We’re not sure about the new FGR body on Lawrie Gatehouse’s Chaos altered, but with Nick Davies behind the wheel for 2012 (we’re beginning to lose count of the cars that Davies has wheeled over the past couple of seasons; Chaos is his first CH3NO2 fuelled ride) and veterans Roy Phelps and Bill Sherratt calling the tuning shots a 6.350/217 looked as if things are heading in the right direction.

Brackets

Plenty of fun and games in the Super Pro ET bracket as a number of teams used the sub sea level air to blast their PBs away along with the winter cobwebs. Martyn Jones carded a pair of sixes with the Crunkhorn & Jones’ Another Small Fortune rail (“Another” as the first Small Fortune went west after a top end crash in 2009), including a 6.261 that we’ve got a feeling is the quickest run in Super Pro in the UK. The fives are beckoning for Syd and Crunch.

After a considerable time away from the driving seat, Jim Draper returned to action with a re-imagined version of the Draper Brothers Reckless Rat that is pretty faithful to their mid 80s version. With a bit more track time Jim should be close to bettering the mid seven that Charlie clocked back in 1987.