| Sunday 6th May 2007 1HR THUNDER LEAGUE Round 1 of the summer series Pole - Whacky Racers 2nd - C.B.Posties 3rd - Kolumbian Karthel 4th - T.O.K.A 5th - Rapscallions 6th - Rookies This morning we have 6 teams competing. During the 10 minutes practice time all the teams, bar one team, were lapping in the 46 seconds. The odd one was only a second behind in the 47 seconds. Whacky Racers Wayne got off to a good start. T.O.K.A and Rapscallions are having a little battle. This was taking place on the first two corners. Team Rookies join in the battle and 3 abreast doesn't work. Dave from T.O.K.A manages to squeeze through to get up to 4th place. Rookies are trying out a new team tactic. It looks like they are doing a couple of early pit stops during the first two laps. 3 minutes and 15 seconds have passed. Rapscallions are now doing an early driver change. I think he was brought in early because I think he was getting held up. Now 5 minutes have gone. Whacky Racers Wayne has a big 9.20 second lead over 2nd place team C.B.Posties and their current driver Philip Read. Kolumbian Karthel are keeping hold of their 3rd place starting position and they are 0.86 of a second behind 2nd place. T.O.K.A are in 4th, 0.53 of a second behind. On lap 8, Rapscallions Nick got the new fastest lap of 45.50. 14 minutes have gone by. On lap 12, Nick got another new fastest lap of 45.29. Now 20 minutes have passed. 2nd, 3rd and 4th places are trying hard to get by each other. All 3 of them are only 0. of a second between each other. 2 minutes later T.O.K.A's little Dave has overtook Pete from Rapscallions for 2nd
place. 1 minute later. T.O.K.A's Big Dave is holding 2nd place. Rapscallions Nick is finding it hard to get by him. On the next lap Nick is brought in for another driver change. 30 minutes have now gone. 30 minutes of the race left. Team T.O.K.A and Kolumbian Karthel come in to the pits at the same time to do a driver change and that is how close the two teams are. There must only be 0. of a second between them. These two are fighting for 2nd and 3rd places. Now 36 minutes have gone. All the places/positions have changed except for 1st and 6th places. T.O.K.A's little Dave got by Rookies for 4th place. But 3rd place Kolumbian Karthel made a mistake, which made little Dave go wrong, and Rookies took back over him again for 4th place. T.O.K.A are now back down to 5th. 14 minutes left. On lap 62, Rapscallions got a new fastest lap of 45.25. Even though this race only had 6 teams in it the racing has still been close and exciting! Results |