2022 Round 8 Thunder Results
The paperclip proved tricky for the Thunder series.
The Mobile Brake and Mechanical 60 @ Martinsville would see 25 drivers’ line up to attempt to race round 8 of the championship season.
Well at least I think there was some racing in there at some points with the longest green flag run being about 7 laps or so and there being 12 cautions for 54 laps. Yeah 54 caution laps out of 115.
We saw Hamish Gallagher take pole with Urquijo on his outside, but an early accident saw the dog box entry fall back and out of the race, meanwhile at the front it was all about keeping out of trouble and pit lane!
While all but 3 cars came to pit lane, Douglas, Carrol-Walden, Gallagher stayed out and it paid off for the latter two. Douglas how ever came unstuck on the last lap when Michelmore tried a charge down the inside on fresher tires and ended up clipping the #10 of douglas. This caused the caution to fall for the finish and the race to end with a Yellow.
Despite this there were some great drives in the field and battles with the short green stints one that stood out was Russell and Gallagher for the lead in the mid race where they battled side by side. And the little green runs we saw did see some great action.
Same old Martinsville racing for ANZCAR drivers sadly and doesn’t appear that we are getting any better at it.
The reason why this track was added to the schedule was because we are trying to match the real life one as much as possible except for Belle Isle because it’s one of my personal favourites.
But given that every race we do here ends up the same way with the same driving we will be looking to swap out the 2nd visit to Martinsville later in the year to another track I reckon.
Lost in all of this is that Gallagher Dominated every aspect leading all laps, fastest lap time and race win. Well done, Hamish.
Race Results:
1st : Hamish Gallagher
2nd: Joshua Carroll-Walden
3rd: Ruben Phelps
4th: Michael Scurlock
5th: Steven Williams
Incidents:
Lap – 3 Single Car spin - Scurlock
Lap 9 – Single Car Spin – Car 019 – Dylan Oshea
Lap 15 – Car 350 – Michael Scurlock – Incident Noted
Lap 28 – Single Car spin – Car 62 – Mirko Dautanac
Lap 33 – Car 20 – Brad Fenly - – Incident Noted
Lap 41 – Single Car spin – Car 80 – Noddy tompkins
Lap 57 – Single Car spin – Car 80 Noddy Tompkins
Lap 66 – Single Car spin – Car 029 - Greg Spencer
Lap 78 – Car 31 – Josh Michelmore – Incident Noted
Lap 91 – Car 28 – Jaiden Russell – Incident Noted
Lap 110 – Car 48 – Single Car spin – Matt Hunter
Lap 116 – Car 20 – Brad Fenly – lane Change – 5 points
Lap 117 – Car 31 – Josh Michelmore – Incident Noted
Other:
N/A:
Catch all the action here thanks to our partners at Locked on Lads TV and the replay of their live broadcast right here:
https://youtu.be/pyyrw0uHenw
Once again, a big shout out to the Locked on Lads for coming onboard. They are brand new and fresh to race broadcasting so head on over to their channels on You Tube, Facebook and Twitch to support them if you can.
https://www.youtube.com/lockedonladsyt
https://www.twitch.tv/lockedonlads
https://www.facebook.com/lockedonlads
Next week the series heads to Talladega Superspeedway for 68 laps for the DD's Casting Couch 180 @ Talladega and we have prize money up for grabs for this race.
$25 iRacing credit for the winner of the race provided by DD's Casting Couch!!
This week’s sponsor: DD's Casting Couch
What team do you sponsor if any?
We support the driver of the number 10 mainly, but also support the freelancers that call themselves The BMX Bandits
What do you do?
DD's Casting Couch is the streaming place for the driver of the number 10. We mainly live stream gaming amongst other small projects. We also have our own NFT on the marketplace too, small time crypto stuff
What location are you?
Streaming on Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/ddscastingcouch?fbclid=IwAR2Ihhpyf423QblUH-_Zqe9zCA5XUcwEtjCYl9kc0RVGS6bIUWGISO1qwCo
How do people get in touch with you?
Contact Dave Douglas through facebook.
The Mobile Brake and Mechanical 60 @ Martinsville would see 25 drivers’ line up to attempt to race round 8 of the championship season.
Well at least I think there was some racing in there at some points with the longest green flag run being about 7 laps or so and there being 12 cautions for 54 laps. Yeah 54 caution laps out of 115.
We saw Hamish Gallagher take pole with Urquijo on his outside, but an early accident saw the dog box entry fall back and out of the race, meanwhile at the front it was all about keeping out of trouble and pit lane!
While all but 3 cars came to pit lane, Douglas, Carrol-Walden, Gallagher stayed out and it paid off for the latter two. Douglas how ever came unstuck on the last lap when Michelmore tried a charge down the inside on fresher tires and ended up clipping the #10 of douglas. This caused the caution to fall for the finish and the race to end with a Yellow.
Despite this there were some great drives in the field and battles with the short green stints one that stood out was Russell and Gallagher for the lead in the mid race where they battled side by side. And the little green runs we saw did see some great action.
Same old Martinsville racing for ANZCAR drivers sadly and doesn’t appear that we are getting any better at it.
The reason why this track was added to the schedule was because we are trying to match the real life one as much as possible except for Belle Isle because it’s one of my personal favourites.
But given that every race we do here ends up the same way with the same driving we will be looking to swap out the 2nd visit to Martinsville later in the year to another track I reckon.
Lost in all of this is that Gallagher Dominated every aspect leading all laps, fastest lap time and race win. Well done, Hamish.
Race Results:
1st : Hamish Gallagher
2nd: Joshua Carroll-Walden
3rd: Ruben Phelps
4th: Michael Scurlock
5th: Steven Williams
Incidents:
Lap – 3 Single Car spin - Scurlock
Lap 9 – Single Car Spin – Car 019 – Dylan Oshea
Lap 15 – Car 350 – Michael Scurlock – Incident Noted
Lap 28 – Single Car spin – Car 62 – Mirko Dautanac
Lap 33 – Car 20 – Brad Fenly - – Incident Noted
Lap 41 – Single Car spin – Car 80 – Noddy tompkins
Lap 57 – Single Car spin – Car 80 Noddy Tompkins
Lap 66 – Single Car spin – Car 029 - Greg Spencer
Lap 78 – Car 31 – Josh Michelmore – Incident Noted
Lap 91 – Car 28 – Jaiden Russell – Incident Noted
Lap 110 – Car 48 – Single Car spin – Matt Hunter
Lap 116 – Car 20 – Brad Fenly – lane Change – 5 points
Lap 117 – Car 31 – Josh Michelmore – Incident Noted
Other:
N/A:
Catch all the action here thanks to our partners at Locked on Lads TV and the replay of their live broadcast right here:
https://youtu.be/pyyrw0uHenw
Once again, a big shout out to the Locked on Lads for coming onboard. They are brand new and fresh to race broadcasting so head on over to their channels on You Tube, Facebook and Twitch to support them if you can.
https://www.youtube.com/lockedonladsyt
https://www.twitch.tv/lockedonlads
https://www.facebook.com/lockedonlads
Next week the series heads to Talladega Superspeedway for 68 laps for the DD's Casting Couch 180 @ Talladega and we have prize money up for grabs for this race.
$25 iRacing credit for the winner of the race provided by DD's Casting Couch!!
This week’s sponsor: DD's Casting Couch
What team do you sponsor if any?
We support the driver of the number 10 mainly, but also support the freelancers that call themselves The BMX Bandits
What do you do?
DD's Casting Couch is the streaming place for the driver of the number 10. We mainly live stream gaming amongst other small projects. We also have our own NFT on the marketplace too, small time crypto stuff
What location are you?
Streaming on Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/ddscastingcouch?fbclid=IwAR2Ihhpyf423QblUH-_Zqe9zCA5XUcwEtjCYl9kc0RVGS6bIUWGISO1qwCo
How do people get in touch with you?
Contact Dave Douglas through facebook.
