[Kevan]

Race reports - 19th May - Grand Prix & Pre-wing + Classic F1 & F1
 
A good turnout tonight with seven competitors seen testing a huge range of cars from all eras seen in practice.  

   
 
Grand Prix & Pre-wing
 
No Standard Grand Prix cars tonight but the same three Modifieds seen last time we raced these in March whilst we saw a new lineup in the Open class.
 
Modified GP

   

Kev vs Brian vs Geoff - Kevs Merc W25, and Brian’s Vanwall went a little better than the last event whilst Geoff’s super smooth and quiet Talbot Lago ended up half a lap behind the Vanwall which in turn was one lap per heat behind the W25.
Kev’s Merc W25 had a best run in the Red lane which is unusual for him as he prefers Blue lane.
Heat #6 was close with the Vanwall and Talbot only half a second apart at the end of the heat, the Vanwall just nicking 2nd spot.
…Geoff finished ahead of Brian in March, last night Brian finished ahead of Geoff.
 
Open GP
Chris vs Mike B vs Gav - Chris & Mike were a little down on their last time out but heat #2 saw both cars finish within 4 seconds of each other with Chris finishing in 2nd spot ahead of Mike and heat #3 finished only 1.5 seconds apart with Mike nicking 2nd spot ahead of Chris.
Gav’s Lancia Ferrari was the quickest of the three cars in class but didn’t manage to stay in the slot as long as the other two cars and finished a few laps down.  Gav’s best run was in heat #3 in the Red lane managing to finish just 5 seconds behind Chris’s Maserati.
 
Open Pre-wing

   

Andy’s Ferrari 156 ‘shark nose’ best run was in heat #1 in Blue but managed his best lap in the last heat whilst in Yellow.  The closest anyone got to the Ferrari was Kev’s W25 in heat #7 finishing 2 laps down. 
 
Heat wins in heat order for Andy, Kev, Mike B & Brian

   
 
Classic F1 & F1
 
Standard Classic F1

   

Only one Classic F1 tonight, Brian’s Ferrari 312 B2 with three consistent and smooth runs despite being ‘run over’ late in the evening with the offending car trying to beat the high jump record set earlier by Mike’s Merc!  His first race in heat #1 was close though finishing 1.4 seconds behind Mike’s Merc with Geoff’s NSR winning the heat.
 
Standard F1
The busiest class of all tonight which at the moment is populated by NSR F1’s.
Heat #1 saw Geoff racing the first of the NSR F1’s and he wasn’t hanging about tonight as he put his best time of the night down in Blue ahead of Brian & Mike B.
Heat #2 saw the next NSR F1 with Gav racing Mike & Brian finishing a lap behind the merc.  His best run was in the next heat whilst in the Yellow lane finishing only 2 seconds behind Chris’s NSR F1.  This turned out to be Chris’s best run of the whole evening, he has a knack of doing especially well in the Red lane.
Heat #4 was all NSR as Andy flew round whilst posting the first of many sub 6 second laps seen tonight.
Heat #5 saw Kev’s Open class Black Bull flying round in the Red lane, getting the ‘holeshot’ being necessary to get ahead of Andy’s NSR.
Heat #6 was even quicker as Andy & Kev managed their best overall lane score of the night and a new class lap record for the Black Bull.
The last race of the night saw Brian’s Policar Ferrari trying to stay out of the way of two much quicker and wider F1’s whilst posting his best single lane score of the evening.

   

Heat wins in heat order for Geoff, Mike B, Chris, Andy & Kev.


NSR F1’s with the standard King 21 motor seem to go best with zero or almost zero brakes, they flow much better through bends like this as Andy proved during practice, Kev trying this out with his NSR with a Shark motor fitted to get a similar feel to Andy’s car.
 
Some of the club members have done a great job of their NSR F1, adding livery to make these look more realistic than the generic base car.
 
Andy brought a box of cars down tonight, almost all were sold, GP cars, Rally cars and a Group 5…all no doubt will be seen in action at some time soon.
 
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