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17/18 Nov BSCRA's National Slot Centre, Corby BSL Finals and Southern 32 joint meeting

Southern 32 - 2018

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Team Results		Team Members	Seg 1	Pos.	Seg 2	R/T	Pos.	Seg 3	R/T	Pos.	Seg 4	R/T	Pos.	Seg 5	R/T	Pos.	Seg 6	R/T	Pos.	Seg 7	R/T	Pos.	Seg 8	Total
1	Rockingham 1	James Cleave & Chris Clements	67.25	1	68.40	135.65	1	64.68	200.33	1	64.73	265.06	2	64.80	329.86	3	65.00	394.86	3	69.76	464.62	2	68.11	532.73
2*	Young Man *	Martin Ellis & Will Stemman	63.28	6	67.19	130.47	4	65.99	196.46	3	66.78	263.24	3	69.91	333.15	2	65.00	398.15	2	67.82	465.97	1	65.44	531.41
3	Rockingham 2	Gavin Wills & Nick Clements	66.14	2	67.68	133.82	2	65.97	199.79	2	67.44	267.23	1	66	333.23	1	66.26	399.49	1	63.28	462.77	3	65.52	528.29
4*	North London *	Greg Harwood & Mark Harwood	63.52	5	60.31	123.83	6	65.70	189.53	6	65.00	254.53	6	64.11	318.64	5	66.00	384.64	4	67.39	452.03	4	67.39	519.42
5	EBGB's	Patrick Skene & Alan Lucas	63.63	4	62.76	126.39	5	64.91	191.30	5	64.50	255.80	5	63.00	318.80	4	62.75	381.55	5	66.81	448.36	5	63.15	511.51
6	LMR	Richy Kettleson & Mike Read	59.56	7	61.36	120.92	8	59.94	180.86	7	60.91	241.77	7	64.00	305.77	7	62.12	367.89	7	65.94	433.83	6	63.41	497.24
7	Harwood Racing	Paul Harwood & Mark Lyons	65.77	3	65.44	131.21	3	64.91	196.12	4	64.30	260.42	4	54.00	314.42	6	56.03	370.45	6	57.61	428.06	7	53.73	481.79
8	How Hard Can It Be	Brian Saunders & Steve Kearey	58.77	9	63.90	122.67	7	54.77	177.44	8	59.25	236.69	8	54.38	291.07	9	64.00	355.07	8	63.07	418.14	8	59.91	478.05
9	VIP	Vince Lee & Ian Barker	59.28	8	58.56	117.84	9	59.04	176.88	9	58.52	235.40	9	56.54	291.94	8	59.23	351.17	9	61.29	412.46	9	60.44	472.90
10	Luton SCC	Stan Alton & Nick Thrower	53.10	14	57.56	110.66	13	57.12	167.78	13	45.84	213.62	14	62.76	276.38	13	64.00	340.38	12	60.76	401.14	10	60.85	461.99
11	Dicks Devels	Terry Foster & Dick Gardner	56.76	10	54.25	111.01	12	55.41	166.42	14	58.76	225.18	12	56.00	281.18	11	60.39	341.57	11	58.02	399.59	11	56.31	455.90
12	Fylde 1	Steve Sargent & Steven Pearce	56.76	10	55.79	112.55	11	57.55	170.10	12	51.81	221.91	13	56.46	278.37	12	58.00	336.37	13	53.28	389.65	12	57.71	447.36
13	GT (Falcon 1st)	Simon Francis & Chris Frost	55.24	12	49.55	104.79	14	54.88	159.67	15	52.43	212.10	15	57.65	269.75	15	51	320.75	15	59.30	380.05	14	53.80	433.85
14	Kslotcar	David Sargent & Keith Gibson	52.42	15	51.47	103.89	15	66.92	170.81	11	61.96	232.77	10	43.21	275.98	14	54.00	329.98	14	35.15	365.13	15	52.94	418.07
15	Norlut (Falcon 2nd)	Paul Harwood & Geoff Lynn	50.26	16	50.93	101.19	16	50.11	151.30	17	49.12	200.42	17	44.42	244.84	17	56.00	300.84	17	55.54	356.38	16	54.11	410.49
16	Almacal (Falcon 3rd)	Alan Clark & Ali Dent	49.54	17	50.84	100.38	17	51.05	151.43	16	52.43	203.86	16	49.27	253.13	16	51.00	304.13	16	49.27	353.40	17	53.53	406.93
17	Netley	Steve Hills & Mark Witham	53.72	13	62.90	116.62	10	55.35	171.97	10	59.52	231.49	11	50.23	281.72	10	60.00	341.72	10	44.07	385.79	13	0.00	385.79
* Team with two premier grade drivers not eligible for points.

This year the BSL and Southern 32 held a joint meeting at BSCRA’s National Slot Car Center on the 2019 World Championship track. The joint meeting proved very successful. A big thank you to all those who made it such a success, particularly Christine for the catering BSL organiser Steve Sargent, chief race controller David Sargent assisted by Mark Witham and James Cleave.

The two series are similar in many ways, both run a the two man team race and a individual championships.

The two team races are run for different types of car, 1/32 for the Southern series and 1/24 for the Northern one. The Individual event it for almost identical cars, so these were run together with drivers choosing which one to run in. At the end there was a super final for the 8 quickest overall.

Reports on the BSL racing

Racing started with the Southern 32’s Le Mans 32 team race. In the initial planning we’d thought about trying to run all events on the Sunday. Running one event on Saturday turned out to be a wise move, we’d never have got through all races on Sunday with such a big entry!

The race gave each team 7½ minutes on each lane, each driver taking 4 lanes which gives a total of 1 hour running time for each car. Reliability was pretty good, the Netley being the on;ly team unfortunate enough to retire. The cars are the same as the National Club Team Championship. The four drivers from the National Club Championship winning Rockingham team split into two to produce two very fast 2 man teams. They were challenged by the “Young Man” team, who were not eligible for points as they had two premier grade drivers. In the end these 3 teams took the top 3 places on the road, followed by a pair of North London premier grade drivers. Next up, and third of the eligible team was the least Southern team - EBGB.s from Edinburgh.

Championship contenders VIP and Luton finished 9th and 10th on the road, which leaves the overall championship to be decided at the final round. GT took first in the Falcon powered class to win that championship.

The first 3 cars eligible for points

Rockingham 1 first

Rockingham 2 second EBGB’s third

Super Production and Falcon Masters
Pos	Name	Final	Laps	Falc. Masters
1	Gavin Wills	A	44.59	Super
2	Greg Harwood	A	44.06	Super
3	Paul Harwood	A	43.73	Super
4	Stan Alton	A	42.05	Super
5	Mark Witham	A	41.93	Super
6	Dave Stevenson	A	41.55	Super
7	Will Stemman	A	40.63	Super
8	Mike Read	B	43.52	Super
9	Mark Harwood	B	42.77	Super
10	Simon Francis	B	40.32	Falcon 1
11	Brian Saunders	B	39.86	Falcon 2
12	Ian Fisher	B	39.52	Super
13	Keith Gibson	B	37.75	Super
14	Bob Budge	B	35.57	Super
15	Nick Clements	C	40.38	Falcon 3
16	Chris Clements	C	39.92	Falcon 4
17	Dick Gardner	C	38.69	Falcon 5
18	Steve Kearey	C	38.68	Falcon 6
19	Steve Hills	C	36.52	Falcon 7
20	Ali Dent	C	36.27	Falcon 8
21	Terry Foster	C	33.29	Falcon 9
22	Chris Frost	D	37.77	Falcon 10
23	Marc Lyons	D	36.77	Falcon 11
24	Alan Clark	D	36.52	Falcon 12
25	Dick Stevenson	D	35.89	Falcon 13
26	Andy Bishop	D	35.78	Falcon 14
27	Geoff Lynn	D	34.78	Falcon 15
28	Bill Jenner	D	34.6	Falcon 16

	Clubman
Pos	Name		Laps
1	Terry Foster	Final	38.78
2	Steve Hills	Final	37.14
3	Dick Gardner	Final	36.92
4	Alan Clark	Final	36.67
5	Ali Dent	Final	36.41
6	Marc Lyons	Final	36.25
7	Dick Stevenson	Final	35.8
8	Andy Bishop	Final	34.09
9	Geoff Lynn	N/a	Qual 21.89
10	Bill Jenner	N/a	Qual 21.50

Sunday’s racing commenced with qualifying for the individual classes.

The first final was for Clubman drivers, Dick Gardner in his first “away” meeting top qualified, but it was Terry Foster who won by a comfortable margin ahead of a closely matched pack.

Super Production & Falcon Masters

In qualifying Greg Harwood emerged top of the Southern 32 runners with 27.89, while Brian Saunders was top Falcon with 24.89.

With 28 competitors, the finals were all 7 man races.

In Falcon Masters, Simon Francis reversed the qualifying order to win by half a lap from Brian.

In the overall final it was Gavin Wills turn to reverse the qualifying order by winning by half a lap from Greg.

There then followed a super final with the fastest 8 overall from the BSL and Southern 32. See the BSL web site for more

Final Round

The final 2018 Southern round is at Luton on 16 December - look forward to seeing you there!

We’d like to sort out the venues for 2019. Please have a look at the 2019 dates on the BSCRA calendar and we will discuss which clubs would like which dates at Luton.

Chris

Super Production A Final

Super Production and Falcon Masters winners