30-08-16 Autumn League Round 1

James Hart qualifies for pole position and wins the A Final, Gavin MacIver is second Bob Harley qualifies an excellent third.
Darren Ford takes fourth place in qualifying to be top division 2 driver ahead of Matt Popejoy.
In division 3 Steve Donald was best with some outstanding driving, Courtney Orme qualified in second place but beaten into third place by Mark Perkin in the final.
Joshua Galbraith was top qualifier in the V12 mardave class and went on to win the final leaving his brother Jordan the summer league winner feeling a little run down after failing to start in the final.

Qualifying
James Hart set the pace with 34 laps, his closest rival was Gavin Maciver who was second just 4.64seconds down. Bob Harley, just promoted from division 2 was also lapping quickly and took third place overall.
Darren Ford had another good evening to be top division 2 driver a further 5 seconds behind Bob.
Steve Donald with his new car dominated division 3 to be 4 laps ahead of second placed driver Courtney Orme.

In the club mardave class Joshua Galbraith got the better of his brother Jordan to be top qualifier with Jordan second and Mike Simpson third.

Finals

Joshua Galbraith started well from pole position on the grid, disaster struck for Jordan after his batteries went flat in his transmitter and then had a broken connection. This left just three cars in the race, Joshua was in control for most of the race and took a deserving win with Mike Simpson second and Paul Galbraith third. A maximum league points start for Joshua, better watch out Jordan!

The GT12 C final was won by Mike Simpson, ever improving Mark Perkin took second place and Courtney Orme was third. Well done to Jamie Hall who was fourth and set the third best lap time.

The B final was the closest race of the evening with Ashley King, Dave Tomlinson, Matt Popejoy and Nick Wallace only separated by the smallest of margins for the duration of the race. They eventually finished in this order, all on 30 laps and less than 6 seconds between them. Steve Donald also put in a tremendous performance to finish just 1 lap behind. A great race this!

With just the A final left the question was could anyone beat James Hart who was in sparkling form in qualifying. He again showed everyone the way to win by a clear lap, Gavin Maciver was an excellent second and Darren Ford just managed to beat Bob Harley for third place.

A good evenings racing with James Hart, Darren Ford, Steve Donald and Joshua Galbraith all scoring maximum points in their respective league divisions.