With the summer break fast approaching, I thought i would give an update of how things stand and what we will be expecting from the rest of the season. With seven of the eleven regional heats complete the qualification ladder is starting to show which cars are the ones to beat. 150 cars have competed so far and leading the table is Rotary Racer from Chipping Sodbury, 2009 champions and one of only four cars to break the 100 mile threshold so far this season. Last years most dominant car, Zebedee, has had a slow start, struggling with the new batteries perhaps, but have since shown their colours and put in a big mileage at Rockingham to put them comfortably back in the top ten.
As for us, we are guaranteed our place at this years final after our podium finish but with only the relatively slow circuit of RAF St Mawgan under our belts we are languishing down in 50th position at the moment. However, with RNAS Merryfield and Castle Combe yet to come, we hope to improve upon this massively. RLR 1 still has a lot more to give, there was plenty left in the batteries after the Newquay heat so we will give it a bit more welly at the next race in September.
Our goal for this season, as determined by team captain, Euan, is Corporate Challenge qualification. To achieve this we will have to finish in the top 15 at the National Final @ Goodwood, an ambitious target but one we think the team can really pull out of the bag. The current team is working magnificently and the recent modifications to the car have released so much of her previously unused potential, the future looks bright, the future is Richard Lander Racing!
Friday 15 July 2011
Friday 1 July 2011
Qualification Ladder 2011
Over on the Greenpower website they have just published the qualification ladder for this year. With several regional heats yet to race this list will change over the next few months but it can be found here:
http://www.greenpower.co.uk/uploads/Qualification_Table_30.6.11.pdf
The top 3 teams from each heat qualify automatically and the remaining places are made up by sorting the cars in order of distance covered. We are currently sitting in 30th position but hope to climb up the rankings by putting in some big milages at the more open tracks in the autumn. The position in this table also becomes the grid position in the final so getting high in the list is now our priority now that our qualification is guaranteed.
http://www.greenpower.co.uk/uploads/Qualification_Table_30.6.11.pdf
The top 3 teams from each heat qualify automatically and the remaining places are made up by sorting the cars in order of distance covered. We are currently sitting in 30th position but hope to climb up the rankings by putting in some big milages at the more open tracks in the autumn. The position in this table also becomes the grid position in the final so getting high in the list is now our priority now that our qualification is guaranteed.
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