[Kevan]

Race reports - 17th August - Italian Cars Handicap Race

Ferrari…Lamborghini…Maserati…Alfa Romeo…DeTomaso…Fiat
We saw most of those in practice and some during racing. 

   

No qually tonight, each drivers quickest lap on Red lane being used for the handicaps, the closest to their predicted score declared the winner.

We raced two rounds so had the option of racing two different cars or the same car twice.

As there were only five of us we raced in two’s except the final heat which was three cars with Ed racing in both final heats of the night so we had two marshals capable of running around.

Round 1

The racing didn’t get close until Round #1 Heat #6 as Andy - Ferrari 458 (Yellow) and Kev - Lamborghini Murcielago (Blue) finished less than 3 seconds apart, both drivers setting their fastest laps of the night with the Ferrari winning the heat.

Then we had an interesting final race in Heat #7 as Geoff - Ferrari 512 BBLM (Red) Ed -Ferrari 412P (Yellow) and Brian Ferrari 365 P2 (Blue).  Ed’s 412P set the fastest lap, Geoff’s 512BBLM was the most consistent and whilst Brian’s 365P2 had easily the quickest motor of the three but couldn’t safely navigate past slower cars and ended up in the scenery…the cars finishing the race in that order.

   

Round 2

Ed & Geoff opted to race the same car they raced in Round 1 but the handicap was still taken from the runs in Red lane.

Drivers were shuffled round a little, this time the racing didn’t get really close until Heat #4 as Geoff - 512BBLM (Yellow) and Brian - Maserati MC GT3 (Blue) made an interesting race especially on Lap 7 when Geoff’s Ferrari deslotted whilst the two cars were neck-and-neck giving Brian’s Maserati nearly half a lap lead…a lead that took most of the rest of the race for Geoff to catch up only to finish less than 1 second behind Brian.

Andy’s Huracan had an easy night, three clean runs with Geoff getting closest in Heat #1 when the Lambo was in Red lane.

The final heat was again interesting as Geoff - 512BBLM (Red), Ed - 412P (Yellow) and Kev Ferrari 550 GTS (Blue) lined up to finish the evening…what could go wrong with Ed in the middle lane!
…Geoff found out exactly what could go wrong, more than once too…if Ed chuckled any harder he would have fallen off his chair but he did apologise afterwards...what goes around...comes around Ed!
Kev’s 550 GTS avoided the carnage with a clean run to win the last race of the night.

   

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Next week is Club GT40 and Club BMW 320i with club controllers

Reminder - The AGM is slowly but surely creeping up on us (end of October) if you have any proposals, take note of them because I’ll be asking for them to be included in the agenda in a week or so’s time.
The race calendar for 2024 will be discussed in the weeks after the AGM as we have plenty of time to tweak it if necessary.