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27 Turn A Final
Leg 1
The first lap was very clean, with all the drivers taking care into the first corner and prevent the usual first corner pile up. Richmond led from Nathan, but this was to be shortly lived with Richmond making a small mistake, from which he would be unable to recover his first place position leaving him defending third place from Elliot Boots. Nathan slowly began to draw a small lead from fourth place qualifier Neil Castle, who unable to close the gap and make a challenge for the lead, allowed Nathan to take the first leg win. |
1st Nathan Morgan
2nd Neil Castle
3rd Richmond Rogers
4th Elliot Boots
5th Brian Shardlow
6th Tim Hancock
7th Mark Sadler
8th Bryan Loynes
9th Ross Thompson
10th John Painter |
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Leg 2
The second leg brought better fortunes for Richmond with him leading from start to finish and taking a comfortable 4 second win from second place man Neil Castle, who had worries of his own care of Elliot Boots who was only 0.72 seconds behind him and challenging hard for second place. Nathan Morgan faired less well in this run finishing seventh after wining the first leg of the A. With a win in the second leg and a third in the first Richmond took the win from fourth qualifier Neil Castle, with Elliot Boots remaining stationary in relation to his qualifying position and taking the third spot on the podium. |
1st Richmond Rogers
2nd Neil Castle
3rd Elliot Boots
4th Nathan Morgan
5th Tim Hancock
6th Mark Sadler
7th Brian Shardlow
8th Ross Thompson
9th Bryan Loynes
10th John Painter
Overall
1st Richmond Rogers
2nd Neil Castle
3rd Elliot Boots
4th Tim Hancock
5th Mark Sadler
6th Ross Thompson
7th Nathan Morgan
8th Bryan Loynes
9th John Painter
10th Brian Shardlow |
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19 Turn A Final
Leg 1
The usual first corner mayhem was to be the order for this final! The winner out of it all was pole sitter Chris Kerswell who managed to avoid most (but not all) of the carnage, and from here he would be un-stoppable taking the first leg victory by 6 seconds from Mark Stiles who had battled his way through the field after being one of the first corner casualties. Much like Mark, Christopher Delves had not come out un-scathed after the first corner and the pair spent time battling for third and fourth, but with Nathan Parker experiencing battery problems and his car slowing the pair pushed hard to catch up to Nathan to steal his second place position. Christopher made an error which dropped him back slightly from Mark who two laps from the end overtook Nathan demoting him now to third, with Christopher pushing hard to catch him. But the second corner from the end saw Nathan make a small error causing his car to roll over and allowing Christopher to take third place in the first leg. |
1st Chris Kerswell
2nd Mark Stiles
3rd Christopher Delves
4th Nathan Parker
5th Fabien Simonini
6th Neil Mottram
7th Ricky Copsey
8th Richard Thorpe
9th Mark Buonaiuto
10th Steve Lissamore |
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Leg 2
After the first final’s mayhem, the second final had to be better. With Nathan and Ricky sitting the last one out there was a little more room on the grid and allowing the drivers to get a clean start. On the first lap Chris Kerswell took the lead and would maintain it to the end taking the overall victory, whilst his team mate Christopher Delves would manage to sneak past Mark Stiles in front of the rostrum after the pair had been promoted to second and third after Fabein Simonini had made a first lap error. The race was on between the pair, who had closed up the gap to Chris Kerswell, but with Christopher made a small mistake giving Mark the opportunity to take second position at this stage in the race. Chris Kerswell started pull away at this point to ensure a Corally victory, and once again Mark and Christopher were racing bumper to bumper, except this time it was Mr. Delves who was chasing. Tapping the back of Marks car caused him to roll over on the second corner after the main straight so Christopher had to wait till Mark could be turned over by a marshal. Meanwhile Steven Lissamore had worked his way up to fourth from tenth on the grid, and with the incident between Chris and Mark, promoted him to second where he would battle with Neil Mottram till the end of the five minutes. After the marshal turned Mark over, the pair began to battle again giving Mark a fourth and Christopher a seventh. |
1st Chris Kerswell
2nd Steve Lissamore
3rd Neil Mottram
4th Mark Stiles
5th Fabien Simonini
6th Mark Buonaiuto
7th Christopher Delves
8th Richard Thorpe
9th Nathan Parker
10th Ricky Copsey
Overall
1st Chris Kerswell
2nd Mark Stiles
3rd Neil Mottram
4th Christopher Delves
5th Fabien Simonini
6th Steve Lissamore
7th Nathan Parker
8th Mark Buonaiuto
9th Richard Thorpe
10th Ricky Copsey |
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Richard Thorpe had good pace throughout the day and placed his car 9th on the A final grid. |
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Fabien Simonini qualified well but was unlucky in the finals. |
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Modified A Final
Leg 1
The start of the race would be clean for the pole sitter Adam Rogers allowing him to start his goal of wining the meeting once again and duplicating his result from the last round. Glenn Doman would manage to pass Kevin on the first lap giving him second position but due to motor problems had to retire later taking him out of the running for a podium finish. Meanwhile his team mate Andy Childs would take advantage of Glenn’s retirement and take second position in the first leg, being the only other driver to remain on the same lap as Adam who was 8 seconds up on Andy! Brian Eldridge, who had worked his way up from eighth position on the grid with an excellent drive took up third position at the end of the five minutes. Adam would take the win with ease, continuing his dominance of this meeting and taking him closer to repeating his performance at the last round. |
1st Adam Rogers
2nd Andy Childs
3rd Brian Eldridge
4th Kit Smith
5th Kevin Brunsden
6th John Pape
7th Richard White
8th Richard King
9th Glenn Doman
10th Mark Fuller |
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Andy Childs in deep thought whilst working on his Corally RDX |
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Leg 2
Once again Adam would lead from the start giving him the clear run he would need to take the victory. It wouldn’t be as clean as his first run with Adam traction rolling once or twice but regardless of this he was so far in front he would be just untouchable. With Adam securing his first place, it was down to the rest of the field to battle for the remaining positions. Glenn and Andy were racing respectively for second and third position, but with Glenn making a small error it gave Andy the second place position which would once again give him second overall. This had dropped Glenn back down to sixth, where unable to make a come back and thus John Pape was promoted to third. Kevin Brunsden would have to retire with mechanical problems preventing him from a podium position. |
1st Adam Rogers
2nd Andy Childs
3rd John Pape
4th Richard White
5th Brian Eldridge
6th Glenn Doman
7th Kit Smith
8th Kevin Brunsden
9th Richard King
10th Mark Fuller
Overall
1st Adam Rogers
2nd Andy Childs
3rd Brian Eldridge
4th John Pape
5th Richard White
6th Kit Smith
7th Kevin Brunsden
8th Glenn Doman
9th Richard King
10th Mark Fuller |
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Kevin Brunsdens RDX sitting on the grid before the start of the A final. |
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The next Carpet Wars is January 14th 2007 to continue the high action racing. With Richmond Rogers, Mark Stiles and Adam Rogers leading their respective championships there is still a lot to race for and anything can change! |
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