Despite rainy weather and a sink hole on the highway that unfortunately prevented south boys Ramesh and Arden from attending, we still had a good turnout of eight drivers, seven of which competed in the night's races. From early in the evening, we realised that the track power was a bit lower than normal, despite the power supply being set at the usual 14V, so the cars were a bit less peppy than we would expect for these fast classes. As a result only a single car got under 5 sec in qualifying. Nonetheless, we pressed on and had some exciting races.
Anthony had his first real taste of digital racing when he drove my Porsche 911R in Restricted GT against five other racers and, from his comments afterwards ("This is the real thing!"), he's sure to be back with cars of his own. During the first RGT race both O'Brie's Porsche and my Viper retired as a result of impacts, the Porsche breaking a motor mount and the Viper's motor becoming dislodged.
We missed the competition from south, Ramesh always being the pacesetter, but they'll hopefully be back at FRC for our next event.
Results
Modified Production starting grid with each position comprising a diffrent car. My Zakspeed Capri sits on pole, followed by Steve's BMW 320i sporting new nicely flared fenders, O'Brie's Subaru Impreza, Peter's Zakspeed Escort, my BMW Mini driven by Richard and Steve's Renault Megane driven by Keith:
First lap race up the hill:
Race action with two Zakspeed Fords - Escort and Capri - alongside one another:
Restricted GT starting grid with my Viper on pole, Obrie's Porsche 911R, Steve's Audi R8GT3, Steve's 911 GT1 driven by Keith, my Porsche 911R driven by Anthony and Richard's 911R:
As we were running late, for Restricted LMP we decided to roll a dice for grid positions and have a single 11 minute race. The grid comprised Steve's Peugeot 908; O'Brie's Porsche 956, my Toyota 88C, Steve's Lola B09/60 driven by Keith and O'brie's Sauber Mercedes driven by Richard:
(How this is computed: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=393)
Congratulations to the winners!
Next event's classes: Class grouping A - Historic Saloon (HS), American Pony Car (APC), Vintage Sports '60-'75 (VS6075).
Don't forget to see the updated overall fastest times and the fastest times by driver and class for 2018 to know what the benchmarks are for your cars, the updated class average qualifying times and the updated fastest times for 2018.
See you on the circuit...
Gordon