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Five
Junos Placed In The Top Seven Of VdeV UK Opener
Juno
Racing made a great start to the new VdeV UK Championship held at Donington
Park with five of their six cars finishing in the top seven.
Juno
Racing ran Rob Croydon & Adrian Mardlin, in their VdeV EU Championship
winning Juno SSE-CN, Neill Briggs & Andreas Halkiopoulos and Dave Mountain
& Will Curtis. The team where also on hand to offer support to other teams
running the Junos of Graham Fennymore & Chris Bialan, Duncan Williams &
Tony Freeman and Sarah Reader & Ryan Hooker.
With
rain always threatening, the start to the race seemed even more hectic for the
field of twenty-one cars than usual. Included in those spinning in the early
laps of the race was Duncan Williams; emulating his partner Tony Freeman who
had showed great pace in qualifying, he battled back from the rear of the field
to hand over, at the driver change-over in 2nd place. But with two punctures
and a master cylinder failure they went back down the field and then out of the
race. With all the ifs, buts and maybes associated with racing, it was a
disappointing end to a race that they had a good chance of winning.
Meanwhile, with the remaining five
Junos having made relentless progress and with forty-five minutes to go, Graham
Fennymore was leading the race. Rob Croydon was 2nd, Andreas Halkiopoulos was
3rd, Sarah Reader 6th and Will Curtis 7th. A safety car at forty minutes to go
played to Rob Garofall’s advantage who took the lead from Graham in a strong
charge.
The final standings saw the Juno
runners finish: 2nd Fennymore/Bialan, 3rdth Briggs/ Halkiopoulos, 5th
Reader/Hooker and 7th
Croydon/Mardlin, 4 Mountain/Curtis.
It was an excellent Juno weekend and
Team boss Ewan Baldry was justifiably delighted. “We had four first-time
partnerships running Junos in this race, some with little experience of
endurance racing. Chris Bialan drove out of his skin in the first part of the
race and Graham matched the speed of the professional drivers throughout.
“With such a finishing line-up you can
imagine how pleased I am” he concluded.
The
next VdeV-UK round takes place at Anglesey on 18 May.
The
latest news and views from Juno can be found on their website at www.junoracing.com
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