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Re:Round 2 Race Results - The Valley Raceway - 2008/08/07 18:35
Round 2 and with Bill's Porsche and Mac's Ferrari both absent, the proxy cars were joined by EM's Ferguson to form up as a twelve car field:
Drivers on the night were Graham, Bryan, myself and Rico who was making his first visit to my track. As at Blackpool, Charlie handled race control and maintained the spread sheets enabling us to keep tabs on positions as the evening went on.
Each car ran four two minute heats and was driven once by each driver. Here then are all the results:
Cars are listed by owner and reading across the columns shows the number of laps recorded for the cars by each driver over the heats.
Graham's car was quick and consistent and took another comfortable win while second place was a close run thing between Bryan's BRM and my own BRP, Bryan edging it by a tenth of a lap over 8 minutes racing! Charlie's BRM ran a solid fourth with fifth a tie between Jay's Brabham and Paul's Cooper. As Graham said, Jay just lost a bit of time with that thrown tyre.
Jim's Lola is a great little car but didn't get to fully stretch it's legs on my short twisty track again finishing just outside of the points positions in seventh. Eighth was Alexis sharknose which had a solid outing. Next up were Joel and David's Ferraris. David's sharknose had a little too much grip and the narrow car had a tendency to dig in and tip dropping it down the field.
After all it's trials and tribulations EM's Ferguson came home a pleasing eleventh while Dave's BRM finished at the back despite a change of gear ratio using the parts kindly supplied by EM. The new ratio gives the car excellent acceleration and braking and, while it was much more driveable, I felt it could have benefited further had we had a little more set up time - a bit more weight up front might have helped.
Here then are some more pictures from the evening.
Jay's Brabham and Graham's BRM speed by with Joel's Ferrari, Dave's BRM, Jim's Lola and EM's Ferguson in the pit area:
Dave's BRM:
Jim's Lola and Al's Ferguson:
Graham's BRM on it's victory parade lap:
The paddock after the race with Paul's Cooper-Climax (14), Dave's "Stovepipe" BRM (11), Jim's Lola-Climax (18), Joel's Ferrari (21), Jay's Brabham-Climax (5), Al's Ferguson (7), Alexis' Ferrari (4).
Looking down the track from the paddock towards the pits:
Cars in the pit area here are Bryan's Scuderia Centro-Sud BRM, Joel's Ferrari, Charlie's BRM and my BRP.
There were no major breakages or failures during the meeting just some minor damage: Jim's gearbox came adrift and David's sharknose lost it's tailpipes. All fixed now.
All this leaves Graham in a dominant position in the table although Paul's car is proven on the upcoming long tracks at Southend and Wolves (where it should have a speed advantage over the BRM) and is well within striking distance:
Next round, Midford Combe 
Post edited by: JohnP, at: 2008/08/07 19:04
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