Castle Raceway 21 June
After 22 years of running the BSL I was very disappointed that illness forced me to miss my first ever BSL meeting but it is good to see from the following report, kindly provided by Chris Rigby, that the Castle Raceway meeting was enjoyed by those who raced. Regards, Steve
CASTLE RACEWAY BSL – 21 June 15 Race Report
Sunday 21st June, saw the 2nd round of the 2015 BSL championship at Castle Raceway in North Wales.
With an entry of 17, proceedings got underway bang on time at 10 am with the heats of the 1/32 production sports.
The heats were run through without hitch and the positions for the finals were decided. The top gun was Paul Shepherd with an impressive best heat of 36.20 laps. closely followed by Gordon Dickson on 35.23 laps. In 3rd place and top Falcon was Castle's Chris Rigby with a 33.24.
The finals got underway as soon as lanes had been chosen with Chas Keeling taking the D final honours with 47.24 laps. Blackpool's Jade Slater finished 2nd with a 45.95 followed by 'Sheps' lad Harry in 3rd with a 44.80 and Kyle Andrews 4th, 44.07
The C final was a close run thing with Geoff Snaith taking the flag with 51.80 laps from Castle's Terry Giacomet in 2nd with 50.28. Chris Moreton's 49.46 took 3rd place with Pete Clarkson retiring with cr problems in 4th.
Ponty's Barry James managed a good run to take the B final with 54.45 laps from Castle's Dave Gatton in 2nd with 52.46, just 3ft ahead of Blackpool's Peter Donely in 3rd with 52.43. Fylde's David Sargent had car problems and finished with 34.21.
The A final consisted of 2 battles -
After a half hour break for lunch and a short practice session, the 1/24 team race got underway at 1.30pm, the 8 team's cars having been scrutineered and placed into parc ferme.
With the first two runs complete, team 129 pulled slightly ahead from team Castle, with team's SCD and Betta in close pursuit followed by the Welsh Wizards, team Sheps, then Woteva and the Love Birds.
At the halfway stage there was not much change to the order, except team Woteva had managed to close the gap to team Betta, the rest were pretty much as before.
The final result was a good win for team 129 with a total of 597.48 laps from team Castle with 583.47, only 14 laps behind. 3rd place went to team SCD with team Betta in 4th. Team Woteva moved up to 5th place, just 6 laps ahead of team Sheps. Team Welsh Wizards couldn't bring their magic to bear to solve the problems with their car, although they did manage to hold onto their postion and finish 7th, ahead of team Love Birds in 8th.
A good humoured meeting with little or no problems, seemingly enjoyed by all. Looking forward to the next round at Fylde in July.
See you there
Chris Rigby, Castle Raceway.
Web editor C.Frost
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BSL 2015 British Slotracing League
BSL 1/32nd Heats | ||
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Laps |
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Paul Shepherd |
36.2 |
Super |
Gordon Dickson |
35.23 |
Super |
Chris Rigby |
29.05 |
|
Ian Fitzpatrick |
32.79 |
Super |
Barry James |
32.25 |
|
Peter Donely |
31.97 |
Super |
David Sargent |
31.96 |
Super |
Dave Gatton |
31.76 |
|
Pete Clarkson |
31.67 |
|
Terry Giacomet |
31.64 |
|
Geoff Snaith |
30.79 |
|
Chris Morton |
29.8 |
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Chas Keeling |
29.04 |
|
Jade Slater |
27.68 |
|
Kyle Andrews |
25.83 |
|
Harry Shepherd |
25.48 |
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1/32nd Finals - | |||
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Laps |
Points |
Clubman Points |
A Final |
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Paul Shepherd |
61.82 |
50 |
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Gordon Dickson |
61.55 |
47 |
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Ian Fitzpatrick |
55.46 |
45 |
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Chris Rigby |
54.8 |
43 |
50 |
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B Final |
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Barry James |
54.45 |
41 |
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Dave Gatton |
52.46 |
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Peter Donely |
52.43 |
39 |
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David Sargent |
34.21 |
37 |
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C Final |
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Geoff Snaith |
51.8 |
35 |
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Terry Giacomet |
50.28 |
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Chris Morton |
49.46 |
33 |
47 |
Pete Clarkson |
32 |
31 |
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D Final |
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Chas Keeling |
47.24 |
30 |
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Jade Slater |
45.95 |
29 |
45 |
Harry Shepherd |
44.8 |
28 |
43 |
Kyle Andrews |
44.07 |
27 |
41 |
1/24th Team Race | |||
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|
Laps |
Points |
TEAM 129 |
David Sargent & Pete Clarkson |
597.48 |
50 |
CASTLE RACEWAY |
Chris Rigby & Dave Gatton |
583.47 |
37 |
SCD |
Chas Keeling & Barry James |
578.05 |
47 |
TEAM BETTA |
Ian Fitzpatrick & Peter Donely |
575.03 |
45 |
WOTEVA |
Geoff Snaith & Chris Morton |
554.41 |
43 |
TEAM SHEPS |
Paul Shepherd & Harry Shepherd |
548.42 |
41 |
WELSH WIZZARDS |
Terry Giacomet & ? |
524.42 |
|
LOVE BIRDS |
Jade Slater & Kyle Andrews |
509.41 |
39 |