MX-5 Cup Round 3 Report
21 June 2024 / Story: Paul Nudd, Images: Rob Wilkins
Corrected Results and Report (21/06/2024)
What a fabulous day of fun close clean racing.
Well I assume it was clean. I watched on Blendline all 3 races but not qualifying [Ed: Paul was in hospital]. I did not see any breaches of our code of conduct. If there were any I would like to know about it.
I did see several groups of cars on the track, in each race, enjoying close racing, swapping places as each driver made small or large errors.
We had a new racer in her very first motor race meeting. Helena Marras drove her NC to second place in Class B and 5th overall on the day.
Welcome Helena and Well Done.
Across the line was again dominated by past Champion Tim Herring with 3 wins including a start from the rear in Race 3. 1st overall, max points and 1st in the Forced Induction Open Class of course.
Second overall on the day with maximum points and first in Class A was another past Champion Ben Cathcart.
Third on the day with 23 points and first in Class B was Club President Ian Combes.
Class Results
Forced Induction Open Class
Tim Herring won with a clean sweep of all 3 races.
Second was John Fraser with three second places – 21 points.
Third was Rob Kriletich with three third places – 18 points.
Naturally Aspirated Open Class
Jett Herring won with a third and two wins – 22 points.
Stuart McFadyen was second with 20 points from two seconds and a third.
Kiara Zabetakis was third with a 4th, a 3rd and a 2nd for 18 points.
Then came Brett Lansley – 14 points and Robbie Giovenco – 8 points.
Class A
Ben Cathcart swept clean with 3 wins for 24 points.
Peter Leipnik was second with three second places for 21 points.
Craig Barney had a 4th and two thirds for 17 points and third place.
Jamie Martin had a 5th and two 4th places – 14 points.
Brad Smith was 3rd in Race 1, followed by a DNF and a DNS – 6 points.
Class B
Ian Combes won with a second and 2 wins for 23 points.
Helena Marras, in her first ever race, won Class B and followed up with two seconds for second in class on the day and 22 points towards the championship for 2024.
Rob Herrick, in his ‘new’ NC race car had a DNF in race 1 but followed up with two third places for third in class and 12 points.
Class C
Jie Ren swept clean the class with 3 wins but since there were only two in the class only scored 21 points.
Denis Pana qualified for Class C but had a DNF in race 1 and DNS in 2 and 3 resulting in 0 points.
More photos by Rob "Wilko" Wilkins are available in his flicker album.
