Ecurie Barnton 28 May
The Ecurie Barnton round of the BSL series took place on Saturday 28th May 2016, attracting a healthy entry of 21 racers. Many thanks to everyone who made the journey.
1/32 racing
Paul Shepherd led the way throughout qualifying, beating 30 laps in all 3 of his heats. Murray Wallace was equally impressive, equalling the lap record for Falcon motor cars and qualifying 3rd overall, only half a lap down on Shep. Keith Charles set a new lap record for Intro 32 cars, but just missed the A final.
There were some great close races in the finals, starting with Cohen Mavor and Harry Shepherd in the F final. They were separated by just a few feet throughout the race, with Cohen winning by just 3 feet, prompting much applause for both drivers!
Paul Evans won the F final and Chas Keeling the E final, then another very close
race between Pete Clarkson and Peter Donely in the D final, Pete winning by 4 feet.
The close race in the C final was for 2nd place, Stevie Mavor beating Norman Fawcett
by 3 feet, Stevie also being top Novice-
Shep led off the start line in the A final, but lost almost a whole lap when he came out early on. That proved to be too much to come back from and Alan Lucas took the win. Meanwhile Shep got embroiled in a very close finish with Murray and Martin Ellis. When the power went off, Murray and Shep were tied for 2nd and Martin was 4th but just 2 feet behind! Murray won the Falcon class.
1/24 racing
I'm sure people thought the team race would be pretty processional compared with
all that, but not so! Three of the 10 teams beat 120 laps in the first segment, with
just over 2 laps covering Team Shep (Harry & Paul Shep), RM Racing (Murray & Richard
Wallace) and Young Guns (Martin Ellis & Pat Skene) -
Only RM Racing managed to beat 120 in the 2nd segment. No Idea moved up to 2nd but were now 7 laps behind. Young Guns were just one more lap down. Their motor had gone off big time, the armature throwing a winding, but it was still running!
RM Racing slowed a little in the 3rd segment, doing 116 on the tricky Blue lane while No Idea did 119 on the on the other side of the track, meaning the gap was 4 laps going into the last segment. Young Guns were now 9 laps behind the leaders. Shep did 120 laps but was now too far behind to contest the win.
Drama at the beginning of the final segment as RM Racing took to the pits, but it turned out to be just a precautionary stop to oil the bearings and they were soon back on the track. However it affected their final score and 118 laps left the result in the balance when No Idea took to the track in the next heat. Their target was 123 laps and they were slightly down on that schedule at half way, but Keith upped the pace and seemed to have the win in his grasp with one minute to go. Then an accident picking his way through traffic cost about half a lap and it looked like he'd fallen just short with 122.73 laps, but we still had to add the feet in. The 39 feet in the bank from the previous segments took them onto the lead lap and they won the race by just 3 feet, leaving RM Racing to curse that precautionary pit stop! However, it was still a great performance to come such a close 2nd to the home team.
Alan Lucas
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1/32. FINALS |
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A FINAL |
FINAL LAPS |
POSITIONS |
A FINAL |
ALAN LUCAS |
49.21 |
1st A.final |
A FINAL |
MURRAY WALLACE |
48.60 |
2nd |
A FINAL |
PAUL SHEPHERD |
48.60 |
3rd |
A FINAL |
MARTIN ELLIS |
48.58 |
4th |
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B FINAL |
FINAL LAPS |
POSITIONS |
B FINAL |
KEITH CHARLES |
48.78 |
1st B.final |
B FINAL |
PAT SKENE |
46.97 |
2nd |
B FINAL |
NEIL GROGAN |
43.59 |
3rd |
B FINAL |
DAVID SARGENT |
37.00 |
4th |
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C FINAL |
FINAL LAPS |
POSITIONS |
C FINAL |
STEVE SARGENT |
48.81 |
1st C.final |
C FINAL |
STEVIE MAVOR |
43.88 |
2nd |
C FINAL |
NORMAN FAWCETT |
43.85 |
3rd |
C FINAL |
RICHARD WALLACE |
41.20 |
4th |
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D FINAL |
FINAL LAPS |
POSITIONS |
D FINAL |
PETE CLARKSON |
42.37 |
1st D.final |
D FINAL |
PETER DONELY |
42.33 |
2nd |
D FINAL |
SANDY WEDDERBURN |
39.61 |
3rd |
D FINAL |
Empty |
0.00 |
4th |
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E FINAL |
FINAL LAPS |
POSITIONS |
E FINAL |
CHAS KEELING |
41.06 |
1st E.final |
E FINAL |
PETE FARTHING |
39.86 |
2nd |
E FINAL |
STEVE SMITH |
35.19 |
3rd |
E FINAL |
Empty |
0.00 |
4th |
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F FINAL |
FINAL LAPS |
POSITIONS |
F FINAL |
PAUL EVANS |
38.23 |
1st F.final |
F FINAL |
COHEN MAVOR |
36.36 |
2nd |
F FINAL |
HARRY SHEPHERD |
36.33 |
3rd |
F FINAL |
Empty |
0.00 |
4th |
TEAM RACE |
TOTAL LAPS |
BEHIND NEXT |
RACE POSITION |
No Idea |
479.12 |
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1st |
RM Racing |
479.09 |
0.03 |
2nd |
Young Guns(!) |
470.1 |
8.99 |
3rd |
Fylde 1 |
446.19 |
23.91 |
4th |
Team 131 |
445.8 |
0.39 |
5th |
BST |
426.4 |
19.40 |
6th |
Team Shep |
425.57 |
0.83 |
7th |
Team SCD |
422.2 |
3.37 |
8th |
Highland |
409.99 |
12.21 |
9th |
Team Mavor |
386.34 |
23.65 |
10th |