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We were back at the Barn last night for our traditional WHO digital end-of-the-school-year Wednesday night bash. The evening was taken up with a third GT championship endurance race of the season - this time another 500 lap / two hour event. Seventeen racers took part - plus Ed helping out with marshalling - giving us five teams of three and a trial run of a Silver-Silver pairing for Jeremy and Matthew, deputing for Simon's Ardingly Aces.

Simon was off celebrating son Tyler's university graduation - Tyler was the junior medal winner at our first official HO club night in March 2010...

   

Here's the official line-up for our July GT Championship race - three Mercs, two Bentleys and a lone Aston...

   

We used a tweaked and lengthened version of Mike's February 2019 track, stretching the parallel straight sections from this original diagram at the top left and to the right...

   

After a solid 30 minutes of practice, it was time for the quick-fire two-minute Superpole Shoot-out. This would determine the grid positions and an extra championship point for the fastest lap...

   

Yet again, Ryan's Smooth Operators would start from the front, Ryan taking the first stint... as would all those who qualified their cars...

   

And we were ready to go...