[Kevan]

Race reports - 28th September - Saloons plus Sports

Another good turnout tonight, eight lots of Saloons & Sports

Saloons

   

With Ed & Gav racing together we’ve been adding an extra driver in to race with them, much to Geoff’s disappointment it was his turn but a great choice as far as the racing was concerned as Heat #3 was the closest race of the whole night.  Geoff (Red) Gav (Red) and Ed (Blue), OK there may have been a ‘couple’ of deslots but all three cars crossed the finish line only 1.7 seconds apart.

The other Standard class car was Kev’s Opel that had an untroubled night.  Thankfully he chose not to race the Scaley Astra V8 that made a right old racket, maybe next time after a couple of days running-in!  The Astra would have fared more than favourably against the recent Touring Proxy Opels that visited our track.

With four Standard Class, two Modified Class and two Open Class cars there was competition on three fronts, the closest class of which was Chris & Brian which went down to the last lap of the last race…oooh, how costly was that second deslot for Chris, despite winning the heat lost top spot by just over two seconds!  After the race Brian said “It was so exciting and full on”..it was a great race to watch too - we were marshalling, honest!

Andy & Mike raced two regulars in Open Saloon, both quick cars, the Mustang has a remarkable ability to look like it’s going to deslot but keeps going…whilst Andy’s Peugeot has a remarkable ability to look like it’s not going to deslot but keeps going quicker than anything else, setting the fastest single lane result in Saloons tonight.  No doubt we’ll see Mike’s Mustang again next week in the ‘Monsters vs Minis’ races.

Talking of monsters, Andy was testing his huge Galaxie 500, lapping in the 6.4 seconds range and not happy at that, let’s remember him driving one of the Galaxie 500’s in the Touring Proxy and saying out loud ‘I wish mine went like this’...that cars best lap was 7.0 seconds! Come on Andy let’s see you race it for a change, it’s seen plenty of practice but no RACE action.

Heat wins in heat order for Geoff, Andy & Kev
Class wins for Kev - Standard Class, Brian - Modified Class and Andy - Open Class

   

Sports

   

This time round it was Andy’s turn to race Ed & Gav…the fastest car on track vs the two slowest…what could go wrong!

What’s recently been a Mosler-fest saw a big change as only three of them turned up and we were treated to Sports cars, a Group C and an LMP car.

A popular race for Standard Class cars, Kev decided to race his white Black Arrow Lamborghini Murcielago, seen testing this last few weeks has turned out to be remarkably rapid winning the class comfortably and setting the fastest lap of the night.

A gaggle of Moslers followed the Lambo, Geoff’s proving to be the quicker of the trio, what was once a bouncy vibrating unpleasant car to drive is now a regular podium filler.  Brian’s re-worked Mosler is always there though, waiting for that faux pas…but not tonight, making do with 3rd in class behind Geoff and Kev.  Mike B’s Mosler has been round the block more than a few times but that’s the beauty of the NSR Mosler, it always performs, Mike’s is an original anglewinder and very consistent, finished 4th in class tonight.

Ed vs Gav was interesting, Ed’s Jag XJR9 has turned into one of his favourites, the good thing is it’s more than ready for the next Le Mans night.  Gav changed his mind at the last moment deciding to race an NSR Audi LMP, it was a good choice as it went well, finishing just over a second ahead of Ed’s Jag in Heat #1.  Ed got his revenge but only just in Heat #3 finishing just under a second ahead of Gav.  It was all down to their final race Heat #6…Gav finished less than a tenth of a second ahead of Ed.  Andy’s Lamborghini did get 'involved' more than once in the three races he was in with Ed & Gav.
…who’s turn is it next time?

Chris does like racing his Dome Judd and just couldn't get going properly tonight, the first two races (Yellow and Red lanes) just weren't what we normally see from this car - that changed big time in Heat #7 in Blue lane as he was flying round, finding over a lap extra.

There weren’t any really close heats as we saw in Saloons earlier but overall leader changed on the last lap of the last race despite a hefty deslot by Kev’s white Black Bull.

Heat wins in heat order for Andy, Kev & Geoff
Class wins for Kev - Standard Class and Andy - Open Class

   

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Next week is a special event - 50’s & 60’s Monsters & Minis handicap races

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Reminder - The AGM is 4 weeks away (end of October), I’m starting the process of getting the documents ready for the evening.