An ordinary clubnight this evening produced a high standard of driving on a technical track design.

James Hart won the A Final where Steve Donald seemed to be assured of second place when the “wheels came off” on the last lap letting Mark Deacon past on the final lap. Who tightened them up Steve?

Dan Sheppard won a very close B Final from Bob Harley who set the quickest lap in the race.

Courtney Orme stormed to victory in the C Final, Kayleigh Knight took second place just ahead of Paul Carter.

In the D Final Jack Walsh and Isaac Donald had a great race with Jack winning by 1.30 seconds, Nathan Marshall was third.

Next week is round 5 of the 2017 Superleague.

The evenings racing provided an exciting finish to the Summer League.
Qualifying
James Hart was the top qualifier in the GT12 class and only a few seconds separated Steve Donald, Mark Deacon and Chelle Snowden in second, third and fourth places respectively.
Mark was quickest in F2, Dan Sheppard being second and Karl Norris third.
Chris Metcalfe was best in F3, Kayleigh Knight in second place with Jack Walsh in third.

Mike Simpson was both first and last being the only driver present in the Mardave F1.
Nathan Marshall following on from his win last week closed the gap even more on league leader Alex Forster by being quickest in F2 with Alex second and Wes Wray in third spot.

Finals
In the Mardave Final Nathan Marshall took and early lead with Pole position driver Mike Simpson second with only a few car lengths between them for several laps, Mike eventually hit the front and went on to win, Nathan was second and a great drive from Wes Wray secured him third place pushing league leader Alex Forster down to fourth place – would this cost him the league title?

In the GT12 F3 Kayleigh Knight had a convincing win in the GT12 C Final and was the F3 League winner and Chris Metcalfe had his second consecutive maximum points to be third behind Jack Walsh who was second.

In F2 Mark Deacon took third place in the A Final to be the F2 league winner and win promotion to F1, Courtney Orme was second in the F2 league and Dan Sheppard third.

James Hart duly won the A Final to win the F1 League with maximum points scored over the six qualifying rounds, the only other driver to achieve this being Mike Simpson in the Mardave F1. Gavin Maciver was second in the A Final and fourth place was good enough for Steve Donald to secure second place in the F1 League, Bob Harley being third.

In the Mardave F2 League the final result was that Nathan Marshall and Alex Forster were tied for the lead with 238 points each which meant that the Tie Break came into operation on countback using the non-counting scores. As the best six rounds scores from a possible eight for each driver counted the tie was resolved by comparing the seventh best scores for each of the two drivers, Alex winning with 37 against Nathan’s 35. That was close – well done to both drivers and also to Harvey Forster who finished in third place.

An ordinary Clubnight next week followed by Round 5 of the Superleague the week after.

The penultimate round of the Summer League produced some great racing in all the different divisions.

In the qualifying James Hart was quickest with Steve Donald in second place just over three seconds down, Chelle Snowden was third.
Mark Deacon was fourth overall and best in F2 with Dan Sheppard second and Karl Norris third, Courtney Orme also put in a good performance in his first week racing a new car.
Chris Metcalfe was the top F3 driver, Kayleigh Knight took second place and Jack Walsh third.
In the Mardave class Nathan Marshall was in sparkling form winning two of the three qualifying heats but Mike Simpson was quickest overall with a win in round 2. Alex Forster took third place.

The Mardave final was an exciting race as usual with Mike Simpson and Nathan Marshall battling it out for the lead which changed hands many times during the duration of the race. With two minutes to go Nathan had a substantial lead but lap by lap Mike was slowly catching him and went on to overtake and win, Nathan finishing second and Alex Forster third.

Kayleigh Knight won the GT12 C Final, Jack Walsh was second and Benn Norris third – a good performance from all of the drivers.

Karl Norris was the winner of the B Final, just managing to hold off Bob Harley who finished second with Chris Metcalfe third.

James Hart had a tremendous drive in the A Final, lapping the rest of the drivers, Steve Donald finished in second place with Chelle Snowden taking third.

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Qualifying
James Hart was quickest in the GT12 class followed by Mark Deacon, Steve Donald and Louis Parker. Dan Sheppard was second in F2 followed by Karl Norris. In F3 Kayleigh Knight was the top driver, Jack Walsh was second and Benn Norris third.
In the Mardave class Mike Simpson was first, Paul Galbraith second and Roy Matthews third, Alex Forster was the top F2 driver followed by his brother Harvey.

Finals
Paul Galbraith won an exciting Mardave final finishing three seconds ahead of second place driver Mike Simpson after the lead changed many times during the race, Alex Forster was third and top in F2.

Kayleigh Knight had an excellent drive to win the GT12 C final ahead of Paul Carter in second place and Courtney Orme third.

In the B Final Bob Harley was the winner after a close battle with Gary Oscroft and Dan Sheppard who finished second and third respectively.

A very fast A Final was won by James Hart with Mark Deacon taking second place just ahead of Louis Parker.

With two rounds of the league to go Steve Donald leads GT12 F1 but James Hart moves up to third place with a 100% record in his four rounds raced.

Mark Deacon takes over the first place in F2 with Courtney Orme in second place.

Kayleigh Knight with maximum points this week takes over second place in F3, two points clear of Jack Walsh in third place and seven points behind the leader John Stringer, any of these three drivers could still win the league.

Paul Galbraith brought Mike Simpsons run of maximum points to and end in the Mardave F1 despite running on a poor set of tyres, Alex Forster extended his lead at the top of F2 with Harvey Forster in second place.

A very competitive evenings racing on a fast track layout.

James Hart won the GT12 A Final with Mark Deacon taking second place and Steve Donald third.

The B Final winner was Gavin Maciver, Gary Oscroft second and Bob Harley was third.

Jordan Leavis was first across the finishing line in an exciting C Final, Karl Norris took second place with Mike Simpson third.

McKenzie Wallace was two laps clear of the rest of the field to win the D Final, Jack Walsh also had a good race to finish in second place. There was a tremendous battle for the remaining places between Kayleigh Knight, Benn Norris and Courtney Orme, they all finished on the same lap with Benn taking third place in his first trophy meeting at Burton – well done Benn!

Nathan Marshall was keen to win the Mardave Final and had a chance after pole position driver Paul Galbraith had a very slow lap 5, in the end he recovered to win, Nathan taking second, Alex Forster third and Harvey Forster fourth.

After the racing the trophies were presented by the club vice Chairman Chelle Snowden.

A great evening – back to the Summer League next week!

Oooops – was the table top curved!

Qualifying
Mark Deacon had the fastest lap in the first round of qualifying heats but it was James Hart in first place, Mark second, Steve Donald third and Dan Sheppard fourth. In round two Mark was quickest again but could not improve on second place, David Hall moved up into third and Gavin Maciver fourth. In the last qualifying round James consolidated pole position in the A Final also having the quickest lap just 1/100th second faster than Mark, the order remaining unchanged with Steve Donald taking fifth place.

In the Club Mardave class Roy Matthews won round 1 but Joshua Galbraith won the remaining two rounds to claim pole position in the final ahead of his dad Paul, Roy was third and James Burford, driving a Nathan Marshall prepared car finished fourth.

Finals
In the Mardave final Joshua Galbraith had an impressive win, leaving Paul for dust to finish second (may be not such a good plan Josh), Roy was third and James fourth

Kayleigh Knight won the GT12 D Final after a great race with Jamie Hall, Courtney Orme was third.

Nick Wallace took the C final, Karl Norris was second and Bob Harris third.

Chelle Snowden was the B Final winner by the small margin of 0.2 Seconds over Andy Plimmer, Dan Sheppard finishing in third place.

In the A Final James Hart lapped everyone to win, there was a great race for the other places with the drivers being very evenly matched. At the finish gavin Maciver was second, Mark Deacon third, David Hall fourth and Steve Donald fifth – a great race to conclude the evening.

A great evenings racing including a tremendous GT12 A Final won by James Hart from David Hall in second place, Gavin Maciver third and Mark Deacon fourth.

With four rounds of the superleague completed only two drivers James Hart and Mike Simpson have taken maximum points from all of the rounds.

Alex Forster leads the V12 Mardave F2 with three wins from 3, just 7 points ahead of Roy Matthews.

Jack Walsh leads the GT12 F3 with a 2 point lead over John Stringer, this looks like being a very close at the end of the year.

Steve Donald has a good lead in F2 with Daniel Lacey and Joran Leavis tied for second place.

James Hart has a commanding lead in F1 with Bob Harley, Mark Deacon and Chelle Snowden left to fight it out for the second and third places.

We look forward to a competitive remaining two rounds in October and December.

The Club Vice Chairman Chelle Snowden presented the Spring League trophies to the drivers unable to make the original presentation, congratulations to all the drivers including Roy Matthews the winner of the V12 Mardave F2 league.

NOTE NEXT WEEK WILL BE AN ORDINARY CLUBNIGHT with no league points at stake.

James Hart qualified in first place, David Hall was second, Steve Donald third and Mark Deacon fourth.  Darren Ford, Gavin Maciver and Andy Plimmer completed the line up for the A Final.

Good results also for new members Carl Walton and Chris Metcalfe, both finishing ahead of John Stringer in F3,

Nathan Marshall was quickest after two rounds in the Club Mardave class with improved reliability of his car – was it due to his pit crew?, but he fell back into second place behind Mike Simpson after round 3 with Paul Galbraith third and Alex Forster fourth.

A win for Mike in the Mardave final after Nathan made a poor start from second place on the grid and had to fight his way back up the field to eventually finish in an excellent second place, ahead of Paul Galbraith and also critically F2 League leader Alex Forster, closing his lead in the league to just 5 points – we look forward to an exciting last three rounds!

Courtney Orme won an eventful GT12 D Final to retain his lead in F2, John Stringer was quickest on the track and took second place with Jack Walsh third.

In the C Final Dave Lumbis was a lap clear of everyone, Steve Gorey, Bob Harris and Richard Sherwin finishing second, third and fourth respectively.

Gary Oscroft had a great win in the B Final , Bob Harley was second, Dan Sheppard third and Jordan Leavis fourth.

Some fantastic driving in the A Final, the result was close between James Hart and David Hall, James being first across the finishing line. Andy Plimmer finished third after starting in seventh place on the grid, Mark Deacon was fourth and is now only 6 points behind the league leader in F2 – can he win promotion back into F1 ?

Next week is round 4 of the 2017 Superleague.

 

 

Visiting driver David Hall was fastest qualifier in the GT12 class followed by Gavin Maciver, Steve Donald, Ashley King, Jason Crane, Darren Ford, Mark Deacon and Gary Oscroft all being a lap down on David.

David won an exciting A Final, Gavin Maciver took second place and Mark Deacon third just ahead of Ashley King.

The B Final was very close, Dan Sheppard winning by the small margin of 0.11seconds from Wayne Gorey, Chelle Snowden was third.

Matthew McAdam had a comfortable win in the C Final, Bob Harris was second and Richard Sherwin third.

In the D Final Jordan Leavis was the winner, Chris Metcalfe second and Paul Carter finished third.

In the Club Mardave class F1 Mike Simpson was top qualifier ahead of Paul Galbraith, the result was repeated in the final.
Alex Forster was best in F2 followed by his brother Harvey and again they finished in the same order in the final.

A great evening with a mix of both existing and new members plus visiting drivers.

The qualifying produced some close results, Louis Parker set the pace in the first round with James Hart in second place and Darren Ford returning after a short break in racing taking an excellent third.
In round 2 James moved into the top spot ahead of Louis with Gavin Maciver, Mark Deacon and Steve Donald a lap down.
Round 3 saw Steve Donald advance into third place overall, Louis being second and James Hart taking pole for the A Final.
In the club Mardave class Alex Forster was the leader after round 1 followed by Nathan Marshall and Harvey Forster. Things changed after round 2 with Nathan leading, Harvey second and Alex dropping down to third place. There were no changes to order in round 3 so it was Nathan who took pole for the final.

The first final was the Mardave class, this turned into one of the best races for some time with Nathan Marshall and Jordan Galbraith battling wheel to wheel for most of the race, at the finish it was Nathan who was first across the line just over a second ahead of Jordan. Alex Forster was third finishing ahead of his brother Harvey this week!

In the GT12 class Carl Walton won the D Final with spring league “most improved driver” John Stringer second and Isaac Donald third.
Bob Harley won the C Final a lap clear of Bob Harris and Karl Norris.
Club vice chairman Chelle Snowden had a great drive to win the B final and be third fastest overall, Darren Ford was second and Dan Sheppard third.
The A Final saw some very quick lap times with James Hart and Louis Parker both breaking 9 seconds, after a poor start it was James who came out on top, Louis taking second place and Steve Donald third. Good race!

After the track equipment was put away the Spring League trophies were presented by Chelle, well done to all the winners. Remember next week is round 4 of the summer league.