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Round 3 - 30 October 2011 - Ecurie Barnton

Sixteen racers made their way to Edinburgh for the first BOC meeting on Ecurie Barnton’s new track. A strong entry, healthy in numbers if not in bodies! Here’s a short report of the meeting - the full report will follow in the next edition of Slot Car Racing News.

Saloon

Graeme Stephenson set a new lap record in the first round of heats, equalled by Brian Saunders in the second round. Brian took pole with a better back up score. Ross Grogan set the target for the A finalists with 128 laps in the B final. Brian rose to the challenge with another new lap record in the first segment and went on to win by under a lap from Graeme who beat Ross’s time by about half a lap.

Another new lap record for Brian to take pole. Graham Woodward’s turn to set the target with 116 laps in the C final. Brian and Paul Shepherd led the A final early on but Brian stripped a gear in the second segment, allowing Shep to cruise to a comfortable win. Amazingly Woody’s C final time stood up for second, but by only 1 part from Steve Sargent and with Graeme S and Chris Thomas also within 30 parts of Woody!

Sports

Lee Parsons’ turn to take pole with a new lap record on the track he did so much to help build. Shep set the target with 139 laps in the B final. Brian led the A final early on but the gremlins struck in the second segment again when the wheels fell off - literally! well one of them anyway. Graeme S then seemed to be cruising to a comfortable win until his tyres wore out in the final segment. Lee closed a 2 lap gap to pull alongside with 30 seconds left but an off took Graeme out and put Lee on the floor in the hole. A track call resulted with them being side by side when the power went back on and Lee had edged ahead with 5 seconds left. Job done? Not quite because Lee dropped it, only for Graeme to do likewise 2 corners later allowing Lee to sneak ahead again before the finish - whew!!

Victor Ludorum

We did a Victor Ludorum over all 3 classes to determine the overall positions. Graeme took the overall win from Lee and Shep. Stephen Siddall won Main Grade convincingly with Bob Budge and Barry James equal second.

Alan Lucas

RESULTS

Saloon			F1			Sports
Place	Name	Total Laps	Place	Name	Total Laps	Place	Name	Total Laps
1	BRIAN SAUNDERS	129.59	1	PAUL SHEPHERD	121.45	1	LEE PARSONS	140.58
2	GRAEME STEPHENSON	128.63	2	GRAHAM WOODWARD	116.84	2	GRAEME STEPHENSON	140.42
3	ROSS GROGAN	128.17	3	STEVE SARGENT	116.83	3	PAUL SHEPHERD	139.39
4	LEE PARSONS	120.6	4	GRAEME STEPHENSON	116.56	4	STEVE SARGENT	134.73
5	CHRIS THOMAS	120.18	5	CHRIS THOMAS	116.54	5	BEN WOODWARD	129.85
6	STEPHEN SIDDALL (M)	120.17	6	LEE PARSONS	111.47	6	BRIAN SAUNDERS	127
7	STEVE SARGENT	119.69	7	STEPHEN SIDDALL (M)	110.93	7	ROSS GROGAN	124.48
8	PAUL SHEPHERD	117.73	8	KEITH GIBSON	109.73	8	CHRIS THOMAS	122.59
9	GRAHAM WOODWARD	116.44	9	CHRIS GREEN	106.55	9	CHRIS GREEN	117.67
10	BOB BUDGE (M)	116.42	10	BRIAN SAUNDERS	104.68	10	ANT HAWKES (M)	117.6
11	BEN WOODWARD	114.16	11	BEN WOODWARD	103.18	11	BOB BUDGE (M)	117.13
12	BARRY JAMES (M)	106.86	12	CHAS KEELING (M)	99.58	12	BARRY JAMES (M)	114.34
13	CHAS KEELING (M)	103.6	13	BARRY JAMES (M)	97.3	13	CHAS KEELING (M)	113.44
14	ANT HAWKES (M)	101.25	14	ROSS GROGAN	56	14	GRAHAM WOODWARD	105.42
15	KEITH GIBSON	65	15	ANT HAWKES (M)	37	15	KEITH GIBSON	101.85
16	CHRIS GREEN	54	16	BOB BUDGE (M)	36	16	STEPHEN SIDDALL (M)	53

Saloon
Name	Final	Best Heat	Lane 1	Laps	Lane 2	Laps	Lane 3	Laps	Lane 4	Laps	Total
BRIAN SAUNDERS	A	32.22	BLUE	32	WHITE	33	YELLOW	32	RED	32.59	129.59
GRAEME STEPHENSON	A	32.22	WHITE	32	YELLOW	32	RED	32	BLUE	32.63	128.63
ROSS GROGAN	B	30.18	BLUE	32	WHITE	31	YELLOW	32	RED	33.17	128.17
LEE PARSONS	B	29.72	WHITE	30	YELLOW	31	RED	29	BLUE	30.6	120.6
CHRIS THOMAS	A	30.42	RED	30	BLUE	29	WHITE	31	YELLOW	30.18	120.18
STEPHEN SIDDALL (M)	C	29.25	BLUE	29	WHITE	30	YELLOW	30	RED	31.17	120.17
STEVE SARGENT	B	29.35	RED	30	BLUE	30	WHITE	30	YELLOW	29.69	119.69
PAUL SHEPHERD	A	31.6	YELLOW	31	RED	29	BLUE	26	WHITE	31.73	117.73
GRAHAM WOODWARD	B	29.59	YELLOW	30	RED	29	BLUE	29	WHITE	28.44	116.44
BOB BUDGE (M)	C	28.27	WHITE	29	YELLOW	30	RED	29	BLUE	28.42	116.42
BEN WOODWARD	C	27.84	YELLOW	29	RED	29	BLUE	27	WHITE	29.16	114.16
BARRY JAMES (M)	D	25.02	BLUE	26	WHITE	26	YELLOW	27	RED	27.86	106.86
CHAS KEELING (M)	D	24.01	RED	25	BLUE	25	WHITE	26	YELLOW	27.6	103.6
ANT HAWKES (M)	D	24.61	WHITE	24	YELLOW	26	RED	26	BLUE	25.25	101.25
KEITH GIBSON	C	25.38	RED	26	BLUE	27	WHITE	12	YELLOW	0	65
CHRIS GREEN	D	24.53	YELLOW	24	RED	23	BLUE	7	WHITE	0	54

F1
Name	Final	Best Heat	Lane 1	Laps	Lane 2	Laps	Lane 3	Laps	Lane 4	Laps	Total
PAUL SHEPHERD	A	30.5	YELLOW	30	RED	30	BLUE	30	WHITE	31.45	121.45
GRAHAM WOODWARD	C	27.15	YELLOW	30	RED	30	BLUE	27	WHITE	29.84	116.84
STEVE SARGENT	B	29.17	WHITE	29	YELLOW	30	RED	28	BLUE	29.83	116.83
GRAEME STEPHENSON	A	30.3	RED	29	BLUE	27	WHITE	30	YELLOW	30.56	116.56
CHRIS THOMAS	A	31.02	WHITE	28	YELLOW	30	RED	29	BLUE	29.54	116.54
LEE PARSONS	B	30.03	BLUE	26	WHITE	30	YELLOW	28	RED	27.47	111.47
STEPHEN SIDDALL (M)	C	27.84	BLUE	27	WHITE	29	YELLOW	27	RED	27.93	110.93
KEITH GIBSON	B	28.2	YELLOW	27	RED	28	BLUE	27	WHITE	27.73	109.73
CHRIS GREEN	D	26.42	BLUE	25	WHITE	27	YELLOW	27	RED	27.55	106.55
BRIAN SAUNDERS	A	31.73	BLUE	30	WHITE	14	YELLOW	30	RED	30.68	104.68
BEN WOODWARD	B	28.19	RED	26	BLUE	25	WHITE	27	YELLOW	25.18	103.18
CHAS KEELING (M)	D	25.34	RED	24	BLUE	24	WHITE	25	YELLOW	26.58	99.58
BARRY JAMES (M)	D	25.78	YELLOW	23	RED	26	BLUE	24	WHITE	24.3	97.3
ROSS GROGAN	C	27.61	WHITE	28	YELLOW	28	RED	0	BLUE	0	56
ANT HAWKES (M)	D	25.94	WHITE	25	YELLOW	12	RED	0	BLUE	0	37
BOB BUDGE (M)	C	26.72	RED	23	BLUE	5	WHITE	8	YELLOW	0	36

Sports
Name	Final	Best Heat	Lane 1	Laps	Lane 2	Laps	Lane 3	Laps	Lane 4	Laps	Total
LEE PARSONS	A	36.59	BLUE	34	WHITE	35	YELLOW	36	RED	35.58	140.58
GRAEME STEPHENSON	A	36.23	WHITE	35	YELLOW	36	RED	36	BLUE	33.42	140.42
PAUL SHEPHERD	B	35.61	BLUE	33	WHITE	36	YELLOW	35	RED	35.39	139.39
STEVE SARGENT	B	34.75	YELLOW	35	RED	35	BLUE	32	WHITE	32.73	134.73
BEN WOODWARD	C	32.85	BLUE	30	WHITE	32	YELLOW	33	RED	34.85	129.85
BRIAN SAUNDERS	A	36.16	YELLOW	36	RED	30	BLUE	36	WHITE	25	127
ROSS GROGAN	A	35.66	RED	34	BLUE	20	WHITE	35	YELLOW	35.48	124.48
CHRIS THOMAS	B	35.14	WHITE	22	YELLOW	32	RED	35	BLUE	33.59	122.59
CHRIS GREEN	D	28.6	YELLOW	28	RED	30	BLUE	31	WHITE	28.67	117.67
ANT HAWKES (M)	D	29.15	WHITE	28	YELLOW	30	RED	29	BLUE	30.6	117.6
BOB BUDGE (M)	C	30.72	RED	30	BLUE	28	WHITE	29	YELLOW	30.13	117.13
BARRY JAMES (M)	C	30.73	YELLOW	28	RED	28	BLUE	27	WHITE	31.34	114.34
CHAS KEELING (M)	D	28.28	RED	27	BLUE	28	WHITE	29	YELLOW	29.44	113.44
GRAHAM WOODWARD	C	32.19	WHITE	16	YELLOW	25	RED	31	BLUE	33.42	105.42
KEITH GIBSON	B	33.17	RED	32	BLUE	32	WHITE	9	YELLOW	28.85	101.85
STEPHEN SIDDALL (M)	D	30.53	BLUE	30	WHITE	23	YELLOW	0	RED	0	53

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