some of us have a high centre of gravity. There isn’t much traction when your drive wheel is in the air, no matter how sticky it is. Lifting an idler wheel doesn’t stop you putting the power down.
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Maybe we could run the slow race in one direction and the fast race in the other, at the same time, like in the Large Hadron Collider?
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Now that would be some game of chicken!
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