Lee is top Mardave Class driver once again!

Qualifying

The penultimate round of the current league and Lee Bishop set the early pace in round 1 of the mardave class followed by Paul Galbraith and Mike Simpson. The order changed in round 2 with Mike leading, Paul second and Lee third. However in the last qualifying round Lee put in a great performance to be fastest qualifier, Paul second and Mike third. Rob Hambridge and Jenson Butlin took fourth and fifth spots. In division 3 Courtney Orme was again the driver to beat, with Roy Matthews second.

In the GT12 class round 1 Keith Heathcote was fastest, closely followed by David Simpson and Dave Tomlinson just one lap down.  David Statham took over the top place from Keith after round 2, David Simpson’s evenings racing was soon over after a failed servo.  In the last qualifing round Dave Tomlinson moved up into second place, so the order on the final grid was David Statham, Dave Tomlinson and Keith Heathcote.

Track

An interesting test of driving skills with a very slippy section near the rostrum offering little grip and making accelerating and braking tricky.

Finals

With several retirements there were just two eight minute finals this week.

Lee Bishop was by far the quickest achieving 40 laps with Paul Galbraith and Mike Simpson being second and third respectively 2 laps down. Jenson Butlin had an excellent drive to take fourth place on 36 laps.  Courtney Orme repeated his qualifying heat performance to finish ahead of Roy Matthews once again.

The last race of the evening was the GT12 final which was an excellent race, David Statham won with 44 laps, Keith Heathcote was second on 42 and a great drive from Chelle Snowden assured her of a third place finish.  Another great race!