24-01-17 Winter league Round 3

Louis Parker wins the GT12 A final with Mark Deacon in second place and Ashley King third.
The last week of using the present track design again produced some tremendous racing.
Qualifying
James Hart was quickest after the three qualifying rounds with Louis Parker a close second and also setting the fastest lap. Richard Hickling was third and Mark Deacon fourth.
In F2 Steve Donald was again fastest followed by Daniel Lacey and Alan Forster.
League F3 leader Paul Carter was best in F3 with John Stringer second and Jack Walsh third.
In the club mardave class Mike Simpson led F1, Joshua Galbraith was in second place and Paul Galbraith third. Alex Forster was the highest placed F2 driver, well done also to Harvey Forster in his first race meeting.

Finals
The mardave final was very exciting and saw a lot of overtaking, Jordan Galbraith set the fastest lap time and was the winner starting from third place on the grid, his dad Paul took second place a cars length ahead of pole position driver Mike Simpson. Alex Forster was the winner in F2, Roy Matthews finishing last after yet another problem with his car.

John Stringer won the GT12 D Final to be best in F3 and bring Paul Carters unbeaten run in the league to an end.
New member Alan Forster won the C Final, Stephen Deacon was second and Peter Partridge took third place.
Gavin Maciver had a very impressive drive to win the B Final, a good race this with Steve Donald taking second place ahead of Chelle Snowden.
So just the A Final left and what a race this proved to be. James Hart led the field away from pole position but Louis Parker took the lead on the second lap and went on to win the race – well done Louis!
There was a tremendous battle for second and third places between James Hart, Mark Deacon and Ashley King. Mark had his car really flying and set equal fastest lap time with James. It was a race right to the finish with Mark taking second just 0.34 seconds ahead of Ashley King – a fantastic race.