Page No: 21 Christmas Issue 2015
Race of Champions ...
On the 21 st November 2015 the Race of Champions was based in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. Taking part in the race were many different motorsport drivers, from rally to Formula 1 to test drivers. Many different cars were used in the event including KTM Crossbows, Ariel Atoms, Euro Nascars, Mercedes AMG GT’s and Jaguar convertibles. Before the race the drivers took an assault course in their Ariel Atoms and their results contributed to their overall score to establish the eventual winner. I really enjoyed the donuts the drivers had to complete at the end as the Atoms are very hard to control. After the course, three stunt bikers started doing jumps and flipping over while twelve metres in the air, it was amazing! Soon after that the drivers drove around the course in an open-topped bus escorted by four Jaguar convertibles. The drivers then left again and after a few minutes you could hear two loud engines revving behind the stadium and that started the heats. Half way through the heats a crash occurred and a Euro Nascar collided with a barrier and dropped a total of about eight inches into a ditch.
About an hour later there was a short interval and then more engines started and that was the start of the quarter finals. Nothing bad happened in that series but it was very exciting when there were such close finishes that you could hardly see who had won.
Towards the end of the quarter finals, it was almost 6:00pm,and it was getting very dark and cold (around - minus 1 degree). My friend and his father wanted to leave because it was nearly rush hour and they didn’t want to get stuck in traffic on the way home. We decided to stay just a few more minutes. At 6:00pm the quarter finals were over and a special surprise was in store. A 2013 Mercedes Formula 1 car was revving up outside, and I don’t mean like the Nascars, I mean really loud. I got a chance to see it do about 4 or 5 laps and every time it passed the corner where we were sitting we were temporarily deafened. When it had finished doing its laps it drove into the middle of the course and started skidding and doing donuts. I had never seen anything like it. At 6:20pm the F1 car went back to the hangar and that meant we had to leave, but I will never forget that Saturday with my friend. Edward Starr, 7C
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