HMC Week 1 Review in this week's Auto Action in Aus. Week 2 Review will be in next weekend's edition.
Also included review of F5000s and Week 1 of the Festival in general.
Check this out - Bruce Manon driving Mike Sexton's Ford Escort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J42ayb1Js2A
Holy cow! That MG vs Cobra could have been a lot worse!
True. Our only two car contact of the weekend, so considering the size of the grids (and four handicap races), quite amazing. The MGB V8/Cobra crunched the MG's right front wing and the Cobra sustained a bit of damage to the RHR guard. The lime green MGB V8, overtaken on turn 1 (inexperienced competitor!) freaked out and just dinged the wall, so that was the sum total of our panel damage for the weekend.Originally Posted by Snoozin
Last edited by ERC; 01-30-2015 at 08:26 AM.
Great clip, also one of my favourite races of the day! That's one hell of a speed differential, I think you're right to say it's amazing more damage didn't occur. A couple of drivers looked a bit uncertain of what to do with a car coming up so quickly from behind. Bloody great from a spectator's viewpoint though. This and the class with the Corvette and 47 replica were my favourites by a long shot.
Yes, good fun, well driven, and jeez that Escort has got plenty of gnaw. But those ditherers you've mentioned Paul, are a huge hazard, do they not use their mirrors, or is it once-a-year drivers ?
To be fair to the slower guys, this series usually comprises 2 separate races - the "fast" group, and the "slow" group, so the speed difference between fastest and slowest in each race is nowhere near as great. It is probably the very first time about the slowest quarter of this weekends' grid have been in a race with cars as fast as Mr Manon, so it must have been a bit of an eye opener for them at the pace at which he caught and passed them. I think everyone in ERC did a sensational job, some of the other classes, with half the number of cars on the track and no where near the speed difference, had far too much biff and barge for my liking and left me feeling rather dismayed at the often unnecessary carnage to what were immaculate cars at the start of proceedings.
HMC/Trans-Am Week 1 Highlights Video
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