Tuesday 18th February

Qualifying

Dave Tomlinson took the top qualifier position with 38 laps with David Simpson and Daniel Willliams in second and third positions respectively just 1 lap down.

In division 2 Lee Bishop was again in excellent form with 36 laps, being fourth overall qualifier  for the second week running, Paul Galbraith was three laps behind on 33 and Jenson Butlin third with 31 laps.

Joshua Galbraith, Selina Woods and Courtney Orme keenly contested division 3 with all of them managing 29 laps.

Track

A four carpets wide track again this week with a very fast section.

Finals

Joshua Galbraith took a 7 point lead in division 3 with some great driving in the “B” final achieving 41 laps which was 1 lap better than an “in form” Courtney Orme managed in the “C” final. Roy Matthews the joint leader at the start of the evening had a motor pinion come loose on lap 19 which forced a retirement.

In division 2 Lee Bishop had an excellent drive to be top driver and third overall with 50 laps and third place in the “A” final. Paul Galbraith could not quite match this but still got a very creditable 46 laps followed by Jenson Butlin with 32.

The climax of the evenings racing was the “A” final and what a race it turned out to be!  Dave Tomlinson started from pole position followed by David Simpson and Lee Bishop.  Dave built up a slight lead but David Simpson eventually caught him up and everyone was treated to several minutes of high speed wheel to wheel racing at lap times of around 9 seconds.  A couple of minor errors from Dave gave David chances to take the lead, but when he did a mistake let Dave through and he held on to win by 1/10th of a second on 51 laps.  Behind the leaders Lee Bishop and Daniel Williams were fighting it out for third place, Lee got the upper hand, both drivers achieving 50 laps.

This was without doubt the best race seen so far this year – can it get any better than this?