Last night saw the final series of races for one of our long-standing and fastest classes, American Muscle (AM). Our first AM race was run on 17th September 2009 and funny enough, it had the same number of entries as our last - just three. The initial grid comprised Alex (Boss Mustang), Paul (Camaro) and myself (Mustang GT350) and two races were run. In the ensuing weeks, months and years a total of 212 more AM races were run, making it the third highest number of races for any class after LMP (296 races) and GT (361 races). AM will now be replaced by the new American Pony Car (APC) class, a toned down but more accurately scaled and realistic class for the same type of cars, but requiring a bit more driving skill. The king is dead, long live the king.
Results
Luke qualifying the only car he raced, one of Ramesh's quick GT TVRs:
The last and one of the smallest ever FRC American Muscle starting grids. Luke had a Camaro entered
but withdrew it after problems in practice. O'Brie had a Boss Mustang which he also had to park because
of a blown chip in practice:
LMP starting grid - not a full grid either, but lots of action anyway. Absent drivers don't know the fun
they're missing:
I was one of the first casualties in LMP, my Lola-Aston hitting the Armco on the outside of the Caiman
Pond hairpin and ricocheting into the pond:
Here's another view. The crocodile hunter almost got hit:
Then there was a series of simultaneous crashes that took out the whole field in three different areas of
the circuit:
Congratulations to the winners.
Next event's classes: Group A - Mixed GT IROC - 6 races @ 20 laps, Restricted GT - 3 races @ 30 laps.
As usual, don't forget to see the updated fastest times for the FRC classes to know what the benchmarks are for your cars, the updated class average qualifying times and the updated fastest times for 2016.
See you on the circuit...
Gordon
