Some of club’s members just returned from Colorado and the 100th anniversary of PPIHC. Romain Dumas conquered the 14,115-foot mountain climb on a Honda-powered Norma M20 RD Limited, covering the 12.42-mile course in 8 minutes, 51.445 seconds. Dumas’s impressive run came from a combustible, amazing sounding, powered engine – and there were very few of those. Most petrol-powered…
Let the COTA racing season begin!!! Pirelli World Challenge is in town featuring one of the most diverse fields of sportscars in America. The Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy will also be running this weekend.\ Here is the breakdown of racing classes: GT features several GT3-spec race cars: from Audi R8s to the new ATS-V.R races here,…
Six racers took the green flag on the sixth and final round of the Formula GP Series. Marty, once again turned-up the heat and claimed first spot with a healthy margin over Ary, in second. David took the win in group B in third place overall, followed by Russell in forth. Steve, experienced some technical difficulties…
As the feature image for this articles suggests, all anyone could see, during the 5th round of the Formula GP Series, was the blur of Marty’s Brawn zipping around the track. Marty finished first, scoring the fastest lap of the race and, as far as I’m aware, the highest lap count for the series. Ary and Steve…
Wow! The steady progression of this series is incredible. Normally, 3.8 seconds laps are considered a feat, something you don’t see often; not to mention 3.7 seconds laps, those are the unicorn’s horn, yet, we had them in abundance on the forth round of the Formula GP Series. Did somebody sprinkle fairy dust around the track before…
A hard drive malfunction, two days before the this race, on the track computer threatened to jeopardize this round but our club members raced to the rescue and, literally, got it working just in the nick of time. Seven racers took their open wheel cars to the track and raced as hard as they could. For…
As the Formula GP Series unfolds into its second round, the normally noticeable lap-time difference between racing groups is no longer apparent. The highlight of this round is Group B’s overall performance improvement: David scored second place in the race, ahead of Steve, in group A; meanwhile, Rich placed forth, leaving three group A drivers in the dust. Here…
The first round of the Formula GP Series did not disappoint. Despite concerns regarding the durability of the All Slot Car open wheel cars, the race saw fewer crashes than predicted and none of those resulted in a retirement. The mandatory NSR Supergrip tires worked really well; fastest laps for Group A hovered the 3.8…
