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Race Report Round 3 BARC Mosport July 2nd - TQLA President Chris
Haley
Well the second of two one day
events is now over and most are saying “thank God
for that”. Although the weather was fantastic for
the day it was a very busy day. We lost out on some
of our “break” time right off the bat when the road
ambulance didn’t show until about 10am when it was
supposed to be there for 9am. One of the rumours was
that the organizers forgot to order it but who knows
what the real story was. Bob Long brought his Gama
II down to try and sell it so it was sitting down by
the restaurant for much of the day.
Saturday dawned a little cloudy but cleared up quite
quickly and was sunny hot and breezy all day. There
were 4 F4’s – Jim, Graham, Mike and Richard along
with the usual selection of F2000’s, old Vees, Mario
with his libre car, Mike Mac Neil with his 1000cc
powered Reynard and a formula Mazda. None of the
sports racers showed this weekend. The total car
count for the whole weekend was about 60 so I don’t
believe you will see many of these one day events in
future but that is just my opinion. Jim was again
quickest of the F4’s with Graham next and then Mike
and Richard.
Race 1 saw Jim head off to have a good race with the
Formula Mazda only to have the rear deck come loose
in the last couple of laps and he ended up 8th
overall and 4th in F4. Graham and Mike were having a
spirited battle behind that but Mike has some issues
and dropped of the pace on the last lap. Jim’s and
Mike’ issues promoted Graham and Richard to 1st and
2nd in class as their cars just kept right on
truckin. Both Graham and Mike got into the :32’s and
Richard was into the :34’s. The final finishing
order for race 1 (in F4) was Graham 1st, Richard
2nd, Mike 3rd and Jim 4th.
Race 2 was pretty much a screw up for many of the
non-F4 drivers. The schedule indicated that there
was a 15 minute break before the race but due to the
earlier problems with time, it had been cancelled
and although there were announcements about it, 4
libre drivers missed the race. One change in the F4
line up was the Bob decided to run his car for the
last two races of the day so he started at the back
of the grid for this race. As only 8 cars started
the race, he wasn’t very far behind. Not long after
the start he was up battling Jim for the lead and
was able to get by Jim later in the race when Mario
got in the way of everyone when he had a right front
tire go flat and backed up from a big lead into the
fight for second. Bob was able to hold his advantage
until the end of the race. Part way through the race
(lap 8) Mike decided to liven things up a little and
spun his car, stalled it and due to running alcohol
and a hot engine he was unable to get it started
again. The finishing order for race 2 (in F4) was
Bob 1st, Jim 2nd, Graham 3rd, Richard 4th and Mike
classed as a DNF. Jim turned the fastest F4 time of
the weekend in this race at a 1:26:529.
Race 3 was a little better as all the drivers except
Francios and Dominique made the grid. Some of the
faster Libre cars were starting from the back due to
missing race 2 so that made the first few laps
interesting. Bob, the Formula Mazda and Jim had a
good race for the full 20 minutes as did Graham and
Mike. The race was quite calm and anti-climatic as
Brian Graham and Mario headed off into the distance
with the Bob/Mazda/Jim battle quite a bit behind and
then the Graham/Mike battle and Richard another fair
distance back. The finishing order for race 3 (in
F4) was Bob 1st, Jim 2nd, Graham 3rd, Mike 4th and
Richard 5th. Jim was again the quickest F4 at
1:26:531.
As Bob had not really planned to run the car much
this weekend, he did not have his ballast plate on
therefore the car was running light. The corrected
finishing positions for points are that everyone
moves up one position in F4 finishes for race 2 & 3
and Bob is only eligible for the 3 “show up” points.
This is reflected in the attached points report.
The next race is at Shannonville July 16-17/11, so
hope to see everyone there.
Chris |
