Wycombe Radio Car Club

13/01/2025

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Onto the LMP A Final and Mark Stiles was chased hard from the start by Stuart Cartwright. An incident with Stuart when lapping a back marker released Mark an...

13/01/2025

So first race report of 2025! So would WRCC continue to build on the fantastic year of 2024? Would the racers still support the rebirth of the club in 2025?

The answer, of course!
20 minis and 5 LMP booked in for our first meeting on the 7th of January.

On to qualifying and the Minis have really got very competitive now with a large number of drivers capable of making the A final.

Mr Battcave, Shaun Batt led the way this week with a fast 34 lap score on "Queens Manor Park" layout. Only 3 seconds further back was Anthony Williams going very well this week with the TWR car.
Anthony just pipping Alex Springer who qualified 3rd.
Other A finalists were 4th Steve Tunaley, 5th Remo Casedei and 6th Frank Williams. All of these drivers racing Battcave chassis.

In the LMP qualifying Mark Stiles continued his dominance with the Awesomatix A12X. 2nd went to Stu Cartwright running his new Xray. 3rd went to Vincent Wong.

3 Mini finals for this meeting starting with the C Final. The C Final race was dominated by Carl Rowlinson showing good pace to win by over a lap from Steve Brown in 2nd. Alistar Weston finished 3rd.

The B Final had some fast drivers unlucky to miss the A Final. In the end Peter Williams took a hard fought win by around a second from Chris Snell. Bracknell and Newbury regular Chris Sheldrake took 3rd. The top 3 drivers separated by a couple of seconds.

For the A Final the start was fairly clean with Shaun into the lead followed by Anthony. Steve Tunaley unlucky with contact and bumped to the back of the field. At around the 2 minute mark a mistake from Anthony let Alec into 2nd. This was how it was to remain with Shaun taking the win, Alec second and Anthony 3rd.

Steve Tunaley recovered to 4th, Remo Casadei 5th and Frank Williams 6th.

Onto the LMP A Final and Mark Stiles was chased hard from the start by Stuart Cartwright. An incident with Stuart when lapping a back marker released Mark and gave him a comfortable lead. Stuart eventually waiting for Mark so more racing and fun on the track could occur.

This was how to was to end Mark Stiles taking the win, Vincent Wong 2nd, Mark Passingham 3rd, Stuart Cartwright 4th and Mark Goodchild 5th with continued electrical gremlins.

A great start to 2025! See you on at the next one on the 21st.

07/01/2025

Provisional booking in list for the first 2025 meeting!
Room for some more...
Drivers may still need a bit of shuffling about.

https://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/Listing?listingId=76241

06/01/2025

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a nice time over the holidays and received some cool RC presents to try out!

After what seems like an age we are back racing tomorrow night (7th January)! We will be starting our 2025 Winter Series tomorrow night.

Book in here:
https://www.wycomberacing.co.uk/RaceRegistration.aspx

Also don't forget to renew your BRCA membership before tomorrow's meeting!

Old picture from the WRCC archives! :-)

18/12/2024

Booking in page updated for our first events in 2025! 7th of January the first meeting so make sure you get booked in!

Be a great chance to test out any new RC racing gifts! :-)

To compete at our race events, we ask that you register and pay for your entry in advance. This enables us to organise the race schedule prior to the event and minimise the time we spend registering drivers and taking payment of race fees on the day.

09/12/2024

Videos posted to our YouTube channel:

The D final was won by new driver Seb Algeri from Elliot Dimelow.

09/12/2024

Firstly apologies....very slack with the race report and videos from the last meeting. Been a bit unwell and super busy.

But just in time for our next meeting tomorrow! 10th December. This is our last meeting of a very successful 2024 and the last of our short Winter Championship!

The meeting on the 26th of November had a very healthy entry again. The Minis once again filling up the heats with 25 cars booked in. (17 brushless and 8 brushed) Brushless getting very popular and you can see why with ESC and motor at around £80 for good performance and zero maintenance.

The brushed cars still offer a super cheap and simple entry to the class and are still very competitive too!

In the LMP we had 4 cars with the very quick Mark and Rich in attendance.

On to the qualifiying and it was again super close in the Minis with some very fast cars in attendance. This would mean some regular A final drivers would miss out on the A today.

In the end pole would be taken by Mardave driver Mike Chapman. 2nd on the grid to recent multiple A wins Alec Springer and 3rd to Patrick Baynton-Glen. Returning to racing after a few meetings out.
4th Anthony WIlliams, 5th Sam Snell with his new brushless car, 6th Steve Tunaley and 7th Peter Williams.

In the LMP it was Mark Stiles showing everyone how it is done, Rich Sodeau 2nd and Vincent Wong 3rd.

On to the finals...the D final was won by new driver Seb Algeri from Elliot Dimelow.

The C final was won with a strong drive from Christopher Abela. 2nd place went to Aiden Williams with Carl Rowlinson 3rd.

The B final was full of quick drivers missing out on the A this time. In the end the B final was won by Sam Dimelow witha 28 lapper. 2nd went to Chris Snell with his brushed car. Frank Williams rounding out the podium in 3rd.

Finally to the A final. Mike Chapman made a great start and built an early lead. Alec 2nd and Patrick 3rd. A small mistake from Mike after around 1 min let Alec and Patrick through. Then around 2 mins a small mistake from Alec after the sweeper let Patrick into the lead. While this was happening Mike Chapman was recovering and closing in fast with the fastest car on the track. Alec ran wide on lap 16 which let Mike into 2nd. Coming up to 4 minutes and Mike had now caught Patrick and a clean pass moved him into the lead.

This was how it ended, Mike taking the win from Patrick 2nd and Alex 3rd. Mike with a very fast 31 lapper.
4th place went to Sam Snell, Steve Tunaley 5th, Anthony Williams 6th and Peter Williams 7th.

In the LMP final (which I missed the start in the video) it was to be Mark Stiles who quickly built up a lead with his Awesomatix A12X. Rich tried to hang on as long as he could and also showed good pace. In the end Mark taking the win from Rich 2nd and Vincent 3rd.

Another successful meeting - well done to all that were there!

26/11/2024

Another bumper entry this evening. Room for more! Please get booked in soon as you can if you are coming along!

Heats are still to be juggled as we expect more people to join the fun... :-)

21/11/2024

You can now join or renew your membership with the BRCA for 2025! We will be checking that you’ve done this and that you appear on the BRCA database before we let you race at our first meeting of 2025 in January, so don’t leave it too late and forget!

Click below to get sorted. Log In first if you’re an existing member, or create an account if this is new to you;

BRCA - British Radio Car Association is the UK's governing body for radio controlled model car racing. Learn how you can be a member and enjoy the benefits

14/11/2024

Wycombe Radio Car Club - 12th November 2024

Race report time. Earlier this week as I recorded all the videos in one chunk. Downside the GoPro overheated and we missed some of the LMP B-Final and all of the LMP A-Final. Apologies to those drivers. I have made some changes and hopefully this will not happen again!

So, on to the race meeting, we have been very lucky of late with a great entry. This time no exception with 24 Minis (13 brushless and 11 brushed) and 8 LMP.
Giving us a busy night with 6 heats. To compensate we dropped LMP to 6 minute races.

This was round 3 of our 5 round Winter series. So the championship positions are beginning to get clearer.

On to qualifying, the top 6 for the A final this week were all driving brushless cars. Alex Springer taking pole from Steve Tunaley. Both drivers using the BattCave chassis. In 3rd position was Anthony Williams with his TWR.

The remaining position went to Frank Williams in 4th, Newbury man Kevin Tombeur in 5th and Bracknell man Richard Dalby in 6th.
Frank having a great run this week and Kevin and Richard showing excellent pace being relative newcomers to the Wycombe circuit.

Top brushed runners were Chris Snell just missing the A in 7th, Sam Snell in 11th and Steve Brown 12th. All 3 of these drivers running Mardave cars.

For LMP, Mark Stiles and Rich Sodeau both back running and preparing for this weekend's BRCA national. Mark was to take pole with Rich in 2nd both running Awesomatix A12X. Next up was Ian Masters with his Destiny 3rd and Vincent Wong in 4th.

https://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/Listing?listingId=73089

First up for the finals we had the Mini D final.
This ended up being a family affair with Kevin and Aiden Williams battling for the win. In the end Kevin took 1st with Aiden 2nd.
It could have been better for James Whitlock but a DNF cost him better than his 3rd place. Mike Clark 4th, Elliot Dimelow 5th and Andy Birch a DNS in 6th.
https://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/RaceResult?raceId=273857

In the C Final Mini we had Luke Bird on pole. Unfortunately for Luke this race did not go his way and he was to end up 4th.
Taking the win in the end was Keith Snell after a close fought battle with Alistar Weston. Carl Rowlinson behond these 2 drivers in 3rd.
5th place went to Chris Abela and 6th to Louis Birch. Louis driving a great race in his first C Final. Well done!
https://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/RaceResult?raceId=273865

In the B final Mini there were again a few drivers easily capable of being in the A. The Minis have become very competitive with quite a few drivers having the pace to be at the sharp end. This time it was Chris Snell just missing the A Final with Peter Williams lining up behind. In the end however Peter had a great run in this final showing pace that would have given him 2nd in the A!
2nd place went to Chris Snell, 3rd Sam Dimelow.
4th Sam Snell, 5th Steve Brown and 6th Luke Campbell.
https://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/RaceResult?raceId=273870

For the A final Alec Springer lined up on the pole - showing great form after a win 2 weeks ago. Alec made a very clean and fast start breaking into an early lead.

The others however got a little tangled up which shuffled the order.
Frank and Richard settling into 2nd and 3rd. Half way into the race a train of drivers running from 2nd to 6th continued to battle.
In the end a mistake from Frank dropped him out of 2nd with Richard taking the position.

The final order being Alec, Richard with an excellent 2nd from 6th on the grid and Anthony Williams 3rd.
Anthony with the best lap of the race. Frank finished 4th, Steve 5th and Kevin 6th.
https://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/RaceResult?raceId=273873

Onto the LMP B Final. Mark Goodchild on pole after missing the A with a scappy round 3 run. In the final Roy Lam started best and moved into an early lead. Mark in 2nd.
In the end after a close race Mark took the win with Roy 2nd. Both with good runs in the final and good times.
Mike Watts 3rd and Alex Watts 4th. Alex testing out a move to a wheel rather than sticks.
https://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/RaceResult?raceId=273876

For the A Final LMP, Mark Stiles took a dominant win with 42 laps with Rich Sodeau on 40 laps. Ian Masters took a great 3rd with his Destiny and Vincent Wong 4th.
https://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/RaceResult?raceId=273877

A very good evenings racing and we hope you will all be back in 2 weeks for our next club meeting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjr_TpiepJM

12/11/2024

Wow, a very good entry again this evening, room for a few more if you're interested!
https://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/Listing?listingId=73056

24 Minis
7 LMP

👍👍👏😅

07/11/2024

Race report – 29th October 2024

Sorry a bit late on this report and video upload. But just enough to whet the appetite for the next club meeting on the 12th.

A record entry greeted all attendees on the 29th with a very impressive 27 Minis and 6 LMP booked in.
This meant 4 heats of Minis and 1 heat of LMP. Giving a busy nights racing!
15 brushless Minis and 12 brushed all mixed together with separate points championships.

In the minis Alex Springer and Karl Dobbs were fighting over the pole position. Both drivers using the Battcave chassis with brushless power.
Karl hampered slightly by being in a lower heat seeding and Alex eventually won over to get pole position by around a second.

3rd place on the grid went to Paul Wedley with his brushless Mardave. 4th Steve Tunaley (Batt Cave), Anthony Williams (TWR) 5th, Richard Dalby (Batt Cave) 6th and Peter Williams (TWR) 7th.
All cars in the top 7 were brushless powered.

In LMP, Mark Stiles was not racing following the National weekend. This left the way open for William Lee to take a comfortable pole with his Roche.
Ian Masters for 2nd on the grid with his Roche and Charlie Dunne 3rd with his Awesomatix.

Onto the finals, first up the D final Mini. (Yes the first time we have had a D final!)
The D final was a hard fought race between Kevin and Aiden Williams. This time Kevin just winning out with Aiden 2nd. Andy Birch was 3rd on his debut race meeting.

The C final was a close race between Steve Brown, Keith Snell and Jamie Morris. In the end Keith Snell taking the victory from Jamie Morris 2nd and Steve 3rd.
Alistar Weston who was pole ended up behind these 3 in 4th.

The B final had some regular A-finalists in the mix. Frank Williams on pole took an early lead but was being chased hard by long-time WRCC racer Sam Dimelow. Sam’s first meeting with a mini.
These 2 cars were the quickest in the race but Sam met some misfortune and dropped down the order. In the end Frank took an easy win, Darryl Bonsor 2nd from 6th on the grid and Sam Snell 3rd. 4th went to Brian Seymour and Sam Dimelow ended up 5th.
Brian had the fastest brushed car in qualifying. Darryl and Sam also running brushed.

Onto the Mini A final. At the start a couple of mistakes by Alec Springer dropped him down the order leaving himself plenty to do,
This enabled Karl Dobbs a great opportunity to break away at the front.
Behind him Paul Wedley and Steve Tunaley were in pursuit.
At the end of the race Karl took a comfortable win, Paul Wedley 2nd and Alec Springer recovered in 3rd. Steve Tunaley 4th, Anthony Williams 5th, Richard Dalby 6th and Peter Williams 7th.

In the LMP12 final the race was somewhat scrappy. The exception to this was William Lee who took a comfortable win. Alex Watts drove a strong race to take 2nd with his Awesomatix and Ian 3rd with his Destiny.
Mike Watts 4th, Charlie Dunne and Mark Goodchild with issues in 5th and 6th.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgQyMUHIJ1EAD76wdd47c6wOw3GOW12bW

29/10/2024

Another bumper evening of entertainment coming our way tonight!

So far… 23 minis and 4 lmp. Room for a few more cars if you want to book in!

21/10/2024

Race report - 15th October 2024

Race report time and this time from our 25th October club meeting. For this one we had 19 Minis and 6 LMP booked in. It was also the first meeting of our 5 race short Winter championship.

Onto qualifying and in the Minis it was Anthony Williams (TWR) once again continuing his good form and taking pole position. Second went to Steve Tunaley (Battcave) taking a rest from LMP this week. 3rd went to Frank Williams (Battcave), 4th Alex Springer (Battcave), 5th Sam Snell (Mardave) and Brian Seymour 6th (Battcave).

In LMP it was Mark Stiles taking pole position with his Awesomatix. Rich Sodeau was 2nd and Alex Watts 3rd.

First up the Minis…

In the C final it was Lee Campbell taking the win. Lee having problems in qualifying. In the end it turned out to be a comfortable win from Carl Rowlinson 2nd and Aiden Williams 3rd.

The B final went to form with pole sitter Chris Snell taking the victory. 2nd went to Steve Brown with a great drive and Choco ended 3rd. Choco just pipping Kevin Williams in 4th.

The A final Minis went much the same as qualifying with Anthony Williams driving into the distance at the front of the field. The big mover was Alec Springer who drove a great race to get 2nd. Steve Tunaley ended up 3rd from Frank Williams 4th. Sam Snell took 5th and Brain Seymour 6th.

Finally the LMP were out on track with the B Final first. Mark Goodchild taking the win but only just from Roy Lam. Charlie Dunne finished 3rd.

In the A final Mark Stiles took a dominant win. Rich Sodeau just not having an answer this week to Mark’s pace. Alex Watts drove a great race to finish 3rd.

Thanks everyone. See you at the next one! :-)

19/10/2024

A massive thankyou to everyone who came to our Test & Tune Day today. Especially to those who stopped behind and helped pack away at the end; without your help we simply couldn’t have run the event and got everything done in time at the end of the day.

It seems that everyone enjoyed themselves and we’ve already had people asking when we’ll be doing another one. To answer that, we hope to be able to do something in the coming months, perhaps in late December or January. Watch this space!

In order that we can continue to develop and improve the club, please let us know of any constructive feedback you would like to share. What was good? What could be better? Would you change anything?

19/10/2024

We’re up and running at the Test & Tune Day!

Live timing and results here;
http://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/MeetingSummary?meetingId=13420

17/10/2024

A provisional heat list for this weekends Test & Tune Day is available here;

http://www.rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/Listing?listingId=71160

A round will take about an hour so everyone will get about 7 runs during the day.

We’re about full for this now, could perhaps squeeze in another 3 or 4 minis and a couple of LMP12 but that’ll be it!

Please bring a table & chair with you and an extension lead/reel. There are some tables & chairs in the venue but not enough for everyone so it’s safest to bring your own.

Doors open 9am Saturday and we expect to start running at 10-ish; see you then!