Historic meeting · Sunday, race two
Pre-66 sports racing
Stopped on lap twenty-two of twenty-six. The classification is the order at the end of lap twenty-one, which is not the order the grandstand watched come round.
Red flag, four laps to run
Car 14 stopped at Colwyn with oil on the track. The race was not restarted, so so under the regulations the result stands at the end of the last lap every car completed — lap twenty-one. Three cars that passed on lap twenty-two therefore finish behind the cars they passed.
- Stopped
- 14:37, lap 22 of 26
- Result taken at
- end of lap 21
- Cars affected
- 3 of 24
- Status
- Provisional until 15:07
- Protest window
- 30 minutes from posting
Classification
Top eight of twenty-four · provisional
| Pos | Car | Driver | Entrant | Laps | Gap | On the road at the flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | M. Aldridge | Colwyn Racing | 21 | — | Held first |
| 2 | 3 | P. Larssen | Sundby Motors | 21 | +1.842 | Was third ↑ |
| 3 | 21 | J. Vance | Marlow & Sons | 21 | +2.110 | Was second ↓ |
| 4 | 9 | R. Okonjo | Fenwick Historics | 21 | +6.503 | Held fourth |
| 5 | 18 | A. Brill | Brill Engineering | 21 | +9.774 | Was sixth ↑ |
| 6 | 2 | S. Whitmore | Colwyn Racing | 21 | +11.208 | Was fifth ↓ |
| 7 | 31 | D. Ferreira | Ferreira Classiche | 21 | +18.660 | Held seventh |
| 8 | 11 | K. Osei | Marlow & Sons | 21 | +24.017 | Held eighth |
Available when the protest window closes at 15:07
Design notes
- Shape of the page
- An editorial spread that ends in a table. The meeting gets a masthead at the size this language reserves for a model name, and then the page becomes a results sheet, because that is what somebody standing in the paddock came for.
- What it leads with
- The reason the result is strange. A classification nobody understands is a protest, so the stop, the lap it reverts to and the number of cars it moves open the page rather than sitting in a footnote.
- Spacing
- Wide. A row takes twice the height a console would give it, because this is read once, standing up, by somebody looking for one car.
- The one bold decision
- The table carries two orders at once. Every results sheet shows the classification and lets the crowd work out for themselves why the car they watched lead is third; this one puts what each car was doing when the flag came out in its own column, in words, so the sheet answers the question instead of starting it. It is the column a timekeeper already has and never publishes.
- Where the colour comes from
- One red. It marks the primary action, the current section and the rule under the masthead, and nothing else — the moved places rest on the words “was second” and an arrow, not by colour, so the sheet survives a photocopier and a screen reader.
- Measured
- In the dark setting: body text 17.00:1 on the canvas, the quietest text 8.73:1 on a lifted panel, a control outline 5.49:1. In the light one: the quietest text 5.74:1, a control outline 3.23:1. White on the red action reads 4.87:1, which is the reference’s own pairing and clears. The red as TEXT does not clear everywhere it is put: on the lifted panel in the dark setting it reaches only 2.71:1, so a red word there is a slightly lighter red than the red fill beside it. Both are on the page and the difference is deliberate.
- Where the type comes from
- Two weights and a ramp that runs from eighty pixels to eleven. The display steps track tighter than normal and the small uppercase label tracks wider, which is the pair that makes a results sheet in this language read as a race programme rather than as a spreadsheet.