Reg Church Trophy (Club Production) - 19th July

Hot stuff in the Clubroom last night - unfortunately that was the weather and not the racing!

Just 14 drivers turned up to race and another couple arrived later to socialise. A slightly different race format for this class with each driver having a pair of qualifying heats before the more open style segmented 'finals', which gives plenty of racing. This class is always close and qualifying produced a tie for TQ between Ian K and Jody - Ian taking the number one spot by virtue of a better second run. No real surprises behind them with Ian B, Phil H, Stuart and Roland separated by little over a lap. The 'Finals' conveniently divided into 3 grades and were another case of drivers versus marshalls - or drivers versus marshalling drivers in some cases! Perhaps it was the hot, stormy weather?

The track was perhaps a bit too grippy for falcons, but times did improve a bit as the evening went on and Ian K maintained his consistancy to beat Phil H into second spot, Phil just managing to keep ahead of Stuart, who finally got going in tonight's second grade.

Our Falcon specialist Jody was not at the top this week but successfully beat of the challenge of Ian B, who did set the best time of the evening on White. With Roland not far behind, the top 6 positions were filled by the top 6 qualifiers. Behind them, the field was strung out with various tales of woe, although Chris B put in a good run on Yellow and jumped from 12th qualifying to 7th overall.

Racing was unsettled by complaints about the counters and a number of totals were disputed. The problem seems to stem from the fact that some falcon motors - for whatever techy reason, simply don't make the necessary circuit across the dead strip. Sadly, those that complain most don't make a lot of effort to sort the problem out. I guess that banning falcons would solve it!