Timaru 1/32 BOC 2009

Timaru 1/32 BOC 16 August 2009

Report By Stan Kirk, photos by Bill Jenner
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Over a sunny weekend in Broadstairs we welcomed 14 BOC racers including Pat Skene and Alan Lucas who had driven a very long way indeed (also to collect the routed track surface for the new Barnton Track from Trevor Crout). Steve and David Sargent had also travelled a very long way and North London were out in force with all three Harwood brothers, as well as John Ovens and Bob Hallums.

Les May amd Ian Barker also appeared for the first time in the 2009 BOC (or maybe that was advance practice for the forthcoming Timaru Southern 32!).

This was the first major event on the new Timaru track and in a new location in the Crampton Tower Museum complex in Broadstairs. The new track and facilities were a big hit but the race control system went through a major melt down half way through. Many thanks to Dave Harvey for (just) keeping his sanity on race control.

Greg and Mark Harwood made the best use of extensive Saturday afternoon practice to score a one, two in the segmented Saloon finals (qualifying being best of 2 runs), with Greg winning from the A final whilst Mark and third place Bob Hallums were both in the B final.

Saloon A Saloon A drivers

Saloon A Final grid, Greg Harwood red (winner overall), Alan Lucas yellow (4^th and 6^th overall), Ian Barker green (2^nd and 4^th overall), Paul Harwood white (3^rd and 5^th overall). and below Greg and his winning car.

Greg Greg's saloon

Formula 1 was run to a different format with best of 4 runs qualifying leading to 3 single lane semis for the top 12, lane choice being both which lane and which semi, and a single lane final. Mark Harwood was top qualifier and top in the semis but Alan Lucas came through to win the final on the unfancied red lane, from Greg Harwood in second, Paul Harwood third (starting to make up for his lack of Saturday practice - something about celebrating his birthday!) and Mark in fourth.

F1 final F1 finalists

F1 final with winner Alan Lucas against the whole Harwood gang.

Below - A happy Alan Lucas with the Crampton Water Tower in the background (the first urban water tower – well since the Romans anyway).and his winning chassis

Alan Alan's car

Sports was a nightmare for the race controller with a by now thoroughly unco-operative computerised race system. Format was best 2 of 4 for qualifying but semis and the final were truncated to single 4 minute and 5 minute races to save time. Greg Harwood headed qualifying and the semis and duly won the final with brother Mark coming through to finish second (from 8th in qualifying) from Pate Skene in third and Paul Harwood in fourth.

Sports Final Pat + 3 Harwoods

Sports final, this time Pat Skene on white against the whole Harwood gang, Greg the victor on yellow

Overall a good event for the Harwood brothers, particularly Greg with two firsts and a second.

Thanks to Dave Harvey for providing the prize 'goodies' (as well as a heroic effort on race control) and for the Crampton Tower Museum Secretary and Curator, Peter Shaw, for hanging on to present the prizes.

	Timaru BOC 2009 Saloon				Timaru BOC 2009 Formula 1					Timaru BOC 2009 Sports
		Qual	Finals			Qual	Semis	Final			best 2	Semis	Final
1	G. Harwood	41.55	161.33	1	A. Lucas	38.27	50.53	64.18	1	G. Harwood	93.47	62.25	78.30
2	M. Harwood	38.54	160.65	2	G. Harwood	38.74	52.71	63	2	M. Harwood	86.27	60.09	77.93
3	B. Hallums	36.94	157.33	3	P. Harwood	38.57	50.71	62	3	P. Skene	85.69	62.13	72.85
4	I. Barker	36.92	155.27	4	M. Harwood	39.72	52.72	47	4	P. Harwood	91.19	60.78	17.00
5	P. Harwood	40.34	154.62	5	S. Sargent	37.96	50.25		5	I. Barker	89.08	59.61
6	A. Lucas	39.08	152.63	6	T. Crout	37.77	49.72		6	M. Read	91.45	59.28
7	M. Read	36.71	149.15	7	I. Barker	38.12	49.54		7	S. Sargent	86.55	59.27
8	P. Skene	36.71	148.90	8	B. Hallums	37.86	49.30		8	T. Crout	90.77	59.12
9	J. Ovens	35.32	146.11	9	D. Sargent	36.48	47.96		9	B. Hallums	83.32	57.60
10	S. Sargent	38.32	144.73	10	J. Ovens	36.26	47.77		10	A. Lucas	90.17	57.49
11	T. Crout	34.16	141.51	11	K. Gray	36.02	42.23		11	K. Gray	82.86	53.20
12	K. Gray	33.29	139.51	12	P. Skene	36.85	Retd		12	J. Ovens	81.65	49.76
13	D. Sargent	33.12	133.75	13	M. Read	35.22			13	D. Sargent	79.68
14	L. May	32.18	125.94	14	L. May	35.12			14	L. May	72.80