Ford-Porsche Wars - Round #3 - River Hills Raceway

[yebo]

Thanks for the qualifying round.What a beautiful track, can't wait to see these cars run on it. :dance:
I see that #7 moving up

[Brumos RSR]

Thanks for qualifying..... the #33 and #111 have some work to do. Congratulations to the top qualifiers and good luck to all the builders

[studioRS]

This is such an awesome track, thanks for the report. Glad to be part of this racing with you guys.

Cheers Thompson

[Audi1]

Sorry, I've been away for a couple of days.

I knew you guys would like Troy's track when we first put the list of tracks together back in the Spring. The qualy results are somewhat different here than at the first two tracks, but then that's what we all expect and it's one of the benefits of running the cars on different tracks over this series.

As far as tires are concerned, we need to treat them all the same; in terms of cleaning. I'm fine with whatever the local cleaning procedure is at each track, as long as everyone is treated the same way. A non-standard tire cleaning is not something that we can allow in this proxy series. So, if it's the local standard cleaning process, then that's OK.

Looking forward to the race itself! Great work on this Round so far, Troy - thanks!

Allan

[studioRS]

My qualifying and race results have been very consistent. I think my Porsche 910 needs to go back to the werks department for some additional tuning.

Cheers, Thompson

[glasshorsevh]

I believe someone mentioned showing up to a gunfight with a bag of rocks... Large field full of outstanding cars both in speed and in looks... Alice and Bruce can both tell about the marvelous bunch the first 30 or so are as they go sliding by... Still can’t wait for this next race!

Val

[cobratroy]

We lined up the cars into their heat races based on their qualifying times. The tires were wiped down with 70% Isopropyl alcohol and set upside down to dry. Since we only had two drivers, we limited the race to Lane 2 & 3. Lane 2 is the center lane and is much faster than lane 3. Lane 3 has a few tight curves that limit the cars ability to maximize its speed. Ill handling cars can be exaggerated in Lane 3. The track was marked off in 1/8 increments to record the number of laps.

We both took a few practice laps to be comfortable with the cars. After that, the tires got a split clean'n and line up on the starting line. We ran the cars in both lanes with 2:00-minute heats.


The cars lined up into heat races.


Pre-race practice.

[cobratroy]

#1 studioRS / Porsche vs (Stand-in car to fill out the field to an even number)




Winner: #1 studioRS with 21.125 total laps

[cobratroy]

#19 / BARC-1 / Porsche vs #2 / crockettNZ / Ford




Winner: #19 / BARC-1 with 26 total laps

2nd place: #2 / crockettNZ with 25.75 total laps

[cobratroy]

#4 / aloha / Ford vs #60 / charley / Ford




Winner: #4 / aloha with 25.875 total laps

2nd place: #60 / charley with 24.75 total laps

[cobratroy]

#30 / glasshorsev h / Ford vs #74 / clivearmstrong / Ford




Winner: #74 / clivearmstron with 27 total laps

2nd place: #30 / glasshorsev h with 26.25 total laps

[cobratroy]

#21 / drw21 / Ford vs #20 / BARC-1 / Ford




Tie: #21 / drw21 with 28 total laps

Tie: #20 / BARC-1 with 28 total laps

Tiebreaker goes to #21 / drw21 with the faster qualifying time.

[cobratroy]

#276 / Austin / Porsche vs #32 / cobratroy / Porsche




Winner: #276 / Austin with 27.5 total laps

2nd place: #32 / cobratroy with 27.125 total laps

[cobratroy]

#5 / aloha / Porsche vs #3 / audi1 / Ford




Winner: #3 / audi1 with 29.125 total laps

2nd place: #5 / aloha with 27.625 total laps

[cobratroy]

#6 / arroldn / Ford vs #136 / louE / Porsche



Winner: #6 / arroldn with 27 total laps

2nd place: #136 / louE with 26.75 total laps