Thanks to Steve for this latest report from the Isle of Wight Car Club. Ed
With drivers not only wringing out performances from there chosen vehicles, they where wringing out their overalls, with the first runs of the day seeing the iconic Mini of Dave Goodwin being chased hard by the shear power of Russell Hector’s Impreza.
Identical times
However with the track now being bathed by sunshine and drying fast, the rest of the field came chasing hard and Dan Morgan started to assert his dominance on run two. However, bragging rights were withheld from this run, as both Dan and Kevin Richardson managed to set identical times to the hundredth of a second!
By the third run, Dan was home and dry and managed to set a time some two seconds ahead of his closest rival. But the rest of the field were trading tenths of a second with second and third places constantly changing hands among some seven people vying for the podium.
Attacking hard
By run four, the drivers were starting to attack hard, with the whole field of 23 drivers being covered by 8.2 seconds, which included Dan’s lead of 1.3 seconds. This meant it was anyone’s guess as to who would be accompanying Dan on the podium?
Run five saw all the drivers trying to find some big gains, which meant risks were being taken and some ten drivers either accrued penalties, or failed the test and even the leader managed not to finish. Was the pressure of an eroding lead getting to Dan?
Normal service resumes
Of course not, normal service was resumed on run six with Dan Morgan being the only driver to break into the sub 40 second bracket setting a time of 39:73 and taking the overall win.
So the only question to answer now was who will be the best of the rest? With the Mini drivers looking set to mop up, along comes Toby Allen, whom most of the day had been arguing with the foot of the table, to steal second place by posting a time some five seconds faster than his previous time. Third place went to Kevin Richardson.
Next meet
The next IOWCC car meet is at Atherfield Farm (PO38 2LG) from 10am on Sunday 22nd June. For more details head over to iowcc.co.uk
Image: © With kind permission of Allan Marsh
