The second round of the Carpet Wars championship would prove to be as fast and competitive as the first. The Maritime Club laid another demanding track for the drivers to tackle on the LRP 24R control tyre with there being very little room for error with the infamous Road Rail and Bot Dot track marking system showing up the talent and consistency of the drivers in each
discipline. Once again Carpet Wars received another large turn out of 159 drivers, proving this to be the meeting to compete at in the South of England.
With such a large number of drivers practice got underway at 7.45 sharp with each practice group getting 7 minutes to get to grips with the track layout. Practice finished at 8.40 in time for the drivers briefing then straight into the first round of qualifying at 9.00.
The likes of Adam Rogers, Rob Fox and Richmond Rogers began the defense of their respective championship leads, but with heavy competition in each class this would prove to be anything other than easy for each of them.		  
 

27 Turn Qualifying
Brian Shardlow would take the initial TQ in the first round by a mere second from round one TQ and eventual overall winner Richmond Rogers. Going into the second round Richmond showed his pace and bettered Brian’s time by seven seconds with his Tamiya after Brian was unable
to improve on his time after making a few errors in his run. As always the last run is the one in which everyone goes all out and the top four qualifiers did exactly that, with Richmond
bettering his TQ run by two seconds. Nathan Morgan was four seconds behind Richmond and Elliot Boots two seconds behind Nathan, which rounded off the top three qualifiers.

1st Richmond Rogers
2nd Nathan Morgan
3rd Elliot Boots
4th Neil Castle
5th Brian Shardlow
6th Ross Thompson
7th Tim Hancock
8th John Painter
9th Mark Sadler
10th Bryan Loynes
Richmond Rogers Taking TQ as he did in the first round of the series.
 
     
 
Chris Kerswell took TQ with a superb final run with his Peak Dynasty powered Corally RDX. Also note the new shell design!

19 Turn Qualifying
Fabien Simonini would be the early pace setter in the first round. With a lot of the top drivers making a lot of errors on the fast and challenging track his ability to remain consistent and fast in this early stage of the day put him on top. The second round however would bring some changes in the top ten with Chris Kerswell setting a twenty one lap run moving him onto the next lap and taking Fabiens’ TQ time, demoting him to second on the grid with Mark Styles in third. Nathan Parker, who TQ’d the last round of Carpet Wars, had been struggling all day and it was all down to his final run to put his X-Ray into the final, which he did placing it second on the grid and showing his true pace. Rob Fox won the first round of Carpet Wars and had struggled like Nathan throughout the day but unfortunately failed to break into the top ten and thus unable to defend his championship lead. With 4 Corallys, 3 Hot Bodies, 2 Tamiyas and 1 X-Ray in the final, it was obvious to see that the Corally RDX is the car to be running.

1st Chris Kerswell
2nd Nathan Parker
3rd Fabien Simonini
4th Mark Stiles
5th Christopher Delves
6th Ricky Copsey
7th Neil Mottram
8th Mark Buonaiuto
9th Richard Thorpe
10th Steve Lissamore
     
  Modified Qualifying
Adam Rogers continued his dominance in modified setting TQ and thus taking the pole position spot on the grid, looking good to take the win again with his Schumacher. Taking up the next three positions were the Corraly’s of Kevin Brunsden, Glenn Doman (who still shows he’s got the pace the mix it with the top drivers even though he has semi retired from
competitive racing) and Andy Childs who put in a solid run in the last qualifier to secure his position towards the front half of the A. Yet again there were 4 Corally RDX’s in the final, showing the cars popularity amongst the racers in the faster class’.		  
 


1st Adam Rogers
2nd Kevin Brunsden
3rd Glenn Doman
4th Andy Childs
5th John Pape
6th Richard White
7th Mark Fuller
8th Brian Eldridge
9th Kit Smith
10th Richard King

 

Mick and Adam Rogers hard at work on ensuring the TQ spot for Adam.
 
 
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