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 | GMBABES sponsored YourRacingTeam.com Back on Track
Press Release 2nd June 2009 | To see photos of the car livery and the girls
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After two weeks of late nights from their race preparation team Total Control Racing (TCR) to return a racing-incident wrecked car to a race contender the fan sponsors of Milton Keynes based YourRacingCar.com saw Colchester driver Fulvio Mussi take the car to third fastest of fourteen in the practice sessions on 29 May 2009 for the Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup at Oulton Park, Cheshire.
In blistering heat on the Saturday Mussi continued to bed the new parts of the car in and took two sixth place qualifying positions in a field of sixteen cars for Rounds Ten and Eleven despite some issues with the wiring loom causing shorting, which had to be replaced prior to the first race that day.
Round Ten of the G50 Cup, the first 15-lap G50 race of the weekend, was on a track that was sticky and dusty from the days events, and Mussi managed to hold on to his sixth position despite jostling at the rear of his car along the way from Tom Sharp. A quick repair to the rear diffuser and re-siting of the exhaust which had been shifted from its brackets put the car right and ready for the next days action.
Sunday’s race, Round Eleven, was eventful from the start with Mussi seeking to put the car into a higher finishing position and a move across the grass saw dust laid across the track. The contention between Mussi and fifth placed Sharp distracted garage mate Joachim Ritter who ended up in the barriers at Old Hall. Lap two saw Mussi still ahead of Sharp, and both having to take evasive action as Frank Wrathall tapped the YRC team’s other garage mate, and Cup leader, Carl Breeze, who went onto the grass and then span back across the track, stopping in the middle. In the dust created by the incident and eleven cars somehow avoiding the stricken Breeze the penultimate car driven by Mark Proctor was unsighted and ended up hitting the white car broadside. The race was red flagged.
As the cars went to the grid to reform, the marshals were fast to the scene and did their work efficiently to ensure that both drivers were out of their cars in the shortest possible time. Both drivers were attended by doctors at the scene and sent to hospital which was no surprise after such a high-speed impact. Round Eleven has been postponed.
YRC Team Manager, Hannah James commented, “Fulvio’s father and I had attended fire training with the marshals in the morning and met the Rescue Unit crews, as part of the YourRacingCar.com fans investment in the team goes to the British Motorsport Marshals Club, so we knew that the guys involved in the crash were in good hands. Everyone at YRC wishes Carl and Mark all the best for their recovery.”
“We’d like to thank TCR for the tremendous work they did to get us out on track at Oulton Park after our incident at Donington Park two weeks before. Fulvio has moved up a place in the championship from seventh to equal sixth position with Chris Dittman. We look forward to getting all of the fans names and pictures on the car for the next rounds.”
YourRacingCar.com will next be out at Croft, Yorkshire on the 13 and 14 June 2009 and if you want to be part of history in the making of the fan funded car and get your name and picture on the car go to www.joinyrc.com .
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