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Skip Barber

With a week to go before the season starts, this was the final pre-season event. It gave us an opportunity to get a fairly large grid and to assess the competition.

Despite a few ‘regulars’ missing, we had a nice 15 driver grid at 28 lap (approx. 40 minute) race at Summit Point Raceway.

Qualifying was a close affair. iRacing Pro driver Paul Richards was out in front with a qualifying time of 1:21.950 but then the rest of the field was oh-so-close with less than 1 second covering 2nd down to 12th.

Unfortunately for me, I wasn’t able to pull together a decent lap during the 15 minute qualifying period and only qualified in a disappointing 10th.

The race was anything but disappointing though. After some early pressure from Ken Murray in 11th he dropped back after some minor contact and I was able to concentrate on mounting a challenge on the car in front, Don Wright in 9th. As it turned out, we were nose-to-tail for the entire race picking up the odd place here and there and in a train of 3-4 cars the whole time, it was thrilling stuff, trying to force that crucial mistake that could lead to a passing attempt.

In the end I just couldn’t manufacture the opening to pass Don and finished less than a second down in 7th place somewhat relieved to have made it to the end unscathed.

Paul Richards was in a different class as expected and won by 14s over Dave Gymer in 2nd and Brendan Wright another 14 seconds down in 3rd, rounding out the podium places.

Don Wright (6th) put together this great video of the race highlights;

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