Karl Norris, Jordan Leavis, Courtney Orme and Roy Matthews triumph in the 2018 Superleague

The final round six of the 2018 Superleague again saw plenty of high speed laps and close results.

The GT12 A Final was won by Karl Norris with Dan Sheppard in second place following an excellent drive, Chelle Snowden was third.

Bob Harley took the victory in the B Fnal being a lap ahead of David Statham and Mike Simpson in second and third places respectively.

Bob Harris was almost two laps ahead of the field in the C Final, Kayleigh Knight finishing in second place and Roy Matthews third.

The D final was won by Martyn Hartshorne, Freddie Parker took second place and James Krych third.

Louis Parker won an exciting LMP12 A Final with Ashley King taking second place and also setting the fastest lap, Steve Donald was third just five seconds adrift.

Well done to the League winners and all the trophy winners.

GT12 F1 Winner Karl Norris
GT12 F2 Winner Jordan Leavis
GT12 F3 Winner Courtney Orme
V12 Mardave Winner Roy Matthews

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The last round of this year’s Winter League on a tricky track design to test the drivers skills.
Three qualifying rounds with the league points to be decided in the final round as usual.

In the GT12 class Karl Norris won the A final and the F1 League, Chelle Snowden finished in second place just 0.2 seconds ahead of Mark Deacon who was third. Justin Heath was the top F2 driver in fourth place.

Another close finish in the B Final, Bob Harris winning with a great drive, Guy Rogers finishing 0.4 seconds adrift in second place and winning the F2 League on a tie break. David Statham set the quickest lap time in the race but a couple of bad laps resulted in third place.

Mike Simpson won the C Final with Benn Norris finishing in second place and Paul Carter third also being the top F3 driver. However a fourth place finish from James Walker was good enough to win him the F3 League Title.

Nathan Marshall racing in the mardave class was the winner of the D final with GT12 drivers Roy Matthews finishing second, Jack Walker third and Freddie Parker fourth also taking second place in the league – well done Freddie!!!

Once again James Hart won the LMP12 final, lapping everyone apart from Ashley King who was second with Louis Parker third.

Congratulations to all the League Trophy Winners – remember it is the Superleague Final Round next week.

A fast and flowing track design for the second week running provided some exciting racing.

Karl Norris was top qualifier in the GT12 class. He went on to win the A final, Chelle Snowden finished second, Mark Deacon third and Bob Harley fourth. With Karl assured of the league championship and Chelle second place the league third and fourth places will be decided next week between Bob Harley and Dan Sheppard.

New member David Statham won the B Final with Guy Rogers taking second place and Kayleigh Knight third. This meant that Guy lost his two point lead in F2, now being on equal points with Mike Simpson with Kayleigh Knight in third place.

Adam Hancock was the winner of the C Final, James Walker was second and Paul Carter third. Roy Matthews, racing in the GT12 class for the first time won the D final, Martyn Hartshorne trying out his much quicker new motor took second place, Jack Walker was third and Freddie Parker fourth.

James Walker looks to have the F3 championship in the bag but the remaining places are still undecided between current league leader Freddie Parker, Martyn Hartshorne and Jack Walker. No pressure drivers!! – expect out for some very competitive racing next week.

James Hart was the best qualifier in the LMP12 class followed by Ashley King and Steve Donald. It was good to see Gavin Maciver racing at Burton again after a years break. All drivers finished in the same order in the final which means that Ashley King is now league champion elect and Steve Donald runner up.

Looking forward to a great evenigs racing next week.

A superb evenings racing on a great track design producing some fast laptimes, a clean carpet too! – many thanks to Bob Harley with the vacuum.

Chelle Snowden wins the GT12 A Final with league leader Karl Norris in second place and Mark Deacon, racing at Burton after a three month break quietly taking third place just 0.22 seconds ahead of Bob Harley.

Ashley King retains his crown with a victory in the LMP Final finishing ahead of Louis Parker in second place and Steve Donald in third.

Mike Simpson won the GT12 B Final, a flying Kayleigh Knight took second place, Benn Norris was third.

In the GT12 C Final Paul Carter starting from third position on the grid won the race, closely followed by Adam Hancock with pole position driver James Walker taking third.

Mardave driver Nathan Marshal won the combined Mardave V12/GT12 D Final, GT12 driver James Krych was second and Mardave driver Roy Matthews third.

Karl Norris still leads the GT12 F1 League but Chelle Snowden has reduced his lead to just six points.
Guy Rogers leads F2 by two points from Mike Simpson
Freddie Parker is still at the top of F3 but James Walker, Jack Walker and Martyn Hartshorne have only completed four rounds so far.
Roy Matthews Leads the Mardave V12 league with Nathan Marshall in second place.
Ashley King has a six point advantage over Steve Donald in the LMP12 League.

Two rounds left to go in the league and with the best six from a possible nine rounds to count many of the leading positions are not yet decided, so look forward to some very competitive racing in the next two weeks!

After the AGM there was time for three rounds of racing.

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The last team event of the year with captains Ashley King, Fred Hatfield, Steve Donald, Dan Sheppard and Nay Wells taking part in a draw to decide their team members.

Fred Hatfield’s team took an early lead in round 1 with 130 laps, Steve Donald’s team were in second place just 6 laps adrift and Ashley King’s team a further 2 laps behind in third place. Dan Sheppard’s team were trailing in last place due to Martyn Hartshorne unfortunately having problems with his car which despite best efforts ultimately took three rounds to sort out.

There were three qualifying rounds and a final as usual and although the team order remained unchanged throughout the evening the final result was close, the winners being Fred Hatfield, Chris Metcalfe, Darren Ford and Justin Heath with 553 laps.

Despite Steve Donald getting a magnificent 40 laps in the final round his team of Chelle Snowden, Matthew Tansley and Mike Simpson finished second with 538 laps.

Third place went to Ashley King, Guy Rogers, James Walker and Bob Harley with 526 laps. (No win for Bob on his birthday!)

An enjoyable evening, congratulations to the winners who will all receive a free evenings racing.

Finally many thanks to Chris Snowden for running race control and collating all the results.

Round by round scores shown below.

A Clubnight with an added bonus this week!

Racing will take the format of an ordinary clubnight with drivers being sorted into heats for each of the classes as usual.

Team Captains will be appointed by race control and they will draw for their team members.

The total number of laps recorded during the evening by the drivers in each team will be added together to give each teams total laps.

The team laps will be normalised on a pro-rata basis to take account of any unequal numbers of drivers in the teams to give the final team scores.

The winning team will be the one with the highest final team score.

(If necessary the tie break will be the lowest final team score time)

MEMBERS OF THE WINNING TEAM WILL RECEIVE A FREE EVENINGS RACING

D R I V E R S – P L E A S E   E N S U R E   T H A T   Y O U   B O O K   I N   A T         R A C E   C O N T R O L   BY  6 – 4 5 pm

With Schools being on half term holiday there were several visiting drivers this week.
Qualifying

Chelle Snowden was the top qualifier in the GT12 Class, League leader Karl Norris was in second place both drivers being two laps up on the third and fourth place drivers Bob Harley and Guy Rogers.
In the LMP class Louis Parker had a great drive in round three to take pole position in the final a lap ahead of Ashley King and James Hart.

Finals
The GT12 C Final turned out to be a good one for “Team Walker” with James winning and Jack taking second place. Martyn Hartshorne racing after a couple of weeks break was third and F3 League leader Freddie Parker fourth.

Visitor Bailey Rice-Draycott won the B Final, Kayleigh Knight was a close second and fast improving Benn Norris took third place. Better watch out Kay – Benn had a quicker best lap time than you for the second week running!

In the A Final Karl Norris made a great start from second place on the grid to go ahead of Chelle Snowden on the first lap and went on to win the race three seconds ahead of Chelle. Bob Harley recovered from a poor start to take third place with Justin Heath fourth.

The LMP final was run at a very fast pace and developed into a race for the win between Louis Parker, Ashley King and James Hart. A super race to watch with Louis and James going wheel to wheel for lap after lap and James being first across the finishing line to win. Ashley took third place just a few seconds adrift and Fred Hatfield was fourth.
A great race to conclude the evening.

After the three rounds of qualifying Ashley King was quickest in the GT12 class with 37 laps followed by Karl Norris, Chelle Snowden and Leigh Dibble all on 36.
In F2 Justin Heath was the best, closely followed by Guy Rogers both drivers with 34 laps followed by Bob Harris on 32.
Only two drivers racing in F3 this week, Paul Carter and Freddie Parker finishing in that order.
Likewise in the club Mardave class Nathan Marshall took pole position in the final ahead of Roy Matthews.

Finals
In the combined Mardave/GT12 D Final Matthew Tansley was the winner with Paul Carter taking second place, Nathan Marshall third and Roy Matthews fourth.

In the GT12 C Final Bob Harris took and early lead starting on pole position on the grid, Mike Simpson then moved up into the front until the last minute when Bob re-took the lead and went on to win the race. Behind these two Chris Metcalfe and Kayleigh Knight were fighting it out for third and fourth places, it was very close but Chris was first to the finish. Well done also to Benn Norris who put in some quicker laps than both Chris and Kayleigh!

The GT12 B Final was next and proved to be an exciting race with Bob Harley leading the cars away at the start from pole. Justin Heath set the quickest lap time early on in the race just 6/100th second faster than Bob and with Darren Ford and Guy Rogers also going well it was a great race to watch. In the end a super consistent drive from Darren won him the race, Bob finished second and Justin third all on the same lap.

Could the last race of the evening the GT12 A Final match the excitement of the previous one, the answer was yes! Ashley King being the winner and lapping all the other drivers apart from Steve Donald who finished in second place with Chelle Snowden taking third spot and league leader Karl Norris fourth all these three finishing on the same lap.

Four more rounds yet to go in the league, Karl Norris still leads F1 by a big margin but Chelle Snowden reduced his lead by a point this week.
A change of leader in F2 with Guy Rogers now top just a single point ahead of Mike Simpson, Bob Harris in third place also closing the gap by a point to second place.
Freddie Parker still leads F3.
In the Mardave class Roy Matthews had his lead cut by a point by Nathan Marshall who, having raced in only two rounds still could achieve a maximum points score in the league.
Remember it is the best six from a possible nine results that count.

Qualifying
Karl Norris was the top qualifier in the GT12 class with Chelle Snowden in second place both drivers on 39 laps, followed by Darren Ford and Guy Rogers completing the A final line up.

Bob Harris was just 0.2sec quicker than Mike Simpson to take pole in the B final with Kayleigh Knight and Chris Metcalfe being in third and fourth positions, all four drivers being very closely matched for speed.

The C final was to be a combined GT12 /V12 race with David Statham taking pole position followed by Matthew Tansley, Alan Forster, Alex Forster and James Krych. Just two mardave drivers this week – both “Team Forster”, Alan gaining the initial advantage by qualifying ahead of Alex.

Finals
David Statham had a runaway victory in the C Final with Alan and Alex Forster fighting it out for second and third places, what a finish this was with Alex crossing the finishing line just 4/100th of a second ahead of Alan to be top “Team Forster” driver this week – well done Alex!

Bob Harris made a good start from pole position on the grid in the B Final and went on to take a well deserved win. It was very close for the remaining places with positions changing several times during the race. In the end Kayleigh Knight continued her recent run of good form to take second place, Mike Simpson being third and Chris Metcalfe fourth all being on the same lap – an exciting race to watch!

The A Final produced one of the closest contests for some time with all four drivers finishing on the same lap. Karl Norris was the winner also setting the fastest lap.  Chelle Snowden took second place followed by Darren ford was third just 0.17 seconds adrift with Guy Rogers in fourth place.

Next week is round 5 of the winter league.