July 16th 2010 saw the Team travel the 235miles south to the Large Brooklands track in Kent.
Saturday
Practice was frustrating for both Mark and Richard who both bearing failure on their Nova Rossi .15 engines, both were had concerned it was the length of the track straight and the engines were over revving. Both Decided to fit their Novarossi 353 .12’s in to thier Xray NT1 cars which were more suited to the high speed track. With team mate Lee Stokes help all three spent time finding a good gear ratio and clutch combination and were soon on the pace of the fastest cars. Lee’s Novarossi 353s was simply stunning in its speed and power and was one off the fastest cars on the straight. The Team now had a good set up on their cars and were looking forward to Sunday qualifying and final.
Sunday
Round 1
Lee was first away and placed himself 8th overall in the round and setting the fastest lap in his heat
Richard was second in the GT class and was only 1 second off the FTD; Mark was down in 9th place after an incident with a back marker put him off the track
Round 2
Lee again did a good run to take 11th in round
Richard took second in round again and Mark ran out of driver talent and hit one of the unforgiving kerbs breaking a rear wishbone.
Round 3
Lee was again 11th in round and was pushing hard to improve his time.
Mark got a good clean run to take 2nd in round with a screaming engine suffering from a late gear change. Richard this time managed to clip one of the full size road kerbs and broke a wishbone.
Round 4
Lee stokes was 9th in this round but did not improve his over all time. He ended up qualifying third in the B final.
Richard failed to make the start of the heat so sat it out knowing he was in the main A final. Richard qualified 4th overall Mark had an untimely engine cut and made the Heat but failed to finish his timed 5 minute run. Mark qualified 3th overall just piping Richard by 2 seconds.
Finals
Lee’s final was the first final to run On the start Lee held third place as was on the leaders bumpers, unfortunately a trip into the scenery saw damage to Lee’s car and he retired from the final leaving him 9th overall.
Richard and Marks final was the last one to be run. After lap 3 mark moved into second spot by lap 28 Richard had taken the lead followed by Mark, by lap 61 Mark managed to take the lead from Richard and they finished the final in that order. Both team mates were only one lap apart and Richard was nearly 3 laps clear of the third place driver.
So we had the GT class drivers of Mark and Richard with thier Xray NT1’s on the top two podium steps.
XRAY NT1 Spec here – http://www.rcdisco.com/part-info.php?partNo=XR330003
