TYRO Round 6 - Herts
September 9, 2008 Race Reports, Snaps, TYRO No Comments
The final round of the TYRO National took place on the 7th of September and it was promised to be an exciting race on the infamous Herts track. Multiple drivers could take the TYRO championship so it was all to play for. Rain had been falling on and off, very heavily some times, the week leading up to the race day but the work from the HNMC team helped make the track race able on the day. It was a wet start however the track did dry out and by the finals the track was looking great, however neared the end of the day the track did start to become rutted by it was not to serious.
Carl Richards managed to TQ the race day with Keith Robertson close behind in 2nd and Marc Knight qualifying 3rd. Carl Richards ran into problems early on in the race falling to 7th on the first lap slowly dropping down the places until Read more…
The penultimate round of the TYRO National series was due to be held at Fast Tracks Racing Club (FTRC). However there were concerns about the condition of the track and after hard work by the FTRC team who attempt to make the track BRCA legal. 4 days before the race day was due to take place the decision was made to abandon the meeting after a track inspection and in view of the fore casted weather. Less than 24 hours after this decision was made a meeting of the Rallycross Tyro National Committee and with the support of the BRCA Rallycross Chairman, the round was moved to Frankley Model Car Club (FMCC). The meeting was moved to Frankley due to how geographically close it was to FTRC and FMCC being an ‘all weather’ astro track. 
RCSnaps were present for the 4th Round of the TYRO Nationals this time at Swindon RC Model Car Club. The track was great and the meeting was well run thanks to the people at Swindon Model Car Club and also Glyn Morgan (TYRO Chairman). A race report will hopefully be available soon but for the moment there is a link to the detailed results and the photos of the day. The top 3 in the A final were:
The 3rd round of the TYRO Buggy Nationals was held at DRT (Dartford Race Track) in the South East of England, again some of the competitors who have entered would not have looked out of place at the BRCA ‘A’ Buggy Nationals it was almost guaranteed that this would be another successful and exciting meeting! Marc Knight secured TQ closely followed by Keith Robertson and Jess Saunders who now was sporting a HoBao covered in JQProducts upgrades. Marc, Keith and Jess were all fighting for 1st 2nd and 3rd for the 1st half of the race with Keith Robertson edging ahead of the battle that Marc and Jess were having until lap 21 
RCSnaps managed to get some photos of the 2nd round of the TYRO Nationals. This round was held at Grantham A1 Racing Club up in Lincolnshire which meant a trip up either the day before or a very early wake up for us lot down south! A full report of the event will hopefully be available soon but until then the results are:
On arrival to the track my first impressions was that it did not look as big as it does in the photos. The track has very long straights and there were several of these so came the first dilemma for drivers, what clutch bell to use?
