D 18th & 19th August 2012 Report by Chris Clark
early on in the heat when his car ground to
a halt on the centre green leaving a trail of
diff oil behind it. A bracket had sheered on
the diff casing causing it to drop off the
prop shaft and the diff was damaged as a
result. The team would spend the rest of
the day sourcing replacement parts from
other drivers around the pits including H36
Paul Hermkens and H12 Evert van den
Berg as well as from the UK drivers, so a
massive thanks to all that helped out from
Team Fairhurst. In 35 degree temperatures
the Fairhurst team had to remove and
repair the damaged axle and then piece
together a new differential and refit the axle
onto the car. The job was finally completed
at 9.30pm so Lee would have no proper
race experience on the Venray track prior
to the World Cup race on Sunday.
The meeting final for the F1s was held in
honour of the late Bev Greenhalf. It was
only fitting that a trophy to honour a man
who did so much to build relationships
between the racers in Holland and the UK
should be won by Ivan Pritchard (who often
races at Venray as well as in the UK.) Ivan
drove an impeccable race and earned the
win, but controversy was to raise its ugly
head once more as the win was taken
away from Ivan and awarded to second
place finisher Gary Castell. Ivan had fallen
foul to the two stamp tyre rule and only had
one stamp on his tyre, because he was
counting on a stamp from the heat that he
had missed earlier due to the lack of
communication. It was a cruel way to have
a memorial trophy snatched away from
him.
The main event of the day was the World
Cup for the Formula 2s and all cars would
be placed in a holding pen prior to the race.
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Each driver had to buy a set of tyres for the
race from the Venray promotion. (These
tyres were drawn out of a hat and then
fitted to the driver supplied rims and fitted
to the car in the holding area.) The car
could not leave the holding area. This was
a fair way to make sure that nobody could
be accused of tyre tampering for the big
race.
H124 Wim Peeters and German driver D92
Peter Baer started on the front row of the
grid and Gordon Moodie was on row 3
along with Adam Rubery. Peeters pulled
out a commanding lead and Moodie soon
moved into second place, but Wim always
had the measure over Gordon on speed. A
mid race yellow flag bunched up the field
and all