A good evenings racing with Steve Donald being the fastest qualifier just 0.28 seconds ahead of Gavin Maciver. Paul Galbraith was the top Club Mardave class driver, a lap clear of his son Joshua.

Gavin Maciver won an exciting GT12 A final by 1 lap from Steve Donald, Bob Harley taking third place. There were wins for Mike Simpson in the B Final, narrowly beating Jordan Leavis and also Courtney Orme in the C Final finishing just ahead of Isaac Donald.
Paul Galbraith won the Mardave Final, a good drive from Nathan Marshall earned him second place ahead of Joshua Galbraith.

Don’t forget next week is round 3 of the Superleague.

The final round of the League with the Mardave F2 and GT12 F2 winners to be decided on the night.
A good fast track, Gavin Maciver the designer this week.

After the three rounds of qualifying Mike Simpson was leading in the club mardave class followed by Jordan Galbraith and Nathan Marshall. In F2 Roy Mathews enhanced his chances of winning the league title by being fastest qualifier in front of his main challenger Alex Forster.

In the GT12 class Courtney Orme was the top F3 driver, a lap quicker than John Stringer.

Jordan Leavis was the best in F2, Paul Carter being second.

Gavin Maciver took advantage of his track design to be the fastest in the GT12 class on 38 laps with Bob Harley in second place on 36.

Finals

The mardave class was up first where if Alex Forster could be the top placed F2 driver he would win the league if Roy Matthews failed to finish in second place. No pressure here then! With eight cars on the track it proved to be a very exciting and eventful race, Jordan Galbraith was soon up into the lead with his car flying, a couple of racing incidents brought him back to earth with a bump letting Mike Simpson into the lead. Mike held on to win the race with Jordan second, Joshua Galbraith third and Paul Galbraith fourth.
Behind these in F2 Alex and Roy were very evenly matched, it was Alex who was first across the line with Roy close behind to give them both the same overall league score which meant that the tie breaker was brought into play. Roy won the title having more maximum point finishes, it does not get any closer than this!

Paul Carter won the GT12 B final, a fine performance from Courtney Orme earned him second place with John Stringer in third spot. Well done Courtney for winning the F3 title.

Gavin Maciver had a good drive in the GT12 A Final, Bob Harley was second and a third place finish for Jordan Leavis was good enough to win him the F2 League title in his first league as a club member!

Congratulations to all the league winners.

Louis Parker GT12 F1
Jordan Leavis GT12 F2
Courtney Orme GT12 F3
Mike Simpson V12 F1
Roy Matthews V12 F2

Qualifying
The penultimate round of the spring league saw a very impressive performance by Louis Parker take the top qualifier spot from James Hart in the final round of qualifying. Gavin Maciver was in third place and Steve Donald fourth.
Nick Wallace was the highest placed F2 driver followed by Matt Popejoy and Jordan Leavis.
McKenzie Wallace was in good form leading F3, Jack Walsh was second and John Stringer third.
In the club Mardave class Mike Simpson was quickest with Paul Galbraith second and Nathan Marshall third. Roy Matthews was top F2 driver followed by Alex Forster and Wes Wray.

Finals
Mike had a comfortable win in the V12 final with Roy and Alex fighting it out for crucial F2 league points, at the finish it was Roy who got the upper hand by a few seconds to take maximum points from the evening.

McKenzie Wallace took fifth place in the GT12 B final to be the best placed F3 driver and also score maximum points, John Stringer also had a good drive in the C final to be second in F3 followed by Jack Walsh.

Chelle Snowden won the B Final with F2 drivers Jordan Leavis second, Matt Popejoy third and Daniel Lacey in fourth place.

Louis Parker was on pole position for the GT12 A final, could he win for the second week running?. It was James Hart who had a great win this week, Gavin Maciver was also driving very quickly but could not catch James and finished second a lap ahead of Steve Donald in third place with Louis having to retire part way through the race.

The scene is set for an exciting finish to several of the leagues in the final round next week when the winners will be decided..

Louis Parker took pole position for the GT12 A Final had a tremendous win over James Hart in second place and Steve Donald third – well done Louis!

Jordan Leavis won the B final after qualifying in second place in F2 behind Nick Wallace.

McKenzie Wallace had an excellent drive to win the C Final, two laps clear of the rest of the field.

In the Club Mardave Class there were only three drivers this week due to holidays, Mike Simpson and Paul Galbraith were very evenly matched, Mike qualified first and also won the final. Roy Matthews had F2 all to himself drove well to take another maximum points.

Just two more rounds left in the league with the best 6 from a possible 8 rounds to count.

After a break in racing last week it was back to the Spring League again.
In the Club Mardave Class Jordan Galbraith was best qualifier and won the final to take maximum points from the evening. This was repeated in F2 by Roy Matthews who had a great evening qualifying ahead of F1 driver Paul Galbraith.

It was an evening of maximum point performance with James Hart being fastest qualifier in the GT12 Class and winning the A Final with Steve Donald in second place.

Jordan Leavis was top qualifier in F2 and won the B Final after fighting off a challenge from Daniel Lacey.

Jason Leavis was best qualifier in F3, making the B final, could he also get a maximum points? – it was close but a great drive from Jack Walsh pushed him down to second place.

Please note that due to the Hall not being available just for this one week there will be no Buggy Club meeting.

The next club meeting will be held on TUESDAY 23rd May as normal – Spring League round 5.

Another testing track design this week provided some great racing in the usual three qualifying and one final round.

Qualifying
GT12 Class
James Hart was quickest in round 1 with Steve Donald second a lap down, Chelle Snowden was in third place just ahead of Bob Harley. James managed an extra lap in round 2, Steve holding onto second place with Louis Parker moving up into third place ahead of Chelle. James put in yet another lap in the third round to take pole in the A final, a good run by Louis assured him of second spot, Chelle moving up into third.
Matt Popejoy was the top F2 driver with Jordan Leavis second and Stephen Deacon third.
Jason Leavis was highest placed in F3 followed by Courtney Orme and John Stringer.

Club Mardave Class
Mike Simpson was fastest in all three qualifying rounds, Paul Galbraith was in second place after two rounds with Roy Matthews third and Harvey Forster fourth. In round three Jordan Galbraith set the fastest lap time and moved up into second place with Paul Galbraith third and Nathan Marshall fourth.
In F2 Alex Forster was fastest followed by Roy Matthews and Harvey Forster – well done Harvey a great performance.

Finals
The Mardave final was first up, Mike Simpson leading the field away from pole position and car 2 Jordan Galbraith in hot pursuit. These two built up a gap from the other drivers and Jordan took the lead on lap 11, a great race followed with Mike trying his best to get back on terms but Jordan maintaining his advantage. A mistake by Jordan on lap 20 gave Mike a chance and with two laps to go only a few inches separated the two drivers with Jordan holding on to take the win by 8/100th of a second – what a finish!
Paul Galbraith finished in second place, Alex Forster was the best placed F2 driver followed by Roy Matthews and Harvey Forster.

The GT12 C final saw an emphatic win from David Snowden starting from fifth place on the grid, Jason Leavis was second just ahead of Jack Walsh, all three drivers having a good drive.

Jordan Leavis made a good start from pole in the B final and had a convincing win over Stephen Deacon in second place with pole position driver Matt Popejoy finishing third.

In the A final James Hart lost his pole position advantage when Louis Parker overtook him on the first lap, James gradually made up ground on Louis and there then followed several minutes of racing at its best with James pressurising Louis who held on to his lead driving superbly for what seemed forever until James eventually got past and went on to win the race. Meanwhile Steve Donald was also putting in a great performance to take third place a lap ahead of Chelle Snowden in fourth. What a race to finish the evening with, it does not get any better than this!

DONT FORGET THAT THERE IS NO RACING NEXT WEEK DUE TO THE HALL NOT BEING AVAILABLE – The next club meeting is on TUESDAY 23rd MAY which will be the Spring League Round 5.

A tighter track design than usual put a premium on accurate driving.

Qualifying
Louis Parker was the top qualifier in the GT12 class a lap ahead of both Gavin Maciver in second place and Bob Harley in third.
In F2 Matt Popejoy was quickest, two laps better than Daniel Lacey in second and Stephen Deacon in third place.
Courtney Orme was the best placed F3 driver, John Stringer was second on the same laps and Jason Leavis third a lap down.
In the club mardave class Mike Simpson was first with Jordan and Joshua Galbraith second and third both a lap down.
Wes Wray was the top F2 driver followed by Alex Forster and Roy Matthews.

Finals
Mike Simpson made a good start in the mardave final to take an early lead with Jordan Galbraith dropping three places down the field on the first lap. He recovered well from this and on lap 15 caught an passed Mike to lead the race. However Mike began to make up ground again and some very exciting racing followed for several laps before Mike retook the lead on the penultimate lap to be first to the finish and win by less than a second from Jordan, Paul Galbraith finished third, two laps down.
Alex Forster was the top F2 driver once again finishing in fourth place with some consistent driving, his brother Harvey was fifth and Roy Matthews sixth.

In the GT12 C final Paul Galbraith won, Isaac Donald took an excellent second place racing GT12 for the first time – better watch out Steve he will soon be catching you up!. Jason Leavis was third and Alwyn Hodges fourth.
Daniel Lacey won a great B final, behind him Stephen Deacon and Jordan Leavis were fighting it out for second and third places, Stephen set the fastest lap and eventually finished two seconds ahead of Jordan. Courtney Orme was best F3 driver finishing in fourth place.

As usual the last race of the evening was the GT12 A final where pole position driver Louis Parker got off to a poor start on the first two laps after changing his transmitter from the qualifying, letting Gavin Maciver build up a lead. Louis came back strongly to win, Gavin was second and Steve Donald third – all on the same lap. A great race to finish the evening.

Three wins out of three rounds so far for Louis, can he make it four consecutive wins next week?

The second of six rounds in the 2017 Superleague with each drivers best five round scores to count.
Qualifying
After the three qualifying rounds James Hart was quickest with Louis Parker and Mark Deacon two laps down in second and third places respectively.
Steve Donald was the best placed F2 driver (only F2 for the Superleague!) being fourth overall followed by Daniel Lacey and Stephen Deacon.
In F3 David Snowden was best, John Stringer second and Jason Leavis in third spot.
Mike Simpson led the way in the club mardave class, Paul Galbraith was second and Jordan Galbraith third. Alex Forster was best in F2 with Roy Matthews second and Wes Wray third.

Finals
First up was the mardave class where Mike Simpson won from pole position, just managing to hold off Jordan Galbraith who finished second ahead of his Dad Paul third and brother Joshua in fourth place. In F2 it was “Team Forster” who led the way with Alex being best placed followed by Harvey who finished ahead of Roy Matthews – well done Harvey!

Jack Walsh finished second in the Gt12 C final to be second fastest overall in F3, only being beaten by David Snowden in the B final, Alwyn Hodges finished four laps adrift of Jack and was third quickest.

Daniel Lacey won an exciting B final to be top F2 driver, Jordan Leavis finished two laps behind Daniel in second place with David Snowden third.

The pace in the A final was very fast, James Hart took the win with Louis Parker second. Steve Donald finished in third place, Bob Harley fourth and Mark Deacon fifth, all three of these drivers being separated by just a few seconds.

So after round 2 only James Hart is on maximum points in the GT12 class, with Mike Simpson and Alex Forster also unbeaten in the mardave F1 and F2 classes, a long way to go yet, lets see what happens in round 3 which will be held in June.

An ordinary clubnight giving chance for drivers to experiment with their car set-up ready for next weeks superleague round 2.

Qualifying
Louis Parker was the top qualifier with Mark Deacon snatching second place from Gavin Maciver in the last qualifying round.
Paul Galbraith was four laps clear in the club mardave class, Alex Forster was in second place and Jensen Wray third.

Finals
Paul Galbraith had a convincing win in the mardave class, Roy Matthews finishing in second place after sorting out a few issues with his cars receiver. Alex Forster was third and Jensen Wray fourth beating his dad again!

Paul had a second win in the GT12 C final and Alwyn Hodges finished second, just ahead of third place driver David Snowden. Well done Alwyn!!!

Congratulations to new member Jordan Leavis who won the B final, Mike Simpson finished second in David Simpson’s Atom (yes David it is still in one piece, even if the paintwork does not look quite the same! – back to the mardave class next week with reverse), Richard Sherwin took third spot.

An exciting A final to complete the evenings racing with Louis Parker in control from start to finish to win, Mark Deacon once again set the fastest lap time but finished in second place, Steve Donald was third and Gavin Maciver fourth.