The second class of the weekend was Open Group 12, which is restricted to a group 12 motor but allows a free choice of chassis.

James Cleave’s 4.745 second lap took top qualifying spot head of Josh Bryant and Ross Grogan.

Sandy Parker won the C final from Simon Scott and David Sargent.


The B final was won by Graham Woodward from Ron Kiddell, these were the only two to beat Sandy’s time. Graham was the top main grade driver.

Chris Thomas initially led the A final from James Cleave. James took the lead from Chris in the second segment with Ross Grogan up to third.  Josh Bryant moved up to third in segment 3. At half distance James had extended his lead from Chris to 6 laps while Josh had caught up to within few feet of Chris. Josh was 2 laps behind Chris in segment 7, but took second ahead of Chris in the final segment.  James won by over 10 laps.  Ben Woodward took 4th ahead of Martin Ellis with Ben’s dad 6th overall with his B final run.













1/24 BOC  2023   British Open Championship

1/24 International
26-28 August - National Centre, Corby

Open Group 12




grade

Qual time

Final

Total laps

1

James Cleave

P

4.745 ( 4.791)

A

277.45

2

Josh Bryant

P

4.934 ( 4.936)

A

266.97

3

Chris Thomas

P

5.075 ( 5.104)

A

266.27

4

Ben Woodward

P

5.064 ( 5.083)

A

256.79

5

Martin Ellis

P

5.284 ( 5.378)

A

255.12

6

Graham Woodward

M

5.351 ( 5.450)

B

251.93

7

Richard Mack

P

5.325 ( 5.371)

A

249.04

8

Ron Kiddell

P

5.371 ( 5.397)

B

245.47

9

Sandy Parker

M

5.472 ( 5.529)

C

244.11

10

Ross Grogan

P

5.021 ( 5.080)

A

244.04

11

Bob Budge

M

5.355 ( 5.408)

B

242.78

12

Simon Scott

M

5.444 ( 5.488)

C

239.11

13

David Sargent

P

5.550 ( 5.580)

C

237.76

14

Chris Aldridge

M

5.710 ( 5.737)

C

235.60

15

Mark Witham

M

5.413 ( 5.416)

B

235.50

16

Keith Gibson

P

5.414 ( 5.501)

B

231.11

17

Neil Grogan

M

5.701 ( 5.702)

C

228.45

18

Steve Sargent

P

5.354 ( 5.500)

B

228.16

19

Colin Wilkinson

C

5.435 ( 5.551)

B

227.75

20

Pat Skene

M

5.433 ( 5.455)

B

223.91

21

Peter Kerr

C

5.819 ( 5.843)

C

218.84

22

Chris Frost

M

5.958 ( 5.990)

C

183.14

23

Ian Howard

M

6.357 ( 6.492)

C

183.11

 Open Group 12 Sunday 27 August

James Cleave’s winning car

It has a modified Horky Chassis. The motor is a Cahoza set up, Koford 48 degree group 12 arm.  
Gears 7:43 (72 pitch)   Tyres Won-O-Won Klingon.  It weighed 63.1 gm (59.5 without the BPA Lola body)

The A final cars on the start line

All 23 cars

Woody won main grade

Josh 2nd           First James       Chris 3rd

Betta & Classic Production Saloon                 Won-O-Won Eurosport



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