4th-Aug-22, 07:30 AM
Race Report Part 1 - qualifying heats
Eighteen WHO racers enjoyed an exciting evening of Nascar action on a fiendishly fast and tricky triangle + infield layout...
We welcomed Ollie B for his first race at the Barn - plus Richard and Kerry came along to spectate and see what WHO is all about. Heats started promptly at 7pm, Terry setting the early benchmark with a huge 31.2 laps in yellow during the first race. That inside lane would prove a big challenge for many of our racers - most of the action was in the infield switchback, keeping the marshals rather busy!
Just before the halfway point, a hardware malfunction - the failure of a simple USB extension cable - threatened to wreck the evening. However 15 minutes was time to diagnose the problem and cobble together a rather Heath Robinson style lap timing set-up - and we were ready to go again. It hadn't been a good day for WHO hardware - the big flat screen monitor had been broken in storage and will need to be replaced.
Back to the racing - and these were the top dogs at halfway...
There were a few racers way off their usual pace after disastrous early heats. In the case of Keith and Deborah, they had no complaints - they'd chosen the track plan! However, the crash-count gradually dropped as everyone learned the track.
The tension grew during the second round of nine heats, culminating in probably the most memorable heat we've seen at the Barn. Andy, Oliver, Terry and Jerome lined up and delivered a race worthy of an A Final - a super-close, mostly error-free two-minutes that saw Terry set the highest total of the evening so far - 34.25 laps on blue - followed by Andy with 33.85 on yellow and Oliver and Jerome both on 33.05. That final action of qualifying cemented Andy's pole position - Jerome and Terry joining him in the A Final and Oliver topping the trio in the B Final. Ash was the top qualifier in Gen 6 - the competition for AFX Mega-G+ cars - and Isaac was top of the juniors...
However, that was only qualifying - everything can change in the finals... and Andy's Taco Bell Monte Carlo was the car in everyone's sights.
Eighteen WHO racers enjoyed an exciting evening of Nascar action on a fiendishly fast and tricky triangle + infield layout...
We welcomed Ollie B for his first race at the Barn - plus Richard and Kerry came along to spectate and see what WHO is all about. Heats started promptly at 7pm, Terry setting the early benchmark with a huge 31.2 laps in yellow during the first race. That inside lane would prove a big challenge for many of our racers - most of the action was in the infield switchback, keeping the marshals rather busy!
Just before the halfway point, a hardware malfunction - the failure of a simple USB extension cable - threatened to wreck the evening. However 15 minutes was time to diagnose the problem and cobble together a rather Heath Robinson style lap timing set-up - and we were ready to go again. It hadn't been a good day for WHO hardware - the big flat screen monitor had been broken in storage and will need to be replaced.
Back to the racing - and these were the top dogs at halfway...
There were a few racers way off their usual pace after disastrous early heats. In the case of Keith and Deborah, they had no complaints - they'd chosen the track plan! However, the crash-count gradually dropped as everyone learned the track.
The tension grew during the second round of nine heats, culminating in probably the most memorable heat we've seen at the Barn. Andy, Oliver, Terry and Jerome lined up and delivered a race worthy of an A Final - a super-close, mostly error-free two-minutes that saw Terry set the highest total of the evening so far - 34.25 laps on blue - followed by Andy with 33.85 on yellow and Oliver and Jerome both on 33.05. That final action of qualifying cemented Andy's pole position - Jerome and Terry joining him in the A Final and Oliver topping the trio in the B Final. Ash was the top qualifier in Gen 6 - the competition for AFX Mega-G+ cars - and Isaac was top of the juniors...
However, that was only qualifying - everything can change in the finals... and Andy's Taco Bell Monte Carlo was the car in everyone's sights.
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