A good evenings racing despite a few glitches with the lap counting.
Trophies for the Autumn League and Superleague were presented by the club chairman, well done to all the winners.

Burton Buggy Club membership forms for 2017 are available at race control

The final round of the superleague which has been run on alternate months throughout the year.

Track
The third week of a similar layout

Qualifying
In the LMP class James Hart set the pace with some outstanding driving, achieving 46 laps which was 2 better than Louis Parker and Giles Hodgkinson on 44, with Mark Deacon trailing in 4th place a further lap down.

Mike Simpson was top qualifier on 32 laps in the club mardave class ahead of “Team Galbraith”, Joshua being in second place, Paul third both with 30 laps and league leader Jordan 4th on 29. Newcomer Alex Forster made a very impressive start with 20 laps.

Chris Holmes was again flying to be quickest in the GT12 class with 41 laps followed by Gavin Rice, Matt Popejoy, Jordan Galbraith and Steve Donald all on 40 laps.

Finals
The LMP final was first up and we were all treated to a great race with James Hart leading from start to finish and setting the fastest lap of the evening. It was close though with Louis Parker right on James’s heels to eventually finish just 5 seconds behind in second place – well done Louis! Giles Hodgkinson was third 2 laps down.

Mike Simpson seemed to have the mardave final in the bag until he lost a front tyre, Jordan Galbraith was quick to capitalise and had a fine win, 3 laps up on the rest of the field. Paul Galbraith was second and a super performance from Roy Matthews gained him third place.

Paul Galbraith won the GT12 C final, Courtney Orme after getting his car sorted finished in second place and fast improving Jack Walsh was third.

The GT12 B final saw Steve Donald get the better of Bob Harley to win an exciting race with Daniel Lacey finishing third.

Chris Holmes continued his run of good form to take a win in the GT12 A final, Gavin Rice was second and Jordan Galbraith third.

Congratulations to the league winners
Mardave class – Jordan Galbraith
GT12 Division 1 – Gavin Maciver
GT12 Division 2 – Bob Harley
GT12 Division 3 – Courtney Orme

A similar track design to last week produced some good racing, welcome to new members Darren Newton and Chris Holmes.

A problem encountered during the evening with the computer lap-counting system resulted in a number of corrections being made to the results and just three qualifying rounds.

Gavin Maciver was the top driver in the GT12 class with Chris Holmes second with his “straight out of the box” new car – an excellent start, Mark Deacon took third place ahead of Ashley King – the first three drivers all on 43 laps.

Jordan Galbraith was again fastest in the club mardave class with his dad Paul second. place.

Louis Parker was quickest in the LMP class with Darren Newton trailing by a lap in second place.

First race evening after the decision taken at last weeks AGM to allow the use of tyre additives from the BRCA 1/12th Electric Circuit Approved Tyre additives list.

Qualifying
James Hart and Gavin Maciver were the fastest with James taking pole in the A final, being the only driver with a sub 9 second lap. Gavin was second followed by Louis Parker, Darren Ford and Ashley King all with great drives a further lap down.
In the club mardave class yet another pole position for Jordan Galbraith with Mike Simpson just over 2 seconds behind. Paul Galbraith took third place and Joshua Galbraith narrowly beat an in-form Roy Matthews for fourth spot.
Finals
The mardave final was a great race as usual with Jordan Galbraith leading the way, chased by the rest of the field. Mike Simpson was his nearest challenger but could not quite catch up, it was close though with Jordan first across the finishing line just 0.58 seconds in front. Paul Galbraith was third and Roy Matthews fourth. Come on you mardave drivers lets see if you can beat Jordan next week!

In the GT12 C final Javier Jimenez put in a good performance to take the win a lap ahead of Alister Hart with Courtney Orme in third place.

All the drivers in the GT12 B final were evenly matched which made a very exciting race to watch, Mark Deacon set the quickest laptime but finished third behind winner Chelle Snowden and Steve Donald in second place who battled it out right to the line.

James Hart won the GT12 A final with several more laps under 9 seconds, Louis Parker finished second and Gavin Maciver in third place just 0.28 seconds in front of Darren Ford.

Following the AGM there was just sufficient time for three rounds of racing, no finals this week.

The last round of the current league, congratulations to the winners Louis Parker in the GT12 Division 1, Darren Ford Division 2, Steve Donald in Division 3 and Jordan Galbraith in the V12 mardave class.
There have been some outstanding performances over the ten rounds with Steve scoring an incredible maximum points, Darren only failing to win one of his rounds, James Hart finishing with four wins in a row and Jordan finishing with four wins out of his last five.

Some great racing this evening also with James Hart winning the A final, Darren Ford taking second place, Gavin Maciver third and Louis Parker fourth.
Matt Popejoy won the B final just ahead of Daniel Lacey and Steve Donald won the C final, two laps clear of David Snowden in second place.
Mike Simpson won the a very competitive mardave final with Joshua Galbraith taking second place and being the top “Team Galbraith” driver, beating Jordan and Paul into third and fourth places respectively.

David Snowden brings Steve Donald’s unbeaten run in the league to an end
Jack Walsh beats Alister Hart in the GT12 C Final
Darren Ford finished third in the GT12 A Final behind James Hart and Louis Parker
Jordan Galbraith hits the top of the Mardave league after taking maximum points

Qualifying
James Hart was best qualifier with Louis Parker in second place, Darren Ford third and Gavin Maciver in fourth place.
David Snowden upset the form book with some great driving to be top qualifier in division 3, a full six seconds ahead of previously unbeaten Steve Donald, Courtney Orme was third.
Jordan Galbraith was fastest in the mardave class with Richard Parker close behind and Paul Galbraith third.

Finals
First up was the mardave final and Jordan Galbraith was flying, leading the race from start to finish to take maximum points and move into first position in the league with just one round to go. Richard Parker finished second and Paul Galbraith third.

Mike Simpson had a comfortable win in the GT12 C final and a great performance from Jack Walsh resulted in a second place finish eight seconds ahead of Alister Hart – well done Jack, lets see if you can repeat the result next week!

Dave Tomlinson won the B final on 28 laps and by the margin of one lap from Daniel Lacey, David Snowden and Bob Harley who finished in that order on the same lap after a fast and furious race. This gave David Snowden maximum points for the evening in division 3.

The A final was a super race with James Hart making it look easy with some accurate and fast driving to record 33 laps, Louis Parker was just 1 lap down in second place and Darren Ford just got the better of Gavin Maciver by 0.19 seconds to take a fine third place.

Just one round remaining in the current league which will be held next week.

Round 8 of the current Autumn league saw James Hart take another win, Darren Ford was the top division 2 driver and Steve Donald maintain his incredible record of winning all of the rounds so far in division 3.
In the club mardave class Jordan Galbraith was on top form to take maximum points with his brother Josh finishing second in the final.

A fast track design again this week resulted in some superb racing with James Hart being fastest qualifier and winning the A Final, Louis Parker taking second place and Gavin Maciver third.
In division 2 Darren Ford was quickest in the qualifying but a loose motor pinion put paid to his chances in the finals and Daniel Lacey was quick to take advantage.
Steve Donald continued his unbeaten run in Division 3 to make it seven consecutive maximum league points, only three rounds left to go now, can he win all ten?
In the mardave class Jordan Galbraith was quickest all evening and won the final closely followed by his dad Paul, hopes of a team Galbraith 1.2.3 finish disappeared when Joshua retired after lap 14. Roy Matthews also had a good evenings racing, the change of his bodyshell colour must have worked!

A problem with the transponder loop meant that all the heat results were not complete, all ok for the finals.