Coupes on the Royal – 11/19/19
Retro Coupes headed to the American Royal in this week’s episode of Tuesday Night Retro Racing at MVH. Six racers presented their cars to tech. Racing was in the 3-on, 3-off format with a couple of phantom racers in the lineup to convince the software there was a field of eight. Three racers, two marshals, one person to run the computer and we were in business.
Coupes in Tech:
Dave Panich and Bob “Woody” Hazelwood stepped out to an early lead. A ways back, the usual mid-pack battle between Richard Payne and Rich Girvin was going on while Tom Smith gave chase and Wayne Secore was running at the back of the pack. By mid-race Dave held a 3-lap lead over Woody while several laps back Richard P held a one lap lead on Rich G and four more laps back Tom had a 6-lap advantage over Wayne.
After the move to the inside lanes the running order stayed the same as the field spread out. When the checkered flag came out Dave had stretched his lead to 9 laps over Woody, Richard P was 4 laps up on Rich G while Tom was another 7 laps back.
Fastest lap honors went to Dave at 4.054 with the remainder of the times in correlation to and increasing with to the finishing order.
Finishing order, laps completed, best-lap time and best-lap lane:
- Dave Panich 339/29 4.054 BL
- Woody Hazelwood 330/6 4.116 BL
- Richard E Payne 316/6 4.227 YL
- Rich Girvin 312/22 4.328 YL
- Tom Smith 305/1 4.389 YL
- Wayne Secore 286/22 4.499 OR
Next Week’s MVH Tuesday Evening Race:
Nov 26 Can-Am on the King
Podium: (L to R): 2nd Place – Woody Hazelwood, 1st Place – Dave Panich, 3rd Place – Richard Payne
Dave’s 1st Place Chassis:
Woody’s 2nd Place Chassis:
Richard’s 3rd Place Chassis: