Mike Simpson wins the Mardave Final after Team Galbraith trip themselves up
Jack Cook triumphs in the GT12 C Final
Chelle Snowden wins a thrilling GT12 B Final after nail biting finish
James Hart wins again in the GT12 A Final
Twenty One GT12 class drivers this week and five mardave V12
Track
An excellent design this week giving no opportunity to relax concentration!
Qualifying
Three five minute qualifying rounds produced some good racing, James Hart was really flying in the GT12 class and took pole position for the A final, Louis Parker and Darren Ford were closely matched with Louis taking second place behind James.
In division 2 there were only four seconds separating the first four drivers, Mitch Howard was the fastest followed by Dave Tomlinson and Chelle Snowden.
Club Chairman Rob Hambridge got his car performing well and was three laps ahead of the field in division 3 with Jack Cook being second.
Mike Simpson was fastest in the mardave class followed by Jake Galbraith, Paul Galbraith was third after missing the first two rounds.
Finals
The mardave final was first and Mike Simpson took an early lead from pole position but Paul Galbraith gradually made up ground and these two were inches apart for lap after lap until Paul managed to get past with a great bit of driving. It was still very close but a racing incident between Paul and Jake Galbraith let Mike back into the lead and he managed to hold on to the finish with Paul making up ground quickly. A great race this, heated discussions in the team Galbraith camp afterwards – will they need to get McLaren to mediate!
Jake Galbraith was best in division 2 followed by his brother Josh.
Some exciting racing in the GT12 C final between Jack Cook, John Yates and Ted Griffiths, the fastest lap went to John but in the end it was Jack who won by two laps from John in second place and Ted third.
The GT12 B final produced the most entertaining race of the evening, Dave Tomlinson was on pole but after the first bend found himself in last position with Bob Harley leading and Chelle Snowden in second place. There was then a great race between these three, Bob looked to have a win in the bag but Chelle took the lead in the later stages of the race and with one lap to go was just over half a second in front at the final bend only to have problems and Bob stormed down the straight to produce a photo finish at the line. Chelle was the winner by 1/100th of a second, Bob second and Dave Tomlinson third all on 48 laps and less than half a second apart. Can it get any better than this?
The last race of the evening was the GT12 A final, James Hart produced the fastest lap of 8.65 seconds and Louis Parker 8.96 seconds, these being the only two drivers to get below 9 seconds.
James had a comfortable win with 54 laps, Louis was second with 52, Darren Ford third with 51 and a great drive from David Statham earned him fourth place also on 51 laps. Mitch Howard also had a good evening to be the only division 2 driver to make the A final and finished with 49 laps.