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Team OFARC ST +

Team OFARC Saint Cross is a single seater race car team set up by Dax Ward in 2000. The car is driven by Dax and the engineering is carried out by him and Adrian Jukes, Production Director of the company.

The car is a Jedi chassis and is powered by a motorcycle engine and can produce speads up to 155mph where circuits allow. It is raced all over the country and even at Belgium at Spa-Francorchamps. For 2010 the engine choice is a Suzuki GSXR 1000.

The car enables St. Cross to try out development work on the wiring harness side especially on the telementary data collection side.

For upto date results, news and gallery check out the teams website at www.ofarc.co.uk

 

LATEST NEWS - 2010

JUNE 12 - Brands Hatch

A mixed weekend with a DSQ in the first race after using wrong brake pad compound, and a 9th in race 2 after starting 12th on the grid. The team logged a 46.1 lap round the Indy circuit.

Next race is Oulton Park, Cheshire on August 14. This is also National Motorsport Week which St Cross Electronics will be part of.

MAY 29 - Rockingham, Northants

The team tested on the 28th and within a few laps had already beaten the lap record that has stood since 2008. Unfortunately bad weather was on the way for race day. Dax qualified 7th for race 1 and 10th for race 2 in the poring rain. The rain did not let up and after dropping to 13th in race 1 at the start, Dax made up places to get 9th overall and set the 4th best lap time. In race 2, Dax again had a terrible start but again made his way through the cars ahead to finish a very strong 6th, not far from 5th. Next round Brands Hatch on June 12/13th.

APRIL 14 - First round of Jedi championship

The first round of the 2010 Jedi championship took place on 10 and 11 April. The team had a frustrating weekend with fuel surge problems and punctures on the Saturday and only managed a 9th place finish. On Sunday after getting up to 7th spot, Dax failed to finish due to the clutch cable breaking on lap 5.

MARCH 28 - Team OFARC win opening Monoposto round at Brands Hatch

So the start of a new season for Team OFARC. Two new members have joined us for 2010. Zoe Timbrell and her sister Elise. Zoe works for Titan Motorsport who manufacture steering racks. After a successful test on the Friday preceding this race Team OFARC STX managed to secure pole position for the race in the afternoon. Marc Fortune managed to get 3rd for the team. The weather forecast for the race was for torrential rain, but the weather managed to hold off and stay dry. After briefly giving away the lead at the start Dax won pretty comfortably and set fastest lap, and also lap record. Marc unfortunately crashed out whilst in second spot.

MARCH 5 - Team OFARC enter Monoposto round at Brands Hatch

The team are eligible to enter this championship, and will be using this weekend as another test day on Friday 26th March, with the race on the 28th. This should prepare the team fully for the first Jedi championship race at Silverstone on April 10/11th.

FEBRUARY 26 - First Shakedown of car at Silverstone

The team ran the car at a very cold and windy Silverstone. The improvements to the circuit are really good with a nice smooth back straight on the "national" configuration. This will form part of the new Arena GP layout from 2010.

The engine installation and running in went like clockwork, with no major problems. The test was cut short though as an outer CV joint overheated and the team did not have a spare to run with. An analysis of the broken part is being carried out, so another test has been scheduled for Brands Hatch on Friday 26th March 2010.

Cartek's new rain light and switch worked faultlessly in the extreme cold conditions. The Rain Light Switch incorporates 3 modes, On, Off and Hazard flash. The hazard flash was used when running in the engine and all other drivers were made aware at the briefing that when they saw the hazard flashing there was a slower moving vehicle ahead.

More details on these products can be found here.

NEWS - 2009 and EARLIER

OCTOBER 30 2009 - Team OFARC St. Cross are on TV

The Brands Hatch race from August is to be shown this Friday at 19:00 hours on MotorsTV.

Motors TV can be found on channel 413 on the Sky platform and channel 545 via Virgin Media. The show will be repeated several times next week. The complete schedule can be found at Motors TV.

OCTOBER 24/25 2009 - Final round of the year at Snetterton, Norfolk

In race 1 Dax achieved a 9th position finish in the wet on slick tyres. It was the correct tyre for the first 5 laps and that proved by getting upto position 4 early on. But then the rain came again and Dax slipped back and back.

In race 2 whilst in 6th place, Dax crashed out on lap 6, a very dissapointing end to the very short season.

AUGUST 2009 - Brands Hatch - National Motorsport Week

The team entered Brands Hatch for the double header round in Formula Jedi. The car was supporting national Motorsport Week as St Cross Electronics are members of The MIA. Dax qualified in 7th spot for the first race, but had to retire due to a broken accelerator cable. The next day Dax got the car upto 5th spot on the grid for the team. In race 2 there was a big crash which dropped Dax down to 10th spot and brought out the safety car. Dax still managed to bring home the car in 5th spot, the teams best ever result in this championship. More details can be found on the official OFARC website.

JUNE 2009 - The team heads off to Donnington & returns.

After arriving at the circuit we were sent home as this new track could not cope with rain water. Very dissapointing trip and total waste of time.

APRIL 2009 - Two podiums for the start of 2009

We set off to Norfolk on an unusually hot and dry April day. Qualfying for race 1 did not got oo well only managing 5th on the grid. The race started even worse dropping to 7th before picking it up and managing to get 2nd overall. On one lap 3 cars were overtaken!!! Race 2 the team managed another podium and got 3rd overall. So after the first round the team were 2nd place in the championship.

March 2009 - Silverstone GP test day

The team had a test day on the famous Grand Prix config circuit. Managed a best time of 1.52 seconds which is only 20 secs of a GP2 car which costs 1.5mGBP a year to run. Unfortunately the circuit was covered with oil for most of the day so the best time set in the first session stood for the day. The first race of the season is going to be at Snetterton on the 4th/5th April.

October 2008 - Snetterton - Two more wins!!

The team qualified third in class on Saturday to win the race by 0.2 seconds from team mate Marc Fortune. Marc bagged the fastest lap. Race two on Sunday was looking good with Dax on the front row, until he stalled at the start. That dropped the team back to 17th and with only a 15 minute race it looked all over. Dax made up 5 places on the first lap and picked up place after place eventually finishing in 2nd place and 1st in class and only 5 seconds behind the winner. The team also got the fastest lap.

A great end to a great season with 2 wins and four podiums and one of those at Spa after starting from 16th position. Who says motorsport has no overtaking!!!

July 2008 - Spa-Francorchamps Belgium - 16th to 6th.

Dax did not get on too well with the wet conditions in qualifying at the weekend, but was determined to make up for his failures in the race. The team went from 16th to finish 6th overall and got second in their class and get a podium at what is probably the best drivers circuit in the world.

June 2008 - Rockingham

After qualifying on the front row on Saturday the rain came down for the race and the team made the wrong set up choice and ended up 10th at the flag. For race 2, again Dax put the team on second spot on the grid and finished the day in 2nd and got the fastest lap setting a new Monoposto record.

April 2008 - Silverstone

After a great test day on the Friday, Dax and Adrian were convinced they were getting back on the pace again. This was confirmed on Sunday when the team got 4th place on the grid, only 0.5 seconds from pole. The data showed that Dax actually lost 0.76 seconds on his best lap due to traffic. Unfortunately Dax got pushed off line in the race and lost two places and had to settle for 6th place overall.

March 2008 - Snetterton

Still getting used to the new car after not much testing Dax qualified in 13th place on a unusually dry day at the venue. After a great start Dax got the car upto 6th place overall to give the team a great lift for the start of the season. Next race Silverstone on April 12/13th.

 

 

 

October 2007 - Pole Position and a Class Win.

The team returned from Snetterton on October 14th 2007 with a podium and a class win. Dax put the car on pole position on Sunday morning with the very last lap of the session and clear from second place on the grid by 0.3sec. The team finished the race in second position overall only 0.5sec behind first place. This gave the team a first in class position as the other car was a more powerful class. That just shows what an achievement pole position was for the team.