The transport / advanced crew arrived, as usual, on the Thursday and set up “camp” for the event, prior to the remaining team members arriving on the Thursday evening or Friday morning ahead of testing on the Friday.
Testing was productive, with a few minor issues being ironed out on both trucks, and some “experimentation” with suspension settings undertaken to improve the handling. No 40 is still down on power, but 41 was looking strong, with both trucks being deemed race-ready by their respective drivers – Archie and Simon.
Qualifying on Saturday went as expected, with 41 turning in some excellent lap times against a depleted field, and the ageing no 40 giving the opportunity for Archie to get in some valuable track time.
As to the races, both trucks performed admirably, with “Frankie” the Iveco handling better than ever before, following a year of “nip and tuck” development work, and Simon bringing her home for 5 consecutive 2nd place finishes over the weekend – what a result! A few adjustments were made here and there with suspension settings, water pressures and tyre pressures between the races, with a few sets of tyres being used up on the front along with a new set of brake discs and pads.
Archie had so much fun entertaining the highly appreciative crowd in the uncompetitive Volvo, his sideways style generating rounds of applause at every corner, as his lap times tumbled down relentlessly over the course of the weekend. The whole team enjoyed watching his style as much as the crowd. With a reduced field of competitors, following a significant engine failure, Archie obtained 5 consecutive 3rd places behind his dad to bring the Volvo home safe and sound.
For Division 2 there is not a trophy for each race, but rather a trophy for overall points during the 5 race weekend – with both Simon and Archie collecting some “silverware”.
An excellent result for the team, with no significant damage or mechanical defects – especially with only 10 days before the next round in Le Mans (France) and so very limited time to complete any work. A full service to each truck and back on the trailers for France!
The Volvo is up for sale – so if you want to get into Truck Racing give us a call!! We want to try to put Archie into a more competitive truck for next season, so if you can help us by sponsoring the team and making Archies dream come true than that would be amazing!
See you at Le Mans for British, French and European Truck Racing in 10 days’ time (28th and 29th September).
THANK YOU to ALL our wonderful sponsors; to the businesses who help us out in kind, or with cash (although we accept cheques too of course!), we could NOT do this without you ALL – no matter how big or small your help – this team of family and friends could not do this without YOU. YOU made it possible for Simon, and now Archie, and put father and son on the track as much as the rest of this family and friends based team. THANK YOU. (but we always need more help of course).
Come and see us all, cheer on Archie and Simon and “THINK PINK” at the Circuit if you can – we are always happy to chat and show you our race trucks – unless we are repairing them of course, in which case best to give us some space to work safely.
If you cannot visit the track, then remember to check out the “BARC” live feed on YouTube – or of course on “catch up” later.
CTS#41 and CTS#40; Simon, Archie, John, Conner, John, Colin, Sam, Toby, Martin & Guy.
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