We had a relatively small turnout for our second event for the new year, with just five drivers turning up. Merryl also came by but did not race, although he marshalled and did some driving in between races. From this event forward, we’ve extended the race laps from 20 to 30 and this worked out well, giving more opportunities to get back in the hunt after having a mishap.
The racing was vey close. Out of the six races, we had three different winners, four second and four third placed drivers of the five who raced. Times also plummeted. In qualifying, Liam set a time of 8.733 in American Pony Car, I managed an 8.685 in Historic Saloon and Steve a 8.481 in Modified Production. The fastest race times were also low, Peter getting down to 8.825 in Historic Saloon with his beautiful new Alpine A310, Steve pushing his Javelin down to 8.767 in American Pony car and me managing to get my Zakspeed Capri down to a special one-off time of 8.145. There was a big crash early in the first American Pony Car race, with all five cars being involved.
We had a bit of a query on the results of one of the races, but took O'Brie's wise advice and stuck with the PowerBase screen display. Back in the early FRC days we had a saying - "the powerbase is always right" - so we left it there.
Despite just having five participating drivers, we all had an intense afternoon of racing which put each driver to the test, everyone leaving with smiles on their faces.
Just a single pic to start things off (unfortunately Luke couldn't attend, so we missed the usual large variety of pics):
O'Brie brought along a ton of cars after spending many hours working on them during the past few weeks:
Despite having two "board room meeting" breaks, no one remembered to take a pic. Hopefully Luke will be back for our event next Saturday.
The Results
Historic Saloon
Historic Saloon race 1 grid - Gordon/Ford Capri, Peter/Alpine A312, O'Brie/Ford Capri, Steve/BMW 2800CS:
Computer Historic Saloon race 1 results:
Historic Saloon race 2 grid - Gordon/Ford Capri, Steve/Austin A40, Peter/Alpine A312, O'Brie/Opel Kadett:
Computer Historic Saloon race 2 results:
American Pony Car
American Pony Car race 1 grid - Liam/Shelby Mustang 350, Steve/Javelin, Peter/Shelby Mustang 350, Gordon/Challenger, O'Brie/Boss Mustang:
A big accident in race one involving all five cars:
Computer American Pony Car race 1 results:
American Pony Car race 2 grid - Steve/Javelin, Gordon/Challenger, Peter/Shelby Mustang 350, Liam/Shelby Mustang 350, O'Brie/Boss Mustang:
Computer American Pony Car race 2 results:
Modified Production
Modified Production race 1 grid - Steve/Subaru Impreza, Gordon/Zakspeed Capri, O'Brie/BMW 320i, Liam/Nissan Skyline, Peter/Zakspeed Escort:
Computer Modified Production race 1 results:
Modified Production race 2 grid - Steve/Opel Calibra, Peter/Zakspeed Capri, Gordon/Zakspeed Capri, O'Brie/BMW 320i, Liam/Nissan Skyline:
Computer Modified Production race 2 results:
(How this is computed: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=393)
Diversity Award
The inaugural Diversity Award goes to Steve for driving five different cars in the event.
Congratulations to the winners.
Total Championship Points for 2025 (total of each drivers top fifteen points-scoring days):
Next event's classes: Kitbash, Vintage Sports GT, Vintage Sports Prototype. This event is scheduled for Saturday 15th February and will be the last event for February.
Don't forget to see the updated overall fastest times and the fastest no-magnet times by driver and class to know what the benchmarks are for your cars. Older stats can be found in the Archive area of the forum.
See you on the circuit...
Gordon