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Unusually but encouragingly for the future, more main grade racers turned up to contest the Fylde Open than premier grade. However with 2 former World Champions, 4 others who have been National Champions & the current National Victor Ludorum it was certainly not a weak field!

Brian Saunders set the pace in saloon by breaking the track record but after a slow start he was 2 laps down with a segment to go on Paul Shepherd in the A Final. With Paul low on tyres & Brian flying on the favoured blue lane this produced the race finish of the day with them running side by side for around 29 of the last 30 secs. when Brian dropped his car trying to nudge ahead! Gordon Dickson was the class of the main graders in qualifying 5th & retaining that place in the finals.

James Cleave could only finish a rather distant 3rd by his standards in saloon but made a point by taking TQ in the F1 heats. But in the A final Shep took a 2 lap lead in the 1st segment from which James could not recover.

Top Scot & main grader in this class was an excellent showing from Keith Charles who finished 7th.

Sports saw Brian Saunders & Lee Parsons seemingly beset by problems which meant they comfortably took the bottom 2 spots in the D Final. Lee only lasted 3 segments of that final but Brian did enough to take 3rd. overall.

James was now very keen to get a result & took TQ by 11/2 laps to stake his claim from Shep. In the A final he turned the tables from F1 by taking a 2 lap lead in the 1st segment from Shep & then gradually pulling further away. Also in the A Final with the main grade qualification of the day was Bob Budge although a storming performance by his clubmate Chris Aldridge in the B final produced the highest placed main grader at the end of the finals.

Trophies were suitably themed on the Olympics with Shep chasing down Chris Hoy with 2 golds & a silver (+ a gold Victor Ludorum) and James managing a collection of all 3 colours! There was a very wide spread of main grade medals with Bob & Chris the only ones to take 2 out of the 9.

Many thanks to SCD for sponsorship prizes which meant all racers took away something.

A very big thanks to all the racers who participated & those that helped & co-operated in the smooth running of the meeting allowing it to finish for 6.30. Thanks to Pete Clarkson for the photos.    We hope everyone enjoyed the event.

                                                                                                         Steve Sargent    

 

 

 

                                            Fylde Open - 12th Aug 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                     David Sargent presents the trophies

   Winners James Cleave (Sports)  and Paul Shepherd (F1 and Saloon)                                    - Best Prested body Paul Harwood

Saloon

F1

Sports

 

 

Qual

Final Laps

Final

 

 

Qual

Final Laps

Final

 

 

Qual

Final Laps

Final

1

Paul Shepherd

36.65

 

157.97

A

1

Paul Shepherd

35.66

140.93

A

1

James Cleave

41.25

166.8

A

2

Brian Saunders

37.47

 

147.36

A

2

James Cleave

36.1

139.35

A

2

Paul Shepherd

39.2

161.8

A

3

James Cleave

36.32

2nd 35.61

143.74

A

3

Brian Saunders

33.26

135.2

A

3

Brian Saunders

6

159.44

D

4

Greg Harwood

36.32

2nd 32.43

140.08

A

4

Lee Parsons

33.73

133.58

A

4

Paul Harwood

39.93

156.83

A

5

Gordon Dickson

34.51

 

136.13

B

5

Paul Harwood

32.66

133.3

B

5

Greg Harwood

35.5

151.24

C

6

Bob Budge

34.01

 

134.97

B

6

Greg Harwood

30.76

127.92

C

6

Chris Aldridge

37.63

150.59

B

7

Lee Parsons

31.84

 

134.55

D

7

Keith Charles

32.97

127.66

B

7

Bob Budge

37.76

149.77

A

8

Chris Aldridge

33.16

 

133.49

C

8

Alan Lucas

29.82

126.47

C

8

Steve Siddall

35.82

143.85

C

9

Steve Siddall

32.56

 

131.19

C

9

Mike Davies

30.61

125.13

C

9

Alan Lucas

36.85

142.14

B

10

Pat Skene

32.07

 

131.11

D

10

Ant Hawkes

29.67

120.64

C

10

Pat Skene

36.21

141.46

B

11

Keith Charles

31.19

 

130.63

D

11

Gordon Dickson

33.15

118.93

B

11

Mike Davies

36.19

140.34

B

12

Ant Hawkes

33.91

 

130.14

B

12

Bob Budge

29.03

118.03

D

12

Gordon Dickson

34.31

139.2

C

13

Paul Harwood

33.85

 

129.26

C

13

Chris Aldridge

26.96

116.51

D

13

Keith Charles

33.72

121.13

D

14

Alan Lucas

32.7

 

126.25

C

14

Steve Siddall

31.69

115.75

B

14

Chas Keeling

31.81

120.28

D

15

Mike Davies

33.93

 

125.91

B

15

Peter Donely

27.72

115.74

D

15

Ant Hawkes

35.26

116.2

C

16

Peter Donely

31.27

 

118.49

D

16

Chas Keeling

27.72

107.66

D

16

Lee Parsons

15

109

D

17

Chas Keeling

30.13

 

99.69

D

17

Pat Skene

27.49

100.65

D

17

Peter Donely

31.92

42

D

F1 A Final

Brian         Lee           Paul               James
 Saunders    Parsons     Shepherd        Cleave

Main Grade Saloon top 3

  2 Bob                      1 Gordon       3 Chris
      Budge                     Dickson         Aldridge

 

Main Grade F1 winner

Keith Charles