Newcastle - Round 1 - 22nd April

Report by Chris Thomas.

Graeme Stephenson was too busy to be able to spare the time to compile a report and asked me to do this on his behalf. For the first round of the year it was a  nice surprise to see that 27 people turned out to race, despite the absence of regular racers, Norman Fawcett, Martin Jackson and Graham Thomas. The increased numbers being mainly due to the influx of several Fylde newcomers.

1/32 Heats 

Matthew Siddall lead the way with 23.24laps in heat 1. In heat 2 Sam was the only person to beat Matt’s score from heat 1.   Mike Ogden in heat 3 with 25.22 laps, set a new top score, only to be bettered in heat 4 by Mike Harrison with 26.61. Heat 5 saw a win for Andy beating Ralph by 2 parts. Heat 6 was the first of the super production races and Chris Cowan set a new top time with 27.39 laps. Paul Shepherd set what was to be the best run of the opening round in heat 7 with a score of 27.79 laps. So after the first round of heats the top four were Paul, Chris Cowan, Mike with his falcon and Steve Sargent.

In the second round of heats only Alex and Ernest improved from the first two groups.  Mike Harrison improved to set the top falcon time of 26.85. After two rounds of heats, the top 4 remained the same. In the final set of runs, Martin had one good run to move up to 5th, and Graeme did enough to squeeze into the B Final. Ralph was the only other Falcon driver to record 26 laps. Sam Griffin won  Novice Falcon by beating Dave by 6 parts, by finishing 16th and bottom qualifier for the C Final. Paul used his second car in the final heat to record the best run of the day of 28.59 laps.

 1/32nd Heat Results