1/32 BOC 2013   British Open Championship

Round 2 -  24 March 2013  -  DOWTY

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Dowty club welcomed us  for Round 2 of the 2013 championship.   Since their last BOC in 2011, they have moved top a new clubroom  (still on the new site near Gloucester).  The track has been modified and extended, their previous track was the longest 4 laner in the country, and it’s now even more so.   A big thank you to Dave and everybody at Dowty for such a good meeting.

As usual at these meetings, racing started with Saloon.  After two qualifying heats, the racers had 4 x 3min segmented finals -  you can win from any final. Paul Shepherd and Lee Parsons produced quick runs in the B final. In the A Brian Saunders managed to split them to leave Shep as winner from Brian with Lee third. An impressive drive from Stephen Siddall saw him qualify for teh A final and take top in main grade with 4th overall.

Paul Shepherd took his second win of the day in F1, but this time he did it from the A final.  He was joined in the A final by Brian Saunders and Gavin Wills who took second and third. Murray Tucker was top main grade with 6th overall.

The best race of the day was the Sports A final, where Brian  narrowly beat Lee, while Shep took third ahead of Gavin by an even smaller margin.  Murray was again top main grade having taken 6th overall in all the classes.

Here is the start of the sports A final with Shep looking surprisingly warm on an exceptionally cold late March day

Thanks to the meeting sponsors SCD, BSP, and Rob Harris everybody went away with prizes.

Thoughts about 1/32 racing now turn to the big one - the Nationals in May. Dudley hosts the next 1/32 BOC in June - surely we can guarantee that will be free of snow?

Chris


Dave Coward presents the trophies

Murray Tucker - top main grade                                                Paul Shepherd - top overall with two wins and a third

The winning cars from Shep and Brian

© Copyright British Slot Car Racing Association  2013. Photos copyright C.Frost All rights reserved

Saloon


F1


Sports

1

Paul Shepherd

95.24


1

Paul Shepherd

98.25


1

Brian Saunders

111.59

2

Brian Saunders

94.91


2

Brian Saunders

95.08


2

Lee Parsons

111.46

3

Lee Parsons

94.69


3

Gavin Wills

94.43


3

Paul Shepherd

108.58

4

Steve Siddall

94.41


4

Greg Harwood

92.93


4

Gavin Wills

108.47

5

Steve Sargent

93.34


5

Lee Parsons

91.62


5

Greg Harwood

106.75

6

Murray Tucker

93.03


6

Murray Tucker

90.64


6

Murray Tucker

106.49

7

Gavin Wills

92.31


7

Steve Sargent

89.3


7

Christopher Aldridge

105.63

8

Ant Hawkes

91.22


8

Richard Mack

86.88


8

Chris Aldridge

103.32

9

Greg Harwood

90.1


9

Chris Aldridge

86.39


9

Steve Sargent

100.87

10

Christopher Aldridge

88.85


10

Steve Siddall

83.88


10

Ant Hawkes

93.44

11

Keith Gibson

87.97


11

Martin Ellis

82.63


11

Chris Frost

92.07

12

Chris Aldridge

87.12


12

Ant Hawkes

82.32


12

Keith Gibson

83.71

13

Chris Frost

82.92


13

Chris Frost

80.08


13

Steve Siddall

57

14

Richard Mack

81.25


14

Keith Gibson

72.99


14

Richard Mack

27

15

Martin Ellis

77.74


15

Christopher Aldridge

19