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Rescheduled round 3 -- Posted by admin on Friday, December 14 2007
Due to the scheduled round 3 of the CML Nitro winter series being postponed because of bad weather around the country and almost half the filed pulling out on the Saturday a POLL was carried out on racechat which resulted in the most popular date for the re run as the 30th of December!
Always trying to please the majority we will be running on that date!
Racechat has a list of drivers who have been transfered across as these are drivers who have paid and some are doing the whole series and booked in advance.
When we get an indication of how many will be not racing this date we will put a confirmed list up on the site!
So please let us know if you wish to race or wish to pull out!
Thanks in advance 
Round 3 of the CML series once again fully booked well in advance! -- Posted by admin on Saturday, November 24 2007
Due to the tremendous interest in the CML NItro Winter Champs Round three was fully booked days after the last event finished.
With this is mind the Committee will be happy to run a Buggy heat on the Saturday! Allowing drivers who feel a bit overawed at the driving standard or just want a bit more track time, to switch from Sunday to Saturday! IF you think this would suit you please contact Glyn ASAP so we can reallocate your slot from Sunday!
Usually at most events there are a few people who have problems attending so it is still worthwhile getting your entry in using Online Booking as this bypasses any postal strikes.
Drivers who are unsuccessful at present will be notified ASAP if and when any spaces become available.
Any driver unable to get to Round 3 but has booked in for the complete series can you PLEASE let us know in advance so we can re-allocate your Round 3 space to someone who can attend. Your space for the rest of the series will remain unaffected by your withdrawing from round 3.
Please make sure you are aware of priority rules as listed on the entry form at the CML web site. 
CML NItro Winter Champs round 2 now fully booked. -- Posted by admin on Sunday, November 4 2007
Due to the tremendous interest in the CML NItro Winter Champs Round two was fully booked 2 weeks before the next event.
Drivers who book in for complete series will still get £2 discount on the remaining 5 rounds.
Usually at most events there are a few people who have problems attending so it is still worthwhile getting your entry in using Online Booking as this bypasses any postal strikes.
Drivers who are unsuccessful at present will be notified ASAP if and when any spaces become available.
Any driver unable to get to Round 2 but has booked in for the complete series can you PLEASE let us know in advance so we can re-allocate your Round 2 space to someone who can attend. Your space for the rest of the series will remain unaffected by your withdrawing from round 2.
Please make sure you are aware of priority rules as listed on the entry form at the CML web site. 
CML NItro Winter Champs round 1 now fully booked. -- Posted by admin on Saturday, October 13 2007
Due to the tremendous interest in the CML NItro Winter Champs Round one has now become fully booked a week before the 1st event.
Drivers who book in for complete series will still get £2 discount on the remaining 5 rounds. But they will be on the reserve list for Round 1
Usually at most events there are a few people who have problems attending so it is still worthwhile getting your entry in using Online Booking as this bypasses the postal strike.
Drivers who are unsuccessful at present will be notified ASAP if and when any spaces become available.
Any driver unable to get to Round 1 but has booked in for the complete series can you PLEASE let us know in advance so we can re-allocate your Round 1 space to someone who can attend. Your space for the rest of the series will remain unaffected by your withdrawing from round 1.
You will all be pleased to know that as I write this the crossover has been dismantled and Today will be re erected closer to the rostrum, in response to popular request. This will make the back straight less busy and easier for average drivers to complete.
WE AIM TO PLEASE!
Finally you will all have already seen the super news for CML and associated that National and European Champion Elliot Boots has signed to race the new RC8. Well Elliot has booked in for the entire series so if you are unsure on set ups or just want to watch some of the Europe's best drivers in action on an all weather track get your selves down to Frankley for the first round to se what you are missing!
Most of all come and have fun! 
Booking in for CML NItro Winter Champs -- Posted by admin on Monday, October 8 2007
Online booking in has now gone live for the complete series due to the postal strike.
Online booking for Individual events will be available in the next day or so.
Entries are very limited so get your entries in quickly to avoid disappointment! 
Frankley National Directions -- Posted by admin on Friday, August 17 2007
Due to popular request I have created a rough and ready PDF that shows where we are located.
FRANKLEY DIRECTIONS PDF
Any problems please contact themaddog@blueyonder.co.uk
Booking in for RRCI Round 5 -- Posted by admin on Wednesday, August 8 2007
A few spaces still exist for what should be a fantastic showcase for the RRCI series despite being in the main summer holiday period/
New undriven sections have replaced the old jumps that were laid during the difficult winter period and have been honed into a very special experience.Booking in can still be done even at this late stage by visting Booking for RRCI round 5 
Frankley becomes the backup round 6 national rally x -- Posted by Chairman on Wednesday, July 25 2007
An anouncement was made earlier today on the BRCA website and NEO-BUGGY that Frankley has become the back-up venue for round 6 of the BRCA 1/8th National Rally Cross series,due to Mold not being able to run,This due to unforseen circumstances,The club although sorry to hear Mold cannot run the national event is greatful to be honoured for such a prestigous event and the club looks forward to seeing all the drivers at Frankley soon 
HB Junior Championships 2007 Saturday July 7th -- Posted by Chairman on Saturday, July 21 2007
Hot Bodies and Mirage are pleased to report that the first ever HB Rally Cross was a huge success. The event was run at the superb facility of Frankley home of the BNRC on an all astro turf layout.
There were 37 entrants to this event which was a very good turnout considering how little time there was to plan the meeting. Most people had other arrangements for the weekend which was a shame but unavoidable.
There were 6 classes in total U13, U16 and U19 in both Buggy and Truggy. U13's in Buggy raced on there own whereas U16 & U19 raced together. All age groups raced together in Truggy.
All the deserved winners with Ben from Mirage
The winners were....
Under 19 Rally X Lee Taylor passed to Chris Lambert
Under 16 Rally X Matt Alcock
Under 13 Rally X Elliot Taylor
Under 19 Truggy Lee Taylor Passed to Daniel Morgan
Under 16 Truggy Chris Deacon
Under 13 Truggy Joe Punshon
who all won Mirage B Team drives
There was also a Parent/Gaurdian Run with the most laps done in 20 minutes while we sorted the finals out. The winner for that was Mr Richard Broom.
Drivers of the day were Sophie Harris & Johnathan Skidmore who both got RRCI magazine subscriptions
The most improved drivers were Brandon Pittard, Jake Freeman & Charlie Ware who all won a special prize of a B Team development drive.
For more information on the BNRC Frankley Club click here
Look out for a full report in RRCi very soon!
Thanks to Dez for the group photo. A BIG Thanks to the guys at Frankley, awesome people & awesome circuit!
The next HB Junior Chmapionships event for 2008 will be anounced after the Rally X National dates have been released later this year giving everyone a chance at this truly enjoyable event, see you then!
[09-Jul]
Mirage anounce Junior Champs and Team Event -- Posted by Chairman on Thursday, June 7 2007
Mirage and the BNRC are proud to anounce a junior championship and Head to head showdown event coming to Frankley on 7th and 8th of July the Junior champ will have an entry fee of just £7 and the first place in each class of under 13, under 16 and under 19 will recieve a sponsored drive for 2007/2008 season.
Not bad for just £7 quid for the junior champ the meeting will start at 11am and have a cap of 60 drivers with a reserve of just 15....the Sunday due to popular request ius no longer a team event but is a head to head showdown.
Entry fee (£25 per driver)and will include a set of controlled tyres AND wheels per driver for the event.
Team drives are to be given to the top drivers and overall first place person will get a Falcon .21 engine second will get 5lts tornado 25% fuel and third will get free set of tyres!!! this is looking like the meetings to goto that weekend but as they say....the choice is yours 
Track closed saturday -- Posted by Chairman on Tuesday, June 5 2007
the track will not be open for practice on saturday due to a major event taking place on sunday RRCI their will be no exceptions to this as there will just be too much work to get done so please do not come thinking you can paractice on this day thursdays will be as normal and saturdays will be back on the following week
Next meeting at Frankley RRCI 10th June 2007 -- Posted by Chairman on Tuesday, June 5 2007
the next meeting at Frankley will be a support meeting for Fast Trax for their RRCI event booking in can be found at this link Copy and paste into your URL..........http://www.bnrc.co.uk/bnb/fasttracks.html
Race Report Round 3 Mid-Regional Series -- Posted by Chairman on Tuesday, June 5 2007
Round 3 came to Frankley with a Mid-West regional record breaker of 52 drivers attending, the weather was nice and sunny and ice-cream vans were out in force...........The day started as usual with booking in followed by a detailed drivers briefing By Race Director Mr Andrew Taylor who announced that new to the team Rob Cockcroft and Paul Harris were Clerks of the course and also new to the Team Paul Gill and New Girl Kerry Kennedy were the Flag Marshals of the day allowing the Club to run a new safety format of releasing the Cars from the pits using the Flag Marshals, Referee for the day was Teresa Morgan and support roles were New Girl Tracey Kennedy and Mad pup Himself Daniel Morgan. After drivers briefing Mr Taylor noticed a number of new drivers and took them through how the meeting runs with regards to driving, heats, and marshalling safety...........The Track Designed by Rob Cockcroft and Paul Harris Proved to be both challenging and flowing and a number of the top drivers studied the track and used the full 5 rounds of qualifying to ensure they had learned the track and its little challenges!!...........The new safety process of flag marshals in both qualifying and finals proved very rewarding and although the drivers and pit crews struggled for the first round they all seemed to get into it very quickly this process also insured all marshals were out before race started and possible injuries through rouge cars on the track were removed, the drivers then had a 2 minute warm up and all started together with no-one converging on the loop...........After 5 full rounds of qualifying Mirage driver Greg Hill Proved to be “the daddy” followed by Nigel Pushon and Sheffield’s own Anthony Roebuck for the 1, 2, 3 on the grid, in Truggies TQ went to Mathew Grafton with Joe Pushon in 2nd and Frankley Driver Jeremy Grant biting at their feet in 3rd on the grid...........The C final was the first final to go to Grids the drivers had a 2 minute warm up, they were then asked to “drivers to the pits” they were then refuelled and the pitman after the flag Marshalls were happy took the cars from the pits to the grids for the start of the finals Flag Marshals Paul Gill and Kerry Kennedy then controlled the final start and they were off. X-Ray Driver Lee Taylor who had Bad luck all Day started from 12th on the grid stormed into 1st place on the first corner and was as expected untouchable through the entire final and after lapping everyone within the first 5 minutes helped other drivers in the final being their pace car and showing true sportsmanship of waiting until he was caught up this proved rewarding to the other drivers and encouraged both Stephen Manley and DDH Hardware Driver Craig Barrow to do the 2nd and 3rd for the bump up places...........B Final saw a thrilling drive by both Darren Savin of Swindon Nitros and Fast Tracks Driver Carl Rainbird who thrashed out the final over a gruelling 20 minutes with Chris Bates Of J12 taking 4th and lee Taylor storming from 12th on the grid to finish in 1st place with Carl in 2nd Darren in 3rd and those being the bump ups to the A final...........The A final saw a consistent start grid and a clean first bend with only 2 cars out of 15 not clearing the grid Poor Anthony “the flying Flynn” having major problems with his radio gear and Our Man Barry having starting problems after 5 minutes in it seemed to be a very close race between Greg, Nigel and Lee and with Nigel and Greg averaging 47.3 laps its was going to be between Greg and Nigel for the first place slot with lee having problem with his engine finishing in 3rd the pressure was off the other 2,after 23 laps there was just 2.78 secs between Nigel and Greg and with Greg running out of fuel in lap 24 the win went to Nigel with a good 25 laps. Simon Fennell, Graham Barrow and Darren Savin had a good battle to give them the 4th 5th and 6th slots 7th 8th 9th and 10th went to Carl Rainbird, Shane Dye, Mark Beattie and Chris Lambert...........The Truggies final After a False start was again a close race and with Naomi Tilsley, Doug Swingler and Jake Edwards Pulling up before the start it was to be an 8 car final after 10 minutes the final was looking close with Mathew, Joe, Jeremy and Keith all fighting for the first 3 places Jeremy Grant was blistering and was starting to settle down in his driving when bad luck struck 3 times he was “took out” by Truggy drivers less experienced and in the end put him in the 4th place spot with a ever experience Keith Taking the converted 3rd place leaving the fight between Mathew and Joe for the winner going again right down to the last 2 laps with Mathew Taking 1st and Joe finishing in a respectable 2nd place...........Race ReportThe Maddog 
CLUB GETS SPONSORED EVENT -- Posted by Chairman on Thursday, May 24 2007
The 1st ever Panther Cup will be coming to Frankley for a 2 day event 8/9th September 2007 supported By Tooleys RC Toys and in association with Horizon Hobbies ,the meeting will be capped at 124 drivers and it is expected to fill up very quickley 
Round 1 8-TEN A SUCESS -- Posted by Chairman on Tuesday, April 24 2007
The meeting saw 72 drivers booking into the meeting , the day started with booking with the usal booking in of drivers,The format was changed today for this event to test the capability of the track and numbers capable and timing capabilities, the meeting had 4 rounds of heats 10 minutes long and 20 minutes across the board finals accustomed to Frankley giving the average driver 1hr and 20 minutes track time..... Round 1 saw some pretty impressive times coming off the track with the best 3 of the first round being Wayne Parker 12/637.28, Lee Bunker 12/642.99 and Jon Howells 12/648.92, with the best lap time being Joint between Wayne Parker and Lee bunker of 50.18. In the Second there was no change in TQ but Lee Taylor Took best Lap Time of 49.75. Third Round saw TQ Beaten by just .06 of a second with Jon Howells Getting a 12/637.22. After 3 rounds their were only 3 people that could complete 12 laps in the time specified and with just .22 of a second coming off in 3 rounds meant the track was designed just right. The final round of qualifying saw Richard McKenzie Take TQ by 1.12 seconds giving Richard pole in the finals with Jon Howells in Second and Wayne Parker in Third...... D final saw Mark Beattie, Lloyd Pitt and Dave Cook Bump up and with all the finals being 20 minutes made the finals an experience building exercise. C final saw Kevin Weaver, Mathew White and Brian Folly Bump up and with the B Final having Ben Martin, Mark Exon and Chris Lambert the A final was looking to be quite Special...... A rest Bite for the Rally X saw a Full A Final of Truggies with 16 Truggies contesting this final, after a gruelling 20 minutes of tussling and mid-air summersaults and a mad a game of cat and mouse between the Sandy Boys of John Geaves, Brian Folly, Chris Hampson, Kevin Harris and Tony Ryder the end game of this final seemed to be “last man standing” With Lee Taylor storming home with 1st Followed By John “Scooby” Parsons in 2nd with 5 times series winner Paul Lisitter Coming In 3rd ....... A final Rally X was the last Final of the day with 16 Marshalls from the Truggies Final ensuring in was down to driving ability and skill on the new Frankley demanding Summer Track that gave us the winners on the day, After a good grid start and 5 laps into the race the drivers started to settle down and the adrenaline pumping round in the bodies started to stabilize Lee Taylor Took 1st place and never moved from that place for the rest of the final he was flying with a blistering 46.79 lap in lap 6 proving his drive with XRAY is just deserved after 20 minutes of weaving and skilful driving manoeuvres between the top 8 drivers the final Placing were 1st Lee Taylor 2nd Jon Howells 3rd John Murphy overall results will be found on the 8-ten website under Results........ The day finished with a full presentation for 1st, 2nd and 3rd every final with 3 drivers getting “Driver of the Day” awards and our friend Trevor Savin from Swindon Nitros Getting the converted award of “Marshall of the Day”....... The Day finished at 6pm and the feedback from the drivers about track time and the track itself was most appreciated.
Cross over completion ready for 8-ten -- Posted by Chairman on Monday, April 16 2007
The Frankley Flyer has now been fully completed and now includes the under section of the cross-over, she has been fully boarded both on sides and internal wall to insure a smooth transition and big white mark has been placed on the back pipes for sweet turning spot and the width for the acess to the under is a staggering 6.4 metres insuring the blind spot that occurs on most cross-overs are kept to a mimimum,the track for the summer also has included a grass section back by popular demand so Frankley Proudly now boasts a 54 sec lap with sections that can now be removed to change the layout and decrease the size to acomodate most scales of off-road and both nitro and electric an both winter and summer tracks at the move of just 2 hoses.Pictures can be found on the picture section of this website 
8 Ten series round 1 -- Posted by admin on Friday, April 13 2007
Booking in online for the 8 Ten Series Round 1 22nd April 2007 is now available at. 8ten Booking in Form
REGIONAL TEAM FESTIVAL -- Posted by Chairman on Monday, April 2 2007
The team festival came to Frankley with 4 teams Battling out to win the first ever Regional Team Event there were teams from East-Anglia,East Midlands,Mid-west and an Invitational All-Stars team made up of drivers from the South,Coventry,Telford and the North Mr Rob Nelson form BBK Software did the timing for the day and the format was done different to normal meetings to ensure the team spirit and and fun factor was included, There were 4 Heats of final type racing with the teams themselves having to endure 10min heats with refuling with 20 minute finals across the board to make the points so close it was down to the last 5 minutes of the last race of the day to decide the region team winner and with just 12 points seperating 1st and 2nd place the results were,Mid - West 982 points,East Anglia 970 points,Invitational 769 points,East Midlands 445 points,Good to see Smiling Happy Faces in the bitter cold with snow falling towards the end of the day 
John Murphy Wins Frosty Feet Winter Series 2007 -- Posted by Chairman on Sunday, March 4 2007
The final round of the Frosty Feet Series Started with drivers briefing followed by 3 round of qualifying with 20 minute finals for both finals..................27 drivers braved the weather to complete the Final round of the series..........In Rally X the series was Won By John Murphy Followed by Lee Bunker,John Howells in 3RD with Wayne Parker and Andrew Nicholas in 4th and 5th resectivley..........in Monster Trucks a Total clean sweep By Mr Crusty (Mark Kilsby) to give him the series win with No-One else making the final cut.........Junior Championship went to Elliot Newman With Young Elliot Taylor taking 2nd and the ever improving Mathew Lewis taking 3rd...........Driver of the series went to Young Elliot Taylor who has improved every single round and is starting to become a driver to watch over the next season!!!!...the series has proved to be a sucess with over 140 drivers participatiting in the series coming from all over the country to try the facilities at Frankley...................thankyou to everyone who helped to make this series a sucess you should all be proud of yourselves 
Round 7 re-sheduled amazing -- Posted by Chairman on Tuesday, February 27 2007
The day started at 7am with 70 drivers booked in and soft ground and rain predicted all day but the track was in a nice condition and ready to be raced onThe cross over (table top section of it) was unveiled and declared a success by almost every one. Only ONE driver made a major complaint and even he accepted others could get over the table top it was only his car that had problems. (although we were aware we had some small issues which we solvced prior to the finals taking place.)Given that the same make of car was leading the A final for some considerable time before a Plug put paid to Si Willets chances it might well have been set up problems that this driver suffered with!We have made further modifications to the table top and more to come on Saturday so we hoipe to have it a million times better!If the last weeks A final is anything to go by, one of the most exciting ever seen at Frankley, with Jon Howells taking a well earned win after Si Willets first fell to a blown plug while leading and Kark jackson the (victim of marshall apathy early on causing him to have to pull in and change a shock at the start of the race leaving him at the back of the pack!)Karl then came storming through the field to second place just yards from the leader with two laps to go when the sheer height of the jumps he was getting brought about his down fall. (broken wish bone I think)Never the less Dave Blakely on his first visit to Frankley took home a trophy for second place , the new plug of Si willets gaining him a well deserved third and the the "WHOLE of the A final played their part in such a fantastic final!Well done lads!Current Track record Karl Jackson 8/308.17 with a current track lap record of 37.17 
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as promised. Tommorow the Dudley Club will be running their round of the border counties league at Frankley. A Storage container has been will be introduced and club nights will start from early July giving drivers and club members the chance to practise prior to a major event.
All week long the track will be open for practise in the evening and if enough people wish to attend during the day this can be arranged BY APPOINTMENT. Contact themaddog@blueyonder.co.uk
Our next meeting is set for the 2nd july 2006 and pans to introduce decent jumps for this event arew well advanced.
Booking in for the RRCI Round 5 on the 2nd july 2006 event is via the link above.
Please note we have introduced payment via PAYPAL but only use this if you have an account.
Also note the price for paypal is 50 pence extra (£10.50 to reflect the extra commision and saving in stamps and SAE etc . CASH ON THE DAY will now attract a late payment fee of £3 as this causes no end of headaches and slows the meeting down for those who can be bothered to pay.
You asked for it we provided it now lets see if you use it?
Race report14th May 2006
The meeting started at 9am sharp with a full round of practice on what was to be one of the best designed tracks by the BNRC team, after the nightmare of April the 2nd the timing system worked a treat and held practice to within 45 minutes
Drivers briefing was done to perfection by a nervous Andrew Nicholas who gave in detail what was expected of the drivers and marshals and gave details of toilets and
Shops
The meeting started bang on queue with the first heat on the line at 10.15am follow by a round on the hour every hour this gave a practise and 4 rounds of qualifying we had a 45 minute break at 2 pm giving us finals starting at 3.45pm the meeting finished with every final being extended and gave us a finishing time of 4.40pm
The track itself gave the best driver of the day Mr Jim Davis of Helga Racing the TQ time of the day of 43.383 .The track itself consisted of a 53 metre straight 2 full size jumps,3 whoops sections and numerous other exciting parts of the track and all the drivers enjoyed the track tremendously the team saw many smiling happy faces which is a sign of enjoyment
New driver Elliot Taylor who came with his new lightening stadium 1/10 stole the hearts of the committee of the BNRC and awarded him with driver of the day ,this young boy came with his first truck on Saturday for practice and setup help from ever willing to help Mr Peter Freeman and his new found skills put him in finishing place of 2nd after the incredibly skilled Leon Stallard followed in third place by young Kallum Adams the TQ’S went to Paul Lisitter for Truggies,Leon Stallard for 1/10th nitro, David Bird for Monster Trucks and finally Jim Davis for 1/8th rally cross
The next meeting is expected to be bigger and better than the last with the Radio Race Car coming to Frankley on 2nd July 2006 watch this space for details
Race report
Themaddog
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