The 2024 Super Challenge was held on the BSCRA Nationals track at Corby on 9th November.
It was an excellent meeting, thanks to Barry Gilzean for organising it.  A big  thank you to Sammy and Christine for the catering and to lead race controller Nick Thrower.

In the individual class brushless Genesis cars raced alongside the newly approved Mid America Eagle powered INTRO 32 cars and the  existing JK Hawk 7 / 7BB powered cars.

The individual race format was 1 min qualifying for 8x3 min segmented heats followed by a 1 lane shoot out for the final positions.  The heats were split into 3 groups, two 6 driver groups and a 9 driver group for the highest ranked drivers on the BSCRA list.

Adrian Blakey was top of the 6 driver runs with 211 laps ahead of Steve Taylor on 201.  Richard Mack was top of the 9 driver group on ahead of Gavin Wills on 202.   

Adrian won the Clubman shoot out from Steve with Colin Wilkinson third.  Richard won the Overall shoot out from Adrian with Mark Witham third. All those were running brushless, the first brushed runner was Gavin, 4th overall.

 

2024 Super Challenge

Clubman Shoot out Final

1

Adrian Blakey

27.22

2

Steve Taylor

26.56

3

Colin Wilkinson

26.32

4

Ricky Gowan

24.18

5

John English

23.38

6

Bill Jenner

20.58

7

Mark Ellis

20.13

8

Ali Dent

20.10

Adrian’s winning car

Overall Shoot out Final

1

Richard Mack

28.20

2

Adrian Blakey

27.45

3

Mark Witham

26.93

4

Gavin Wills

26.89

5

Nick Thrower

26.59

6

Steve Taylor

25.69

7

Colin Wilkinson

25.17

8

Barry Gilzean

22.89

Heats

laps


chassis

motor

Gear Ratio

pitch

Measured revs*

car weight gm

1

Richard Mack

216.26


Genesis BL

Beta 1106 3800

14:37

72

12.8


2

Adrian Blakey

211.13


Genesis BL

Amax

12:37

72

13.3

73.6

3

Gavin Wills

202.58


Genesis

Eagle

11:37

64



4

Mark Witham

201.76


Genesis BL

Beta 1106 3800

12:37

64

12.2

73.9

5

Steve Taylor

201.70


Genesis BL

Beta 1106 3800

13:37

72

12

75.9

6

Nick Thrower

199.40


Genesis BL

Brushless

12:35

64

11.1

72.4

7

Colin Wilkinson

198.13


Genesis BL

Beta 1106 3800

12:37

72

12.3

74.5

8

Barry Gilzean

196.25


Genesis

Hawk

11:37

64



9

Keith Gibson

190.41


Genesis BL

Beta 1106 3800

12:37

72

13


10

Marc Lyons

188.79


Genesis

Eagle

11:37

64



11

Chris Frost

185.22


Genesis

Hawk

11:37

64



12

Ricky Gowan

184.55


Genesis

Hawk

11:37

64



13

David Farrow

180.83


Genesis

Eagle

11:37

64



14

Bob Budge

177.24


Genesis BL

Beta 1106 3800

13:37

72

12.1

73.1

15

John English

176.21


Genesis BL

Beta 1106 3800

12:37

72

12.3

75.2

16

Bil Jenner

171.51


Genesis

Hawk

11:37

64



17

Mark Ellis

168.06


Genesis

Hawk

11:37

64



18

Ali Dent

167.72


Genesis BL

DoSlot 1105 4000

12:37

72

11.2

72.4

19

Sandy Grant

167.25


Genesis BL

DoSlot 1105 4000

12:37

72

11


20

Steve Rouse

165.14


Genesis

Hawk

11:37

64



21

Alan Clark

153.77


Genesis

Hawk

11:37

64



Only a few of the Hawk/Eagle cars were weighed - they were in the range 85.5 to 89.3 gm.

The motor revs were measured with the motor in the car driving the rear wheels and with 3 volts connected to the car’s pickups.    The numbers are k rpm, so 11.5 means 11,500rpm @ 3 volts etc.

Hawks are JK  Hawk 7 or 7BB

Heats and Tech Chart

Team Event

This class used 1/24 production chassis with saloon bodies, it was for teams of 2 drivers taking 4 lanes each. There was a  choice of limited  brushless motors,  Eagle JK Hawk 7/7BB or Mid America Eagle motors.


The winning Skyline car, used a JK chassis , a Beta 1106 3800 motor and a SBM Ecom

2nd Broom Bandits - Barry and Marc                                       3rd G4S  Sammy and Gavin

Endurance Cup Results

Team

Laps

Drivers

1

Skyline

687.12

Colin Wilkinson, Richard Mack

2

Broom Bandits

677.30

Barry Gilzean, Marc Lyons

3

G4S

662.77

Sammy Broom, Gavin Wills

4

Netley

649.05

Mark Witham, Chris Frost

5

Sticky

617.57

Steve Taylor, Ricky Gowan

6

Wired

611.75

Bob Budge, Ian Parker

7

Me & You

603.41

Nick Thrower, Bill Jenner

8

Mr Been

596.35

Adrian Blakey, John English

9

Can Do

578.00

Keith Gibson, Sandy Grant

10

Useless Bar Stewards

550.56

Ali Dent, Alan Clark

11

Dudella

541.58

Steven Rouse, Mark Ellis

Skyline - Richard and Colin the 2024
 BSCRA Endurance Cup winners

BSCRA

Richard’s winning car

Sunday’s Racing at Corby - the Southern 32 round 10



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