Race report #71 - Thursday 24th March, 2011
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:33 pm
Hi Guys,
Between Luke calling to excuse himself from attending and Kyle celebrating his birthday "on the town" with friends, we had a small turnout of just six drivers for our fastest classes - American Muscle, GT and LMP. Based on my posting of alternative race groupings and sequences and the fact that things tend to run later than many would like, I had planned to start qualifying at 8:00 PM sharp. I made a concession so that ice and Alex's drinks could be organised, but we nevertheless got things going before 8:30 PM. As specified in the new race groupings, all races for these fast classes were set to 40 Laps, 10 more than the norm.
American Muscle just had four entries and Dougie once again dominated, getting pole and winning all races for a perfect score of 28 points. In GT a concession was made to allow Brent to race a nicely modified Ford Escort. Our class structure generally defines this car body as an Historic Saloon (which must remain basically stock) and our GT class rules use the broad phrase "Body must be modeled after a car which competes in GT racing", so technically this Escort doesn't currently have an FRC class (except Formula Libre). Racing in GT was very close, with Alex and I finishing 2-tenths of a second, 3-tenths of a second and 1 second apart in the three races! Like the Dougie-fest in American Muscle, LMP was a Brent-fest, with him convincingly winning all three races, though he missed the perfect score by the 1 pole position point because he attempted to qualify his Jaguar without a chip installed and was therefore a qualifying non-starter.
Because of the early start and low number of entries, we finished before 11:00 PM, although this didn't stop Laird, Boo and I from liming and talking racing till minutes to 1:00 AM.
Congratulations to the class championship winners and Brent for his Index of Performance win.
Next event's classes: Restricted GT, Slot-It Challenge, F1 - see the regulations here. IMPORTANT: Also see this post again so that you are aware of what motors will be allowed in F1.
See you on the circuit...
Gordon
Between Luke calling to excuse himself from attending and Kyle celebrating his birthday "on the town" with friends, we had a small turnout of just six drivers for our fastest classes - American Muscle, GT and LMP. Based on my posting of alternative race groupings and sequences and the fact that things tend to run later than many would like, I had planned to start qualifying at 8:00 PM sharp. I made a concession so that ice and Alex's drinks could be organised, but we nevertheless got things going before 8:30 PM. As specified in the new race groupings, all races for these fast classes were set to 40 Laps, 10 more than the norm.
American Muscle just had four entries and Dougie once again dominated, getting pole and winning all races for a perfect score of 28 points. In GT a concession was made to allow Brent to race a nicely modified Ford Escort. Our class structure generally defines this car body as an Historic Saloon (which must remain basically stock) and our GT class rules use the broad phrase "Body must be modeled after a car which competes in GT racing", so technically this Escort doesn't currently have an FRC class (except Formula Libre). Racing in GT was very close, with Alex and I finishing 2-tenths of a second, 3-tenths of a second and 1 second apart in the three races! Like the Dougie-fest in American Muscle, LMP was a Brent-fest, with him convincingly winning all three races, though he missed the perfect score by the 1 pole position point because he attempted to qualify his Jaguar without a chip installed and was therefore a qualifying non-starter.
Because of the early start and low number of entries, we finished before 11:00 PM, although this didn't stop Laird, Boo and I from liming and talking racing till minutes to 1:00 AM.
Congratulations to the class championship winners and Brent for his Index of Performance win.
Next event's classes: Restricted GT, Slot-It Challenge, F1 - see the regulations here. IMPORTANT: Also see this post again so that you are aware of what motors will be allowed in F1.
See you on the circuit...
Gordon
Planning to get up to watch the race at 1:30 tomorrow morning.