FYLDE OPEN  15/16th March 2014

Round 2 of the 1/32nd Scale British Open Championship!

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A quality field of 14 including Brian Saunders making his first BOC appearance in over a year turned out for the Fylde Open & produced some great racing run in a friendly spirit.


James Cleave set the pace in Saloon by out qualifying 2nd place taken by Chris Aldridge by nearly 2 laps. However James’s motor faded halfway through the A  Final which in the end forced his retirement & allowed 3rd qualifier Paul Shepherd to take the win while main grade Chris maintained his qualifying form  to take an excellent 2nd overall. The C Final produced the closest 3 way race of the day with Bob Budge eventually winning to take 5th overall just ahead of Steve Sidddall & Ant Hawkes.


James again qualified top in F1 just ahead of Paul with Ant highest main grade in 5th. James pulled out a 3 lap lead from Paul in the 1st segment of the A Final with Paul having a pick up problem which seemed to be resolved by the end of the segment but leaving him having to settle for 2nd. Brian was gradually finding his feet & took 3rd spot from the C Final while Ant produced a vintage F1 drive I remember from him in the 90’s to take an excellent 4th spot.

Gavin Wills had never driven the track before & was still in Barcelona on Saturday evening with his full size race team but despite an overnight journey he took TQ in Sports ahead of James. A  fault with Brian’s really quick car in warm up meant racing the no.2 but he still manged 3rd qualy. A great last heat by Chris gave him a 2nd top 4 qualy of the day & kept Paul Shepherd out of the A  Final. However a very clean B Final gave Paul a very good score. The 1st segment of the A Final saw a really scrappy start with drivers falling over each other & James needing a pit stop. This meant Gavin was 3 laps down on Paul’s 1st segment score & the others 5 laps & more behind. Suddenly in the 2nd segment the drivers settled in & Gavin started to really motor getting ever quicker in the 3rd & 4th segments to run down Paul’s total & take a worthy win.


Paul’s 1st & 2 2nds gave him the Victor Ludorum with Chris top main grade. Congratulations to all the winners.


Many thanks to Betta, BSlot & SCD for sponsorship prizes which meant all racers took away something. A special mention to Chas Keeling who had been laid up in bed for the 3 days previous but still came to deliver the trophies & support the meeting.

A very big thanks to all the racers who participated & those that helped & co-operated in the smooth running of the meeting allowing it to finish for 5.30. We hope everyone enjoyed the event.


Steve Sargent   


Results


1/32 BOC 2014   British Open Championship


Saloon






F1






Sports






Q Laps

Final Laps

Final




Q Laps

Final Laps

Final




Q Laps

Final Laps

Final

1

Paul Shepherd

35.32

142.63

A


1

James Cleave

36.13

144.63

A


1

Gavin Wills

42.26

166.07

A

2

Chris Aldridge

35.49

139.67

A


2

Paul Shepherd

35.7

138.85

A


2

Paul Shepherd

40.39

163.54

B

3

Gavin Wills

35.02

137.64

B


3

Brian Saunders

33.24

135.7

C


3

James Cleave

41.9

160.62

A

4

Gordon Dickson

34.11

135.32

B


4

Ant Hawkes

33.88

133.92

B


4

Brian Saunders

41.12

156.28

A

5

Bob Budge

33.8

134.75

C


5

Gordon Dickson

34.86

133.24

A


5

Stephen Siddall

38.13

154.98

B

6

Stephen Siddall

33.27

134.16

C


6

Stephen Siddall

33.6

133.15

B


6

Chris Aldridge

40.5

154.24

A

7

Ant Hawkes

33.19

133.02

C


7

Bob Budge

30.61

131.08

D


7

Pat Skene

37.26

149.67

B

8

Pat Skene

35.20

131.51

B


8

Pat Skene

32.56

125.85

C


8

Bob Budge

36.88

146.03

C

9

Brian Saunders

33.52

127.25

C


9

Gavin Wills

33.97

124.11

B


9

Gordon Dickson

37.28

138.62

B

10

Keith Charles

33.17

126.90

D


10

Brendan Bremner

30.56

119.15

D


10

Ant Hawkes

35.88

138.23

C

11

Martin Ellis

31.62

122.92

D


11

Chas Keeling

27.78

113.17

D


11

Keith Charles

33.21

136.12

C

12

Chas Keeling

30.15

121.71

D


12

Martin Ellis

26.58

109.17

D


12

Brendan Bremner

35.63

128.28

C

13

Brendan Bremner

29.51

120.19

D


13

Chris Aldridge

31.86

80.4

C


13

Chas Keeling

32.56

117.16

C

14

James Cleave

37.3

111.62

A


14

Keith Charles

32.49

78.4

C







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