Timaru Southern 32

Sunday 20 September 2009

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Fifteen production and team race enthusiasts assembled at the new Timaru premises and track in Broadstairs, including return visitors Ian Barker and Mike Read who competed at the Timaru BOC round in July.

New faces included Peter Shaw, a returning slot racer form several decades ago who is effectively the new Timaru landlord as boss of The Crampton Tower Museum where Timaru is now based.

The pace was set by newly crowned National Super Production Challenge Champion, James Cleave, who was the the only driver to beat the 40 lap barrier in the 3 minute qualifying heats and did so three times. Dave Harvey had a torrid time with borrowed cars and end up 4th in the B Final. James won the A Final from Ian Barker, Mike Read and Graham Sampson. Graham's was the only Falcon to make the A or the B final and he easily won Falcon Masters. Stan Alton just won from Ian Fisher in the B Final. The other finals were all Falcon powered with Phil Hemsley winning the C and Andy Bishop finally getting it together with a fast time which won the D Final.

Below - James Cleave's winning car, James and Graham

Winning Super Prod Chassis James Cleave Graham Sampson

In Falcon Clubman, Graham Sampson again dominated, with Stan Kirk, Bob Mortimer and Les May having a tight race for the remaining places in the A Final. Andy Bishop dominated the B Final with another fast run (do it in the heats next time Andy).

Below - Graham Sampson's car - winner of both Falcon classes

Falcon winner Falcon winner chassis

In the last few years at the Timaru S32 round, Dave Harvey has joined Graham Sampson in the home White Cliffs team, with a Dave Harvey prepared Gp12 'missile', to provide White Cliffs with their annual win. This time, it didn't quite go according to plan. The 'missile' was as fast as ever but had trouble in each of the four segments with a combination of broken lead wire (twice), missing pin and a tyre change. Despite this, the duo were leading after two segments but a lengthy second broken wire stop in the third finally dropped them to fourth overall. This car was regularly lapping at below 4 seconds with both drivers whilst on the track, a time only otherwise achieved in his segments by James Cleave for Luton.

Luton SCC with James Cleave and Stan Alton therefore had an unchallenged run to the flag, followed by I Squared with the two Ians and the Couldson team of Mike Reid and Les May having fun with a fast car. The three man third Timaru team running as Simpsons (therefore not qualifying for points but everybody got a run!) had a steady run with a Falcon powered car (the normal White Cliffs Team Race car) to fifth, Brighton Beach Bums had a bumpy ride to sixth followed at a distance by NFC who lived up to their name with a series of problems which culminated in a chassis repair involving an old allen key wrench employed as pan stop!

Many thanks to all who helped including Dave Harvey for loan of a race control computer, Graham Sampson for score keeping, Ian Fisher for Race Control support and Stan Kirk for Race Control for most of the event. Also many thanks to all who turned up and contributed to an enjoyable day's racing. Please come again!

LSCC James & Stan Luton SCC - James and Stan

Stan Kirk.

Details-

Falcon Clubman	Final	laps
Graham Sampson	A	64
Stan Kirk	A	61
Bob Mortimer	A	60.61
Les May	A	60.33
Andy Bishop	B	61
Phil Hemsley	B	58
Peter Shaw	B	55
Roland Hobden	B	54
Bill Jenner	C	NR

Super Production / Falcon Masters

	Heats (3 mins)				Best	Finals (5 mins)		Masters
James Cleave	40.47	36.62	41.15	40.28	41.15	A	68
Ian Barker	37.03	39.87	25	39.32	39.87	A	66
Mike Read	38.37	37.91	39.75	37.71	39.75	A	65
Graham Sampson	37.99	37.99	38.93	37.24	38.93	A	64	F1
Stan Alton	37.8	36.09	37.24	38.85	38.85	B	63
Ian Fisher	38.45	38.14	36.67	37.74	38.45	B	62
Stan Kirk	35.52	17	36.27	37.08	37.08	B	59
Dave Harvey	35.46	34.82	35.18	37.7	37.70	B	54
Phil Hemsley	34.91	33.23	34.79	30.74	34.91	C	61	F2
Bob Mortimer	33.56	34.15	35.65	36.9	36.90	C	60.81	F3
Les May	32.75	35.66	32.55	34.49	35.66	C	60.8	F4
Peter Shaw	33.57	34.11	28	35.55	35.55	C	59	F5
Andy Bishop	34.3	34.39	34.28	34.79	34.79	D	61.85	F6
Roland Hobden	32.72	31.13	30.96	31.63	32.72	D	56.27	F7
Bill Jenner	32.7	17	19	31.12	32.70	D	56.23	F8

Le Mans 32 Team Race

	Segments (15 minutes)				Total	Driver Seq
Luton SCC - James Cleave, Stan Alton	185.11	191.79	211.73	207.05	795.68	SA,SA,JC,JC
I squared - Ian Barker, Ian Fisher	199.72	184.9	206.31	180.77	771.70	IB,IF,IB,IF
Coulsdon - Mike Read, Les May	194.13	179.73	197.61	191.56	763.03	MR,LM,MR,LM
White Cliffs - Graham Sampson, Dave Harvey	195.81	190.75	149.7	193.1	729.36	GS,DH,DH,GS
Simpsons -Bob Mortimer, Peter Shaw, Stan Kirk (not eligible for points)	174.44	173.19	175.97	183.3	706.90	BM,PS,PS, SK
Brighton Beach Bums - Phil Hemsley, Roland Hobden	172.82	172.79	186.62	171.85	704.08	RH,PH,PH,RH
Norfolk & Chance - Andy Bishop, Bill Jenner	174.28	168.86	83.32	169.47	595.93	AB,AB,BJ,BJ