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Crushing win for Smith and De Veth in one-hour

by Zane Shackleton
May 29, 2021
in New Zealand, News, NIERDC
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Glenn Smith and John De Veth marched to a comprehensive victory in the North Island Endurance one-hour race at Hampton Downs.

After he romped to pole position in yesterday’s qualifying, Smith resisted an early attack by John Midgley through the opening sequence of corners.

Then, once Smith cemented himself as the race leader, there was no coming back from the rest of the field.

De Veth took control of the McLaren midway through the race, and he crossed the line 49s ahead of Anthony Leighs in second.

“We had a pretty smooth run,” Smith said.

“We were quite lucky in those first few laps to get a gap, and then we just had to maintain it.

“We had too high tyre pressures in the rear and I could feel them going off. But, other than that, it was mint.”

Image: Matt Smith

Leighs spent most of the race tussling with Midgley for the final two podium places.

Midgley’s Ford SuperTourer was electric on the opening lap and even looked to have executed a bold overtake around the outside of Smith at turn one.

But as the race unfolded and Midgley began encountering lap traffic, Leighs closed the margin, and he snatched away second with a move at turn eight.

“Third was the best we could do today,” Midgley said.

“Unfortunately, we lost the brakes early on with just too much blocking and a pretty tired set of rotors and pads.

“So, I had the pace early on but just couldn’t sustain it.”

Image: Matt Smith

Fourth looked set to go to Lochlainn Fitzgerald-Symes until he came to a halt at turn ten.

The Porsche re-fired and drove straight into a pitlane where a frustrated Fitzgerald-Symes retired with ten minutes remaining.

Thus, Kris Bostock claimed fourth in his 991 GT3 Cup car.

Gene Rollinson was fifth in the Racer Products Hyundai i30 N TCR, ahead of Sean Kirkpatrick and James Webb.

Sprinkles of rain greased the circuit in the final few minutes, and while it didn’t interrupt the one-hour, it seems that this afternoon’s three-hour will be on a wet track.

Main Image: Matt Smith

PName/sGap
1Smith/De Veth
2Leighs49.298s
3Midgley57.471s
4Bostock1 Lap
5Rollinson1 Lap
6Kirkpatrick / Webb1 Lap
7McDonald2 Laps
8Short/Short2 Laps
9Gould2 Laps
10Archibald  2 Laps
11Forman2 Laps
12McKenzie3 Laps
13Martin/Nueberger3 Laps
14McAlpine/Yu3 Laps
15Baguley4 Laps
16Doe/Beziac4 Laps
17Malmezac/Treolar5 Laps
18Buchanan5 Laps
19Baigent/Baigent5 Laps
20Rogers5 Laps
21Aitken/Liston6 Laps
22Leach/Burborough6 Laps
23Bawden/Bawden6 Laps
24Meadows8 Laps
25Fluery9 Laps
26Udy9 Laps
27Fitzgerald-SymesDNF
28DempseyDNF
29RossDNF

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