There was a great turn out for racing on Sunday 15th August.
Eight teams entered Sabre, ten entered diesel goodyear.
There were also quite a few non-participants there for the general good times.
Sabre was first. This event keeps getting faster.
As well as the usual OS 15s, there were Norvels and Brodaks, and a Taipan or two.
But the OS is still the one to beat, and John Nolan/Ric Justic won both their heats and then the final.
Second were Tom Linwood/Warren Leadbeatter with a Norvel, and third were Steve Rothwell/Chris Sculley.
Diesel goodyear is always fast and close.
To keep the event accessible to all, speed is limited to 27 sec for 10 laps.
Several teams fly within a second of this speed limit, so things like a bad landing, a missed catch, or a flooded engine, mean the difference between winning and losing.
Most of the engines are modern racing diesels like Nelsons and MVVS, so it says a lot for the quality of the R250, a repro vintage engine, that Steve Rothwell and Chris Sculley won with this engine, by a margin of more than half a minute.
Bolly/Goody were second, Robert Owen/Ric Justic third.
Down the list a bit, but very happy, was Wally Lloyd -- he got his first completed heat time on the board.
Wally's a newcomer to racing and is still working on getting the bugs out, as we all once did.
It's good to see success now coming his way.
Next event at KMFC that involves racing, is the triathlon on the 12th of September.
John Nolan |
