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The track for this round would prove
to be fast and flowing, and combined with the Road
Rail and Bot Dot track markings made for an unforgiving
test which would place a big cost on small driver errors.
As always there was controlled practice, which gave
every driver competing a chance to learn the layout
and begin those small set-up changes that make all
difference on the track. The racing began at 9am sharp
as normal, with Ian Knight running a tight and well
organized meeting, catering for 15 heats of racers
that would finish shortly before 6.30pm.
We are now over half way through the
Carpet Wars series, and still there is no clear championship
leader in any of the classes. Despite Adam Rogers dominance
in the first two rounds, Andy Childs is going into this
round level on points with him; Chris Kerswell, Nathan
Parker and championship leader Mark Stiles are all very
close in the standings. Richmond Rogers and Elliot Boots
also in a similar situation to the 19turn Championship
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Richmond
Rogers was the man in front, and improved impressively
each round being the only 27turn driver to break
through to do a 20-lap run. Elliot Boots was close
to doing the 20-lap run, but missed it by 0.18
seconds and put himself in a position to continue
battling with Richmond for the Championship lead.
Ian Taylor took up the third grid spot, with a
good run only two seconds behind Elliot. Neil Castle
didn’t seem to have much luck in this round,
putting himself eighth on the grid in the final;
not as high up as he normally is.
1st Richmond Rogers
2nd Elliot Boots
3rd Ian Taylor
4th Nathan Morgan
5th Ross Thompson
6th Bryan Loynes
7th James Arkell
8th Neil Castle
9th Brian Shardlow
10th John Painter |
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| Richmond Rogers was
the only driver to break through to do a
20 lap run |
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Leg
1
The start of the first final was very clean, with
all 10 drivers getting through the first corner without
incident. Richmond pushed hard from the start building
up his lead, but Elliot Boots managed to keep with
him untill an error that ended his chances of taking
the win from Richmond. Richmond extended his lead
continuously for the full five minutes, ending up
10 seconds in front of second place finisher Neil
Castle, who after a torrid day in qualifying fought
his way through to the front. Ross Thompson took
third in leg one with a good solid drive from fifth
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1st Richmond Rogers
2nd Neil Castle
3rd Ross Thompson
4th John Painter
5th Brian Shardlow
6th Nathan Morgan
7th Ian Taylor
8th Elliot Boots
9th James Arkell
10th Bryan Loynes |
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Leg
2
Once again one man - Richmond Rogers - would dominate
this race. From the start he pushed hard, and with
a clear track ahead of him he managed to pull out
a lead leaving the others to battle for the remaining
podium positions. By the end of the five minutes
he was nine seconds up on second place Ian Taylor,
who had changed his fortunes from the first leg in
which he finished seventh. Elliot Boots would be
the biggest loser in this race, again failing to
finish in the top three, even though he proved in
qualifying he was fast enough. Once again Neil Castle
would battle his way through to the front finishing
fourth, shaking off the troubles he had earlier in
qualifying. Brian Shardlow would also not have the
greatest of races, finishing bottom of the pack after
managing to fight his way through to fifth in the
first leg. |
1st Richmond Rogers
2nd Ian Taylor
3rd Nathan Morgan
4th Neil Castle
5th Ross Thompson
6th Elliot Boots
7th Bryan Loynes
8th John Painter
9th James Arkell
10th Brian Shardlow
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1st Richmond Rogers
2nd Neil Castle
3rd Ross Thompson
4th Ian Taylor
5th Nathan Morgan
6th John Painter
7th Elliot Boots
8th Brian Shardlow
9th Bryan Loynes
10th James Arkell |
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