Driver Of The Day, Northampton Sunday 18th July 2010, Plus your Racin' Ratin' Options

[Carl H]

Sounds like there could be a few young pretenders today...

[ClaireG]

There can only be one Driver of the Day, 464 Luke Davidson.

Well done Luke

[lone groover]

Tough one this. Luke Davidson in the Euro, 51 in the final and Andy Smith close all day but for persistance in a good car and the final win..DOD 51.

RR 8/10 Good turnaround by Incarace, a big crowd and an afternoon that got warmer by the minute.

[Giant]

Seeing as I didn't expect to be typing the following 464 Luke Davidson - 2010 European Champion , it has to be young Luke who just pips 51 Dylan Williams-Maynard for the DOTD vote.

DOTD 464
RR 7

[Darloboy]

DOTD - 464 Luke Davidson

Drove a blinder in the Euro and then followed up by winning the National as well. However closely followed by 51 Dylan Williams-Maynard for his heat and final double. This young man has talent I think and didn't look out of place starting at the back in the National.

RR - 9/10

A cracking afternoon of short oval motor racing in my opinion.

[Nick T]

Good weather,good driver turn out and a good lot of fans the afternoon was set up for a cracker...but I must say poor racing ,
nothing sticks out to me in the F1s in fact I thought they proved the less entrainment of the three formulas!
DOTD 51 Dylan Willams heat and final winner ,say no more and he led the euro for about 3/4 of the race.
RR-5 IMO sorry

[JPM]

DoD-51

R/R-7/10 didn't quite reach the heights of last nights action,but all in all a great weekend

[Chris53]

RR - 9/10

A cracking afternoon of short oval motor racing in my opinion.

Good weather,good driver turn out and a good lot of fans the afternoon was set up for a cracker...but I must say poor racing ,

RR-5 IMO sorry

Really can understand (and respect) both points of view - one of those days when the 'event' was perhaps better than the individual races. A very big well done to the Incarace team for finishing 18 races ahead of their own schedule - the race turnaround was just relentless, with the 'almost instant' restarts for the Rebels and F2's working very well too IMO - why not try the same with the F1's? Pretty much perfect racing weather too - warm, but without the hindrance of coming home looking like a boiled lobster.

No single race matched the worst of the last four on Saturday night, in my opinion, but that is just the way it is - some 'click' and some don't. Lower car counts never help the Sunday session either, with a good number of drivers understandably setting off for the long slog home after the heats and/or finals, following a busy weekend.

All things considered, I'll go for the middle ground; races 6/10, event 8/10, RR 7/10, with the F2's perhaps just stealing the show today, although they weren't at their best either.

DotD - a straight toss up between 51 and 464, won by 51 - well done Dylan Williams-Maynard, another welcome addition to the 'Young Guns' contingent.

[Simon G]

Good weather,good driver turn out and a good lot of fans the afternoon was set up for a cracker...but I must say poor racing ,nothing sticks out to me in the F1s in fact I thought they proved the less entrainment of the three formulas!

Ditto! Racing fast all afternoon but nothing to really mention, only action spot that I recall is Stu Smith burying James Lund for 6th place finish in his heat. Mentions go to Andy Smith consistently class all day and young white top Dylan Williams for fine final win but . . . taken from my posting in so who win euro thread

My crystal ball predicts
107 Lee Robinson or 84 Tom Harris
Outside bet of 464 Luke Davidson - think car would look superb with red/yellow chequers - also consistent from red now and if gets lucky break who knows.

Looks like I will get to see this.

D.o.d 464 Luke Davidson, fine european win and followed up with assured drive to take national
R/R 7/10 bit lack lustre in terms of talking points and point off for running out of bacon at 11:00am!!

P.S is it a sign of the times for poor FWJ fans, having to watch him deliberately move out of the way and let Andy Smith through in the national without even a fight must stick in the teeth abit - I know my old man wasn't a happy man!

This post has been edited by Simon G: Jul 18 2010, 07:03 PM

[Paul_R28]

DOTD 51 Dylan Williams
R/R 7/10

Good afternoon racings, nothing special, didn't seam the normal euro drag. Even got sunburt arms.

Strange for John to seam to have got wound up by Andy and FWJ after there fighting caused Dan to ride the wall and for John to spin. When john got going waited for cars to come round, sliped in behind andy and when andy stoped john gave him a tap from behind, then stopped to have words with FWJ.