[Gareth]

Race Report

Q2 means the start of our second rotation through the classes starting with round 2 of Mod and Tuners.

We had 23 drivers with 16 in Mod and 7 in Tuners and 3 brand new drivers in Beth, Chas and Mike.  Welcome to all 3 of you!  It was also lovely to welcome back Alex who was on Easter holidays from university.  

   

The track was a sublime challenge with the start line heading straight into a hairpin and chicane before looping back on itself for a simply enormous back straight.  A series of esses brought you back to the final fast 180 back to the start line.  That chicane out of the hairpin was tricky for some drivers and caused real drama later in the evening.  

   

A good Mod heat score was over 20 laps with Terry, Gareth, Oliver, Isaac and Kev all smashing those results in.  Kev was absolutely flying with his Bulldog on a track that on paper should have favoured the Vipers.  Could we see a Bulldog in the A final for the second round running? 

At the half way point, we had Terry on provisional pole from Oliver, Isaac and Kev.  Andy was leading the charge in Tuners only 8 laps back from Terry which was very impressive and he was a long way clear of John who was struggling with his GT40 clad Bulldog.

   

At the end of the heats, Terry had clinched pole position but Gareth had vaulted to 2nd ahead of Oliver, Isaac and Kev who would need to win the B Final to get that Bulldog A final spot.

     

In Tuners Andy maintained that 8 lap lead over John, James, Chas, Kevin, Adam and Oliver the younger.