[Kevan]

Race reports - 1st September - ‘Club Challenge’ #5 - Team Race
 
 
Initially there were 7 club members, Paul was offered the chance to race one of the ‘Club Challenge’ Moslers but kindly declined as he didn’t want to damage someone else’s car (to be fair he’s too good a driver to do that).
 
Cars were handed out at 7.30 for a bit of tuning & cleaning.  Once it was announced that tonight's challenge was to be team racing with the teams were decided by the drivers position in the rolling points standings with top & bottom driver being one team, 2nd top & 2nd bottom another and the remaining two the third team some cars were looked at a little closer.  Gav’s car had rear tyres detaching from the wheels, although a quick fix was tried it wouldn’t be fair to race as the tyres wouldn’t be true so a pair were taken from one of the cars not raced.
 
The event was split into two rounds, the first round was to be a car swap between team members whilst in round #2 we raced our own cars. 
 
Every time Geoff got going he was fast, driving Andy’s car in round #1 set the fastest lap time of all the ‘car swaps’, well done…in fact it suited his ‘drive it like you stole it’ catchup style of driving but a few too many deslots meant catchup was the order of the night for Geoff.  His teammate Andy didn’t fare as well with Geoff’s car, only managing 6th place overall but made up for it with his own car in Round #2…and managed the only 29 lapper of the night. 
 
Gavin got his first heat win and it was on merit, a great run that got a round of applause at the end, the 27 lapper in Yellow was only bettered by Kev racing Chris’s car!…greatness it seems is short lived as next time out the marshals were rather busy.
Meanwhile his teammate Brian was trying to focus on clean races and ignoring individual race results…once he got to drive his own car he was flying again, setting the best overall score in Red, 2nd best in Yellow and 3rd best in Blue.
 
Chris seemed more up for it tonight and drove Kev’s car well, in fact better than his own car in Round #2.  His run in Red in Round #1 was only bettered by Kev driving Chris’s car! Kev loved racing Chris’s car in Round #1, in fact it was quicker than his own car in Red and Yellow, Blue lane was where Kev’s car went best, letting Brian past to focus on racing then managed the fastest lap of the night.
 
All in all, this is the first ‘Club Challenge’ I’ve really enjoyed, other club members agreed.                                                 
 
   


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