pre-season race news at tom thumbs, columbus, ohio
TRACK NEWS: Records Drop During Second Pre-Season meet
Open Practice:
track records once again improves in both the sedan and F1 categories as round two of pre-season practice got underway at Tom Thumbs. Only a handful took advantage of open practice during this second session with BudWilson topping the time sheets for the sedans setting a new track record of 7.25s beating out the record set by latency last week.
In the F1 field, only two showed for the afternoon with West.F1s mclaren the only one taking to the track. continued set up experiments for the upcoming season lead to improving the overall F1 track record to 7.85. BigVxxx opted not to run his Ferrari for the day due to mechanical gremlins
WestF1- 7.85s (mclaren)
BigVxxx- no entry (ferrari)
RACE REPORT (sat, march 15):
Four heats made up the afternoon for the sedans class. the last two being qualfying followed by the only nonpoints race scheduled for the day. WestF1 was able to land top spot on the grid but was unable to clinch top podium in the end.
The only preseason A-main for the day started well on the first opening laps with WestF1 taking the whole shot and an early lead. A last minute diff change prior to the race however proved costly as directional problems came early allowing the rest of the field to pass by after only 3 laps. BudWilsons plain body NSX was looking strong as he took over the lead for several laps, the rest of the field struggling with various mishaps.
Firefly who started fourth with his WRC Lancer entry DNF’d in lap 5 while the Mercedes of RJones dropped out on lap 11. BigVxxx continued his drive and completed the race one lap down with his S2000.
(Firefly visiting from Pittsburgh. Tough afternoon though for his WRC entry)
The battle of the race came down to the front runners with BudWilson and West.F1. Despite starting in the front row, early struggles brought WestF1s mercedes to the rear of the pack and at one point being one lap down to Buds leading NSX. As the race continued however the tides turned as problems haunted the rest of the field including BudWilson. about mid way into the race Buds comfortable lead was cut tremendously as West.F1 was able to regain his lap and move up to second spot closing the gap to less than 1.0second from lead position. With less than 20 seconds remaining in the race, the gap to first was a mere 0.3seconds. Buds lead seemed threatened in the closing laps when suddenly West.F1 takes turn four too narrow causing his Mercedes to lift from the corner marker and land the car on it’s side. BudWilson drives on to secure his first pre-season win followed by BigVxxx who trailed one lap down finishing in second. the remaining line up in DNF situations.
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