WBMCC

Welcome to West bridgford model car club. West bridgford model car club are based in West bridgford, Nottingham and we currently cater for all classes of electric radio controlled car racing. Primarily we race indoors during the winter on one of the largest carpet tracks in the region. During the summer we move outside, and, weather permitting, race on a smooth tarmac surface and also a multi-surface offroad track at the same venue. Our club events and Sunday series are held at West Bridgford comprehensive school which is only half an hours drive from the M1 motorway.

At WBMCC we welcome newcomers to the sport and our members are always willing to help new people, with their advanced knowledge of the sport of radio controlled car racing, to become better and more confident drivers. Our club has groomed a few newcomers to RC racing to become some of the top drivers in the country, including the current IFMAR Electric scale touring car world champion.

As a club we have seen our membership grow over the years and we also have a dedicated commitee who always strive to keep the club going onwards and upwards.
Club features:

• One of the largest carpet tracks in the country
• Tuck shop
• RC Timing race counting system
• AMB Digital Transponder system
• Innovative track layout system
• BRCA Affiliated club
• Friendly membership

News:

A link has been added for the metoffice weather using the Bottesford area which is about 6-7 miles away, so this should give you the latest developments in our Summer season location. This link can be found at the bottom of the Racing section. So no more stirring of the seaweed or tea leaves required.

The rules have now been updated for the forthcoming winter season starting 3rd September, some minor changes to the touring class with the addition of 17.5 brushless and major changes to the mini class. please read the full list of rules under the racing section.

Racing went ahead on friday in glorious sunshine yet again.  The results have been updated after round 5 and can be found on the results page.

The results have been updated after round 4 of the current summer series.  They can be found onthe results page.  Round 5 is tonight.

The newsletter for May-June 2010 is now available to download. It can be found on the newsletter page or just click on the link below.

Summer Season starts today at Bingham Pavilion. We shall be there from 6pm and racing is to start at 7pm. Hope to see you all there.

 

 

Pictures added to the Gallery page & A-final video link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyMFQHQ7tzk

8 teams competed in the 2010 Mayday Mayhem 2.4hr endurance race. 4 teams decided to run Tamiya M-chassis cars, 2 teams ran 190mm touring cars, 1 team ran a "carpet-spec" HPI Rally and the Shambles team ran a Tamiya TL01 with off-road wings attached to the front & rear of the bodyshell to make it look hideous and handle even worse.

In the early stages of the race, Le-Men and the Red Mist Racing team set the pace, followed by the team from "Norfolk-en-chance". The Shambles team were busy generally crashing and re-attaching the wings to their car in 7th place, whilst some close racing was going on between the various M-chassis cars.

As time wore on, the Red Mist Racing team suffered some reliability problems and breakages that saw them drop down the order, the Chinese "We Won" team emerged as the top M-chassis team and Pat became more grumpy with his team's lack of enthusiasm for repairing the venerable HPI Rally which is almost as old as he is.

Meanwhile the Shambles team continued to use more & more gaffer tape to hold their wings on.

All this left Le-Men lapping at the top of the timesheets with "Angry Rob" in a surprisingly good mood for a change.

So, at the end of te race, Le-Men finished in 1st place some 69 laps ahead of the team from Norfolk led by Pat "Grumpy Shambles" Piesley, with the "Crispy Wanton" team in 3rd with the top M-chassis. Some superb prizes were then handed out to the top 3 teams, whilst the rest of the drivers looked on with envy, wishing that they had done better.

Some photos have been loaded onto the Gallery page if you would like to re-live the experience.