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Pembrey
11 & 12 June 2005 - Enduro Race |
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| Introduction | Practice & Qualifying | In the Pits | Teams | Sprint Race | Enduro Race | The Movie | Conclusion |
Endurance Races - Each car has to stop for a driver change during the course of the race. Any drivers on their own have to simulate the change by getting out of the car and running round it before getting back in.
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Race
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| Championship Results | ||||||||||||
| April 9th Oulton Park | ||||||||||||
| May 29-30th Snetterton | ||||||||||||
| June 11-12th Pembrey | ||||||||||||
| July 17th Cadwell | ||||||||||||
| July 31st Donington | ||||||||||||
| August 13-14th Croft | ||||||||||||
| Sept 17th Lydden | ||||||||||||
| Oct 1st Silverstone | ||||||||||||
| Oct 29th AGM & Dinner Dance |
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| The cars lined up ready for the qualifying session in the morning. | The Grease Monkey Racing
team in the pit lane with one of the race marshalls. |
Richard Hollis made some
final tweaks. |
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| Wayne Cowling (left) and Pete Cardell-Williams (right) | Simon Pearson prepared the
car for the endurance race |
Mark Evans and Roger Lott
discussed final details. |
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Rocket Dog, Zoe Cardell-Williams and the Tete
Rouge car get ready.
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The cars on the grid
ready for the start of the one-hour endurance race. |
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| Pete Sparrow led from the start and pulled away from the other cars lap by lap; behind him there were closely fought tussles for positions 2-4 and 5-7. | ||||
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| Cars 11 (Panas/Mason) and 8 (Cardell-Williams/Storey) fought it out for 2nd and 3rd place. | Grease Monkey Racing, Zoe Cardell-Williams and the Hollises in close contention. | |||
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After
20 minutes the time window opened for the teams to change drivers.
Speed is of the essence because races can be won or lost during
the changeover. |
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Richard Hollis took over from Matthew;
Andy Kinch ran round the car to simulate the change. |
Ainslie Bousefield took over from Wayne Cowling
as Mick Storey took over from Pete Cardell-Williams. |
Sammie Fritchley took over from Zoe Cardell. |
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| Minor technical matters were handled at the same time. | ||||
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| During the race planes continued to take off and land at the Pembrey airfield, which is next to the race circuit. | ||||
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| Left to right: 5 - Hollises; 2 - Wayne Cowling/Ainslie Bousfield; 42 - Roger Lott/Mark Evans. | ||||
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| The race continued to be closely fought. | ||||
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| The changeover shuffle gradually straightened out then it was back to the same 1-2-3 positions. | ||||
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| Sammie Fritchley | Ainslie Bousfield chases Mick Storey. | Richard Hollis back on track | ||
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The race marshalls work
at several circuits. One of the lady marshalls was at the 24-hour
race at Snetterton two weeks ago. |
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| Graham Wallace (6) took a tow for several laps from the leader Gary Adnitt (28). | Gary Adnitt, second driver for car 28, takes the chequered flag. | |||
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| The hour was up and the race was over. | ||||
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The
winners enjoyed their moment. Pete Sparrow has made a clean sweep
so far this year, but can he keep it up? |
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| After the race the cars had to go through scrutineering. | ||||
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