With yet another shaky situation whereby there appeared to be only three or four drivers able to race (based on the poll I use to decide on whether or not to go through all the prep work to host an FRC event), I had cancelled this week's racing. However, through Luke's efforts at contacting drivers, we managed to confirm and eventually have eight racers and so the the event went on.
Classes scheduled were Ferrari Team Challenge and Modified Production. The practice session before the races revealed a bit of a disparity in the performance of the Ferraris, with the two yellow cars being the most difficult to drive and therefore the slowest. The irony of this was that, with the current system, the fastest qualifier and his team-mate(s) would have to drive these two cars! With the new revised FTC regs, car choice for qualifying was based on the roll of a dice and the team drivers were determined from qualifying times. This in turn established the drivers for each specific car. The end result was the following:
- Scuderia Giallo (Yellow - car nos 1 and 2) - Myself and Dougie
- Scuderia Blu (Blue - car nos 3 and 4) - Luke, Aaron and Kerwin
- Scuderia Rosso (Red - car nos 5 and 6) - Steve, Arden and Keith
We had four drivers with Modified Production cars - three Mustangs and Luke's Seat Leon. Unfortunately for Luke, the Seat blew its F1 chip in the second race, proving that finding a balance between power and magnetic downforce when running the F1 chip is a challenge. For the final race he drove Zoë's fast Audi TT.
New lap records
- Ferrari Team Challenge - 6.783 sec (Gordon, Scalextric Ferrari F430)
- Modified Production - 6.144 sec (Gordon, Pioneer Mustang Notchback)
Congratulations to the winners.
Next event's classes: Porsche Cup - 6 races @ 30 laps, Historic Saloon - 3 races @ 30 laps (270 total laps for all classes). Don't forget to see the updated fastest times for the FRC classes to know what the benchmarks are for your cars. Also of interest are the updated class average qualifying times.
See you on the circuit...
Gordon
