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14 April Bournemouth
The third round of the year attracted an entry of 20 drivers.
Qualifying saw Will Stemman take top spot with a 35, then Simon Francis top Falcon on a 34 followed by a group of drivers on 32 and most of the field much more closely matched.
We had 8 drivers for the clubman finals. Mac Miles turned in his best run of the day to win the B final from Andy Bishop. Graham Sampson won the A final by over a lap from Bill Jenner, with Alan Clark third. That’s 3 clubman wins out of 3 for Graham this year, which of course extended his championship lead.
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Super Production and Falcon Masters | |||||
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Qual. |
Final |
Falcon Masters | |
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1 |
Will Stemman |
35.13 |
A |
34.96 |
Super |
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2 |
Simon Francis |
34.02 |
A |
33.88 |
1 |
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3 |
Brian Saunders |
32.56 |
A |
33.11 |
2 |
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4 |
Paul Harwood |
32.3 |
A |
31.5 |
Super |
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5 |
Mark Witham |
31.95 |
B |
31.74 |
3 |
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6 |
Dave Stevenson |
32.23 |
B |
31.73 |
Super |
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7 |
Phil Hemsley |
31.29 |
B |
30.32 |
4 |
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8 |
Chris Frost |
32.22 |
B |
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5 |
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9 |
Josh Bryant |
30.9 |
C |
31.59 |
Super |
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10 |
Steve Kearey |
30.44 |
C |
30.55 |
6 |
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11 |
Les May |
30.57 |
C |
30.32 |
Super |
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12 |
Graham Sampson |
30.18 |
C |
29.3 |
7 |
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13 |
Mike Davies |
30.07 |
D |
29.43 |
8 |
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14 |
Marc Lyons |
29.11 |
D |
29.11 |
9 |
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15 |
Bill Jenner |
30.07 |
D |
28.81 |
10 |
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16 |
Alan Clark |
27.64 |
D |
28.21 |
11 |
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17 |
Andy Bishop |
27.31 |
E |
27.64 |
12 |
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18 |
Dick Stevenson |
25.38 |
E |
27.52 |
13 |
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19 |
Ali Dent |
27.64 |
E |
26.94 |
14 |
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20 |
Mac Miles |
26.22 |
E |
26.06 |
15 |
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Le Mans 32 | |||||||
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Team |
Drivers |
Segments (10 min) |
Total | |||
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1 |
Young Man |
Will Stemman, Josh Bryant |
109.92 |
108.85 |
116.62 |
112.63 |
448.02 |
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2 |
How Hard Can It Be |
Brian Saunders, Steve Kearey |
100.30 |
107.93 |
110.60 |
101.62 |
420.45 |
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3 |
GT (Falcon class) |
Chris Frost, Simon Francis |
105.05 |
99.65 |
104.63 |
101.93 |
411.26 |
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4 |
UFO |
Phil Hemsley, Graham Sampson |
105.23 |
93.97 |
104.94 |
98.93 |
403.07 |
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5 |
Netley |
Mark Witham, Mike Davies |
104.09 |
86.64 |
105.87 |
101.51 |
398.11 |
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6 |
Harwood Racing (Falcon class) |
Paul Harwood, Marc Lyons |
104.40 |
103.40 |
95.71 |
92.38 |
395.89 |
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7 |
D & D (Falcon class) |
Dave and Dick Stevenson |
100.55 |
86.66 |
103.21 |
86.93 |
377.35 |
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8 |
Norfolk and Chance (Falcon class) |
Bill Jenner, Andy Bishop |
93.64 |
90.88 |
92.32 |
96.12 |
372.96 |
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9 |
AlMacAl (Falcon class) |
Alan Clark, Ali Dent, Mac Miles |
86.97 |
94.13 |
86.63 |
84.16 |
351.89 |
Clubman A Final
The A Final
Young Man’s LM32 winning car
The overall finals started with the E final, looking like a repeat of the Clubman B with the same drivers, same cars in the same lanes. Wouldn’t you expect a similar result? It turned out completely different with Andy Bishop winning from Dick Stevenson.
In the D, Mike Davies won from Mark Lyons and Bill Jenner.
Josh Bryant on his first visit to the track was getting better with every race, he won the C final by a lap from Steve Kearey.
The B final developed into a close race between Mark Witham and Dave Stevenson. They were just about side by side as the power went off but the Falcon was always going to coast further than the super... So Mark won.
The A final produced a not unexpected win by Will Stemman with his super from Simon’s Falcon. Brian Saunders was third with his Falcon ahead of Paul Harwood’s super. That’s 4 wins in a row for Will, (including the last 2018 round).
Le Mans 32
The Young Man won the team race by just short of 28 laps. Will Stemman set the 2 fastest runs of the day with Josh Bryant not far behind. “How Hard Can It Be” made it three second places in a row to take the championship lead, with Brian Saunders blue lane run preventing Young Man getting a clean sweep of the top 4 fastest runs. GT took third overall and won the Falcon class. UFO and Netley took the next two places with group 12 power, while the next placed Falcon was Harwood racing.
Final Rounds
We took a vote on the proposal to hold the final round of the season on the Nats track at Corby. Everybody agreed so the we’ll swap the last two rounds giving Neley the 3rd November slot and the final at Corby on 15 December.
Chris
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Clubman Finals | ||||
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Qual. |
Final | |
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1 |
Graham Sampson |
30.18 |
A |
29.31 |
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2 |
Bill Jenner |
30.07 |
A |
28.13 |
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3 |
Alan Clark |
27.64 |
A |
27.33 |
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4 |
Marc Lyons |
29.11 |
A |
26.85 |
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5 |
Mac Miles |
26.22 |
B |
27.41 |
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6 |
Andy Bishop |
27.31 |
B |
26.38 |
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7 |
Ali Dent |
27.64 |
B |
26.27 |
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8 |
Dick Stevenson |
25.38 |
B |
25.13 |