[Kevan]

Race reports - 14 September - Grand Prix/Prewing F1 + Classic F1/F1

It was fairly quiet tonight with four club members, this enabled us to have extended races, 5 minute heats all night.

   

Standard Grand Prix
Ed’s been working on his Cartrix Lancia Ferrari and packed the bottom of the chassis with tungsten rods…it may be heavy but it stays in the slot and goes remarkably well!

Modified Grand Prix
Kev raced his Mercedes W154, and Brian raced his trusty Vanwall

Open Pre-wing
Andy raced his Ferrari 156

The closest race was Heat #1 as Ed (Red lane) and Brian (Blue lane) both finished on the same lap with the Vanwall just over half a lap ahead.
Heat #2 was the only other close race as Andy (Red lane) finished a lap ahead of Kev (Yellow lane).  Kev’s Merc doing well to keep up for a fair few laps until the inevitable deslot as these are narrow and have high ground clearance, Andy’s Ferrari 156 finishing a lap clear at the end.

   

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Standard F1
NSR was going to win this one, Andy spent a while working on his car as it began the evening a fair bit off the pace, Brian’s car has a distinct sound and Ed’s got to glue his tyres on to finish setting it up but was convinced Andy had done them (he hadn’t but Ed’s adamant he had).
Andy’s off the pace car was suddenly very much on the pace in Heat #1 (Blue lane) and was never in danger in Standard class.  
Brian & Ed did race each other, Heat #5, the Vanwall in Red lane and the Ferrari in Blue lane.  A best lap of 6.5 for Brian whilst Ed got his best lane score in this race and best lap of 6.8

Open F1
Kev’s Black Bull the sole car in class is always on the pace and was involved in the fastest race of the night, Heat #6, the last one of the night, Andy (Red lane) and Kev (Yellow lane) amassed over 100 laps between them with Kev managing another very quick run…those tyres are showing signs of high wear…it’s only a matter of time…

   

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Next week is Small Sports/Saloons plus Group 5

Reminder - The AGM is 6 weeks away (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.