04-04-17 Spring League Round 2

Some exciting racing in Round 2 of the current league despite the number of drivers being lower than normal.
The winter league trophies were presented before the finals, congratulations to all of the winners.



Qualifying

Louis Parker made an excellent start in round 1 to set the fastest time with Mark Deacon second and Steve Donald third. Despite winning both rounds 2 & 3 Mark could not match Louis’s round 1 time and had to settle for second place on the final grid, Steve taking the third spot.
In GT12 F2 Daniel Lacey just got the better of Matt Popejoy with Rob Hambridge third struggling with his cars setup.
It was a head to head between Courtney Orme and Alwyn Hodges in F3 with Courtney being best with a 2 lap advantage.

In the club mardave class Mike Simpson won all three rounds with Paul Galbraith second and Joshua Galbraith third. In F2 Wes “I still have not won a trophy” Wray was 3 seconds quicker than Roy Matthews and was the top driver followed by Roy with Alex Forster third.

Finals
The mardave final resulted in another win for Mike, Paul was second and a great drive from Alex Forster earned him third place and top in F2 after a close battle with Roy Matthews who finished just over 1 second behind, followed by Harvey Forster.

Alwyn Hodges won the GT12 C final with Courtney Orme having a few issues with his car.

The B final was a super race, Bob Harley, Matt Popejoy and Daniel Lacey were all very evenly matched and in with a change of winning. As expected the result was close, Bob winning the race, Matt second and Daniel third.

Just the A final left and Louis Parker made a great start with car 2 Mark Deacon in hot pursuit and Chelle Snowden quickly moving into third place ahead of Steve Donald. A slow lap 17 from Mark let Chelle by into second place but he fought back well to regain position on lap 24 by a very narrow margin. Chelle got past Mark again on lap 27 and retained her position to finish in second place behind Louis. The excitement was not over yet as on the very final lap Steve Donald overtook Mark to take third place leaving him to finish fourth after such a fine start. Did his car let him down or was it the shock of winning a trophy in the winter league? Well done Louis, another excellent result.