Legend 114 - Oval Track Legend Racing › Hednesford March 2008

Hednesford was the venue for Bank Holiday Monday, March 24th 2008, and with a couple of inches of snow in Ipswich the day before we wondered what was in store for us this week, after the washout in Birmingham. As it happens despite being bitterly cold the sun was out for most of the day, the track was dry and the racing fast and furious like Legends racing should be.

The preceedings were a little rushed, no practise lap and Damian hardly had time to put his new tyres on then take them off again having changed his mind to use them when the 1st heat was called. There was incident in the race as well when a couple of cars spun out, but Damian survived the heat albeit with the exhaust making his car sound more like a Banger than a Legend.

The car needed a fair bit of work between heats, the exhaust needed a kick to get it back on the manifold and the drive shaft - differential was mostly taken apart and put back together again before heat 3 was called.

Damian started in the 2nd group for this race and after another couple of cars took each other out on the bend Damian found himself in a more commanding position and edged his way to the front, taking the lead with only a few laps to go to score his first heat win of the season.

In the final Damian was 2nd on the grid, and for a while was pushing the leader hard, but then he lost a bit of pace as the race wore on and dropped off the lead, and managed to lose his 2nd place as well towards the end. He finished a respectable 3rd, which considering the amount of work he'd had to do on the car between heats wasn't bad.

All in all a good days racing at a decent circuit. Photos of this event are already in the Gallery and there's a short movie of the 1st and 3rd heats. The Final will be uploaded shortly.