TENG TOOLS Taupo Dual Sprint Results
September 17th, 2009
Hi,
Finally I have the results. Rick Liefting and I slaved away for a couple of hours trying to make sense of the numbers, finally got it all together and the results are attached. Wonderful what a different set of eyes and a different way of thinking brings to the data set. Think about how many numbers there were to work on, 60 cars each doing 17 laps = over 1000 lap times to check.
Where it shows MISTIME your time was either far too fast or unreasonably slow for you. Other than that a great day’s racing was had by most.
It fascinates me that despite building in an extra hour into our timetable we still had people arriving late to scrutineering and documentation at the track. Despite that Ian briefed only slightly late, and similarly we started only slightly late. Once underway with Practice the timers got into the swing of things and it became reasonable to ask them to time 8 cars at once. This is done by 2 people, and this year one had never done it before, so a great thanks to Rick and Shona, and the others who put in an appearance in the timing tower to help out.
After our wet practice the weather was basically kind to us for the rest of the day and we had the times steadily improve as the day went on.
Phil Grey showed that gradual development and plenty of seat time on the track paid dividends and he came out our overall winner. He was followed closely by Brett Perry who was fastest Series competitor. Another new to the series this year is Mike Hindmarsh in his fabulous BMW M Coupe.
Winner of Class A was Russell Jenkins in his Suzuki Swift, Class B was won by Steve Wilcock in his very rapid Toyota AE86 - don’t expect us to believe you haven’t driven since January, I have heard the Porsche thunder past home, Class C was taken by Brett Perry and Phil Grey was our Class D winner.
Fastest Lady at the track was Julie Mitchell in her Toyota Trueno, and top Junior was again David Middlemiss in the Peugeot. Second was Bradly Martin whose family do so much to support our series, it’s always great to have them do well.
There were a few youngsters who all performed magnificently on the track, in particular we had 3 first timers on the track in Hannah Lowther sharing Dad’s Mazda MX5, actually competing in our series for the 1st time, Leigh Mitchell in his shared Starlet and Jack Batchelor in the smallest car running, a 903 cc Fiat 127.
Campbell
Results of Dual Car Sprints