Southern 32 - 2023


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Overall Super Production and Hawk Masters


Qual

Final

Motor

Hawk Masters

1

Gavin Wills

28.3

47.45

1

Super


2

Greg Harwood

27.25

45.12

1

Super


3

Paul Harwood

27.96

45.04

1

Super


4

Aston Offer

26.05

43.81

1

Super


5

Michael Ovens

25.85

42.91

1

Super


6

Dave Stevenson h

26.27

41.88

1

Hawk

*

7

Mark Harwood

27.25

DNS

1

Super


8

Steve Taylor h

25.07

41.78

2

Hawk

1

9

Barry Gilzean h

25.06

41.4

2

Hawk

2

10

Keith Gibson

24.45

41.39

2

Super


11

Mike Thomson h

24.80

41.25

2

Hawk

3

12

Keith Fishenden h

24.78

41.04

2

Hawk

4

13

Phil Moss

25.12

40.72

2

Super


14

David Farrow h

24.43

39.84

2

Hawk

5

15

Les May

23.85

40.69

3

Super


16

Mark Steventon

24.05

39.78

3

Super


17

Tony Mills h

23.77

39.73

3

Hawk

6

18

Ricky Gowen

23.93

38.59

3

Super


19

Marc Lyons h

24.35

38.43

3

Hawk

7

20

Nick Thrower h

23.55

38.08

3

Hawk

8

21

John King

23.51

33.12

3

Super


22

Peter Kerr

22.93

37.95

4

Super


23

A J Fryer h

22.20

36.89

4

Hawk

9

24

Bill Jenner h

22.84

36.83

4

Hawk

10

25

Graham Clarke h

21.76

35.74

4

Hawk

11

26

Mike Ransley h

20.89

35.58

4

Hawk

12

27

John Ovens h

20.93

33.92

4

Hawk

13

28

Hugh Conway h

19.74

28.84

4

Hawk

14

* Premier grade driver does not score Hawk Masters points

Clubman Finals

1

Barry Gilzean

42.32

1

2

Steve Taylor

41.14

1

3

Phil Moss

39.73

1

4

Keith Fishenden

39.07

1

5

Peter Kerr

32.7

1

6

Mark Seventon

37.18

2

7

A J Fryer

37.01

2

8

Bill Jenner

36.05

2

9

Mike Ransley

33.63

*

10

Graham Clarke

33.04

2

11

Hugh Conway

29.99

2

* qualified for final 2, ran in final 1

The individual racing used the normal Southern 32 race format with each driver having 4 separate qualifying runs, best run to count.   The finals  were 5 minutes on a single lane.   That meant half the field qualified on red green blue and purple lanes and the other half qualified on the alternate lanes - white orange yellow and black.
Gavin Wills was top qualifier with his super production car - 28.3 laps, the only 28 of the day.  Dave Stevenson was the fastest Hawk runner, but as a premier grade driver he didn’t score Hawk Masters points.   Steve Taylor was the next fastest Hawk runner just one hundred the of a lap ahead of Barry Gilzean, they were the top two in both Clubman and Hawk Masters.  A few clubman grade drivers elected to run both  Hawk and  Super Wasp powered cars in the heats so they qualified to run in both the clubman finals where Hawk power is required and the more powerful Super Wasp in the overall finals.

There were 11 runners in the clubman finals.  The closely matched Coulsdon drivers Mark Seventon and A J Fryer took 1-2 in the first final.  In the top final Barry Gilzean won by a lap from Steve Taylor with Phil Moss in third.  That win made Barry the Southern 32 clubman champion ahead of Bill Jenner and Mike Ransley - the same 1-2-3 as 2022.    Barry won the National clubman championship earlier in the year so is promoted out of clubman grade for 2024.

 Southern 32 2023 Final Round  



The final round of the 2023 championship was held at the BSCRA National Centre in Corby on Sunday 26th November. This was a double header with the Pro Am final round on the Saturday.

 The Clubman Finals  

The top final

Only 6 drivers after Mark retired in the warm up.

Team

Prestige

Rock 1

Harwood Racing

D & D

LSCC

LMR

Sticky

GT

Norfork & Chance

Gombo

XcellR8

No Idea

Andrews

Kerrunch

Drivers

M & G Harwood

G.Wills M.Thomson

P.Harwood A.Offer

D.Stevenson T.Mills

B.Gilzean N.Thrower

L.May M.Steventon

S.Taylor R.Gowan

M.Witham C.Frost

B.Jenner K.Fishenden

M & J Ovens

K.Gibson D.Farrow

J.King G.Clarke

A.J.Fryer H.Conway

P.Kerr M..Ransley

Class

Group 12

Group 12

Group 12

Group 12

Group 12

Group 12

Hawk

Hawk

Hawk

Group 12

Hawk

Group 12

Group 12

Group 12

S

E

G

M

E

N

T

S

65.68

64.53

64.49

63.25

60.51

61.56

58.26

55.52

58.26

58.53

64.16

56.1

56.41

57.37

66.44

65.77

64.56

62.08

61.4

60.11

59.58

59.35

58.32

61.57

36

49.89

50.99

38.31

62.5

64.1

66.25

65.04

59.2

44.04

57.26

54.92

55.91

51.42

42

58.03

57.01

49.1

65.9

64.9

65.82

64.38

60.27

60.75

59

58.58

56.41

50.78

59.03

43.27

45.53

57.01

66.89

64.76

66.46

63.12

60.53

61.13

57.4

57.06

53.77

62.12

60.82

58.75

54.9

57.17

64.95

64.34

63.37

64.34

66.9

62.41

59.8

62.53

56.93

53.31

61.95

53.28

49.13

41.33

68.79

67.25

63.27

54.56

63.05

54.4

53.95

56.53

59.53

53.76

59.26

54.9

52.38

39.99

66.11

69.3

70.48

64.11

65.95

62.26

59.28

58.92

59.12

53.56

59.79

58.8

54.29

58.38

Total

527.26

524.95

524.7

500.88

497.81

466.66

464.53

463.41

458.25

445.05

443.01

433.02

420.64

398.66

Position

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Points Postion

*

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

Segments 7 min 30 sec,   1 hour total runing time for each team
 * Team with two Premier grade drivers not eligible for points

Le Mans 32

The Le Mans 32  team race had 14 entries,  26  drivers from the individuals plus Mark Witham and Chris joined in after full time race control duties in the individual.
The top 3 teams were very closely matched with Prestige winning by 2 laps from Rock 1 who were only quater of a lap ahead of Harwood racing.    The Hawk powered class was also close with Sticky winning by just over a lap from GT with Norfolk and Chance just over 5 laps behind in third.
Harwood racing take the 2023 Le mans 32 championship.

Thanks to Mark Witham for the excellent race control.  Special thanks to David Farrow for the catering, hot bacon rolls were much appreciated!

2024
We aim to have next years calendar in place soon, clubs have been asked when they would like to host rounds.
There are some discussion about rule changes for next year, clubs will be consulted about that soon.  One idea is to give more flexibility on race format, the existing format works well at several tracks but needs a lot of work  with some race control systems.



© Copyright Southern 32   Photos copyright Chris Frost 2023 All rights reserved

The 28 runners in the overall finals were split into four finals with seven drivers in each
Peter Kerr won the number 4 final from A J Fryer and Bill Jenner.  
In the next final Tony Mills  won with a Hawk from Mark Steventon and Ricky Gowan with supers.
In the penultimate final Steve Taylor reversed the clubman result to win Hawk Masters from Barry.  Keith Gibson took third with his super. Barry won the 2023 Hawk Masters championship.
Mark Harwood hit car trouble in the warm up for the top final, so only 6 cars took the start. Gavin Wills won the final by 2 laps while Greg Harwood narrowly beat brother Paul for second.
Paul Harwood is the 2023 Individual champion