[Kevan]

Race reports - 23rd Feb - The Italian Job - handicap race

   

A great turnout tonight with seven club members and over 20 Ferraris, Lancias, Lamborghinis and Maseratis seen during practice.

The idea of these theme nights is to give everyone a chance of the final overall ‘win’.  To do this everyone runs 5 qually laps in the red lane, each drivers best lap is used to calculate a ‘predicted score’ in a perfect scenario.  This will throw up unexpected results as it’s not necessarily the fastest car that wins, in fact the times we’ve done this in the past the fastest cars don’t win.

The racing was split into two halves with everyone except Ed running two cars and all but four cars were Standard Class cars.

Round 1

The close heat races were generally for 2nd spot:
Heat #1 Brian (Maserati) & Chris (Lamborghini) 3.5 seconds apart, Brian pinching 2nd place
Heat #3 Ed (Ferrari 412) & Chris (Lamborghini) 2.9 seconds apart, Chris finishing 2nd
Heat #4 Geoff (Lamborghini) & Ed (Ferrari 412) 3 seconds apart, Geoff getting 2nd spot
Heat #7 was the only close race finish for 1st place Kev (Ferrari 312) & Brian (Maserati) finishing 1.5 seconds apart, Kev winning the heat.

Heat wins for Andy, Kev & Geoff

Round 2

Heat #3 was close for 2nd spot between Chris (Lancia Stratos) & Ed (Ferrari 412) with Chris finishing 3.7 seconds ahead.
Heat #6 saw 2nd & 3rd placed cars finishing on the same lap as Geoff (Ferrari 512BBLM) finished almost a lap ahead of Brian (Ferrari 365)

Heat wins for Kev, Andy, Geoff & Brian

   

Despite one or two niggly problems and one or two cars losing body parts the racing was good fun and this event will return again on the 17th August

   

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Next week is Club Car night with GT40’s out first followed by Revoslot GT2’s