12-04-16 Winter League Round 8

An exciting evenings racing with maximum points being scored for the first time in all four league divisions by the winning drivers

Louis Parker after having problems with his car in round 1 recovered to be fastest in qualifying and take pole position in the GT12 A final, another good performance from Chelle Snowden to take second place ahead of David Simpson.
Matt Popejoy was the quickest in division 2 and new member David Snowden qualified in top position in division 3 with Courtney Orme second.
In the Club Mardave class the racing was very close as usual with Paul Galbraith winning round 1, Jordan Galbraith winning round 2 and Mike Simpson taking round 3 with the best time to take pole in the final.

In the Mardave final Mike Simpson got a good start with Jordan Galbraith in hot pursuit, with some incredibly close driving these two had lapped everyone else in the field by lap 11. On lap 14 Mike made an error and Jordan took the lead and it was now Jordan who was being pursued by Mike. Unfortunately on lap 21 Jordan’s car had a mechanical failure with the suspension coming adrift which enabled Mike to take a comfortable win with Paul Galbraith making a last minute charge to un-lap himself and take second place with Roy Matthews finishing a fine third.

The GT12 B final saw a great performance from new member David Snowden who had been improving his times all evening. He had a very convincing win being 5 laps ahead of Courtney Orme with Mark Perkin taking third place on the same lap as Courtney. Well done David! – Could Chelle make it two wins for the Snowden family in the A final?

Louis Parker made a great start in the A final and soon pulled out a good lead, behind him Chelle Snowden and David Simpson were having their own race for second place. David moved into second on lap 2 only for Chelle to get past on lap 7, the race remained very close and David moved back into second spot on lap 10, the positions remained the same for a while and by lap 20 Chelle was only 2/10th second behind David. Unfortunately a racing incident on lap 23 put David out of contention and Chelle was able to cruise to a well deserved second place behind the winner and fastest car on the track Louis Parker. A great race to watch!