Well the drivers are ready...

The drivers are ready, the cars are being finished we just need the Wales and West calendar published so we can enter the events!!!

Winter rebuilds...

Thanks to work and my son's membership of Cubs it looks like I'm already into the winter rebuild process - I'll be lucky to race 3 more times this year!

The Aston has undergone a bit of fine tuning whilst I was blatting up and down an Autobahn or two so I'll be focusing on using that every Thursday to improve my driving ready for 2016...

Where does the time go?

Well I've done a few more races and picked up my first final win... I'm still off the pace (I've only been doing this since May not the years everyone else has!) but my laps times are dropping every week!

Interestingly I had a run with the class leading Aston recently and was able to knock a second a lap off my times - time to put plenty of effort into car preparation me thinks...

All being well I should be racing my Aston again tomorrow even though the tyres are shot and too hard to be fully competitive. To be honest I'm just aiming for consistent, error free laps before I strip the car and rebuild it.

Onwards, ever onwards...

I raced my new (to me any way) NSR Aston Martin GT3 last night with ever improving results - yes I'm still somewhat off the pace but I'm edging ever closer! Each race sees less errors and better times; proving perfectly that there's no substitute for experience.

For that reason I'm grabbing every chance I can to get controller time so can be seen at Wolverhampton Slot Car Club (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wolverhampton-Slot-Car-Club/1618828841737256?fref=ts) on Thursdays too!

Along with learning the track I'm also learning my cars - the Aston is great fun to drive and reasonably competitive as it is. There are tweeks that need doing though; the tyres need to be replaced with softer versions, smaller front wheels are needed (here we go again...), it really needs some form of subtle sponsorship/colour scheme, etc, etc... Having said that my son managed to win his first race using the Aston which pleased us both!

Christian also managed to set a fastest lap in his first ever race using my Mosler (only a lat off prevented him from claiming first overall) so the preparation side of slot car racing EWR seems to be doing quite well already ;)

I'm expecting to add a few more steeds to my stable as the season progresses - all will be for racing though so there'll be no show ponies I'm afraid. Having said that I'm sure they'll all be pretty spectacular, like my new NSR Ford GT40...