1/32   Nationals   2023

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INTRO 32

The first event of the 2023 was the INTRO 32 Championship.  

There’s been a lot of work to bring the track back up to prime condition since the last year, rebraiding several sections, improving the power feeds and levelling. Thanks to all the volunteers who did all the work.

The INTRO class is restricted to clubman grade drivers using a standard Genesis chassis and standard motors - everybody was using either a JK Hawk 7BB or JK Hawk 7 motor.
This year is the first time the INTRO 32 event has been held on the same weekend as the open classes.

Intro 32 Qualifying

1

Barry Gilzean

6.984

2

Ray George

7.196

3

Ben Tapp

7.242

4

Sammy Broom

7.332

5

Bill Jenner

7.502

6

David Ensor

7.666

7

Adrian Blakey

7.715

8

Paul Wilkie

7.981

9

Dick Stevenson

8.17

10

Martin Cook

8.595

11

Keith Wallace

8.839

Previous record Aston Offer 7.034 in 2020

2023 Intro 32 Championship
8x3 min segments


Laps

Best

Lane

1

Barry Gilzean

190.29

7.085

White

2

Ben Tapp

189.83

7.176

Yellow

3

Ray George

186.44

7.313

Orange

4

Bill Jenner

179.42

7.492

Blue

5

David Ensor

172.87

7.478

Yellow

6

Sammy Broom

172.22

7.221

Purple

7

Adrian Blakey

170.73

7.683

Yellow

8

Keith Wallace

153.46

7.970

Black

9

Martin Cook

149.04

8.043

Blue

10

Dick Stevenson

147.93

8.110

Green

11

Paul Wilkie

147.54

7.890

Purple

Record Dick Gardner 190.98 in 2019

2nd Ben Tapp                 Winner Barry Gilzean        3rd Ray George

Clubman Saloon  - 30 April

The second clubman class was saloon which was the first class run on Sunday. This is the first time since 2015 this event has been run on the same weekend as the open classes.

These class restricted to clubman grade drivers, the chassis are free choice with group 12 motors or you can run a Hawk powered Genesis with a saloon body.   



Clubman Saloon Qualifying

1

Barry Gilzean

6.579

2

Ben Tapp

6.770

3

David Ensor

6.828

4

Bill Jenner

7.229

5

Adrian Blakey

7.313

6

Paul Wilkie

7.447

7

Sammy Broom

7.458

8

Keith Wallace

7.801

9

Dick Stevenson

7.846

10

Martin Cook

8.083

Ben Tapp’s winning car.
He’d used the same car the previous day in open class saloon, but fitted a fresh motor for clubman event

2023 Clubman Saloon Championship



Best

Lane

1

Ben Tapp

199.75

6.648

Yellow

2

David Ensor

189.65

6.910

Yellow

3

Bill Jenner

180.45

7.393

Yellow

4

Adrian Blakey

173.05

7.314

Black

5

Sammy Broom

169.66

7.391

Orange

6

Martin Cook

168.17

7.293

Blue

7

Keith Wallace

154.73

7.509

Yellow

8

Paul Wilkie

149.51

7.478

Yellow

9

Dick Stevenson

149.02

7.996

Blue

10

Barry Gilzean

137.00

6.741

Green

Keith Wallace’s best presented winner

Clubman Classes 29/30 April

Ray George’s best presented winning Audi


It was good to welcome drivers racing in the event for the first time Paul, Martin and Keith from the NERCS club and Adrian from Fylde.

Racing commenced with one driver at a time 1 minute qualifying runs, the fastest single lap is used to seed the drivers for the final. The lap times were quicker than last year, surely the track maintenance must have helped with that.

All 11 competitors ran in the final with 8 on the track and 3 sitting out each segment.   The seeding put the fastest qualifiers were running in the final segment.

All 10 competitors ran in the final with 8 on the track and 2 sitting out each segment.   The seeding put the fastest qualifiers were running in the final segment.

Ben Tapp won the championship by 10 laps from David Ensor with Bill Jenner taking 3rd with a borrowed car.   Adrian Blakey took 4th on his first visit to the track while Sammy Broom did well to come 5th with her Hawk powered Genesis amongst a field of Group 12 powered cars

The top 3

Champion Ben Tapp

David Ensor 2nd    Bill Jenner 3rd