Castle Raceway  21 June

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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 - 'Shep v Gordo' and 'Ian Fitz' v Chris R'. The result was a victory for Shep with 61.82 laps, Gordon Dickson close behind in 2nd with 61.55. Ian Fitzpatrick's 55.46  took 3rd from Chris Rigby in the last 5 seconds of the race, Chris finishing 4th with 54.80 and also taking Top Falcon honours.

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


Laps


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


Chas Keeling

29.04


Jade Slater

27.68


Kyle Andrews

25.83


Harry Shepherd

25.48


1/32nd Finals - 21 Jun 15


Laps

Points

Clubman Points

A Final




Paul Shepherd

61.82

50


Gordon Dickson

61.55

47


Ian Fitzpatrick

55.46

45


Chris Rigby

54.8

43

50





B Final




Barry James

54.45

41


Dave Gatton

52.46



Peter Donely

52.43

39


David Sargent

34.21

37






C Final




Geoff Snaith

51.8

35


Terry Giacomet

50.28



Chris Morton

49.46

33

47

Pete Clarkson

32

31






D Final




Chas Keeling

47.24

30


Jade Slater

45.95

29

45

Harry Shepherd

44.8

28

43

Kyle Andrews

44.07

27

41

1/24th Team Race



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