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Southern 32 - 2018


The series for you!

10  June Roedale

Round five was another sunny day on the south coast - this time we were in Brighton at the Roedale club.  Thanks to Chris, Ian and all at Roedale for a great days’s racing.  16 racing in the individuals was a better turn out than recent rounds, particularly as a few potential entrants were up north for Raceway 81’s final meeting.
Ian King’s very efficient race control achieved an early finish.

In qualifying Will Stemman put in single run of 48.75 to take top spot, there were only two other runs over 48, both achieved by Vince Lee.    Nick Thrower produced a 43 to take top spot in Falcon Masters, while Robin Cornwall’s 42 put him comfortable top of the clubman Falcon runners.

CLUBMAN FINALS

The Clubman Falcon saw Robin Cornwall win ahead of Alan Clark who had been the quickest of the visitors in this class throughout.   Championship leader Ali Dent took 3rd ahead of Mac Miles.

OVERALL FINALS

The D final was an all Netley affair, Mark Witham was quickest in qualifying, and just as in the clubman final the top qualifier won on red lane.  The rest of the race was even more like the clubman final with the same drivers finishing in the same order on the same lanes.

In the C final Robin Cornwall  again won on red, this time followed by Simon Francis and Chris Frost, while Les May had to replace his worn out tyres for the final, and the new ones upset the handling of his super.

Mike Read won the B final, for once the winner wasn’t on red.  Stan Alton beat Dave Stevenson for second by a tiny margin, followed by Falcon Masters winner Nick Thrower.

The A final was a close race between Vince Lee and Ian Barker.  Vince won by half a lap from Ian.  That second place was enough to move him into the joint championship lead shared with today’s 3rd place finisher Will Stemman.  Ben Tapp was 4th




Le Mans 32 Team Race  (4 x 12 min)

Teams

Driver A

Driver B


Yellow


Blue


White


Red

Total Laps

1

Team Dean

Ben Tapp

Ian King

b

185.26

b

186.69

a

194.03

a

192.07

758.05

2

Luton SCC

Stan Alton

Will Stemman

a

181.89

b

190.88

a

189.01

b

189.48

751.26

3

D&D

Nick Thrower

Dave Stevenson

b

192.48

b

185.81

a

147.78

a

177.70

703.77

4

LMR

Les May

Mike Read

b

173.47

b

140.50

a

177.42

a

148.70

640.09

5

GT (Hawk)

Chris Frost

Simon Francis

a

164.87

b

161.12

b

151.40

a

161.03

638.42

6

Netley

Alan Clark

Mark Wiltham

b

156.87

a

143.16

a

143.70

b

158.24

601.97

7

AlMacAl (Hawk)

Ali Dent

Mac Miles

a

130.78

a

129.28

b

115.81

b

121.49

497.36

8

VIP

Ian Barker

Vince Lee

b

77.00

a

181.14


0.00


0.00

258.14

CLUBMAN FINAL

Qual 3 min

Final 5 min

1

Robin Cornwall

42.77

R

71.12

2

Alan Clark

37.06

W

61.76

3

Ali Dent

34.11

Y

56.75

4

Mac Miles

34.11

B

52.76


Qualifying

Final





Best Run

Position

Final / Lane / Laps

FM Position

Chassis / motor

1

Vince Lee

48.15

2

A

R

82.45


JK Super Wasp

2

Ian Barker

47.89

3

A

W

81.73


JK Super Wasp

3

Will Stemman

48.75

1

A

B

77.01


JK Super Wasp

4

Ben Tapp

47.25

4

A

Y

75.26


JK Super Wasp

5

Michael Read

46.34

6

B

B

77.46


JK Super Wasp

6

Stan Alton

44.16

7

B

R

74.82


JK Super Wasp

7

Dave Stevenson

46.43

5

B

Y

74.80


JK Super Wasp

8

Nick Thrower

43.43

8

B

W

67.10

1

Genesis Hawk R

9

Robin Cornwall

42.77

10

C

R

73.08

2

Genesis Hawk R

10

Simon Francis

42.28

11

C

W

71.66

3

Genesis Hawk R

11

Chris Frost

41.44

12

C

B

68.39

4

Genesis Falcon

12

Les May

43.40

9

C

Y

66.90


JK Super Wasp

13

Mark Witham

39.58

13

D

R

64.48

5

Genesis Falcon

14

Alan Clark

37.06

14

D

W

60.61

6

Genesis Falcon

15

Ali Dent

34.11

15

D

Y

57.48

7

Genesis Hawk R

16

Mac Miles

34.11

16

D

B

52.94

8

Genesis Hawk R

Super Production and Falcon Masters Finals

The A final before the start

Vince looked no less happy at the end!

Le Mans 32

Team Dean and Luton SCC proved both quick and reliable, the home team of Ben Tapp and Ian King set the fastest segment and won by about 7 laps from Luton.  D & D had delays while on their white segment which consigned them to third.  LMR had even more delays and finished only just ahead of GT who had the first of the Hawk Retro powered cars. The Netley drivers were on their first visit to the track and this isn't the easiest track to learn!   The VIP drivers having finished 1-2 in the individuals might have hoped for rather better than 8th, but declared their innings after the second gear had stripped.

Next Round

The next round is at Won O Won on 1st July. Dave would like an idea of numbers, so please let him know in advance if you’ll be going.

Chris

Ian, Ben and their winning car