S.S.R.C. AUTUMN CLASSIC
NOVEMBER 2022

Returning by popular demand, SSRC held its 2nd Autumn Classic on Sunday 13 th November 2022.

The event drew entrants from afar and for those who were making a weekend of it, the track was available for a practice session on Saturday afternoon from 2pm to 6pm.Sunday's Autumn Classic event attracted 15 racers for the Policar GP and the 2 hour enduro for Sports/GT cars from 1965 – 1975.

     

The Policar GP commenced at 11am with qualifying heats of15 laps. Then into the step up finals of 20 laps. At the conclusion the top 3 were local members, 1st Alan Shawe, 2nd John English, 3rd Paul English. Top visitor was David Farrow from Rockingham Slot Car Club.

Here are the results from the Policar event. Heat total times on the left - step-up finals on the right.

           

The lunch break was a very social affair with many discussions about slot cars as you would have guessed.

The afternoon session was taken up with a 2 hour endurance race with the most completed laps taking the prize. At the finish, the locals didn’t have it all their own way with Mick Kerr from Rockingham Slot Car Club taking 3rd but only 3 lap sections behind 2nd placed John English and top spot went to Alan Shawe.

Here are the results from the Sports/G.T. Enduro event:

CLASSIC SPORTS/G.T. ENDURO - 4 x 6 minute heats

1st
Alan Shawe
166.35
2nd
John English
158.07
3rd
Mick Kerr
158.04
4th
Paul English
157.11
5th
Dave Farrow
156.14
6th
Colin Wilkinson
153.07
7th
Rob Kerr
152.19
8th
Jeff Norton
148.29
9th
David Lawson
147.21
10th
Tony Avis
147.15
11th
Eleanor English
145.02
12th
Keith Bearman
142.20
13th
Andi Rowland
140.16
14th
Mark Webber
139.17
15th
Vic Bettell
134.12
F.L.
Alan Shawe
8.191 secs

     

All in all, a very enjoyable day of racing and everyone looking forward to next years event.