After a 2-week break for Carnival, a small turnout of jut six drivers at least meant that no one would miss a race because of more drivers than grid positions for our 2014 group G classes, Group 5 Sports Car and Formula 1.
In G5SC Luke failed to get his Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga running properly, leaving just four drivers to compete, all in Alfa Romeo 33/3s. During practice no one could get within less than 0.2 sec of Luke B's 6.003 sec lap record, but in qualifying Steve just blew everyone and the lap record away by turning a lap of 5.800 sec, almost half a second faster than the next car. Well done Steve!
In F1, Ramesh put his his FC-130-motored McLaren on pole with Arden just 0.033 seconds behind in his similarly-powered Jordan. All six F1 cars were separated by just 0.674 sec at the end of qualifying.
The first and second places of all the G5SC races were shared between Ramesh and Steve, with the next (and last) two positions similarly shared between Arden and I. As has often happened in the past, the point for pole position played a significant part in the final points tally for the class championship win.
F1 turned out to be a series of races where accidents caused some attrition. Races were temporarily stopped then re-started a number of times when some of these pile-up involved several cars blocking the track. Arden's Jordan twice suffered mechanical damage and both Steve and Ramesh had to retire their primary cars and turn to substitutes. Unfortunately for Ramesh, his replacement which ran the two last races failed post-race tech inspection, resulting in disqualification from these races and erased a sure class win.
The results
Congratulations to the winners.
2014 Overall Class Points Update
Next event's classes: Our class grouping H: GT - 5 races @ 40 laps, LMP - 5 races @ 40 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