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Ninco GT1
Le Mans Race 7 at Michael
Smalley's Riverside raceway
The loaner cars were superb and most people
used them, even Michael whose own "little purple number" had a total cornering breakdown 30 seconds before racing started and
couldn't handle that tight little turn and drop at all!
Daniel and Chris Chan cheated,
and used BMW's and of course finished well, but the rest of us used the loaners apart from Gary and
Mike Pawl who used their own McLaren and a Porsche, and look where it got them!
At the end... Daniel made a statement by winning this on Michael's track
but it was by less than a lap. Baer in mind, that Michael had been forced into using Loaners. Chris Chan was
comfortable in 3rd and Nigel had a good day to take 4th. Jim Wiseman making an always welcome appearance took 5th (a
little rusty perhaps) with Bill S. taking 6th and surely losing any vestige of newbie tag. Jim Wolfe, Craig and Thomas
filled the next places, everyone here was separated by just a few laps. Gary who had a brilliant couple of drives recently
slumped a little in this one. And Mike and Bill had the sort of drives they will wish to drop at seasons end.
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Ninco GT1 Le Mans Race 7 - 28 Oct 2006 |
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Smalley Riverside Raceway |
3Min Heats: Clockwise 13v |
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Driver |
Car |
Yellow |
Blue |
White |
Red |
Total |
Points |
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Daniel Snipes |
BMW |
25.6 |
29.0 |
28.6 |
28.6 |
111.8 |
20 |
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Michael Smalley |
Loaner Cars |
27.3 |
28.0 |
28.0 |
27.6 |
110.9 |
18 |
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Chris Chan |
BMW LMR |
27.4 |
27.6 |
27.2 |
28.1 |
110.3 |
16 |
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Nigel
Rick |
??? |
24.8 |
25.8 |
27.1 |
26.8 |
104.5 |
15 |
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Jim Wiseman |
Loaners |
25.9 |
26.0 |
26.8 |
25.3 |
104.0 |
14 |
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Bill Schniedewind |
Loaners |
26.1 |
26.5 |
25.4 |
25.3 |
103.3 |
13 |
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Jim Wolfe |
Loaners |
25.7 |
25.6 |
26.2 |
25.6 |
103.1 |
12 |
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Craig Williamson |
Loaners |
25.6 |
26.0 |
24.8 |
25.8 |
102.2 |
11 |
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Thomas Lauffenberger |
Loaners |
25.1 |
24.0 |
25.6 |
25.9 |
100.6 |
10 |
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Gary Woods |
McLaren GTR |
24.6 |
25.3 |
24.6 |
25.2 |
99.7 |
9 |
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Mike Pawl |
Porsche GT1 custom |
25.6 |
25.2 |
24.1 |
24.7 |
99.6 |
8 |
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Bill Polakow |
Loaners |
25.2 |
27.0 |
21.2 |
25.6 |
99.0 |
7 |
Race 6 TalaMonaco
For our first ever race at TalaMonaco Michael appropriately took his Saleen (McLaren chassis)
to its first ever win. Michael beat Daniel into 2nd by just over 3 laps (just over 12 seconds on this tight track),
while Chris C took 3rd 5 laps behind Daniel. In 4th was Rene a further 4 laps back, while Nigel took a great 5th just
7/10ths of a lap in front of Jim Wolfe in 6th. Stephen bit his lip just 1/10th of a lap back in 7th while
John bit his lip even harder another 1/01th of a lap further back in 8th. Rounding out the Top 10 were Stan in 9th and
Laurent with a strong run into 10th.
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Ninco GT1 Race 6: 10 Sep 2006 |
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TalaMonaco |
3Min Heats: Anti-Clockwise (13v) |
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Driver |
Car |
Orange |
Green |
White |
Red |
Total |
Points |
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Michael Smalley |
Saleen (McLaren) |
44.6 |
48.3 |
46.2 |
48.6 |
187.7 |
20 |
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Daniel Snipes |
BMW V12 |
46.3 |
44.7 |
46.3 |
46.9 |
184.2 |
18 |
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Chris Chan |
BMW V12 |
43.7 |
45.0 |
44.1 |
46.1 |
178.9 |
16 |
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Rene Cortez |
Porsche GT1 |
43.7 |
43.4 |
42.1 |
45.9 |
175.1 |
15 |
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Nigel Rick |
McLaren GT1 F1 |
43.4 |
40.3 |
42.2 |
45.8 |
171.7 |
14 |
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Jim Wolfe |
Loaner Cars |
42.8 |
41.2 |
42.6 |
44.4 |
171.0 |
13 |
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Stephen Farr-Jones |
McLaren GT1 F1 |
41.9 |
40.8 |
42.6 |
45.6 |
170.9 |
12 |
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John Emmons |
Loaner Cars |
43.5 |
40.2 |
41.5 |
45.6 |
170.8 |
11 |
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Stan Smith |
McLaren GT1 F1 |
42 |
37.8 |
44.9 |
42.9 |
167.6 |
10 |
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Laurent Bives |
Loaner Cars |
41.5 |
39.8 |
42.0 |
43.6 |
166.9 |
9 |
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Thomas Lauffenberger |
Loaner Cars |
43.6 |
36.2 |
42.6 |
43.5 |
165.9 |
8 |
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Craig Williamson |
Loaner Cars |
43.6 |
39.1 |
41.6 |
40.1 |
164.4 |
7 |
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Richard Zimmerman |
McLaren GT1 F1 |
40.8 |
40.8 |
40.9 |
41.1 |
163.6 |
6 |
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Bruce Talamon |
BMW V12 |
38.9 |
40.5 |
37.6 |
41.6 |
158.6 |
5 |
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Mike Pawl |
McLaren GT1 F1 |
39.5 |
39.9 |
35.1 |
42.6 |
157.1 |
4 |
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Cameron Emmons |
Loaner Cars |
36.8 |
34.6 |
38.6 |
36.2 |
146.2 |
3 |
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Loaner Cars |
BMW |
McLaren |
Mercedes |
Ferrari F50/ Porsche |
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Race 5
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Ninco GT1 Le Mans Race 5: 19
August 2006 |
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SSI Raceway |
3Min Heats: Clockwise 14v |
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Driver |
Car |
Red |
White |
Blue |
Yellow |
Total |
Points |
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Rene Cortez |
Porsche 911 GT1 |
23.1 |
23.7 |
23.2 |
23.4 |
93.4 |
20 |
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Daniel Snipes |
BMW V12 |
23.6 |
23.6 |
22.7 |
23.3 |
93.2 |
18 |
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Michael Smalley |
Saleen |
23.4 |
23.1 |
23.6 |
22.6 |
92.7 |
16 |
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Dennis Samson |
McLaren GTR F1 SOK |
23.2 |
22.3 |
22.9 |
22.6 |
91.0 |
15 |
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Chris Chan |
BMW V12 |
22.4 |
23.2 |
22.6 |
22.4 |
90.6 |
14 |
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Thomas Lauffenberger |
Loaner Cars |
22.1 |
22.8 |
21.7 |
22.2 |
88.8 |
13 |
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Stan Smith |
McLaren GTR F1 |
21.9 |
21.6 |
22.3 |
22.9 |
88.7 |
12 |
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Bob Beck |
McLaren GTR F1 |
22.7 |
22.6 |
21.8 |
20.7 |
87.8 |
11 |
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Craig Williamson |
Loaner Cars |
21.3 |
22.7 |
21.9 |
21.7 |
87.6 |
10 |
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Stephen Farr-Jones |
McLaren Jagermeister |
22.7 |
20.7 |
21.5 |
22.0 |
86.9 |
9 |
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Gary Woods |
Loaner Cars |
21.5 |
22.5 |
21.5 |
20.5 |
86.0 |
8 |
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Laurent Bives |
Loaner Cars |
21.5 |
21.6 |
21.5 |
21.0 |
85.6 |
7 |
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Bill Polakow |
McLaren GTR F1 |
21.6 |
19.4 |
21.7 |
22.6 |
85.3 |
6 |
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Mike Pawl |
BMW V12 |
18.5 |
19.1 |
20.8 |
20.2 |
78.6 |
5 |
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Loaner Cars |
Porsche GT1 |
Mercedes CLK GTR |
Ferrari F50 |
McLaren GTR F1 |
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Ninco GT1 Le Mans Race 4, Mr Model Car Raceway
Daniel drove the nuts off his always well prepped cars to take the win by just over 3 laps.
In the battle for second Micheal S pipped Rene by 6/10ths of a lap who in turn beat the host Chris C by 4/10ths of a lap.
Between them they took 4 of the Top 5 heats of the day on every lane. Far behind the Top 4 was Stephen in 5th nearly
4 laps down on Chris C but staying just 6/10ths of a lap ahead of Gary, despite Gary getting into the Top 5 of the day on
both Red and Blue lanes. In 7th was Thomas who kept himself well clear of Russell in 8th place who in turn stayed 2
laps ahead of Tim in 9th. Stan took 10th.
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Ninco GT1 Le Mans Race 4: 3 June 2006 |
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Mr Model Car |
3Min Heats: Clockwise 13.5v |
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Driver |
Car |
Red |
White |
Blue |
Yellow |
Total |
Points |
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Daniel
Snipes |
BMW V12 |
28.5 |
29.2 |
28.9 |
29.9 |
116.5 |
20 |
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Michael
Smalley |
Saleen (McLaren) |
27.5 |
28.4 |
28.2 |
29.1 |
113.2 |
18 |
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Rene Cortez |
Porsche GT1 Red Bull |
27.5 |
27.9 |
28.2 |
29.0 |
112.6 |
16 |
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Chris Chan |
BMW V12 Dell |
27.5 |
28.4 |
28.2 |
28.1 |
112.2 |
15 |
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Stephen
Farr-Jones |
McLaren Jagermeister |
26.9 |
27.9 |
27.9 |
25.8 |
108.5 |
14 |
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Gary Woods |
Mercedes CLK |
27.2 |
26.0 |
28.6 |
26.1 |
107.9 |
13 |
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Thomas
Lauffenberger |
Loaner Cars |
26.4 |
27.1 |
26.2 |
27.4 |
107.1 |
12 |
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Russell
Bracher |
BMW V12 |
26.5 |
26.9 |
27.2 |
25.1 |
105.7 |
11 |
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Tim Weston |
Loaner Cars |
26.5 |
24.4 |
27.1 |
25.7 |
103.7 |
10 |
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Stan Smith |
McLaren SOK |
25.4 |
27.2 |
25.1 |
25.4 |
103.1 |
9 |
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Nigel Rick |
McLaren Art |
24.1 |
26.4 |
25.9 |
26.2 |
102.6 |
8 |
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Bill Schniedewind |
Loaner Cars |
25.1 |
26.9 |
24.0 |
25.9 |
101.9 |
7 |
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Craig Williamson |
Mercedes CLK |
25.4 |
24.9 |
24.9 |
26.2 |
101.4 |
6 |
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Mike Pawl |
McLaren Lack |
23.5 |
25.6 |
26.1 |
24.4 |
99.6 |
5 |
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Loaner Cars |
Porsche
GT1 Yellow (MS) |
Ferrari F50 |
Mercedes CLK |
McLaren SOK (MS) |
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Ninco GT1 Race 3 Team Race, SSI Raceway
We had a full complement of 20
drivers for 4 teams of 5 each. Heats were 51 minutes giving 10 minutes per driver and a compulsory 1 minute pitstop.
For the race the host Rene and his team beat us soundly. While it was only 1.8% better than second place that does represent
25 laps in the winning total of 1418.1 laps for Rene’s team. Daniel’s team took 2nd in the last
heat 12 laps ahead of Michael’s team in 3rd. Dennis’ team was a further 4.8 laps behind, ably
handicapped by yours truly. Both the 3rd and 4th placed teams were handicapped by a necessary
axle change to the car in yellow lane causing some extra de-slotting but that is racing! Even with a potential extra
20 laps it would only have made for a tighter 2 thru 4th place finish. None of us could touch the deserved
winners of Rene, Chris C, Stan S, Russell, and Craig as they set best of day results on every lane by at least 2 laps.
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Ninco GT1 Le Mans Race 3: 22 April 2006 |
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SSI Raceway |
3Min Heats: Clockwise 13v |
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Driver |
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Red |
White |
Blue |
Yellow |
Total |
Points |
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Rene Cortez |
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352.2 |
360.2 |
355.0 |
350.7 |
1418.1 |
20 |
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Chris Chan |
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1418.1 |
20 |
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Stan Smith |
Qualifying 8.231 |
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1418.1 |
20 |
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Russell Bracher |
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1418.1 |
20 |
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Craig Williamson |
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1418.1 |
20 |
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Daniel Snipes |
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346.3 |
352.3 |
345.7 |
348.7 |
1393.0 |
18 |
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Thomas Lauffenberger |
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1393.0 |
18 |
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Jim Hansen |
Qualifying 8.233 |
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1393.0 |
18 |
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Mike Pawl |
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1393.0 |
18 |
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Patrick Smith |
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1393.0 |
18 |
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Michael Smalley |
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347.5 |
352.7 |
347.8 |
332.6 |
1380.6 |
16 |
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Nigel Rick |
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1380.6 |
16 |
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Jim Wolfe |
Qualifying 8.294 |
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1380.6 |
16 |
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Gary Woods |
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1380.6 |
16 |
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Bruce Talamon |
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1380.6 |
16 |
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Dennis Samson |
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344.2 |
348.9 |
349.2 |
333.5 |
1375.8 |
15 |
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Stephen Farr-Jones |
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1375.8 |
15 |
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Richard Costello |
Qualifying 8.325 |
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1375.8 |
15 |
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Bill Polakow |
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1375.8 |
15 |
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Tim Weston |
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1375.8 |
15 |
Ninco GT1 Le Mans Race 2: 4 March 2006
For our second race of GT1 in 2006 Daniel ran away and hid from the rest of us taking 1st by 9/10ths of
a lap ahead of Chris R in 2nd even though Chris had a "bad" run on white. Rene was just pushed into 3rd by 3/10ths of
a lap but squeezed by the host Chris C in 4th by 2/10ths. In 5th was Michael ahead of Stephen in 6th. John came
7th, Thomas 8th and MIke, Richard C and Nigel - in that order - finished a total of a half lap apart to round out the
Top Ten'ish.
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Ninco Le Mans GT1 Race 2: 4 March 2006 |
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Mr Model Car |
3Min Heats: Clockwise 13v |
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Driver |
Car |
Red |
White |
Blue |
Yellow |
Total |
Points |
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Daniel Snipes |
BMW V12 LM98 HSH |
26.6 |
26.3 |
26.5 |
26.4 |
105.8 |
20 |
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Chris Radisich |
BMW V12 LMR |
26.5 |
25.0 |
26.2 |
27.2 |
104.9 |
18 |
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Rene Cortez |
McLaren/Porsche Gulf |
25.3 |
25.9 |
27.1 |
26.3 |
104.6 |
16 |
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Chris Chan |
BMW V12 LMR Dell #17 |
24.9 |
26.2 |
27.2 |
26.1 |
104.4 |
15 |
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Michael Smalley |
Saleen Ford (McLaren) |
26.2 |
26.7 |
25.8 |
25.3 |
104.0 |
14 |
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Stephen Farr-Jones |
McLaren Jagermeister |
25.0 |
25.2 |
26.9 |
26.3 |
103.4 |
13 |
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John Emmons |
BMW V12 LMR Dell #17 |
25.5 |
25.6 |
26.1 |
25.1 |
102.3 |
12 |
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Thomas Lauffenberger |
Loaner Cars |
24.3 |
24.7 |
25.5 |
25.4 |
99.9 |
11 |
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Mike Pawl |
McLaren Japan |
22.9 |
22.9 |
26.5 |
25.5 |
97.8 |
10 |
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Richard Costello |
Loaner Cars |
23.5 |
24.9 |
24.8 |
24.4 |
97.6 |
9 |
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Nigel Rick |
Loaner Cars |
24.2 |
24.0 |
24.2 |
24.9 |
97.3 |
8 |
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Gary Woods |
Mercedes CLK |
25.1 |
24.2 |
25.0 |
21.6 |
95.9 |
7 |
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Russell Bracher |
McLaren |
23.6 |
23.6 |
24.1 |
24.2 |
95.5 |
6 |
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Jim Wolfe |
Loaner Cars |
22.8 |
24.9 |
23.5 |
23.9 |
95.1 |
5 |
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Richard Zimmerman |
Loaner Cars |
23.4 |
22.2 |
24.2 |
24.2 |
94.0 |
4 |
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Tim Weston |
McLaren Harrods |
19.8 |
23.2 |
24.5 |
24.0 |
91.5 |
3 |
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Craig Williamson |
Mercedes SLK |
20.1 |
22.3 |
23.5 |
23.2 |
89.1 |
2 |
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Eric Williams |
McLaren "Claret" |
21.4 |
20.9 |
23.9 |
22.3 |
88.5 |
1 |
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Patrick Smith |
Loaner Cars |
19.0 |
21.5 |
21.2 |
20.6 |
82.3 |
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Ninco GT1 Le Mans Race 1: 21 January 2006
This was the first race with the addition of weight to cars in the GT1 class. The minimum 90 grams on the BMW
V12's led to just 3 of these cars being raced, two of them very well prepared by Daniel. From my point of view the change
has brought freshness to the class with new faces (for this class) in 1st and 2nd and 3 two-way ties in the field and 8 other
placings determined by just 1/10th of a lap. That's 14 out of 18 placings decided by 1/10th of a lap
Dennis ran away with it in his McLaren F1 GTR SOK. Daniel showed the BMW V12 is still
capable with second place a lap and a half behind. Rene just beat Michael into 3rd by 1/10th of a lap after Micheal
had a very exciting afternoon talking a LOT to his motors and his beloved Saleen (on a McLaren chassis).
Stephen completely "spat the dummy" in the Red lane heat to come a lucky 5th just 2/10ths of a lap ahead of both Gary Woods
in his Mercedes and John Emmoms in Daniel's BMW V12 who tied for 6th. The host Nigel in 8th missed a 3-way tie by the
smallest possible margin - likely due to an expert nerfing by Stephen. Jim Wise man took 9th and Stan Smith and Jim
Wolfe tying for 10th place.
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Ninco GT1 Le Mans: 21 Jan 2006 |
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Nigelstone |
3Min Heats: Clockwise 13v |
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Driver |
Car |
Red |
Green |
Yellow |
Blue |
Total |
Points |
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Dennis Samson |
McLaren SOK |
20.3 |
20.3 |
20.6 |
20.7 |
81.9 |
20 |
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Daniel Snipes |
BMW V12 LMR |
20.1 |
19.7 |
20.4 |
20.1 |
80.3 |
18 |
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Rene Cortez |
Porsche 911 GT1 |
19.6 |
20.1 |
20.1 |
19.6 |
79.4 |
16 |
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Michael Smalley |
Saleen (McLaren) |
20.0 |
19.3 |
19.9 |
20.1 |
79.3 |
15 |
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Stephen Farr-Jones |
McLaren Jagermeister |
17.6 |
20.1 |
19.9 |
19.4 |
77.0 |
14 |
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Gary Woods |
Mercedes CLK GTR |
19.5 |
18.4 |
19.1 |
19.8 |
76.8 |
13 |
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John Emmons |
BMW V12 LMR |
18.4 |
19.7 |
19.7 |
19.0 |
76.8 |
13 |
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Nigel Rick |
Ferrari F50 R? |
19.1 |
18.9 |
19.3 |
19.4 |
76.7 |
11 |
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Jim Wiseman |
Loaner Cars |
18.6 |
17.6 |
19.4 |
19.2 |
74.8 |
10 |
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Stan Smith |
McLaren Fina |
18.1 |
18.6 |
18.1 |
18.1 |
72.9 |
9 |
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Jim Wolfe |
Loaner Cars |
17.9 |
17.3 |
19.4 |
18.3 |
72.9 |
9 |
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Thomas Lauffenberger |
Loaner Cars |
18.2 |
17.6 |
19.3 |
17.7 |
72.8 |
7 |
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Richard Costello |
Loaner Cars |
17.7 |
17.4 |
18.6 |
18.3 |
72.0 |
6 |
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Mike Pawl |
Nissan R390 (McLaren) |
17.3 |
18.1 |
17.8 |
18.8 |
72.0 |
6 |
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Tim Weston |
McLaren Harrods |
17.9 |
18.6 |
18.4 |
16.1 |
71.0 |
4 |
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Russell Bracher |
McLaren Uneo Clinic |
17.5 |
16.1 |
18.9 |
18.4 |
70.9 |
3 |
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Bill Polakow |
BMW V12/McLaren |
17.8 |
17.7 |
16.3 |
17.8 |
69.6 |
2 |
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Craig Williamson |
Loaner Cars |
16.3 |
16.9 |
16.7 |
17.5 |
67.4 |
1 |
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Loaner Cars |
F50 |
McLaren |
Porsche 911 GT1 |
McLaren |
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