Club racing 2012 season review

Fastest lap but no result

January 2012 – PFI Winter series round 2

Not a happy bunny ...

Despite being the fastest out there on race day, first corner incidents rendered the weekend null and void and frustrated the team big time. Impacts from behind in both heat 1 and the Final both put Sam out of the running at the first corner, both times resulting in him chasing the pack from half a lap down. Achieving fastest lap in both of those races just goes to show we had the pace to challenge at the front, and we even finished a wet heat 2 very much on the pace in p3. We return to PFI again next week – only a win will do….

Full results here.
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4th place at Shenington

January 2012

The weekend didn’t quite go according to plan but nevertheless 4th place is a respectable result. Despite dreadful mid grid starts in the heats (a dangerous place to be), a good qualifying performance saw us on the front row of the grid for the Final. A timing ‘faux pas’ meant we nearly missed the race completely!! As it happened, we got there just in the nick of time but somewhat rushed and out of breath. A poor start saw Sam drop 2 places to p4 on the first lap and the leaders got away. The charging Letts came through and Sam was able to work with Stephen using the aerodynamic tow to make up the gap behind Davies in p2. Unfortunately a backmarker came into play at just the wrong time for Sam which scuppered his attempt at claiming p3. So we had to settle for a 4th place trophy but generally pleased with the pace considering Shenington is not our best track. On the bright side, the new helmet was christened!

New Look for 2012 season

December 2011

To celebrate the seeded finishing position in Super One, Santa splashed out on a painted helmet design. Specialist SFX designs were commissioned to create this unique design based on our favorite features plus an iterative design input from Sam and Neil and of course, Steve at SFX.  There is lots of detail including the honeycomb effect. The orange stripe is a nod to the Litchfield Motorsport colours whilst a subtle ghosted union jack blends in without dominating the colour scheme.

The new  lid is based on an Arai SK6 and should hit the track at Shenington next week. Overalls remain as red X-Lights for 2012.