1/24 Nationals 2009

2009 1/24 Nationals - Eurosport
Production Saloon | Open Group 12 | Eurosport

The track

After doing an excellent job on race control for all the racing so far, Kev Gray raced in Eurosport. For the fastest class, we have to thank Andy Brown Searle and David Sargent for maintaining the high standard of race control.

The qualifying order was again seeded from the qualifying times in the previous class, this time the really quick driver running surprisingly early was James Cleave, and he set the pace a millisecond inside 4.5 seconds with 17 drivers still to run. Paul Shepherd came close to take second with 10 left to run, in fact Shep remained second of the British drivers, but a lap of 4.326 put Antonin Vojtik top by quite some margin.

Martin's car A final

Above - Martin Ellis best presented winner, and the A final line up with Antonin's red car starting on black lane,

So to the finals, Ben Woodward won the E final on 242 from Kev Gray. Matthew Siddall was the D final winner some 11 laps up on Ben's time. A really quick run in the C final saw Alan Lucas win on 271. Ross Grogan's B final time produced 270 in the B final, setting up a Scottish 1-2 for the A finalists to aim at. In the A final Brian Saunders was the early leader, with Antonin starting on the slow black lane. Antonin took the lead in segment 3, and James Cleave was close to Brian. Antonin extended his lead to win by 5 laps, second place went to James who overtook Brian in the final segment.

Winning car

Above - Antonin's winning car
Below Antonin Vojtik - 2 wins and a second : Ian Barker the main grade winner in all 3 classes, and Matthew Siddall the Eurosport Intermediate grade winner.

Antonin Ian Matthew

			Q Time	Q Pos	Final	Laps
1	Antonin	Vojtik	4.326	1	A	296.79
2	James	Cleave	4.499	2	A	291.70
3	Brian	Saunders	4.652	4	A	288.70
4	Paul	Shepherd	4.524	3	A	280.43
5	Alan	Lucas	4.961	20	C	271.15
6	Ross	Grogan	4.844	14	B	270.44
7	Lee	Parsons	4.840	12	B	267.40
8	Pedro	Mizarela	4.808	8	B	266.59
9	Charlie	Gooding	4.822	10	B	266.20
10	Graeme	Stephenson	4.794	7	A	265.57
11	Ian	Barker	4.901	16	C	259.70
12	Steve	Sargent	4.841	13	B	259.19
13	Stephen	Siddall	4.967	21	C	256.47
14	Matthew	Siddall	5.004	23	D	253.18
15	Sandy	Parker	5.151	25	D	248.91
16	Graham	Woodward	4.747	5	A	244.11
17	Ben	Woodward	5.691	32	E	242.23
18	David	Sargent	5.259	26	D	241.00
19	John	Wells	4.817	9	B	239.60
20	Kev	Gray	5.939	35	E	235.38
21	Bob	Hallums	4.848	15	C	235.15
22	Mike	Read	5.279	27	D	233.13
23	Chris	Thomas	4.927	17	C	232.17
24	Franz	Barrillaro	4.983	22	D	230.95
25	Chris	Green	6.124	36	E	226.69
26	Dave	Homer	5.423	29	E	226.57
27	Chris	Frost	5.761	34	E	223.65
28	Neil	Grogan	5.552	30	E	222.69
29	Pete	Clarkson	5.414	28	D	203.00
30	Richard	Mack	4.930	18	C	183.00
31	Glyn	Taylor	5.105	24	D	182.00
32	Martin	Ellis	4.790	6	A	148.00
33	Bob	Budge	5.732	33	E	134.00
34	Pat	Skene	4.837	11	B	127.44
35	Paul	Austin	4.937	19	C	118.00
36	Ralph	Parker	5.668	31	E	53.00

Ross Grogan takes a healthy Championship lead to the final 1/24 BOC round at Newcastle. Two drivers who could challenge for the title if they do well enough at the final round are James Cleave and Brian Saunders.

Thanks again to the Sargent family for organizing the meeting and thanks to everybody who helped make it such a sucess. Don't forget the Club Team Championship/ Production Challenge on September 12^th & 13^th.

^{Chris Frost}

Production Saloon | Open Group 12 | Eurosport