Timaru Southern 32 - 4 September 2005
TIMARU club web site | See UK SLOTRACER report

The meeting was the second day of a full weekend’s racing at Timaru. Saturday had seen a round of the AB Slotsport Clubman series for TSRF’s, Falcon and ‘C’ can F.1’s.

No-one could really go short of spares at the meeting with AB Slotsport, SCD and Won-O-Won all present with their huge ranges of parts on offer.

Falcons

A slight mix-up allowed Andy Brown-Searle to run in this class although he isn’t eligible. Sorry Andy! His points have been discounted and those below (11-14th) moved up a place (to 10-13^th).

Graham Sampson won the ‘A’ final pretty convincingly from Andy Bishop who was just 0.01 in front of Stan Kirk. David Farrow prevented a clean sweep for home drivers in the top final.

John Ovens won the ‘B’ final and has taken over the series lead by 4 points from ‘C’ final winner Franz Barillaro who is now just one point in front of David Farrow. The championship is nicely placed for a three way battle to the wire.

Super Production

Another five drivers joined this year’s series with 27 on the day and 90 for the year so far.

Two of the ‘newcomers’ took the top two spots in qualifying but James Cleave beat them all in the final. Top qualifier Dave Harvey was second and second qualifier Alan Callaghan third. Nick Thrower trailed in fourth after a very good qualifying performance.

Graham Sampson took another win in the ‘B’ final from series leader Ian Barker. Two more ‘newcomers’, Graeme Stephenson and Neal Callaghan completed this race.

The ‘C’ final was all Area 6 with Ian Fisher winning a close but very clean dice with Stan Alton, then Mick Kerr and Paul Harwood.

Winners in the other finals were Vince Lee, Phil Hemsley, Franz Barillaro and Peter Dunne.

In the championship, James, with only 5 scores, is now only 27 points behind leader Ian Barker, so one more reasonable score should clinch it for James. Interestingly, although all present, no-one else in the top 6 improved their best 6 scores at Timaru.

John Ovens has extended his Grade C lead but is not unbeatable.

LM 32 G12 Team Race

There were 13 teams, racing 10 minutes per lane. Paul Harwood ‘rested’ his recent partner Mike Ovens, instead teaming up with Dave Harvey and blagging Dave’s car into the bargain. They made no mistakes and were quick throughout winning by 15 laps. Series leaders Impunity took a safe 2^nd place by 9 laps from welcome returnees Yer Maun for whom Alan Callaghan set fastest single run.

LSCC had to stop to tighten a slipping gear and were just 0.37 lap further back. They could have been second otherwise. This looks to have set up a close end to the season between Impunity and LSCC.

Other positions are in the table. UK Slot Racer team had a troubled start and John P left John O on his own for the remainder! The car got changed, and John O did 3 runs, both of which infringe the regs! As a result they have been dropped one place to last for the day. Better luck next time we all hope!

I hope to see as many as possible at Dowty.

Ian Fisher

Thanks to Stan Kirk for the results tables -

Falcon full results
	Qual	Final	Lane		Posn
Graham Sampson	35.05	A	G	35	1
Andy Bishop	34.45	A	W	34.87	2
Stan Kirk	34.68	A	Y	34.86	3
David Farrow	34.18	A	R	30	4
John Ovens	33.99	B	G	34	5
Phil Hemsley	33.89	B	Y	33	6
John Painter	33.36	B	W	32	7
Bill Jenner	33.24	B	R	31	8
Franz Barillaro	32.79	C	Y	33	9
Andy Browne-Searle	32.66	C	G	31.51	10
Peter Dunn	32.49	C	R	31.27	11
Michael Ovens	33.14	C	W	19	12
Kevin Gray	32.3	D	G	32.40	13
Roland Hobden	31.13	D	Y	32.39	14

Super Production Full Results
	Heats times								Best Heat	Final	Final lane	Final laps	Posn
James Cleave	White	36.85	Red	4	Green	37.27	Yellow	37.49	37.49	A	W	37	1
Dave Harvey	Green	16.34	Yellow	9	White	38.25	Red	0	38.25	A	G	36	2
Alan Callaghan	Green	37.3	Yellow	38.08	White	36.36	Red	0	38.08	A	Y	35	3
Nick Thrower	White	35.09	Red	31.57	Green	37.02	Yellow	23	37.02	A	R	32	4
Graham Sampson	Yellow	36.75	White	32.96	Red	34.57	Green	35.05	36.75	B	G	37	5
Ian Barker	Yellow	34.16	White	34.11	Red	35.4	Green	36.35	36.35	B	R	36	6
Graeme Stephenson	White	32.24	Red	26	Green	34.84	Yellow	36.5	36.5	B	Y	35	7
Neil Callaghan	Green	35.65	Yellow	35.9	White	10	Red	31.42	35.9	B	W	31	8
Ian Fisher	White	33.27	Red	35.66	Green	34.91	Yellow	35.31	35.66	C	Y	36	9
Stan Alton	White	35.36	Red	34.29	Green	35.76	Yellow	31.9	35.76	C	G	35	10
Mick Kerr	Green	34.85	Yellow	34.14	White	35.35	Red	33.97	35.35	C	R	33	11
Paul Harwood	Red	33.95	Green	35.54	Yellow	35.64	White	34.76	35.64	C	W	31	12
Vince Lee	Yellow	33.69	White	33.53	Red	33.83	Green	34.93	34.93	D	G	34.83	13
Stan Kirk	Red	32.18	Green	33.48	Yellow	34.68	White	33.38	34.68	D	Y	34.39	14
Andy Bishop	Red	33.42	Green	33.87	Yellow	17	White	34.45	34.45	D	W	34.02	15
David Farrow	Yellow	32.55	White	33.37	Red	33.46	Green	34.18	34.18	D	R	32	16
Phil Hemsley	Yellow	30.83	White	33.89	Red	31.67	Green	30.59	33.89	E	Y	30.85	17
John Painter	Green	32.36	Yellow	32.03	White	30.68	Red	29	33.36	E	R	30.18	18
John Ovens	Red	31.51	Green	33.99	Yellow	30.91	White	31.5	33.99	E	G	29.09	19
Chas Keeling	Green	32.3	Yellow	32.38	White	33.52	Red	33.08	33.52	E	W	29.07	20
Franz Barillaro	Red	31.98	Green	31.97	Yellow	32.79	White	32.52	32.79	F	Y	33	21
Bill Jenner	White	33.24	Red	29.98	Green	32.93	Yellow	32.86	33.24	F	G	32.85	22
Andy Browne-Searle	Red	30.97	Green	31.38	Yellow	32.12	White	32.66	32.66	F	R	32.11	23
Michael Ovens	Yellow	31.93	White	5	Red	31.95	Green	33.14	33.14	F	W	7	24
Peter Dunn	Yellow	32.49	White	31.35	Red	32.41	Green	25	32.49	G	G	33	25
Roland Hobden	Green	31.13	Yellow	29.31	White	30.37	Red	30.79	31.13	G	Y	30	26
Kevin Gray	Red	31.6	Green	32.49	Yellow	21.65	White	32.3	32.49	G	W	28	27

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Timaru Southern 32 - 4 September 2005 TIMARU club web site | See UK SLOTRACER report

A slight mix-up allowed Andy Brown-Searle to run in this class although he isn’t eligible. Sorry Andy! His points have been discounted and those below (11-14th) moved up a place (to 10-13th).