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[sledman]

Formula 1 on the King – 9/24/24

 

The MVH Tuesday Night Retro Series headed to the Gerding King to run F-1 this week. The field of nine ran the middle six lanes over nine heats with three marshals. The lead-on marshal was also in charge of running the track call button.

 

The F-1 Field in Tech:

 

Ray Lee, back from a successful trip to California to run wing cars, and Bobby Blanchette, who has been missing for a couple of months, joined the remaining Tuesday night regulars for an evening of close racing.

 

Rob Hayes had the early speed and was in a tight race with Cody Pare, Bob “Woody” Hazelwood and Ray before having to head to the pits for some chassis repair. At about the same time, Woody split his guide into two pieces and, after completing the heat with a loaner, also headed to the pits. Being a Tuesday night, we paused to allow them some time to get their cars patched up, but when they returned, neither car was quite like it was before.

 

As the race continued, Ray suffered controller problems, taking him out of contention. The result of all this was Cody cruised to the front of the pack, tallying 246 laps and taking the win by four laps over Rob. With 241 laps on the counter, Woody was another lap back in third, finishing just two track sections in front of Dave Panich. 

 

Bobby Blanchette was the best of the rest, finishing fifth with 234 laps. Rolly Lapierre Jr. trailed by three laps in sixth while Ray Lee had to settle for seventh. At the back of the field, John Esposito and Richard Payne finished with identical 226 lap totals with Espo taking eighth by six track sections.

 

Rob had the fastest lap of the night with a 4.125 on green. Cody’s 4.218 on orange was the next fastest time, almost a full tenth slower, while Ray had the third fastest lap.

 

Overall Finishing order, laps completed, best lap time, best lap lane:

1. Cody Pare                246/0     4.218    OR
2. Rob Hayes               242/0     4.125    GN
3. Woody Hazelwood   241/10    4.234    YL
4. Dave Panich             241/8     4.273    PU
5. Bobby Blanchette     234/0     4.336    WT
6. Rolly Lapierre Jr.      231/0     4.438    YL
7. Ray Lee                   228/0      4.227    YL
8. John Esposito          226/27    4.391    WT
9. Richard Payne         226/21    4.390    YL

UPCOMING EVENTS:

 

        MVH Tuesday Night Retro Race Schedule for October:

            Oct 1       Coupes on the Figure 8

            Oct 8       Can-Am on the Royal

            Oct 15     F-1 on the King

            Oct 22     Stock Cars on the Royal

            Oct 29     Can-Am on the Sovereign

 

        NERR Race No. 2:

            Oct 26     Coupes and Can-Am on the King at 1010 Raceway in Bristol, CT.

       

Podium: (L to R):

2nd Place–Rob “Pedro Podium” Hayes, 1st Place–Cody Pare, 3rd Place–Woody Hazelwood

 

Cody’s 1^st Place Chassis:

 

Rob’s 2^nd Place Chassis:

 

Woody’s 3^rd Place Chassis:

[Larry Labounty]

As always, a great report, thanks for posting it so soon