11-07-17 Summer League Round 2

The second of eight rounds of the summer league.
Qualifying
Steve Donald made a good start to lead the qualifying in the GT12 class after the first round with James Hart in second place and Mark Deacon third. James took over the lead in the second round, Mark Deacon moved up into second spot and visiting driver David Hall third. In round three David moved ahead of Mark into second place, James taking pole position for the A Final.
Good performances in all three rounds from McKenzie Wallace made him the top F3 driver with John Stringer second and Jack Walsh third.

In the club Mardave class Mike Simpson was quickest but it was very close for the other places with Paul Galbraith taking second, Roy Matthews third and Alex Forster fourth and best in F2 just a few seconds apart.

Finals
In the Mardave final Mike was the winner with Paul taking second place. There was a tremendous battle for third place between Roy Matthews, Alex Forster and Harvey Forster. All three drivers finished on the same lap and it was Alex who was first across the finishing line to take third and best in F2 followed by Roy and then Harvey who recorded the fastest lap time of the three of them. Better watch out Alex, Harvey is getting quicker each week after your number 1 driver spot in “Team Forster”.

The GT12 C Final was won by John Stringer, Courtney Orme finished second, these two drivers being a lap up on Jack Walsh who finished in third place.

Bob Harley made a good start from pole position in the Gt12 B Final and had a good drive to win and set the best lap time, Nick Wallace took second place just over eight seconds down and visiting driver Paul Lison was third.

The last race of the evening provided plenty of entertainment with some excellent driving, the first four cars finishing only a few seconds apart.

James Hart started from pole position on the grid and Gavin Maciver in car 5 moved up from the back of the grid into second place behind James on the first lap followed by Mark Deacon, Steve Donald and David Hall.
James set a very fast pace and with all drivers lapping quickly Mark got past Gavin on lap 8 to move into second place and on lap 17 David started to move up the field into fourth place overtaking Steve Donald.
A big change of order on lap 22 with Gavin dropping down to the back of the field, the race order now being James, Mark, Steve, David, Gavin. The order remained until 2 laps from the end of the race when David moved into third place ahead of Steve.
A great race, James the winner, Mark second, David third, Steve fourth all on 38 laps and Gavin fifth place.

With two rounds completed only Mark Deacon and Mike Simpson have a 100% record scoring maximum points, can they win again next week?