24hr Start your engine

Well a mad frantic dash to Ardent to see the line up for the 24 hr Le Ardent was a packed hose and everyone was in good sprit. All were reaing to go for the start, Great to see a pace car out at the start taking the 14 drivers round two laps before the start.

well a bit of history in the making here then are the pics hope you enjoy them guys me im going to tuck into a steak dinner good luck lads!!!!!!

THE TEAMS

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THE CARS


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7 Half hours into the race and Team dorris are up in the lead will bring you next results around midnight with a full run down on places

quick race feed back by quacking plums

24hr race is under go, Team Doris is in the lead and looking very organised, 393 laps and still on their first brushed motor, at this rate they will cover 363 miles (scale mileage of 3630 miles) in second place so far with 373 laps is Team Dudley with Worcester Warriors in third Place. Team Ardent didn't make it to the line due to one driver pulling out another without transport and two having to run the meeting. Instead they are supporting adopted team Donny Racing, with a new team name of 24hr Ardon!! ;-)

8:45pm results

1 TEAM DORRIS
2 TEAM DUDLY
3 STOKE RACING
4 ESSEX MONSTERS
5 CHAND COLA
6 WORCESTER RACING
7 KEIGHLEY TEAM A
8 MMR/CMCC
9 SNOOPY DOG
10 TEAM SPECIAL
11 UNDER DOGS
12 DONNY RACERS
13 RC DISCO
14 SPCK UK RACING

WELL DONE GUYS KEEP IT UP QUITE A BIT TO GO YET

the guys could have done the more laps round the real track than Prodrive with the lmp1 astons, managed a combined 3 laps between the 2 cars
Nice pics aswell paul

Thanks dom yes made a mad dash up there just waiting on the 12pm results in then i can post them up. and if i can get out of bed i will be there at 6 in the morning to get some pics of the sleepless teams.
I do try to get to cover as much coverage by rc circuit cars at any sort of event well some events!!!!

7.am Race order

1 TEAM DORRIS

2 TEAM DUDLEY

3 CHAND COLA

4 WORCESTER RACING

5 ESSEX MONSTERS

6 STOKE RACING

7 RC DISCO

8 TEAM MMR

9 KEIGHLEY TEAM A

9 SNOPPY DOG

10 SPC UK

11 TEAM SPECIAL

12 UNDER DOGS

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KEEPING YOU POSTED TO THE END HERE AT RC CIRCUIT CARS

wow thats just mad second place 100 or so laps down

well done guys keep going

Was a hell of a race and I'm totally knackered now bit had great fun and I'd do it again that's for sure team underdogs got 9th overall in the end and considering we were way down in last place last night the team done a fantastic job to pull it back well done guys B-)
And well done to all the other teams for finishing all but 1 team completed the race

i carnt believe we did it, 24 hours with pretty much minor breakdowns and just 1 majour diff repair. we didnt even break a belt im so surpried about the small amount of breakages we had. the only week parts on the car were the outdrives, drive axles and c-hubs. but these were the main drive parts.

we at one point was in last 200 laps down on the team above us but the last 12 hours was really good for us and the hard work of team underdogs means we pulled it back and got all the way up to 9th and durein the last 2 hours was on a drive for 8th place which we had a slim chance of but it was so much fun by the last 15 mins it was pretty certain that we wernt going to catch them so it was a cruise to the finnish.

so at the start of the race the shell looked like this
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now it looks like this after 24 hours of racing
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everyteam finnished apart from the ones from stoke, not because they couldent finnish its because they wouldetn finnish.

Why wouldn't they finish ???

because they had had enough

they were at the front most of the 1st 12 hours but when they droped off and were running down the pack they decided that if they couldent run at the top they wernt running at all.

Thats a shame seems you guys all had a great time, im glad i came and took some pics at the start seems like a few cars finished bit the worse for wear.
I did try and keep the guys at home updated as much as possible. big thanks to Lee carr texting away the results every couple of hours. by 11.30 i was knacked so i went to bed but posted again at 7 in the morning,
If any of you guys at the 24hr would do a write up im sure the guys on here will love it cheers paul (Admin)

HERES TEAM UNDERDOGS CAR AFTER 24 HRS ON THE LE ARDENT TRACK WELL DONE LADS!!!!!!!

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THANK HEAVENS FOR DUCT TAPE GUYS


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HERES KEIGHLEY TEAM A



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