Classics, just not Classics.
NSR Classic. It’s one of Molesey’s simplest classes, with rules designed to make building a competitive car uncomplicated and a limited list of cars to choose from. Basically, if it’s an NSR classic, it’s suitable for NSR Classic, if that makes sense. Which clearly it doesn’t, given the grid that assembled this week.
Seven of the country’s finest slot car drivers walked, shuffled and wheeled into the clubroom for an evening of classic racing nostalgia. How great it was to see that all seven cars were indeed classics. Stars of the show were Tom’s beautiful Slot.it Sauber-Mercedes C9 and Alex’s slightly less beautiful Sideways Group 5 Toyota Celica LB Turbo. Classics alright, just not quite the NSR variety.
Rules? Way too complicated. If we could even get as far as getting drivers to turn up with the correct car, that would be a breakthrough. Still, let’s not be too ambitious. Baby steps and all that. At least they turned up…
At the head of affairs we had Julian and Simon, Julian winning reasonably comfortably despite several heats where the two were very closely matched, Simon even taking one heat win. David was in no-man’s-land in third, with Graham and Neil squabbling over fourth.
The two classic non-Classics brought up the rear, which did at least remove the potential problem of having to disqualify them if one of them had won outright. Thankfully, neither looked remotely like they were in winning form, Alex crashing too often and Tom, er, well, er…
Good old Tom. He’d built his own car, which was great. It wasn’t too shabby, which was also great. It only broke down twice, which was great again – I mean, it could have broken down in every heat, which wouldn’t have been great – and it actually won a heat, which most definitely was great. Sure, the heat was between Neil’s NSR P68, Alex’s Sideways Toyota and Tom’s Slot.it Sauber-Merc, so some way short of an NSR Classic bout, but a win’s a win and this was Tom’s first heat win in a car he’d built entirely himself. It would have taken a hard-hearted scrutineer to disqualify him, especially seeing the delight on his face when he crossed the finish line for victory.
Your next target, Tom, is to win driving the correct car for the class! Nonetheless, very well done.
