[Kevan]

Race reports - 21 September - Small Sports/Saloons plus Group 5

A good turnout tonight as seven of us brought out the small favourites, tried and tested over many months.

Small Sports/Saloons

   

Brian raced with Ed & Gav for this class and his Ferrari 365P2 was really racing against Geoff’s Jaguar XK120 and Chris’s Alpine A110.  The Jag was the quickest of the three on hot lap pace with the Alpine not far behind but the Ferrari was more consistent and finished ahead of both of them with only two laps separating all three cars.

Ed’s Metro and Gav’s AC Cobra swapped results between them, Ed beating Gav in two of the three heats but Gav outscored Ed in two of the lanes but lost two laps in Blue lane.

Andy & Kev raced each other in two heats, the closest of which was Heat #4 with Andy’s Mercedes 300SLR and Kev’s Chaparral 2C crossing the finish line a few feet apart and no deslots.  This was the closest race of the night in both classes of racing.

   

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Group 5

   

During practice it was noticed how quick Geoff’s standard class BMW 320i was circulating…
“are they new tyres Geoff?”
“I’m telling you nothing”
…lap times that followed during racing says yes they’re new tyres.

To allow Brian, Chris & Geoff to race standard class, Kev opted to race against Ed & Gav.

Geoff & Chris have favoured standard class for ages and were joined tonight by a new car, Brian’s Wurth Racing BMW 320i.  He’s not had time to fully test it and tuning isn’t finalised and subsequently a little off the pace of Geoff’s BMW and Chris’s Nissan Skyline.
They did meet in one race, Heat #6 with Brian (Red lane), Geoff (Yellow lane) and Chris (Blue lane)...Geoff winning by three laps and setting lap times he would like to see his Mosler do next week.
Chris’s Skyline did best in the last race of the night, unfortunately with Geoff’s BMW on one side and Andy’s BMW on the other…he wasn’t able to keep up but also managed his best hot lap in this race.

Kev vs Ed vs Gav.  Although Kev’s BMW M1 was racing Ed’s Porsche 935 in Modified class the real racing was between Ed and Gav’s Capri on track, with Ed coming out ahead of Gav three times.  Kev avoiding car wrecks as best as he could without losing too much time.

Andy’s BMW M1 was racing Gav’s Capri in Open class but on track his closest race was Heat #2 with Geoff’s BMW finishing less than two seconds behind in Blue lane.

   



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Next week is Saloon plus Sports

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Reminder - The AGM is 5 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.