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RACE REPORT #156 - February 13th 2014

During the course of the evening of our 156th event we had a total of ten drivers compete in three classes - Historic Saloon, Vintage Sports and three Lambo Series races for the marshals. Luke B. took pole in both HS and VS setting a new lap record of 5.593 in the latter with a Scaley Ford GT40.

There was close competition in HS, particularly between Ramesh and Luke B. and in the end we had one of our very rare ties for the class championship. It was almost the same in VS where we saw Luke B. twice start from the back of the grid for changing cars. This time one driver took the top class points however.

Three marshals competed in the Lambo races and after the first two were over, there was a tie, the eventual winner being decided by a third race tiebreaker.

The results





















Congratulations to the winners.

2014 Overall Class Points Update







Next event's classes: We're supposed to be having our inaugural Nissan GT-R Super Series IROC races, however the cars are not yet ready, so we'll run The Lambo IROC cars instead - 6 races @ 25 laps, Restricted GT - 5 races @ 35 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 2014 Class Points Standings.

See you on the circuit...
Gordon

Great evening of racing, thanks so much to Gordon and Steve for track prep. we enjoyed the racing a lot see you all next wk. bye Ramesh

I agree with Ramesh : great night of racing at FRC. Well done to Ramesh and Luke B. for the tie in Historic Saloon. I can only ever remember one other tie, and it was also in Historic Saloon. If I recall correctly, it was between 'Boo' with his 'Got Milk' Escort and myself with the MGB. Good to see the close racing between Marlon, Jon and Robert in the marshalls' race. Also nice to see not-so-regular Marc racing. Need to come more often Marc ! Nice to see Alex becoming a regular fixture again. We had some attrition even before the racing started, with promising cars from Gordon (Cortina) , Arden (Torana) and myself (Capri) having issues and not being able to run, or at least not being able to show their true potential. My GT40 also had a mysterious power failure in one race but it somehow cleared itself afterward. Not comforting !Still not up to speed with the rest of the class though. Missed Luke, Boo, Ian and Josh. Hope to see you guys next time.
Steve

Sorry, promising car from Gordon was his Escort.