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Peter Bull

Simon Zettl Belucci Murelli

Michael Jenkins Roy Zandona

Peter Harrison

This was our second visit to Sandown this year and last competition event for the year.

Due to the rain overnight, I arrived a bit apprehensive. The wet looking track didn’t help and then arriving at my garage to find yesterday’s competitors had left their cars in our section of garages with the doors locked and no keys in sight. It looked like it was going to be one of those days. Finally, though the keys were found and the cars were moved, some driven, a coupled pushed. We were finally able to get ready just in time for the drivers briefing.

It was a large turnout as usual at Sandown with 4 competition groups and 10 in entrée. Entrée is the group for beginner drivers/ racers who want to test what it is like to do motor sport or just see how their car goes on a racetrack. It is a great initiative with an experienced driver mentoring the entree driver to understand the circuit and what it is like to do motor sport. It has been very popular as the club membership keeps growing.

Sandown is a great track which I enjoy, maybe because I have been here so many times. It is basically two long straights with some wiggly bits in between. For the first session the track started damp but it quickly dried out and grip was better than expected. Going off the shiny stuff though was not advisable as the grass areas were more marsh than grass.

Unfortunately, we had a couple of incidents for the day with Richard Thompson having a cooling hose fail spectacularly causing the 2 cars behind him to slide off the track with one getting stuck in the wet stuff. Also we had two incidents at turn 4 with Mark Callaghan going into the wall and later Jo Haddad hitting the wall in the same spot. Lucky nobody was hurt but couldn’t say the same for their cars.

Simon Mangos Kayleen Mahony

Jamie Lovett

Richard Thompson

Sandown

Sprints

Story: Carlo Fasolino Photos: Ron Widdison

16th October 2022

Manny Mezzaasalma in Open class was fastest on the day doing a time of 72.17 seconds, which was nearly a second clear of Jamie Lovett.

The other results on the day were:

Alan Rosedie Din

Manny Mezzasalma

A Class

Peter Jordan in his 981 Cayman S finished first, well ahead of Guy Laviopierre and Tim Asome in Cayman’s.

B Class

Danny Loypur in a Cayman 987 was first. He beat Daniel Reynolds in a 911 Carrerra and Andrew Lipman in a Boxster.

C Class

Grant Stephenson beat Cameron Goodyear both in 911 SC who is still getting his touch back after being away from this class for the last couple of years.

D Class

Philip Cox in a 911 SC beat Garry Voges in his 944 S2. Both C & D classes are well down in numbers compared to previous years as competitors migrate to newer machines and put their old beloved cars out to pasture.

Cup Class

As mentioned previously Manny Mezzasalma in his 991 Cup Car came first ahead of Andy Hall and Alan Din in their 997 Cup Cars.

MO Class

Porsche racing veteran Peter Fitzgerald in a Cayman S finished ahead of Michael Jenkins in a Boxster S and Greg Muller in a Cayman S.

Open Class

Jamie Lovett in his 991 GT3 Cup finished ahead of Simon Zettl and Andrew Smith who were separated by 0.0068 secs

Finally, I’d like to thank all the volunteer Officials, Marshals, Scrutineers, and timing who make these events possible and allow us competitors to go have a great day. Also like to thank Emergency Response Services and WAP Motorsport who are there when things go wrong which sadly happened.

See you all next year at Philip Island.

GT Class

Peter Harrison

Simon Mangos Stefan Wojciechowski in his GT3 RS finished ahead of Adam Stafford and Rob Love also in GT3 RS’s. With a large number of competitors, and a number of subcategories it will be interesting to see who finishes on top at year end.

Wojtek Laskowski Grant Rule