04-11-14 Autumn League Round 6

Lee Bishop wins again in the club Mardave Class
David Hall and James Hart finish first and second respectively in the GT12 class driving new Schumacher SupaStox GT cars.

Track
Three six minute qualifying rounds and an eight minute final on a fast track design this week.

Lee Bishop took pole position in the Mardave final after qualifying with 34 laps ahead of Paul Galbraith 33 and Jenson Butlin 32.
In the final Paul Galbraith was in the lead until the late stage of the race and Lee overtook to be first to the finish line three seconds ahead of Paul, both drivers getting 46 laps. An excellent drive from Jake Galbraith earned him third place on 44 laps.

In the GT12 class Darren Ford with 41 laps was the quickest in round 1 just over a second ahead of James Hart, with David Simpson and David Hall third and fourth both on 40 laps.
Round 2 saw James Hart reverse the positions by setting the fastest time on 42 laps just over a second better than Darren.
In round 3 James bettered his 42 lap time by 4 seconds to take the top qualifying spot with David Hall moving up into second place 0.42 seconds behind with Darren third also on 42 laps.
In the final James Hart and David Hall went ahead of the rest of the field and had a tremendously close race which was exciting to watch, James was leading up to lap 34 when David Hall took over the lead only for James to get back in front on lap 37. Some very close racing to the end with James maintaining his narrow lead until lap 53 when David Hall slipped past him to win by 0.68 seconds on 56 laps. – great race!
Darren Ford finished third and a fine performance by Chelle Snowden put her in fourth place – well done Chelle!

Louis Parker won the “B” final with 51 laps and Nick Wallace took fourth place and top division 2 driver spot by the narrow margin of 0.38 seconds ahead of Nick Bruty – that was close!

Graham Oxford was the winner of the “C” Final on 46 laps, Jack Cook was second with 44 and Alwyn Hodges third with 36 , Alister Hart took fourth place a further laps down.