SUHA SEAFAIR TROPHY
&
MMPBC CHAMPS
2008
By Jason Lester
Well what a great weekend.
The weather forecast said a bit different, but luckily it held out all weekend.
Into the racing Saturday morning we started with the first round of the Ltd P Brushless Hydro.
Spider took an easy win, with Motul not starting and then Clown and Xanadu not finishing.
Next was LSO (Brushed offshore)
Short Circuit 1st
Hitec DNS
Nightmare DNS
Sport 45 1 lap sprints were up next. Paul with Annihilator did a time of 19.28 seconds. Graham was next with Miss Ugly and 20.84 seconds followed by John with Ladybug and the best time of 17.94 seconds
The 3 x 5lap heat races where quite exciting (I am going to have to get a Sport 45 going again.) Graham W with Miss Ugly had a few troubles managing to get the boat on the water but not make the starts, leaving it for both John and Paul to fight out the heats, points as follows
Ladybug 800 points
Annihalator 700 points
Miss Ugly 0 points
The Final winner takes all race was left with only one boat making the start and 1st place went to Ladybug (Well done John )
Next was Class 1 sprint racing , 5 x 5 lap heats, there was some tight and exciting racing, with the following results
Hellbent 42 points
Longlite 38 points
Genesis 2 37 points
Ohio Steel 36 points
Scotts electrical 30 points
Then came the Petrol Scale / Sport Hydro with two heats run , man these boats are a lot of fun, I can see a few people interested in building these now or completing the build .
The afternoons electric P Brushless Hydro racing (heat 2)
Results where
Spyder 1st
Clown 2nd
With Xanadu and Motul placeing 3rd even.
Into Sundays races with electric races to start, there where some really good heats in both classes, it was interesting for Mark M who was running his first Club Champs, both morning and afternoon results below
LSH (brushed hydro) Heat 1
Motul 1st
Tahoe Miss 2nd
Miss Bardahl 3rd
LSH (Brushed Hydro ) Heat 2 ( Afternoon )
Motul 1st
Tahoe Miss 2nd
Miss Bardahl 3rd
P Brushless Offshore Heat 1
Orange Ruffy 1st
Line 7 2nd
Amigo 3rd
Yellow Peril 4th
For now DNF
The Force DNF
P Brushless Offshore Heat 2 (Afternoon)
This was tough racing and definitely showed you needed less boats in a heat, and you really need to keep a count on you laps, poor motors and batteries got hot, results below
Orange Ruffy 1st
Yellow Peril 2nd
Amigo 3rd
Line 7 4th
Neil (SV27) 5th
Orange Thingy DNF
For Now DNF
After that it was straight into the 1/8th Scale Hydro 1 lap sprints
Mark with York done a best of 18.66 seconds
Chris with Llumar done a best of 17.47 seconds
Merv with Budweiser done a best of 17.41 seconds
John with Madison done a best off 27.91 seconds
(Stale Fuel doesn’t work eh John )
Paul with Speedy done a best of 19.47 seconds
Jason with DeWalt done a best of 16.32 seconds
Graham with Jaspers had radio problems and didn’t start
The heat’s where really close and interesting racing, with a lot of repairs and replacement parts being fitted to boats, Merv breaking a tuned pipe and burning out a throttle servo, Mark blowing up his poor OS65VRM, then had to borrow Phil’s OS61VRM (which hadn’t been run for years), myself with two fuel pumps (thanks for the use of yours Mark)
John with his stale Fuel (hope it is only getting used for weed killer from now on)
Heats came out to the following points
Llumar 1500 points (well done Chris)
Madison 1194 points
Budweiser 1000 points
DeWalt 1000 points
York 925 points
Speedy 700 points
Jasper was out with radio problems
The final Winner Take All race was competitive and exciting with 6 boats entering.
1st place went to Madison (Well done John, I better not loan you fuel again)
2nd place went to Budweiser
3rd place went to Llumar
Class 1 sprint racing was up next
The racing was over competitive, with a few incidents,(remember guys your not racing for money) , but racing was very close and interesting , points where as follows.
Aaaaa 30 points
Conquest 23 points
Scotts Electrical 21 points
Mehitabel 20 points
Hellbent 14 points
Genesis 2 2 points
Then came the Petrol Scale / Sport Hydro with two heats run, Paul has now found the magic prop , the boat was a lot faster but Graham still took the win in both heats.
I’m sure everyone enjoyed the weekends racing.
Well done to John, who won the winner take all final in the 1/8th scale (trophy in the Naki again), also well done to Chris who won the Seafair Hi-points, also well done Mark who won the Hi-points overall.
There was an addition error in the class 1 sprints as you will see below, sorry Phil but Andrew actually won club champs class 1 (well done Andrew)
A big thank you to everyone that chipped in helping set up and clean up on both days
Also a thank you to Terry for running some of the heats on the Saturday.
Seafair Trophy Points
Sport 45
Ladybug 1240 points
Annihalator 730 points
Miss Ugly 23 points
1/8th Scale Hydro (Combined 1 lap, Heat and Final Points)
Llumar 1748 points (well done Chris )
Madison 1604 points
Budweiser 1323 points
York 1111 points
DeWalt 1040 points
Speedy 713 points
Petrol scale / Sport Hydro
Miss Zenoah 39 points
NaDa 16 points
MMPBC Class Points
Class 1 Sprint
Hellbent 56 points ( 1st place )
Scott Electrical 51 points ( 2nd place )
Longlite 38 points ( 3rd place )
LSH 12 Cell Brushed Hydro
Motul 20 points ( 1st place )
Tahoe Miss 11 points ( 2nd equal )
Bardahl 11 points ( 2nd equal )
Voodoo 10 points ( 3rd place )
LSO 12 Cell Brushed Offshore
Short Circuit 10 points ( 1st place )
Hitech 2 points ( 2nd equal )
Nightmare 2 points ( 2nd equal )
P Brushless Hydro
Spyder 20 points (1st place )
Clown 11 points ( 2nd place )
Xanadu 2 points ( 3rd equal )
Motul 2 points ( 3rd equal )
P Brushless Offshore
Orange Ruffy 20 points ( 1st place )
Line 7 16 points ( 2nd equal )
Yellow Peril 16 points ( 2nd equal )
Amigo 16 points ( 2nd equal )
1/8th Scale Hydro
Llumar 1748 points ( 1st place )
Budweiser 1323 points ( 2nd place )
York 1111 points ( 3rd place )
Scale 45
Miss Ugly 23 points ( 1st place )
Petrol scale / Sport Hydro
Miss Zenoah 39 points ( 1st place )