A sizeable turnout of fifteen drivers and guests turned up to FRC's second round of Mini Challenge IROC (MC) races and Rally (RC) stage competition. Of these there were ten MC, nine RC and five who took part in a special race for our Lambo Series IROC cars, dubbed Lambo Series - Novice (LSN) as three of the five were FRC and digital first-timers.
With ten qualifiers in MC, we split the class into A and B sub-groups of five drivers each. Luke T reminded us that he's one of our quickest drivers by getting the fastest time of all, with Jon being fastest in the B-group. We ran the B races first and the main fight was between Alex, Arden and Jon, each of which were race winners. After much on-track dicing, the final points total ended with a tie for first place. In group A, Steve looked like he was on his way to winning everything when he took the first three races. However, the final three wins were shared by Luke B and I, leaving the overall class championship win less clear than it first appeared.
The rally stages were nail-biting close. Each of the three stages were won by a different driver and the time differential over them was very close at the front. The biggest surprise came when Arden put down a record-breaking time 44.519 sec in the final stage, beating second-placed Luke B by 1.5 sec. He also set the fastest rally lap ever recorded under the new regulations, 8.678 sec.
The results
Congratulations to the winners.
2014 Overall Class Points Update
Next event's classes: We're supposed to be having our second tune and test session as the next event, however we've decided to skip this or any racing this week, so the following Wednesday (not the usual Thursday) we'll be running class grouping E: Historic Saloon - 5 races @ 30 laps, Vintage Sports - 5 races @ 30 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
