2009 Bournemouth Southern 32

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The Southern 32's second south coast garden round was held on 12 July, thanks to Derek for making us all so welcome.

The early pace is qualifying was set by James Cleave and Simon Francis with identical scores side by side in heat 2, both with Falcon power. Ian Barker set the only 34 of the day in heat 3, demonstrating that Super Wasp power has some advantages round Bournemouth. Phil Hemsley found his super was much quicker than his Falcon, so only used the Falcon on the outside lanes. The top places remained pretty static till the last 3 heats when James temporarily moved into a clear second. In the next heat Mark Hammond surprised himself (and a few others) by putting over a lap on his personal best to take second overall just ahead of Simon, the pair of them displacing James to 4th qualifier.

Clubman's Falcon

The falcon B final was split into two races, Dan Garges and Phil Hemsley frequently swapping the lead, Dan eventually taking the win by 20 feet. Meanwhile Roland Hobden took third by less than a lap from Paul Hayward. The Falcon final was all home drivers, Simon was looked quickest throughout, and won by over a lap from a close race between Mark and Murray Tucker.

Falcon A final Falcon A final cars

The A final line up Murray, Mark, Simon and Scott and Simon's winning car

Simon's winner

		Qual (3 min)	Final	Final laps (5 min)
1	Simon Francis	33.58	A	55.90
2	Murray Tucker	33.31	A	54.64
3	Mark Hammond	33.85	A	54.60
4	Scott Francis	32.65	A	51.90
5	Dan Garges	29.67	B	51.61
6	Phil Hemsley	29.55	B	51.41
7	Roland Hobden	29.33	B	47.37
8	Paul Hayward	29.23	B	46.50

Falcon Masters and Super Production

Ian Fisher narrowly missed qualifying for the B final, and won the C final by a very comfortable margin from Phil Hemsley, perhaps surprisingly this was the only final with more than one super production car. Dan beat Roland for third by a third of a lap.
The B final was rather too full of cars running into one another for very quick scores. Murray won by half a lap from Stan Alton, with Scott Francis in third.
In the A final Ian Barker, Simon Francis and James Cleave looked to have fairly similar speed, once the race had settled Ian consistently pulled out a small margin to win while Simon won the battle of the Falcons to take second ahead of James. Mark wasn't able to match his qualifying speed on white, and took care not to impeded the close battles ahead of him

. The A final A final cars

The A final line up Simon, Ian, Mark and James and Ian's winning car

		Falcon Masters	Qual (3 min)	Final	Final laps (5 min)	Chassis	Motor
1	Ian Barker		34.09	A	56.90	JK	Koford S.Wasp
2	Simon Francis	FM1	33.58	A	56.56	JK	Falcon
3	James Cleave		33.54	A	55.90	JK	Falcon
4	Mark Hammond	FM2	33.85	A	52.51	JK	Falcon
5	Murray Tucker	FM3	33.31	B	54.47	JK	Falcon
6	Stan Alton		32.95	B	53.90	JK	ProSlot S.Wasp
7	Scott Francis	FM4	32.65	B	53.08	JK	Falcon
8	Chris Frost	FM5	32.64	B	52.71	JK	Falcon
9	Ian Fisher		32.58	C	55.52	JK	ProSlot S.Wasp
10	Phil Hemsley		31.58	C	51.74	JK	ProSlot S.Wasp
11	Dan Garges	FM6	29.67	C	49.19	JK	Falcon
12	Roland Hobden	FM7	29.33	C	48.90	JK	Falcon
13	Paul Hayward	FM8	29.23			JK	Falcon

Le mans 32

The team race started out with Luton pulling almost a lap a minute on second place I Squared, followed by the closely matched Funky Icemen, Team Extreme, Brighton Beach Bums. A few laps back Paul & Derek and the Scousers were closely matched in the first segment, and set near identical times in the second segment, I Squared were quicker than Luton in both the middle segments, giving the Ians a 6 lap lead going into the final segment. Team Extreme were quick in segment 2 moving up to third, but their gears became extremely noisy early in segment 3 and the inevitable pit work dropped them to the back of the field. Meanwhile the Funkys were quicker than Brighton in the middle segments, although the Funkys slowed near the end of the final segment with worn out tyres, they had plenty of laps in and to take third ahead of Brighton. After a closely matched first half. Scousers pulled away from Paul & Derek's Falcon production car in the second half. What about the leaders? James set the fastest time of the day in the final segment, while the Ians had a tyre change and didn't quite have the pace in blue, so Luton won by 8 laps.

Team cars Luton's car

The team cars (top row) Brighton, Funky, Paul & Derek's production car, Extreme : (bottom row) I squared, Luton and Scousers and a close up of Luton's winning Mack chassis

	Team	Drivers	Seg 1	Seg 2	Seg 3	Seg 4	Total
1	Luton SCC	James Cleave, Stan Alton	173.12	158.38	160.25	173.43	665.18
2	I Squared	Ian Barker, Ian Fisher	160.09	168.41	169.23	160.26	657.99
3	Funky Icemen	Chris Frost, Simon Francis	155.07	152.10	160.92	150.80	618.89
4	Brighton Beech Bums	Phil Hemsley, Roland Hobden	151.47	146.29	149.21	155.07	602.04
5	Scousers	Mark Hammond, Scott Francis	141.19	147.54	150.84	150.84	590.41
6	Paul & Derek	Paul Heyward, Derek Purkis	143.92	147.40	138.30	138.30	567.92
7	Team Extreme	Murray Tucker, Dan Garges	151.79	162.96	61.90	163.93	540.58

Look forward to seeing you at the next south coast round - Roedale on 9th August

Chris Frost