Two Fingers.

NSR Classic was back this week for its penultimate race before it’s unceremoniously dumped as a class at the end of this year, replaced in 2023 by a new Sideways GT3 class. Just why the Classic class has become unpopular with almost everyone is a mystery, because race after race it’s produced great racing, but unpopular it is, so as if to say “Up yours, you ungrateful sods” it put on yet another display of excellent racing as a virtual two-fingered salute to everyone present.

And it wasn’t just the cars that were using two fingers, Josh was too, claiming it was a workaround to protect his primary controller finger while it recovered from a case of repetitive strain injury. Quite what it had been doing to be repeatedly strained he didn’t say, but as his Tinder profile includes the immodest claim that he has “the fastest fingers in the South East”, it doesn’t take much imagination to guess. Perv.

Josh’s two-fingered controller technique started well with wins in heats 1 and 2, but only by the tiniest of margins: a tenth ahead of Julian in Heat 1, seven hundredths in front of Simon in Heat 2, at which point Josh uttered a fateful “I can’t keep this up for six heats.” And he was right. He couldn’t.

Julian fought back in Heat 3 to take the lead, leaving Josh three hundredths adrift in second place, then in Heat 5 Simon pushed Josh down to third, Josh’s fingers spent. It was if the NSR Classics were sending him a final message: “The South East’s fastest fingers? Yeah, right. Speed’s nothing without stamina, matey.”

And that was it. Julian, Simon and Josh were the one-two-three, David took fourth after a race-long battle with Alex, and Graham and Terry weren’t much further back in sixth and seventh. It was another great NSR Classics night. With just one more race left for the class, let’s hope there’s a good turnout to give it the send-off it deserves.