WHAT A RACE.....................

AFter an aborted start due to a first corner incident involving 7 karts. The race was restarted in a more orderly fashion.

|Giles took and ealry lead but couldn't shake of Jonty or Ant Bevans. There were many instances of close close racing and the Black and white warning flag was shown to the front runners but in never did it get out of hand. As backmarkers started to play a part, oppertunities arose for chances to pass and Jonty final managed a pass at about 2/3rd race distance. A couple of laps later, At and Giles were side by side going into the 4th corner, As they emerged, Giles span wide and lost a couple of Seconds leaving Ant with a bit of breathing room in 2nd and Jonty sitting pretty in 1st.

It was all looking good until the 33 lap, as Jonty passed the start/finish line to begin his penultimate lap, his kart spluttered and ground to a halt on the exit of the old hairpin, gifting the win to Ant Bevans but more importantly, allowing Giles to top the points chart by vertue of a better run in the heats.

Final Result

1 Ant Bevans 44.1
2 Giles Kirk 44.36
3 Paul Scaife 44.61
4 Mike Gordon/Stu Caplin 44.69
5 Kudos 45.43
6 Jon Townsend 44.12
7 Richard Walton 45.05
8 Ashley Rodwell 46.78
9 Ross Langdell 45.56
10 Alex Fletcher 47.26
11 Lee Howard 44.47
12 Albert Hewson 46.31
13 Sarah Hogan 46.28
14 Steve Brown 43.16
15 David Moore 47.19
16 Ben Brown 48.38
17 Steve Gadsby 48.12
18 John Hogan 46.52
DNS Phil Brune DNS

So......the final points total looks like this :

1 Giles Kirk 166
2 Ant Bevans 160
3 Paul Scaife 152
4 Mike Gordon/Stu Caplin 140
5 Jon Townsend 139
6 Kudos 126
7 Lee Howard 112
8 Richard Walton 107
9 Ashley Rodwell 105
10 Ross Langdell 97
11 Alex Fletcher 90
12 Albert Hewson 87
13 Steve Brown 80
14 John Hogan 70
15 David Moore 66
16 Sarah Hogan 63
17 Ben Brown 52
18 Steve Gadsby 48
19 Phil Brune 40

Although everyone was pleased for Giles, I think, there was not a single person who's heart didn't go out to Jon Townsend.......

Bad luck.....of the highest order...............

All in all, it's been a great days racing. We have had to contend with some dreadful weather conditions but, the meeting still finished on time and there has been some amazing racing.

Much credit must go to Sean of Subarukart for putting ther event together and even more credit must go to all of the drivers concerned who have, as a collective group, once again demonstated why the SUbaru class just goes from strength to strenght.

Well done to all concerned.