Gp C Podium at Le Mans
Another great result for the Damax cars at Le Mans .... Class 1, 2, 3 (Mike Furness (Spice), Duncan McKay (Spice) and Robin Ward (ADA Gebhardt) with Robin also taking the fastest lap in class.
Group C Spa 21-23 May 2010
The team had a fabulous weekend at Spa with some good racing and equally good weather! Damax were running the two Spices of McKay and Furness, both co-driven by Robin Ward. With the Furness Buick Spice rebuild only just complete, this was the first track outing for the car and Race 1 was an opportunity to iron out some gremlins, but at the expense of not finishing the race. With Robin stranded out on track McKay was left to drive the whole 1 hr race to finish 2nd in class and 8th overall, the car performing faultlessly throughout. Race 2 saw McKay/Ward take 1st in class and 3rd overall but this was later re-classified to 5th overall due to a pit stop outside the permitted window, attributable to a comms error on Robin's radio. This did not affect the class win and with the Furness car taking the class 3rd it was an impressive finish to the weekend.News Archive - Damax to add some Spice to 2008
These cars represent the greatest era in sportscar racing and the race series is growing fast. In 2008 Group C will support the Le Mans 24 hour race, presenting a fabulous opportunity to drive these cars on the full Le Mans circuit. The Damax team includes chief mechanics and designers from the Spice factory during the era of build so their knowledge of these cars in second-to-none.News Archive - Two podiums for the Damax ‘stealth’ Ascari
Friday Practice With the ballast penalty increased to 160kg the Damax Ascari’s struggled for pace throughout practice with the drivers commenting the cars were difficult to drive and felt unstable in the high speed corners. Without any incidents the cars finished 5th, 9th & 19th in Practice 1 on new tyres and 20th, 21st & 32nd in Practice 2.
News Archive - Damax Confident after Stronger Performance at Donington
Following a good test the team were confident to do a better job in the races at Donington. However a lower ambient track temperature for qualifying meant the harder Avon tyre compound used by the Ascari meant that the tyres take at least 10 laps before performance starts to come in. This had a detrimental effect on the performance of the car during the short qualifying sessions and Erdos and Keating could only qualifying in a lowly 16th place for race 1 and a better 6th place in race 2.
News Archive - British GT Oulton Park - April 12, 2007
In Friday’s Official test Car 11 of Erdos and Keating was running in an engine and due to the late signing of Hopkins to join Brodie in the No 10 car it was a case of getting comfortable in the car at Oulton. During qualifying unfortunately the number 11 car went straight on into the barrier at the 1st corner causing the second session to be missed and having to start from the back of the grid in both races.
News Archive - Damax take GT3 win at Catalunya - November 14, 2006
European GT3 contenders Damax came up trumps at the final International GT Open race at Catalunya last weekend, winning the GTS (GT3) class with their Ascari KZ1R driven by Jonny Lang and Martin Rich.
News Archive - Fantastic results at the final FIA GT3 round - November 10, 2006
The final GT3 round at Mugello saw the Damax Ascari's back in superb form taking two podium finishes. Having missed the penultimate round at Dijon whilst reliability issues were addressed, the cars certainly came back to the track on top form with car 47 qualifying in pole for race 1 despite difficulties in getting clear laps due to several red flags.
News Archive - More British GT success for Damax - September 25, 2006
British driver Aaron Scott returned to the British GT Championship for the final round at Silverstone. Aaron was joined in the car by Andy Thompson for the 2 hour enduro, which was set to feature refuelling stops for only the 2nd time this season. Damax made its seasonal debut at Snetterton and duly dominated the races with Aaron and Stuart Turvey winning both races. Due to the teams success that weekend the organisers asked Damax to run 60kg of success ballast. This was in addition to the 100kg already required by the FIA. Team boss Robin Ward opted to run the car in the Invitational Class on grounds of safety as 160kg of ballast was deemed too dangerous. The team kept the 100kg of FIA ballast in the car so that they could run as a genuine GT3 entry. Scott and Thompson qualified in 4th position for the race, quickest of all the GT3 cars with a time of 1.25.5 set by Scott.