NZFMR – Denny Hulme Festival: Weekend One Round-Up

The first weekend’s racing of the 2013 NZ Festival of Motor Racing celebrating Denny Hulme has wrapped up with Kiwi’s leading the way at the head of the field.  Drivers Graeme Cameron, Ben Field and Tony Graham spearheaded the action all weekend, with very little between all cars.

Qualifying saw the top six cars all within 1-second of each other; the entire spread of the 32 cars that partook in qualifying was a small 7.5-sec’s…that’s an average of 0.234-sec’s between each car.

Qualifying on pole for race one was Tony Graham (Class II 1:12.980), setting one of his four sub-73-second laps of the weekend.  The Class One car of Alan Crocker was not far behind however, also being the first of the European’s to break the 73-second barrier with a 1:12.997, qualifying alongside Tony Graham on the front row.

Race One Results: (Overall race placing in {})

Class I

1. Ben Field {2}
2. Graeme Cameron {3}
3. Alan Crocker {4}
4. Dave Silverton {6}
5. Paul Dold {7}

Class II

1. Tony Graham {1}
2. Henry-Thomas Kircher {5}
3. Kim Crocker {9}
4. Ed Waalewjin {10}
5. Jay Esterer {14}

Race Two:

Class I

1. Graeme Cameron {2}
2. Ben Field {4}
3. Paul Dold {5}
4. David Silverton {6}
5. Phil Foulkes {7}

Class II

1. Tony Graham {1}
2. Henry Thomas-Kircher {3}
3. Kim Crocker {8}
4. Jay Esterer {9}
5. Mike Lee {16}

Race Three:

Class I

1. Graeme Cameron {2}
2. Paul Dold {4}
3. James Hagen {5}
4. Malcolm Oastler {6}
5. Paul McMorran {7}

Class II

1. Tony Graham {1}
2. Ed Waalewjin {3}
3. Jay Esterer {9}
4. Mike Lee {13}
5. Kim Crocker {19}

Race Four

Class I

1. Graeme Cameron {3}
2. Paul McMorran {5}
3. Paul Dold {6}
4. Phil Foulkes {8}
5. Povl Barfod {9}

Class II

1. Tony Graham {1}
2. Henry Thomas-Kircher {3}
3. Ed Waalewijn {4}
4. Kim Crocker {7}
5. Mike Lee {12}

Unfortunately there were a few clashes of cars in races three and four, with the end result being three cars packing up early for the weekend.  Hopefully all can be repaired in time for the second weekend.