Newsletter and Shennington Race report (Rnd 5)

Rissington Round 5 – July 15^th/16^th

Shenington – 210 ‘E’Plate and SuperPrix

The challenge fraternity arrived in best bib and tucker (well cleaner race suits anyway) for their appearance in the annual filming of this event. It was going to be another very hot weekend with one heat on the Saturday and two heats and the final on the Sunday.

Heat 1

Perkins initially led the pack for heat one until W. Cox passed him across the start line to take over at the front. Perkins did have another glimpse at the lead but by lap 4 D. Bury had demoted him to 3^rd to give chase to W. Cox. Fowler lay in 4^th, Plain 5^th and Whyte 6^th. Lap 6 saw D. Bury pass W. Cox over the start line for first place whilst Plain had made his way through the field to claim 3^rd , unfortunately this was brief as he succumbed to problems on the next lap thus promoting Fowler, Whyte, Woodward and S. Cox who completed the top six. Perkins was slowly slipping down the pecking order. On lap 7 Fowler who’d begun the race at the rear of the grid was on a roll and was up to 2^nd having snatched 3^rd place from W. Cox and by the last lap had taken the lead. The last lap also saw Woodward pass Whyte for 4^th place.

1^st Fowler, 2^nd D. Bury, 3^rd W. Cox, 4^th Woodward, 5^th Whyte, 6^th S. Cox

Heat 2

Green took advantage of his front row position and diced with Plain for the first few laps to lead the pack. Fowler watched on from 3^rd, Whyte 4^th Perkins 5^th and D. Bury 6^th. By lap 3 D. Bury was up to 5^th. Green held onto the lead for a further 2 laps until Plain passed him into the chicane. Green suffering some mechanical gremlins would slip a little further down the field. Whyte was now up to 3^rd, D. Bury 4^th, having passed Perkins 5^th and W. Cox 6^th Lap 6 saw Whyte up into second place to give chase to Plain who’d extended his lead by quite a margin. Perkins and D. Bury were fighting it out and Perkins claimed 3^rd position and made it stick on the last lap.

1^st Plain, 2^nd Whyte, 3^rd Perkins, 4^th D. Bury, 5^th W. Cox, 6^th Green

Heat 3

Bury made the best start closely followed by Fowler, Perkins, S. Cox, T. Bury, W. Cox and the rest. First lap action saw Fowler pass D. Bury along Stratford only to spin on the next lap at Café as D. Bury claimed the lead back, thus putting himself to the rear of the field. Plain was now up to 3^rd, W. Cox 4^th, S. Cox 5^th and Green 6^th. On the same lap Plain took over at the front passing D. Bury at the Stratford Hairpin, not too far along Perkins also passed D. Bury to give chase to Plain who had as we have come to see shot of into the distance. W. Cox remained in 4^th Green was now up to 5^th S. Cox 6^th. Whyte joined the top 6 on lap 5 for 2 laps until Fowler who had clawed his way back through the field took up 6^th spot. Although D. Bury, W. Cox and Green were bumper to bumper for the duration of the race each held a very good line not allowing any crafty passes.

1^st Plain, 2^nd Perkins, 3^rd D. Bury, 4^th W. Cox, 5^th Green, 6^th Fowler.

Final

I don’t think anything can be added to the footage of our final which can be viewed on https://youtu.be/BcXLW46PFdQ -Shenington SuperPrix 2018 – 210 National A Final

Enjoy watching if you haven’t already.