The 2003 Open Endurance Championship

Round 7 - 14th September
Daytona Milton Keynes

A beautiful late summers day, greeted the teams for this the 7th round of the Championship at Daytona Milton Keynes.

Qualifying resulted in an all Promax front row, courtesy of The Red Brigade and Auctionmyigloo with the Biland of SRT and Tecserve’s Extreme, making up the second row.

The Red Brigade stormed of into the lead, but within a few minutes of the start, the 7-lap advantage for the Pro’s and the World Engine class was implemented, showing the top six as follows; Spencer Motorsport, Zoom1, Legs & Co, Zoom 2, Tin Duck and Storming Normans.

Within the first half-hour, Spencer and three of the World Engine class, started to pull away from the other advantaged karts, whilst The Red Brigade were putting in some very rapid lap times and had already clawed a lap back on the electronic leaders. Championship contenders Blue Thunder had dropped back to 17th place with a snapped throttle cable and newcomers Westbond were slowly finding their feet in the Honda Twin powered kart. As the first hour mark approached, The Red Brigade made their initial pit stop, dropping them briefly back to 13th position, whilst the World Engine kart of Zoom 1, was still only 5 seconds adrift of Spencer leading Prokart. Tecserve’s Extreme was also on the move in 6th place and the Thunderkarts of RJB and Bad News had also clawed three laps back on the leaders with one and a half hours completed. The Promax’s of Box-Tech and Special Racing Projects, were both having a torrid time with an array of mechanical difficulties, whilst Spencer had now established a one lap lead over Zoom 1, with Zoom 2 moving up into 3rd place just in front of Legs & Co, Tecserve and SRT.

At half distance, Auctionmyigloo made an unscheduled stop dropping them back to 14th position, the Red Brigade were up and down the leader board like a yoyo, and the ThunderKarts of Bad News and RJB had quietly made their way up into the top six.

All eyes were now on Tecserve as they overhauled two of the World Engine karts and were now on the same lap as Zoom 1. With just over the hour to run, Tecserve moved into 2nd place, however the consistent pace of Spencer still meant they had a lap and a half cushion but were lapping two and a half seconds a lap slower.

Blue Thunder had now made it back into the top ten, Tin Duck retired with a bent axle, SRT were back down to 14th place with a radiator problem and The Red Brigade were back up to 5th position, splitting the two Thunderkarts of Bad News and RJB.

In the closing stages, Tecserve pitted briefly for an exhaust change, but this was enough to put paid to their quest to catch Spencer and the fast finishing Red Brigade, displaced RBJ and Zoom 2 to claim 4th position, but were unable to catch Bad News who clinched the last podium place.

This concluded, yet another excellent days racing, with the first win for a Prokart and 5 different classes occupying the first 5 places.

Results

Overall Results of Round 7

Best in Class 

Report by Paul Bowler.

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