Round 1 of
the Herts winter series was nothing less than superb.
The club in association with Panther tyres started the
series with an excellent event. Supported by some of
the best drivers in the UK including 8 time national
champion David Crompton, Karl Jackson, Mike Craddock,
Stewart Wilcox, Reece Sawyer, Darren Bloomfield, Sam
Taylor and Bruce Thompson just to name a few.
The event and series is to be run on
Panther tyres only so the choice has been limited but
still enough options to tune your car to suit your
style. Komodo Dragon's were the choice of most but
a selected few preferred the Hedgehog for more steering
and corner speed. With a long day ahead round one started
at 9am with no practice for anyone and it was Mike
Craddock who took the top honours in the round. His
Kyosho team mate Karl Jackson posted the first 8 lap
run of the weekend in round two and really set the
bench mark for the rest to follow. In Round three Darren
Bloomfield (Losi Novarossi) posted the fasted time
of the event and secured Tq for the meeting. Second
of the Grid we found Matthew Perry and also in the
final for Losi and Novarossi Stewart Wilcox, Reece
Sawyer, David Spashett and Bruce Thompson. So before
any bump-ups Losi Novarossi had 50% of the final covered
with an excellent team performance.
With the light fading fast the club pushed
hard to get through the finals as best they could be
at with the light fading the A finals were run in the
dark. The cars looked amazingly quick and depth perception
of the track was increasingly difficult. Joe Joyce took
the win in the Truggy class with a very solid controlled
drive. At the start of the buggy final cars were going
off all over the place. Karl Jackson and David Crompton
jumped out to an early lead of about 10 seconds on the
rest of the field. Darren Bloomfield must have seen red
after his bad start and drove at full attack for the
rest of the final. He slowly pulled the leading two back
in and when he finally took the lead he never looked
back or stopped pushing. One amazing drive earned him
the win for the day. Bruce Thompson using an Novarossi
NPLUS215 engine took the risk in the 10minute final not
to stop and he made up enough time to finish in second
place so another fantastic result !
Great effort from the club and a fantastic
start to the Panther series. |
