Full house as Monza, but only 2 of 3 Laps Completed.
We had planned on racing on Steve’s Monza track, but he called saying he was stuck in traffic. We delayed the start, but then he called again saying he would be really late and to start without him. We setup the old Monza circuit and were about to begin racing when Steve showed up. Instead of starting at 1800 we started after 1900. Monza is usually a quick race so we thought we had enough time to complete the scheduled 3 lap race–we were wrong.
A record 7 teams showed up for the race and 14 cars lined up on the starting grid. Dan Gurney held the pole position sharing the front row with A.J. Foyt and Watson. Gurney pushed his car to the limit, even hitting 200mph, and lead the first lap. A battle was happening behind him with multiple position changes. Hakkinen and P. Hill dueled for second. P. Hill held position behind Gurney going down the front, but slowed to conserve wear through the Curva Grande and was passed by Hakkinen.
During the second lap, Gurney continued to push and maintained his lead
while burning though all his wear and skill points. The pack was gaining on him. He cleared the last corner and entered the front straight with Hakkinen
right behind him followed by team McLaren and Ferrari. Both McLaren cars had a full laps worth of wear remaining. Then we ran out of time and had to end the race at the conclusion of lap 2. Gurney took the checkered flag in team Eagle’s first race of the season–congratulations John!
Here are the final results:
1st John H. (D. Gurney)* 80/60/20/180/4
2nd Ray G. (M. Hakkinen)** 80/60/40/160/4 (started 6th)
3rd Den (P. Hill) 60/40/20/160/6 (started 5th)
4th Den (J. Hunt) 60/40/20/160/6 (started 12th)
5th Steve (J. Villeneuve) 60/40/20/160/6 (started 9th)
6th Steve (C. Regazonni) 60/40/20/160/6 (started 14th)
7th Terry (J. Watson) 60/40/40/160/5 (started 3rd)
8th Bill (J. Hurtibise) 40/60/40/180/4 (started 4th)
9th Terry (D. Hill) 80/40/40/160/4 (started 11th)
10th Bill (B. Marshman) 60/60/40/160/4 (started 10th)
11th John H. (J. Fangio) 40/40/40/160/5 (started 13)
12th Ray (K. Raikkonen) 60/40/40/140/5 (started 8th)
13th Ray R. (AJ Foyt) 60/40/20/180/5 (started 2nd)
14th Ray R. (J. Stewart) 80/20/20/160/6 (started 9th)
On September 5th we plan to run a racing using the Rallyman game.