11-11-14 Autumn League Round 7

Four 5 minute qualifying rounds and an 8 minute final this week
Darren Ford was the fastest qualifier but James Hart wins the GT12 “A” Final
Nick Bruty takes over as division 2 league leader
Lee Bishop wins in the Mardave class by just 0.18 seconds in a tremendous final
Jake Galbraith closes Jenson Butlins lead in division 2 to just two points.

This was the penultimate round of the current Autumn league and with just the final round to go there were some significant changes to league positions as with the best six from eight round scores to count the drivers worst scores to date were discounted.

In the GT12 class James Hart is assured of the winners trophy as he now has maximum points in four of the rounds.
Darren Ford was again driving well this week and all the races were very close, Darren was quickest by 1.36 seconds in the qualifying to take pole position in the “A” final but James Hart was first across the finishing line by a margin of 1.07 seconds in a thrilling race.

Louis Parker won the “B” final with some impressive driving, being fourth fastest overall in the GT12 class, Mitch Howard was second and Nick Bruty took third place to move him to the top of division 2.

In the club mardave class final Lee Bishop and Paul Galbraith had a very close race and were two laps up on the rest of the field. Paul was in the lead for a large part of the race and looked to be on course  for ending Lee Bishops run of consecutive wins.  However a coming together with one of his two sons car (I won’t mention his name but I think he may have had a long walk home afterwards) let Lee back into the race and he went on to win by the narrowest of margins 0.18 seconds.
Not to be outdone by his dad, Jake Galbraith had an excellent race to finish in third place in the final and get within just two points of division 2 league leader Jenson Butlin – no pressure Jenson for the final round!