Five drivers turned up to run our fastest races for American Muscle (AM), GT and LMP on a wet Thursday night. Once again our roll-down tarpaulin/awning saved the day (night) and the races went on without interruption from the inclement weather. With three classes to run, we decided on settling for three races per class instead of the usual five.
Luke B did his usual and out-qualified everyone in his Ramesh-prepared cars, however I saw a slight glimmer of hope for my LMP chances when I was able to do a time of 4.2-something just before the start of qualifying. This incidentally is the fastest any of my cars have ever gone at FRC. I wasn't able to repeat the time in qualifying, but I managed a 4.334 sec lap before de-slotting, putting my Lola-Aston on the outside of the front row.
The AM races were hotly contested, the first two places changing for each one. In GT, Luke T's Lambo Gallardo proved to be almost as quick as the Bhola Porsches, pulling off a win and two seconds. Just two points separated the top two drivers in the end. LMP was a breath of fresh air for me as my Lola-Aston lived up to its pre-race promise, challenging Luke B's Cadillac Northstar and eventually going past to give me my first two wins in these classes in a very long time. Had I not got a drive-through penalty in race one, I may have had three first places.
The results
Congratulations to the winners.
2014 Overall Class Points Update
Next event's classes: Group A: Scalextric GT Challenge IROC - 6 races @ 20 laps, Restricted GT - 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
