Four Lane Blacktop, Swindon

(The Old ATC Hut, Horsham Crescent, Swindon, Wilts)

Southern 32 Round - Sunday, October 13^th 2002

We will be hosting a round of the Southern 32 championship on our updated track on 13^th October 2002.Since our last public meeting we have built a new bridge, improved the track power and installed PC-based lap counters and race control.

Format for the day's racing will be the standard - individual championships in the morning for 1/32 Production cars and the in-built Falcon series and the Le Mans Team race in the afternoon. Car rules and regulations are available on the Dowtys club website, or from Series coordinator Ian Fisher on 0208 866 8571.

The track is a 77 foot four-lane figure of eight. It’s a former portable track so is not supersmooth – don’t run your body on the deck at the front. Lap records for Production cars stand at about 39 laps in 3 minutes. We confidently expect this to be broken on the day if not before!

The track is also open every Tuesday night from 7.45 onwards, and we will be racing both 1/32 and 1/24 Production cars every week. Please feel free to come and have a practice, or join us on the day.

On October 13th we will open at 8am, run a great meeting, provide rolls to order at lunchtime and drinks and sweets over the bar, and finish the meeting by 5pm.

The clubroom building is non-smoking, and there are toilets and plenty of box space.

If anyone wants to stay overnight in the area I will have floor space available close to the track on Saturday night, or look in the outlying villages for B and B. Swindon itself isn't up to much, but the surrounding villages and towns are pretty and you are close to Marlborough, Stonehenge, Avebury, Salisbury, Bath and Oxford for shopping and sightseeing.

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All the best, Rob Lees