Two lucky winners enjoyed a fantastic day out at Oulton Park

On Sunday 31^st August two lucky winners made their way to Oulton Park, Cheshire for the Mighty Mini Championship rounds 9 & 10 together with Team CRSRisk. Competition winner David Moss and his son Peter joined the team for the day. David Moss was our prize winner in our competition and successfully answered the question: How many years have CRS been trading? And the answer correctly given by David was 15 years. Corporate Risk Systems are now in their 15 year and continue to go from strength to strength.
Following on from 2 good results at the previous meeting Caroline our Team driver qualified in 9th place out of 24 drivers. She had been in 7th for much of the session but was just piped in the last few seconds of the session. With a qualifier and 2 races in one day it was very busy and race time soon came around.

As the lights went out Brayden Fletcher, brother of Emmerdale star Kelvin, from 5th on the grid didn’t move, he hadn’t got the car in gear. Caroline had to quickly take evasive action and squeezed between the stranded mini and the pit wall.
On the opening lap Caroline dived up the inside Mike Devine as they entered Knickerbrook gaining another place and set about hunting down her nearest title rival Penny Jones. She was quickly on the back of her mini but couldn’t find a way past. On lap 2 the yellow flags were out as Damien Harrington has run wide on the exit of Lodge Corner. He pulled back onto the track forcing Caroline and Mike to move out of his way as he did so.
Caroline had a few failed attempts to get past Penny but soon found herself demoted as Damien overtook her, then a small mistake at Cascades allowed Mike to pass her.  She saw her opportunity and quickly got on the boot of Mike and both pushed past Penny.  Damien, Mike and Caroline spent the remaining laps fighting over 6th place. With a couple of laps remaining Damien was shown to have a 5 second penalty for exceeding track limits so Mike and Caroline stopped defending the position, effectively letting him go as he would be behind them in the results due to the penalty. It became a 2 way fight for 6th which Mike won leaving Caroline with a 7th place finish.
When the cars went to the holding area to be lined up for the second race Caroline discovered Damien had managed to talk himself out of the penalty and was starting from 5th place, demoting Caroline to 8th. She was not very happy!!
All the cars made the start without incident until they started breaking for the entry to Cascades, Ralph Budd and Steve Rideout made contact and headed off the circuit towards the barrier. Caroline avoided the incident and found herself in 5th place at the end of the first lap.
3rd (Damien) and 4th (Martyn Hathaway) were a short way up the track so she set about hunting them down. On lap 5 she had caught up to the back of them and like in race 1 she out braked Martyn at Knickerbrook to take the place. A couple of laps later she lined Damien up for and overtake into Old Hall when she saw the yellow flags and backed out of the move. Brayden and Penny had made contact and Brayden’s car was sat at the side of the track.
Caroline kept on touch with the back of Damien’s car but he didn’t make a mistake for her to capitalise on. She was going to attempt to overtake him coming out of the final corner but instead she was forced wide off the track by Martyn who was fighting back after being overtaken earlier .
Caroline finished in a career best 4th place, so close but so far from the podium….maybe next time.