Last night was our current "fast car" night featuring FRC's Modified Production (MP), Restricted GT (RGT) and Restricted LMP (RLMP) classes and well, these "restricted" cars are starting to go really fast now. Five racers drove a total of eighteen cars over two hundred and twenty-five laps of high-speed competition. But even before the racing for each class got started, qualifying saw some pretty fast times with Ramesh achieving the quickest of the night with a 4.616 sec lap in RLMP, a new class lap record. One noticeable thing in all three classes is that the fields have tightened up considerably which means that guys are trying harder when prepping their cars. The gap in times between pole and the last (5th) qualifier was 0.735 sec in MP, 0.529 sec in RLMP and just 0.323 in RGT! The resultant racing was very close indeed.
A crowded paddock and this was before the south boys arrived:
Results
Modified Production starting grid:
Restricted GT starting grid - my Viper finally on pole:
Restricted LMP starting grid:
There was some extremely close slipstreaming in the RLMP races. Here O'Brie's Porsche is almost touching Arden's Mazda:
This time, Arden returns the favour on O'Brie at the same spot on the track:
Then Steve's Lola-Aston got right up even closer on Arden's Mazda:
Spread-out accident involving Steve's blue Lola-Aston, Arden's upside-down Mazda in the foreground and O'Brie's yellow Porsche way up at the top of the hill in the background:
Congratulations to the winners!
Next event's classes: Class grouping A - Historic Saloon (HS), American Pony Car (APC), Vintage Sports '60-'75 (VS6075).
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 2017.
See you on the circuit...
Gordon