A Fast Old Dog.

Molesey GT, the club’s fastest class, was back this week for a race that played out as two battles: one for the win and the second for the honour of fastest lap.

Julian got his priorities right, concentrated on staying in the slot and won easily, while Josh, who’d had a terrible first heat in which he’d lost six seconds to Julian, chose to spend the second half of the race bouncing his car off the barriers chasing the point for fastest lap. He succeeded, just, but at the cost of finishing in a lowly fifth place. Given that his fastest lap was set in his disastrous first heat and he was sitting in second place after Heat 3, some might argue that he could probably have better spent his final three heats trying to win the race overall. Mind you, David, who’d inherited second, wasn’t complaining.

The midfield again produced the best racing, David, Terry and Ed putting in similar lap times, but Terry and Ed ultimately losing out by crashing too often. Nonetheless, Terry’s third place was notable.

After running Team Bryant cars several times recently, Terry had turned up with a very rapid NSR Mosler that he’d built himself. And it wasn’t just rapid, it was so rapid that his fastest lap was 0.034 faster than the best he’d ever run in a Team Bryant car. Terry’s time as Team Bryant’s apprentice may have dragged on for a while, but it looks like it’s finally paying dividends. Who said that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?