Newsletter – August

S Shenington – Round 5 July 20^th/21^st
(SuperPrix and ‘E’ Plate)

We were just a tad short of that magic number once again for this year but we had another wonderful turn out numbers that we haven’t seen for quite a few years.  Many attended a very wet Fridays practice; however we were extremely lucky to have a dry weekend albeit cloudy. Ray Sloane our new novice was welcomed into the fold for his first race. To celebrate 60 years of class 4 an afternoon tea was held after our first heat on Saturday afternoon and we combined the Annual meeting of drivers to discuss any actions or ideas for 2020.

Heat 1 (Saturday)

with determiantion and over half a lap down it didn’t take him long to catch the back of the field and to eventually claim points for 13^th!By lap 4 Woodward was right on the tail of L. Sifleet having demoted D. Bury to 5^th . L. Sifleet had continual problems when negotiating  left hand corners as the engine would cut out. For 4 laps Sifleet and Woodward constantly swapped places with the  Stratford Hairpin being  a favourite place. On the last  lap Whyte in his attempt to make up a place had a coming together with L. Sifleet displacing their positions. This allowed Woodward to pull away slightly and claim 3^rd. Green who had raced a steady race along with T. Bury who always had him in his sights unfortunately was awarded a 5 second penalty for jumping the start. Therefore T. Bury came home with the win.

1^st T. Bury, 2^nd Woodward, 3^rd Callaghan (who’d not started well but progressed through the field and passed D. Bury on the last lap) 4^th D. Bury, 5^th Cox, 6^th L. Sifleet, 7^th Green, 8^th Whyte, 9^th Hancock, 10^th Henry

Heat 2 (Sunday)

Masson was first to lead the pack for the first lap until Plain took over at the front to lead the field to the flag.

On lap 2 Whyte made a brave move to gain 3^rd behind Masson and dived down the inside of both Callaghan and Woodward through the Chicane but unfortunately Woodward was side-lined in the manoeuvre, as Callaghan recovered Sifleet passed to claim 4^th.  Callaghan collected his thoughts and on the next lap was sitting in 3^rd place and would go onto repass Whyte two laps from the end. Laps 5- 6 saw Masson fending off D. Bury and Cox, who eventually passed on lap 7.

1^st Plain, 2^nd Callaghan, 3^rd Sifleet, 4^th D. Bury, 5^th Cox, 6^th Masson, 7^th T. Bury, 8^th Hancock, 9^th Henry, 10^th Green.

Heat 3

For the first time team Woodward hosted the front row and it was Woodward who left Perkins and Green standing. However the charging pair of L. Sifleet and Plain demoted him at Stratford hairpin. Stone realised it wasn’t a good idea to try and take a short cut through the Chicane but did recover. Plain took over at the front on lap 2 only to retire on lap 7 to hand the lead back to L. Sifleet. Lap 3 saw Callaghan pass Woodward around Wilkins to give chase to L. Sifleet.

1^st L. Sifleet, 2^nd Callaghan, 3^rd Woodward, 4^th D, Bury, 5^th Green, 6^th Whyte, 7^th Cox, 8^th Masson, 9^th T. Bury, 10^th Hancock

Final

Wow what a show you all put on for the cameras, some great racing and brilliant footage.

To view the final please go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmy41jAjAqA&feature=share or search 210 National A Final – 2019 SuperPrix from Shenington

1^st Plain, 2^nd Callaghan, 3^rd D. Bury, 4^th Masson, 5^th Woodward, 6^th Hancock, 7^th Henry, 8^th Perkins 9^th Jarvis (N) (Best Novice of the day) 10^th Stone (who is more than happy that his kart features predominantly on YouTube)

Congratulations Luke Plain
2019 210 ‘E’ Plate winner