The first event for 2019 featured our Historic Saloon, American Pony Car and Vintage Sports '60-'75 classes and saw seven drivers vying for honours. With all the rule changes made for 2019 focusing solely on HS and APC, everyone was filled with anticipation of how the cars that had the new changes would perform. It was a mixed bag, some going quicker and others remaining basically the same as last year, but its still early days.
In the interest of completing the events earlier, we had worked out a schedule which reduced the number of races to two per class, but increased the laps per race by 10, from 25 to 35. This worked out reasonably, although we had to reduce this to just 1 race each for the once again split VS GT and Prototype sub-class races. We did manage to finish earlier than had become the norm and, like the cars, this system will be fine-tuned as we go along.
Results
The Historic Saloon starting grid comprised only Fords - five Capris and one Falcon. My Capri is on pole, followed by one of the Team Bhola Capris driven by Arden, Steve's Falcon, The second Team Bhola Capri with Ramesh at the controls, O'Brie's Capri and Peter's Zakspeed Capri:
Rear view of four Capris on the downhill back-straight that leads into Fosters corner:
American Pony Car starting grid. Steve's Javelin on pole, Ramesh's Camaro, my Challenger, Steve's Mustang Notchback driven by Richard, my similar Mustang driven by O'Brie and another of Ramesh's Camaros driven by Arden:
O'Brie's blue Mustang almost hits the wall as Ramesh's orange Camaro heads towards the final turn:
Richard's Mustang and my Challenger lie on their roofs after a coming-together in Fosters:
Vintage Sports '60-'75 Prototype saw Ramesh's Alfa 33/3 on pole followed by Steve's similar car, Ramesh's McLaren M8D driven by Arden, my little early-era Ferrari 275P and O'Brie's Ford MkIV:
My 275P lies on its side after trying to negotiate the infield 90-degree left-hander over the car's limit:
Vintage Sports '60-'75 GT starting grid. Ramesh's De Tomaso Pantera leads Steve's Porsche 914/6, Steve's Cheetah driven by Richard, my Cobra Daytona driven by O'Brie and my Cobra roadster:
The whole GT field going through the Carousel in tight formation:
Another view of the GT action in the Carousel:
(How this is computed: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=393)
Congratulations to the winners!
Next event's classes: Class grouping B - Rally Car (RC), Slot.It Challenge (SC), Formula 1 (F1) (3 races/stages).
Don't forget to see the updated overall fastest times and the fastest times by driver and class for 2019 to know what the benchmarks are for your cars, the updated class average qualifying times and the updated fastest times for 2019. Older stats can be found in the Archive area of the forum.
See you on the circuit...
Gordon
