NEWS – Very little Windex was needed by Bruce Brothers Racing during Mid State of Ohio Kart Club (MSOKC) Race No. 1 a week ago Sunday. Peter and Conor both qualified on pole, led every lap of their heat races, and backed this up by leading every lap of their feature races. Face shields stay pretty clean when you run at the front all day. The cold weather – I’m not sure that it ever got above 50°F that day – also kept the bugs at bay.
PRACTICE – Both boys had new tires for Race No. 1. Grip was at a premium on Sunday, so this
helped immensely – but nearly everyone had new tires for Race No. 1. Peter elected to put his on for the second
practice session and Conor elected to save his for the qualifying session. On well-used practice tires, Peter spun on
the first lap of his first practice session and Conor spun on the first lap of
both of his practice sessions.
SPEC 100 PIPE – Peter had the fastest time of his second
practice session (48.2 seconds), but several karts in his class were in the
same ballpark. The feeling was that a
lap in the high 47 second range would be required to take pole position in the
qualifying session. On Peter’s third qualifying
lap, he reeled off a 47.02 to take pole position by just over a quarter of a
second. Starting from pole position in
his heat race, Peter took the lead going into Turn 1 and never looked back. He won by just over 4 seconds and lowered the
fastest lap of the day in this class to 46.51 in the process. The start of Peter’s feature race was much
the same except that, by mid-distance, the gap that had grown to about two
seconds shrank to less than a second.
Peter was able to respond – his fastest lap was a 46.49 in Lap 7 (of 8)
– and he won by just over a second.
80cc SHIFTER – Conor made good use of his new tires. His third qualifying lap was a 45.26, which was almost a
second faster than the next best time. He
got away well from the standing start in his heat race, pulled away by about a second
per lap, and won by over six seconds.
Conor’s start in his feature race was not quite as decisive, but he managed
to maintain the lead at the start. Once
out front, he again extended his lead on every lap. The winning margin was again just over six
seconds. Conor used our new GoPro camera
during his feature race. A low
resolution version of all eight laps (and the victory lap) can be found here,
and a reduced vibration, higher resolution version of the first two laps can be found here.
NEXT RACE – MSOKC Race No. 2 is Sunday, May 6, 2012, at CRP and
will feature a heat race format instead of timed qualifying. Starting from a randomly picked starting
position (i.e., not necessarily at the front) should make for some better GoPro videos…
Bill
p.s., Lap times, lap charts, and results can be found here.
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