The track at the 2002 Nations Cup was a 28-metre NSR Future, installed by Salvatore Noviello. Fitting in a space of 9 x 5 m, the track is extremely compact and allows close racing, both with fast scale cars as with much slower model cars. Compared to the IMCA Worlds Track from Diepenbeek the NSR Future is more technical with two difficult small curbs on lane 1. Some racers - among them Russell Sheldon - were rather unhappy with the high number of track calls due to the squiggle. In his RSA Report Russell writes: "Although an extremely short 8 lane track, close racing was guaranteed. Unfortunately there was that ridiculous squiggle coming out of the 180 and onto the main straight, which in turn went under a bridge, and could not therefore be properly marshalled, accounted for way too much unnecessary crashing." Perhaps the problem could have been avoided on racing the other way round. Einari Fyhr blamed the lap counter, but confused the post up with the computer. Indeed, we discovered a mistake in the programming, in such a way that the lap counting system worked with extern "computer time" and had not a built-in timer. Due to this mistake by programmer Jacques Berkhout, several segments took more time than initially scheduled, whilst the computer maintained only the laps from the last 2 (3 or 5) minutes. That happened (a) each time that there was a track call during the last seconds of a segment and (b) each time that the extern computer time blocked. In the last case the posted up laps in face of the racers were incorrect, however not those on the computer.  Or how a small programming error - which had noting to do with the counting system itself - had unpleasant consequences. Pic: Stéphane Martin.