18-07-17 Summer league Round 3

Another good evenings racing, James Hart being the fastest qualifier in the GT12 class followed by Steve Donald and Bob Harley. The result was repeated in the A Final with Jordan Leavis taking a fine fourth place.

In the Club Mardave class Mike Simpson was top qualifier, Nathan Marshall was second and Harvey Forster third, just beating his brother Alex by 0.14 seconds.
In the Final Mike won, Alex was second, Harvey third and Nathan Fourth after the wheels came off!

11-07-17 Summer League Round 2

The second of eight rounds of the summer league.
Qualifying
Steve Donald made a good start to lead the qualifying in the GT12 class after the first round with James Hart in second place and Mark Deacon third. James took over the lead in the second round, Mark Deacon moved up into second spot and visiting driver David Hall third. In round three David moved ahead of Mark into second place, James taking pole position for the A Final.
Good performances in all three rounds from McKenzie Wallace made him the top F3 driver with John Stringer second and Jack Walsh third.

In the club Mardave class Mike Simpson was quickest but it was very close for the other places with Paul Galbraith taking second, Roy Matthews third and Alex Forster fourth and best in F2 just a few seconds apart.

Finals
In the Mardave final Mike was the winner with Paul taking second place. There was a tremendous battle for third place between Roy Matthews, Alex Forster and Harvey Forster. All three drivers finished on the same lap and it was Alex who was first across the finishing line to take third and best in F2 followed by Roy and then Harvey who recorded the fastest lap time of the three of them. Better watch out Alex, Harvey is getting quicker each week after your number 1 driver spot in “Team Forster”.

The GT12 C Final was won by John Stringer, Courtney Orme finished second, these two drivers being a lap up on Jack Walsh who finished in third place.

Bob Harley made a good start from pole position in the Gt12 B Final and had a good drive to win and set the best lap time, Nick Wallace took second place just over eight seconds down and visiting driver Paul Lison was third.

The last race of the evening provided plenty of entertainment with some excellent driving, the first four cars finishing only a few seconds apart.

James Hart started from pole position on the grid and Gavin Maciver in car 5 moved up from the back of the grid into second place behind James on the first lap followed by Mark Deacon, Steve Donald and David Hall.
James set a very fast pace and with all drivers lapping quickly Mark got past Gavin on lap 8 to move into second place and on lap 17 David started to move up the field into fourth place overtaking Steve Donald.
A big change of order on lap 22 with Gavin dropping down to the back of the field, the race order now being James, Mark, Steve, David, Gavin. The order remained until 2 laps from the end of the race when David moved into third place ahead of Steve.
A great race, James the winner, Mark second, David third, Steve fourth all on 38 laps and Gavin fifth place.

With two rounds completed only Mark Deacon and Mike Simpson have a 100% record scoring maximum points, can they win again next week?

04-07-17 Summer League Round 1

The first round of eight in the Summer League with a chance for drivers to score some early league points especially in the GT12 class with fewer drivers than normal racing this week.


Mark Deacon was the top qualifier in the GT12 class (not bad for a F2 Driver Mark!) ahead of Steve Donald and Bob Harley. Steve got his revenge in the A final with a fine win, Mark taking second place and Bob Harley third.
The B Final turned into a two driver race with Courtney Orme getting the upper hand over John Stringer.

In the club mardave class Mike Simpson was quickest with Joshua Galbraith second and Paul Galbraith taking third place. In the A final Jordan Galbraith made an excellent start and had a very close race with Mike who eventually got out of the “Galbraith Sandwich” and was first over the finishing line, Jordan being second and Joshua third.
In the B Final Nathan Marshall had an excellent win, Roy Matthews took second place and Harvey Forster was third just a few seconds behind – well done Harvey.

Five drivers making a great start scoring maximum points in the league divisions this week, can they maintain the momentum over the remaining rounds? Remember it is the best six from a possible eight round scores to count.

27-06-17 Superleague Round 3

The third round of the 2017 Superleague on a fast track layout produced some exciting racing especially in the Club Mardave class with ten cars on the track together.

Maximum points for drivers in all five leagues this week.
James Hart took maximum points in the GT12 class being fastest qualifier and winning the A final, with Steve Donald finishing in second place to also get 41 points in F2 (only F2 for the Superleague!)
John Stringer was best in F3 with yet another maximum.
Not to be outdone Mardave drivers Mike Simpson and Alex Forster repeated the performance on F1 and F2.
Visiting drivers took the first four places in the GT12 B Final, Wayne Gorey winning, Dan Sheppard taking second place, Karl Norris third and Dave Lumbis fourth.

Three more rounds to go in August, October and December with the best five to count.

20-06-17 Clubnight

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.

13-06-17 Spring League Final Round

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

06-06-17 Spring League Round 7


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..

30-05-17 Spring League Round 6

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.

23-05-17 Spring League Round 5

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.