Touring Cars Hockenheim Race Report

The second meeting of the Classic Touring Car championship was again well-attended (though there are still free spots on the grid!). The departure of one competitor saw a slight change to the line-up of teams, with the Buicks being withdrawn and RichXM655 moving to Vauxhall-Lotus to form a team with Beezerly.



The highlight battle of the evening was once again Blade Runner’s Mitsubishi Starion versus Badger Gravling’s Mercedes 190e. Badger took the win in both races, making it four in a row for the ORD driver, but again both races went close to the wire.

Badger’s ORD-Mercedes team-mate Pjeedai took the third step on the podium in both races, helping cement the ORD team on top of the teams’ standings.



Below them in those rankings, there’s a clear battle brewing between the Bastos BMW M3s of SharkyOB and Balhambadger, and the Covkartsport/Bitparade Mercedes of Wev and Dudley.



Privateers Boozy The Clown (Ford) and Dimahoo (Mercedes) also added action (and a good deal of pre-race banter) to proceedings.

All in all, both races were action-packed, and mostly free of the large pile-ups that shook up the Mugello races.
The Series now moves on to Suzuka, one of the world’s greatest circuits, ands a real test of a cars balance and driver’s skill.

Race 1:
• Badger Gravling 30
• Blade Runner 26
• Pjeedai 24
• Wev 22
• SharkyOB 20
• RichXM655 18
• Dimahoo 16
• BalhamBadger 14
• Dudley 12
• Beezerly 10
• Boozy The Clown 8

Race 2:
• Badger Gravling 30
• Blade Runner 26
• Pjeedai 24
• BalhamBadger 22
• Wev 20
• RichXM655 18
• Beezerly 16
• Dudley 14
• Dimahoo 12
• Boozy The Clown 10
• SharkyOB 8

So, Badger makes it 4 wins in a row, but while the results hint at domination, that's not really been the case on the track. each of those wins has been hard-fought.

The tables:
Drivers:
• Badger Gravling 120
• Blade Runner 104
• Pjeedai 86
• BalhamBadger 84
• Wev 70
• RichXM655 68
• Dudley 58
• SharkyOB 58
• Beezerly 50
• Meatball46 40
• Boozy The Clown 34
• Dimahoo 28
• Kurzheck 6

Teams:
• ORD 206
• Bastos 142
• Covkartsport/Bitparade 128
• TMD-Beezer 62
• TMD-Buick 38

Touring Cars Race Report 1

The long-awaited start of the Classic Touring Cars season was last monday night at Mugello.



There were representatives on the grid from Mercedes-Benz, Buick, Lotus-Vauxhall, Ford, BMW, Alfa Romeo, and Mitsubishi. The racing was fast and action-packed, just as Touring car racing should be.



The key battle of both races was that between Badger Gravling in the Mercedes 190e and Blade Runner in the Mitsubishi Starion.



It's not a proper touring car race if there isn't some two-wheel air over kerb action. Badger came off best in both races, but it was a hard-fought battle.

(Sorry for the delay in writing this, It's been a busy week.)

Season 2 Begins!

Season 2 got underway last week with rounds 1 and 2 of the Roadsports cup for C-class road-legal cars.


11 cars took to the grid, representing a wide variety of car shapes and drive layouts.



Both races were won by newcomer Blade Runner in his Lancia 037.

In fact, the top 4 places in both races were filled by the same drivers in the same order- Bladerunner, BalhamBadger, Pjedai, and Beezerly.


The racing was close, though with a couple of inevitable bumps and scrapes where a new series gets underway and drivers are getting used to each other and their cars.

Monday the 20th sees the start of the Group A Touring Car season at Mugello, which is bound to see more exciting action. So far, we have confirmed entries fielding BMWs, Mercedes, Mitsubishis and Buicks, and some other teams yet to declare a car choice.

Nurburgring Report and Season Wrap-up.

A full field of 16 cars took to the grid on the Nurburgring Nordschleife ‘s long straight for the final round of the RLLMUK Historic Trophy’s first season.


A big grid for the final race.

A single double-length, double-points race formed the meeting format and as you might expect, 4 laps around the Ring gave rise to both some excellent battles, but also some attrition and walking wounded.


Kurzheck’s big roll.


Dudley leads in the midfield battle. Later in the race, damage would drop him back.

The first major casualty was Kurzheck in the Toyota. A roll at the left kink between Fuchsrohe and Adenauer-Forst left the 2000GT in a sorry state and very down on top speed even after a visit to the pits.


Up front, series newcomer Smith77 diced with Meatball in a true David-And-Goliath tussle. Meatball, however, held on to take the win after a gruelling race.



So, those champions.

Winner (Overall):
Meatball46. a surprise to literally no-one, this was on the cards since the first race. mastered a fast, but clearly difficult car, and rarely put a wheel wrong. Domination to such a degree that he scored nearly double the points of his nearest rival, despite missing the Sears point meeting.

Winner (Class O):
Meatball46 again (sealed this before Christmas). he won his class in every race he entered.

Winner (Class U):
Balhambadger. the BMW CSL also picked up second in the Class-specific standings in the hands of Dudley.
So it’s over, and all that’s left is to thank all the competitors for taking part and making for such an entertaining, and mostly incident-free racing championship.
The Next season starts soon, soo watch this blog for more info this week about the ’73-93 roadsports and the Group A touring cars series.