Alister Hart wins the C Final, Alwyn Hodges is second and Jamie Hall takes third place to win his first trophy.
Nick Bruty wins the B Final, Matt Popejoy takes second place and Selina Woods finishes third with a great drive.
James Hart is the A Final winner, Louis Parker finishes in second place and David Simpson just pips David Hall for third.
Mike Simpson wins the V12 Mardave Final, Joshua Galbraith is second and Jordan Galbraith third.

A fast and flowing track design this week using the full length of the carpets made for some very exciting racing.

After the three five minute qualifying rounds James Hart was leading in the GT12 class with Louis Parker in second place and David Hall third all on 31 laps, David Simpson was fourth a lap down on the leaders.
Mike Simpson was the leading driver in the V12 Mardave class with 24 laps, followed by Paul Galbraith and Jordan Galbraith on 23 laps.

Eight minute finals this week so maximum concentration required on a fast track.

First up was the Mardave final with Mike Simpson leading off from pole position but is was Jordan Galbraith starting from third place on the grid who soon took an early lead. Mike eventually overtook Jordan to regain the lead and held off a strong challenge from Joshua Galbraith to take the win, Joshua finishing second and Jordan third.

Courtney Orme was on pole position fro the GT12 C final but problems with his car put him out of the race. Alister Hart had an excellent drive to win the race, being four laps clear of Alwyn Hodges in second place with Jamie Hall finishing third and also taking the “Best Novice” trophy. Well done Jamie your dad David better watch out!!



In the GT12 B Final Nick Bruty was flying and had a comfortable win with Matt Popejoy in second place and a super performance from Selina Woods won her third place.



The A Final proved to be a very exciting race with James Hart, Louis Parker, David Hall and David Simpson all putting in some fast laps. It was James who won the race being a lap clear of Louis Parker in second place followed by David Simpson who finished 0.37 seconds ahead of David Hall in a thrilling finish.



After all the equipment had been stored away Chelle Snowden presented the trophies to the winning drivers.

A good evenings racing.

James Hart wins the A Final with Louis Parker second and David Hall in third place.
Chelle Snowden wins the B Final on her birthday, Garry Jones takes second place.
Ashley King and Matthew Minto are first and second in the C Final.
Alister Hart wins the D Final ahead of Alwyn Hodges.
Team Galbraith rule in the V12 Mardave Final to take all three podium positions.

An ordinary clubnight this week with the qualifying heats having the drivers in reverse order to their performance last week. This made an interesting first round with David Hall managing to fight his way through the field to be top qualifier after round 1. In the end it was James Hart who took the top qualifier spot with a win in round three, David was second and Louis Parker third.
There were also good performances from Nick Bruty who was sixth fastest and secured a place in the A Final and Chelle Snowden who was seventh overall.
Paul Galbraith was the top driver in the Mardave class with Mike Simpson second and Joshua Galbraith third.

The finals produced some excellent racing starting with the Mardaves where team Galbraith dominated the race with Paul, Jordan and Joshua finishing first, second and third.

Alister got the Hart family off to a good start by winning the D Final, two laps clear of Alwyn Hodges with Connor Reeve a further lap behind.

In the C Final Ashley King had a comfortable win with Matthew Minto second two laps down, Mike Simpson was third.

The B final was a great race with Chelle Snowden winning by two seconds from Garry Jones – Happy Birthday Chelle!

The last race of the evening was the A Final with James Hart on pole taking an early lead and went on to win the race. Behind him David Hall and Louis Parker had a great contest for second place with Louis overtaking David and holding onto second position with some fine driving at high speed under extreme pressure – well done Louis!

Club member numbers were a bit depleted this week due to the holiday season but several visiting drivers helped to make it another exciting evenings racing.

Louis Parker scored maximum points to take the lead in GT12 division 1 and David Hall was in fine form to be best qualifier and win the A Final. Chelle Snowden also had a great drive to take fifth place just a second behind Louis.

Gavin Maciver and Garry Jones had a close contest in the B Final with Gavin being first across the finishing line. Dave Tomlinson and Nick Bruty finished a lap down from the leaders.

Scott Lewis won the C Final ahead of league leader Matt Popejoy who struggled with his car setup all evening. Newcomer Jamie Hall put in a very creditable 17 laps with a little hands on guidance from Darren Ford. How long will it be before he is beating his dad? – better watch out David.

James Hart is top qualifier and wins the A Final
An excellent drive by Nick Bruty to win the B final
Scott Lewis beats last weeks winner Selina Woods in the C Final
Mike Simpson wins the V12 Mardave final from Paul Galbraith
Louis Parker is presented with his spring league trophies.

Week five of the current summer league this week saw James Hart extend his unbeaten run in the GT12 class, Louis Parker and Darren Ford were very evenly matched in the qualifying a lap down on James. Louis took second place and the A Final result was similar, Louis being a lap in front of Darren this time.

Nick Bruty had an excellent win in the B Final, some great driving with David Simpson finishing in second place a lap down.

Scott Lewis was on pole for the C Final and had a good run to win with Selina Woods second on the same lap and Alwyn Hodges third a further lap behind.

Some really close racing in the V12 Mardave class between Mike Simpson and Paul Galbraith, Mike was top qualifier to be on pole for the final.
Joshua Galbraith made a great start in the final and was in the lead before a couple of slight errors let Mike and Paul through. It was neck and neck between these two right to the finishing line with Mike winning by 0.4 seconds after Paul very sportingly let him by after a coming together of their cars a couple of laps from the end.

Chelle Snowden presented Louis Parker with his spring league trophies for “Best Junior” and also second place in the Division 1 of the GT12 class – well done Louis!

Don’t forget it is Superleague round 4 next week.

Selina Woods has a great win the GT12 C Final ahead of Scott Lewis
Dave Tomlinson romps to victory in the B Final two laps clear of Nick Bruty in second place
James Hart is fastest qualifier and takes the A Final with Darren Ford in pursuit
Mike Simpson gets maximum points in the V12 Mardave class, narrowly beating Jordan Galbraith in the Final
Spring League Trophies presented by the club chairman Robert Hambridge

Track

Qualifying
In the GT12 class James Hart was the top qualifier on 38 laps with Darren Ford second with 37 closely followed by David Simpson just over a second behind.
Dave Tomlinson was fastest in division 2 getting 35 laps, Bob Harley and Nick Bruty were second and third respectively on 34 laps.
In division 3 Scott Lewis was the leading driver with 28 laps, Selina Woods took second place also on 28 laps with Courtney Orme in third place a lap down.
Mike Simpson won all three qualifying rounds in the V12 Mardave class to take pole position in the final with 31 laps, Paul Galbraith was second with 30 laps and Jordan Galbraith third on 28 laps.

Before the finals the Spring League trophies were presented.
Well done to all the trophy winners and in particular to the GT12 League champions James Hart, Chelle Snowden and Matt Popejoy and also Paul Galbraith and Jordan Galbraith in the V12 Mardave class.

See the Gallery Gresley 2015 page for photographs of all the trophy winners.

Finals
As usual it was the Mardave Final up first where Jordan Galbraith took an early lead from third place on the grid and was in command of the race with Mike Simpson and Paul Galbraith trying to chase him down. Unfortunately Jordan’s car slowed down a little near the end of the race letting Mike get by, these two racing feet apart for the final few laps with Mike crossing the finishing line 2.49 second ahead, both drivers on 48 laps, Paul was third a lap down.

Scott Lewis was on pole for the GT12 C Final but the star of the race was Selina Woods with an excellent drive to overtake Scott and go on to win the race on 45 laps with Scott and Courtney Orme second and third one lap down. Well done Selina! – can anyone beat her in the next round?

The GT12 B Final was a good race with all the drivers going well, Dave Tomlinson was the driver who came out on top scoring 55 laps to win, Nick Bruty was second on 53 laps and a super drive from Nick Wallace earned him third place on 52 laps.

In the A Final Darren Ford was the closest to catching James Hart with some high speed driving, James was the winner with a tremendous 59 laps, Darren scored 58 laps and a fine performance from newly promoted driver Chelle Snowden won her third place on 57 laps.

James Hart extends his run of wins to be the only driver to have taken maximum points from the three rounds raced, Louis Parker also had a great evening keeping the pressure on James.
Nick Bruty wins the B Final, Bob Harley takes second place.
Selina Woods extends her lead in division 3 after winning the C Final by five laps from Courtney Orme who was second.
Paul Galbraith just pips Mike Simpson by 0.56 seconds to be fastest qualifier in the V12 Mardave class, Mike wins the final after Paul had problems with his car whilst in the lead.

Some very close and entertaining racing as usual in the Mardave V12 class, Paul Galbraith and Mike Simpson had a great battle all evening with Paul being top qualifier and Mike winning the final where Joshua Galbraith had another excellent race to take second place. Roy Matthews was using a new bodyshell which was not his usual “stealth” grey colour to blend in with the carpet.

Selina Woods won the GT12 C final by the huge margin of five laps, come on you division 3 drivers let’s see if you can give her a proper race next week!

The B final turned into a close race between Nick Bruty, Bob Harley and Nick Wallace, it was Nick Bruty who came out on top to win with Bob and Nick Wallace second and third.

Everyone was treated to another excellent A Final with James Hart and Louis Parker having a very close race and finishing two laps clear of the rest of the field. On a tight track design overtaking was at a premium, Louis was in the lead part way through the race and withstood sustained pressure from James until near the end when James got past to win. – a fantastic race to watch.  Behind these two Gavin Maciver and Darren Ford were also in great form having a tremendous race for third place, in the end it was Gavin who took third place just 0.27 second ahead.

Looking forward another great final next week!

 

Mardave V12 qualifying was very close with only 0.19 seconds separating the first three drivers
Scott Lewis is top qualifier and wins the C final in GT12 division 3
Dave Tomlinson is fastest qualifier in division 2 but Bob Harley wins the B final
James Hart takes another maximum points in division 1, winning the A Final

Track

A fast, flowing design this week

Mardave V12 Class
An incredibly close result in the qualifying with Mike Simpson being fastest followed by Paul Galbraith just 0.06 Seconds adrift and Joshua Galbraith a further 0.13 seconds behind.
In the final it was Paul Galbraith who had a comfortable win with Joshua taking second place with a fine drive.

GT12 Division 1
Yet again James Hart was in unbeatable form, being a lap better than anyone else in the qualifying and two laps ahead in the A Final. Louis Parker was second in the qualifying and Darren Ford took second second place in the final after being chased all the way to the finishing line by Chelle Snowden.

GT12 Division 2
Nick Bruty won round 1 with Dave Tomlinson in second place, Dave then went on to win the two remaining rounds with Bob Harley being in second place overall and Nick third.
Bob was in sparkling form in the B Final to win from Dave in second place in a great race.

GT12 Division 3
Scott Lewis was top qualifier and won the C Final to get maximum points from the evening. Guest driver Andy Clarke was second qualifier but only managed fourth place in the final. Courtney Orme had a good drive to take second place with Selina Woods third.

Jordan Galbraith races to victory in the Mardave V12 Final
Selina Woods wins the GT12 C Final to take an early lead in division 3 just one point ahead of Scott Lewis
Chelle Snowden wins the GT12 B Final one lap ahead of Nick Bruty
James Hart makes a good start to defending his GT12 division 1 league title with Louis Parker an excellent second place, Darren Ford and Gavin Maciver both finishing a further lap behind.

Some good racing again this week, the summer league runs over ten rounds with a maximum of the best eight scores for each driver to count towards the final score.

Jordan and Joshua Galbraith finish first and second in the Mardave V12 Final
Scott Lewis wins the GT12 B Final with Courtney Orme second
Chelle Snowden wins the GT12 B Final, Nick Bruty takes second place and Matt Popejoy fifth to be best division 3 driver
James Hart wins the GT12 A Final, Louis Parker is second and Bob Harley fourth and best in division 2

Another good evenings racing despite a problem with the sound system, many thanks to Chris Snowden for fixing this before the end of round 1.

In the V12 Mardave class Paul Galbraith was top qualifier with Jordan Galbraith in second position. Jordan went on to win a great final and a super drive from Joshua Galbraith saw him finish second ahead of his dad Paul. Well done Josh!

James Hart was fastest yet again in the GT12 class but Louis Parker was a close second in both qualifying and the A Final.

Bob Harley was top qualifier in division 2 and had another good run in the A Final, finishing with more laps than Chelle Snowden who won the B Final.

Fast improving Scott Lewis won the C Final with Courtney Orme in second place, both drivers getting less laps than Matt Popejoy who made the B Final.

Next week is the first round of the Summer League which will be run over ten rounds with the best eight round scores to count.

James Hart wins the GT12 League with Louis Parker second
Chelle Snowden is the division 2 champion, Dave Tominson is runner up
Matt Popejoy wins division 3 with maximum points, Alister Hart takes second place
Paul Galbraith is the top mardave V12 driver, Mike Simpson is second
Jordan Galbraith wins division 2 with Roy Matthews taking second place

Track

A faster track this week.

The final round of the current Spring league produced some good racing, in the GT12 class in heat 4 of the third qualifying round there was a very close contest for second place between Louis Parker, Gavin Maciver and David Simpson – the drivers finishing in this order after a tremendous battle. In the A Final James Hart was the winner, Louis Parker put in a superb performance to chase him all the way to the finishing line.

Bob Harley was the best division 2 driver in qualifying but it was very close with Dave Tomlinson, Nick Bruty and Chelle Snowden all on the same lap. Bob went on to have a good run in the A Final and Dave won the B Final followed by Nick and Chelle.

Matt Popejoy was again the best qualifier in division 3 with Scott Lewis second one lap down. In the final however it was Scott who came out on top with Matt having problems with his car mid-way through the race.

In the V12 mardave class Paul Galbraith was unbeaten all evening, Team Galbraith were in top form with Jordan also on maximum points in division 2 taking second place in the final.

Congratulations to James Hart, Chelle Snowden, Matt Popejoy, Paul Galbraith and Jordan Galbraith in winning the league trophies. Matt was the only driver to have a 100% record in his best eight round scores at the end of the league, only missing out in the last final of getting maximum points in all ten rounds. Well done!

Next week is superleague Round 3.