· The first day of our British Championship event organised by Woolbridge MC on Saturday produced plenty of surprises....and records! In this brief round up, we will bring you the highlights. Also check out the album of photo’s. We welcomed a bumper crowd – it may be a record attendance – we are still checking the figures -for the highlight of our season. British Hillclimb Championship – Round 19 was won by Wallace Menzies – this means that Wallace has won 6 out of the last 7 events – his charge for the title continues! There was drama for Matt Ryder – he suffered a drive shaft failure as he headed to the line. It only takes half an hour to replace the shafts (and that has now been done in readiness for Sunday). However Matt was unable to qualify. Will Hall finished second just 0.24 off of Wallace and Alex Summers completed the podium with a fine third place, 0.85s adrift of Will. Alex was in his self-designed and built AFS P8t – this is the best result so far for the new car. Another of the Top 12 Run Off regulars, Plymouth racer Alex Coles, suffered a big accident. He started to lose the Force TA at Bunnys Leap – unable to correct it, he left the track and impacted heavily with the tyre barrier at The Gate. Fortunately, Alex was unscathed, and amazingly, when the car was pulled away from the barriers, Alex was able to drive it back to the paddock. The carbon fibre cars are incredibly strong. In the Top 10 Tin Top Challenge, it was Damien Bradley who chalked up another win. More drama for Simon Bainbridge in the mighty SBR Chrono. In the qualifying run, the Chrono stopped at Martini, so he did not qualify. There were many happy drivers in the paddock. Paul Reynolds set a new National Class Record breaking the existing record that had stood for 10 years. Paul Haimes also set a new Class Record. Several drivers reported that the track had tremendous grip today – one of those being Simon Ashley. He set his quickest ever time in the Ralt RT3. Dean Tighe was pleased with his debut in the ex-Graham Wynn Gould GR59. He recorded 145mph up Castle Straight! When he spoke to him later, he told me that the Gould turns in better than any car he has ever driven. So much so, that when he turned into Martini he demolished two floppies! And the Australian hospitality from Dean and Wayne Penrose is awesome. Dean’s partner Cheryl sent me home with a wonderful slice of lemon meringue pie! You dont often get that in the paddock. And Mark Schlanker celebrated a significant birthday – Happy Birthday Mark! The event is sponsored by the Porsche Centre Exeter and the Porsche Paddock display was very busy all day. And if you want to catch up on the action, you can watch the Speed on Screen recording of the live stream and if you cannot be with us on Sunday, tune into the live stream. And the good news is that we do it all again on Sunday! Wallace for win number two of the weekend? Dont bet against it – the Flying Scotsman is meteoric at the moment and back to his best form.
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