INTRO 32 and Clubman Saloon Championships 5/6 March























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There were 4 classes over the weekend, the National INTRO 32 championship and a fun team race on Saturday: the National Championships for Clubman Saloon and F2 on Sunday.

The INTRO 32 class is limited to clubman grade drivers. The 13 eligible drivers raced in two finals.

Racing started with one minute qualifying runs, Steve Taylor took top spot with a 7.185 second lap, a few hundredths of a second behind last year top spot


Sunday’s F2 Race

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INTRO 32 Championship Results

Driver

Qualifying lap best lap (2nd best lap)

Laps

Fastest race lap

Final

1

Simon Scott

 7.470 ( 7.515)

189.81

7.286

2

2

Steve Taylor

 7.185 ( 7.188)

186.93

7.161

2

3

Barry Gilzean

 7.405 ( 7.423)

183.8

7.235

2

4

Chris Stemman

 7.231 ( 7.391)

181.57

7.048

2

5

Ricky Gowan

 7.191 ( 7.295)

180.71

7.068

2

6

Sandy Wederburn

 7.735 ( 7.863)

178.41

7.339

1

7

Ali Dent

 7.852 ( 7.981)

175.48

7.752

1

8

David Ensor

 7.758 ( 7.908)

174.65

7.664

1

9

Nick Cunningham

 7.687 ( 7.784)

172.36

7.468

2

10

Tony Mather

 7.461 ( 7.503)

172.05

7.58

2

11

Colin Bailey

 8.155 ( 8.184)

167.08

7.8

1

12

Tyler Tattersall

 8.519 ( 8.682)

163.92

7.586

1

13

Ian Howard

 7.745 ( 7.787)

155.86

7.648

1

Sandy             Ian                   David          Ali             Colin            Tyler

Steve            Ricky           Chris           Barry          Tony           Simon           Nick

The first final was won by Sandy from Highland club with Ali from Netley second.  Good to see competitors from all round the UK!

The second final was initially led by Barry, this developed into a very close race between the top 4 with Simon winning from Steve, Barry and Chris.   The top 5 beat Sandy’s time from the first final.



First

Second

Third

Simon’s winning car - This one had a Hawk 7BB motor, nearly all the field used either a Hawk 7 or Hawk 7BB  

Team Race - 1 hour (8 x 7 min 30 sec segments)

Team

Drivers

Laps

Fastest lap

1

Broom Bandits

Josh Bryant, Barry Gilzean

513.44

6.193

2

Reckless

Will and Chris Stemman

508.26

6.202

3

Rockingham 1

James Cleave, Ricky Gowan

506.83

6.101

4

Rockingham 2

Terry Foster, Steve Taylor

481.32

6.604

5

Porky & Reckit

Bob Budge, Nick Cunningham

479.05

6.655

6

Bournemouth

Chris Frost, Simon Scott

469.76

6.814

7

Netley

Mark Witham, Ali Dent

458.88

6.149

8

Scuderia 66

Sandy Parker, Ian Howard

432.27

7.05

9

Baileys

Steve Mutimer, Colin Bailey

415.78

7.276

10

Rebi Racing

Sandy Wederburn, Tyler Tattersall

126

7.43

Team Race

Saturday’s second event was the fun team race for group 12 powered sports cars.  This was an event for teams of 2 drivers, at least one driver in each team had to be clubman grade.    This gave the clubman drivers a chance to get some track time with more powerful cars before the clubman saloon championship race on the Sunday.    Each driver ran on 4 lanes.

The winning Broom Bandits team  - Barry and Josh, and their car

The car has an Ellis chassis, the armature was a ProSlot group 12 the 72 pitch gear ratio was 6:40

Clubman Saloon Championship

Sunday’s first event was the Clubman Saloon Championship.  This was for the BSCRA saloon class which allows a free chassis design but the motor is limited to a group 12.

Racing started with one minute qualifying runs, Ricky Gowan took top spot with a 6.476 second lap,.


Clubman Saloon Championship Results

Driver

Qualifying lap best lap (2nd best lap)

Laps

(8 x 3 min)

Fastest race lap

Final

1

Simon Scott

 6.767 ( 6.797)

196.57

6.87

2

2

Steve Taylor

 6.840 ( 7.107)

193.05

6.92

2

3

Ricky Gowan

 6.476 ( 6.513)

192.5

6.661

2

4

Barry Gilzean

 7.022 ( 7.128)

192.47

6.951

2

5

David Ensor

 7.287 ( 7.331)

182.26

7.034

2

6

Nick Cunningham

 6.848 ( 6.909)

175.42

7.057

2

7

Sandy Wederburn

 7.452 ( 7.508)

174.18

7.192

1

8

Tyler Tattersall

 7.449 ( 7.536)

171.26

7.337

1

9

Damon Ryland

 8.696 ( 9.031)

154.5

7.85

1

10

Steve Hopkins

 9.080 ( 9.224)

137.28

8.267

1

11

Ali Dent

 7.391 ( 7.445)

99

7.517

1

Final 1                                                                               Final 2

     Ali          Tyler        Sandy        Damon      Steve H  ||    Ricky           Simon       Steve T     **          Barry   David


** Nick started late - he was repairing his car after the interior went through the gears in qualifying.

Sandy and Tyler drove to a Highland 1-2 in the first final.   Simon Scott led most of the way in the second final, with a lead mostly around 2 or 3 laps over a very close battle for second between Steve, Ricky and Barry.  Simon won the clubman double, with Steve taking second from Ricky close to the end.  The top 4’s totals would have been fast enough to qualify for the main grade final at last year’s Nationals.

First  Simon

Second Steve                                     Third Ricky

The top 3 cars and above top view of Simon’s winning car.  This is the same chassis that won the team race on Saturday, but Josh had fitted a fresh group 12 motor for Sunday.

INTRO 32 top 3

Clubman Saloon top 3

First

Second

Third