The club members reached deep into the back of their respective garages for Q2 to bring back the NSR Fiat Abarth cars. We haven’t raced these little nuggets since 2022. They are fun little cars to thrash around our rally track, and their popularity is evident in that we have fielded as many as 14 drivers in one stage early in the series.
The rally track tends be an equalizer among the club racers, as some drivers take to it rather quickly, while others have a long-running struggle to produce a result on the track. (The author is among the latter group, having a love/hate relationship with the track. Love the cars we run on it, but not-so-much the track.) For example: Mark Ly. one of our newest members, is a strong contender for second place among much more seasoned racers. Well done, Mark!
Our rally races use a different scoring method than our road track races, where we award points. Rally track races are decided by total accumulated stage times, thus a leaderboard that looks a bit different until the final race is won. You notice that positions are only ranked for drivers who have competed in the total number of stages run to date. After the sixth stage is run racers will be ordered first by the drivers who ran 5 or more stages. Drivers who ran 6 stages will be able to drop their worst stage, which will then cement their position on the leaderboard. Drivers who ran less than five stages will be grouped by their number of stages and then sorted by the total accumulated time on track to allow them to see how they did against their peers.