The Xmas Trophy meeting concluded the clubs events for 2021, the next racing being on Tuesday 4th January 2022.

An excellent evening with the usual three qualifying rounds and a final.

Karl Norris won the “A” Final with Kayleigh Knight taking second place just over 4 seconds adrift, both on 41 laps. Simon Pole finished third with 40, McKenzie Wallace took fourth place just ahead of Benn Norris. Richard Parker made an impressive return to racing at the club finishing in sixth place with Bob Harley seventh.

Dan Stones was the winner of the “B” Final with 38 laps, Freddie Parker was second on 37, two seconds ahead of third place driver Nick Wallace. Mike Simpson finished fourth with 36 laps, Adam Cowell fifth on 35 and Saul Theobold sixth with 33.

Euan Lees had an excellent win in the “C” Final with 34 laps, Paul Galbraith finished in second place on 33, Paul Carter was third on 32, Alfie Hart had a good drive to secure fourth place with 31, and Olly Statham was fifth.

A good evenings racing with trophies awarded to the top four drivers in each final.

See the “Results” page for the full race results.

Looking forward to racing on 2022.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone

Some extremely close racing this week, the difference in best lap times between the majority of the drivers being small.

Qualifying
Karl Norris was top qualifier with 45 laps just two and a half seconds quicker than  Simon Pole.  Chelle Snowden was third with 44 Laps followed by Kayleigh Knight and McKenzie Wallace on 43 and Benn Norris, Dan Stones, Richard Norris and Bob Harley with 42.

Finals
Freddie Parker starting from pole position on the grid won the “C” Final with 40 laps, Adam Cowell was second and Mike Simpson third, both drivers on 39 laps. It was good to see Paul Galbraith racing again at the Club.

The “B” Final was a tremendous race to watch, Benn Norris lead the cars away from pole position. Unfortunately Nick Wallace had to retire his car after the first lap leaving the remaining four drivers to battle it out. Fast and consistent driving from all the drivers throughout the rest of the race resulted in just six seconds separating all of them at the finish. Benn was the winner, Bob Harley second, Dan Stones third and Richard Norris fourth.

Just the “A” Final remaining and it did not disappoint. Karl Norris won the race, Simon Pole was a lap down in second with Chelle Snowden, Kayleigh Knight and McKenzie Wallace finishing third, fourth and fifth respectively just four seconds between them. A superb end to the evenings racing. Well done McKenzie!

With five rounds of the league now completed two drivers are still unbeaten, Karl Norris in F1 and Freddie Parker in F3 both scoring the maximum 500 points with Benn Norris just a single point down with 499 in F2 following McKenzie’s 100 points this week.  Just four rounds left to race and with the best six from a possible nine round scores to count we could still see some very close final results.

Next week is the Christmas trophy meeting, don’t forget to pre-book as usual.

Qualifying
A track design similar to the previous week, Karl Norris again being the top qualifier and for the third consecutive week all of the “Team Norris” drivers made the “A” Final. Simon Pole was second fastest, Chelle Snowden third, Kayleigh Knight fourth, with Benn Norris and McKenzie Wallace taking fifth and sixth places.

Finals
Saul Theobold won a keenly contested “C” Final with Euan Lees in second place just over two seconds adrift. Visiting driver Jack Southin was third.

Bob Harley was the winner of the “B” Final, Dan Stones was second and Freddie Parker continued his run of good form to take third place.

The last race of the evening, the “A” Final was won by Karl Norris being a lap ahead of second place driver Simon Pole, Kayleigh Knight was third, Chelle Snowden fourth, Benn Norris fifth and McKenzie Wallace sixth.

Another exciting evenings racing – Round 5 of the Winter League is next week.

 

Three visiting drivers this week, Jack Southin, Chris Prophet and Josh Flanagan.

After the three rounds of qualifying Karl Norris was quickest followed by Simon Pole and Kayleigh Knight – all three drivers completing 45 laps. Benn Norris and McKenzie Wallace were fourth and fifth respectively on 43 laps with Nick Wallace completing the “A” Final line-up with 42 laps.

All “Team Norris” were in the “A” Final for the second consecutive week, this time joined by Simon Pole and “Team Wallace”.

Good performances also from Freddie Parker and Adam Cowell to both make the “B” Final.

Dan Stones won the “C” Final with Mike Simpson finishing second and Saul Theobold taking third place.

Chelle Snowden was the winner of the “B” Final, Bob Harley was second and Freddie Parker third.

The last race of the evening saw “Team Norris” trying to achieve a repeat of last weeks 1st, 2nd and 3rd place result. It was close with Karl Norris winning, Kayleigh Knight finishing third and Benn Norris fourth. Simon Pole was second, McKenzie Wallace took fifth place with an excellent drive and Nick Wallace was sixth.

A great race to complete the evening.