Ingram wins opening F5000 race at Manfeild

Local ‘second-time-around’ racer Kevin Ingram (main photo) (Lola T332)got his 2022/23 SAS Autoparts MSC F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series campaign off to a great start with an absolutely dominant pole-to-chequered-flag win in the first race of the new season at the big MG Classic historic motor racing meeting in Feilding yesterday afternoon.

In a manner virtually identical to the one which netted him his first pole/chequers double at the final round of the 2021/22 SAS Autoparts Series earlier this year, Ingram set a best lap of 1.07.16 in the category’s qualifying session (very) early on Saturday morning before storming away from fellow front row starter Tony Galbraith (Lola T332) and the rest of the 12-strong field to cross the finish line well ahead of third quickest qualifier Glenn Richards (LolaT400) who finally won his race-long battle for second place with Tony Galbraith on the last lap.

Making a big impression a little further back in the field meanwhile, was Class A stalwart, Tony Roberts, who qualified his favoured ‘high-wing’ McLaren M10A 9^th and crossed the finish line in the race in 7^th place.

The SAS Autoparts MSC F5000s will be on track again today (Sundy) at the MG Classic meeting with two races – including a longer meeting feature – in the afternoon.

RESULTS

Qualifying.
1/ KEVIN INGRAM (LOLA T332) 1m07.16
2/ TONY GALBRAITH (LOLA T332) 1m07.71
3/ GLENN RICHARDS (LOLA T400) 1m09.22
4/ GRANT MARTIN ( TALON MR1A) 1m09.62
5/ RUSSELL GREER (LOLA T332) 1m10.84
6/ SHAYNE WINDELBURN (LOLA T400) 1m11.89
7/ Brett WILLIS (LOLA T332) 1m12.17
8/ TIM RUSH (McLAREN M22) 1m13.17
9/ TONY ROBERTS (McLAREN M10A 300-09) 1m13.32
10/ BRUCE KETT (LOLA T332) 1m14.06
11/ ALISTAIR CHALMERS (CHEVRON B32) 1m14.08
12/ TOBY ANNABELL (McLAREN M10B) 1m21.24

Race 1 (Sat pm)
1/ KEVIN INGRAM (LOLA T332) 6m47.54
2/ GLENN RICHARDS (LOLA T400) 6m48.23 +0.69s
3/ TONY GALBRAITH (LOLA T332) 6m51.90 +4.36s
4/ BRETT WILLIS (LOLA T332) 6m52.36 +4.82s
5/ RUSSELL GREER (LOLA T332) 6m55.54 +8.00s
6/ SHAYNE WINDELBURN (LOLA T400) 6m55.86 +8.32s
7/ TONY ROBERTS (McLaren M10A 300-09) 7m08.95 +21.41s
8/ ALISTAIR CHALMERS (CHEVRON B32) 7m14.94 +27.40s
9/ TIM RUSH (McLaren M22-3) 7m16.53 +28.99s
10/ TOBY ANNABELL (McLaren M10B) 7m41.18 +53.64s
DNF: GRANT MARTIN (TALON MR1/A) & BRUCE KETT ( LOLA T332)