Clay Pigeon MSA/ABkC Round 3: 1.05.05

NEWSLETTER

How fortunes change! There were new winners in all the classes this weekend. After Gary Catt seized in the first final, Jason Parrott took both races, followed by top lady Tiffany Chittenden. Scott Jenkins dominated JICA whilst first ICA final winner Danny Cruttenden had to give second best to Richard Singleton in the other. Scott Baines was well on form in 100 National, and Nicholas Cristofaro won the usual close Cadet battle.

The points leaders in the Renault supported classes of Formula A, ICA and JICA have all earned themselves a visit to a Silverstone Formula 1 test day, guests of the Renault F1 team. The honour will go to Jason Parrott, Matthew Bell and Lee Bell.

Elf/B4/Renault MSA British Kart Championship

Qualifying: Gary Catt 32.21s, Riki Christodoulou, Mark Litchfield.

Heat 1: Catt, Christo, Freddie Martin-Dye.

Heat 2: Catt, Litchfield, Jason Parrott.

Final 1: Catt’s seize elevated Parrott, Tiffany Chittenden and Chris Rogers, all still in touch. Christodoulou and Litchfield were delayed at the start, Craig Copeland receiving a warning flag. Litchfield swooped past Copeland down the hill, then later took Martin-Dye for fourth.

Results Final 1: Parrott, Chittenden, Rogers, Litchfield. Martin-Dye.

Final 2: Chittenden sliced past leader Parrott on the second lap, but soon had to settle for second. Litchfield found himself under attack from Christo, eventually succumbing. Catt made fifth the final place in his recovery drive from the back.

Results Final 2: Parrott, Chittenden, Christo, Litchfield, Catt.

Elf/B4/Renault MSA British Junior Kart Champs

Qualifying: Will Stevens 33.1s, Oliver Rowland, Ollie Millroy.

Heat 1: Scott Jenkins, Matt Hamilton, Nigel Moore.

Heat 2: Lee Bell, Rowland, Matt Truelove.

Heat 3: Jenkins, Moore, Stevens.

Final 1: Bell slipped inside Jenkins only to have his win thwarted in a tangle with an errant back-marker.

Results Final 1: Jenkins, Bell, Stevens, Dean Stoneman, Moore.

Final 2: Now on the unfavourable side of the grid for the second final, Bell was delayed in a big pile-up at the start along with Stevens and Moore, whilst Jenkins escaped unscathed. Rowland avoided it all this time, emerging third, then taking Alice Powell who fell to fourth.

Results Final 2: Jenkins, Rowland, Truelove, Powell, Cooper.

Scott Jenkins

Elf/B4/Renault ABkC ICA

Qualifying: Matthew Bell 32.52s, Tom Armour, Danny Cruttenden.

Heat 1: Bell, Henry Arundel, Richard Kent.

Heat 2: Cruttenden, Arundel, Garry Findlay.

Heat 3: Cruttenden, Bell, Daniel Rowbottom.

Final 1: Bell jinked out at the last moment to take the lead from Cruttenden at Billys. A few laps later, Cruttenden dived inside at the hairpin and kept in front until the flag. A long way back, Singleton took Raymie Eastwood for fourth.

Results Final 1: Cruttenden, Bell, Singleton, Raymie Eastwood, Jonathan Walker.

Final 2: Bell tracked Cruttenden in the second final, but Richard Singleton pipped both. Henry Arundel claimed fastest lap as he stormed through to fourth from grid fifteen.

Results Final 2: Singleton, Cruttenden, Bell, Arundel, Rowbottom.

Elf/B4 ABkC 100 National

Heats: Thomas Davis x2, Scott Baines.

A Final: Baines and Justin Edgar had a rare old battle until Davis caught them up and pushed Edgar out of second at the hairpin. Davis was summoned to the Clerk for exclusion, where he made matters worse by walking out of the hearing. The Stewards removed his licence for thirty days and referred the whole matter to the MSA for further considerations.

Results: Baines, M. Smith, D. Smith, Edgar, Luke Johnson.

Elf/B4 ABkC Formula Cadet

Heat winners: MacKenzie Taylor, Max Goff, Taylor, Ashley Jones.

A Final: Sam Jenkins was the early leader until Jones slipped inside at Top Bend. But a few laps later Nicholas Cristofaro, who had raced up from a grid eleven spot, eased into first, Frances Harrold following, and Jones could not make up the gap that had been created.

Results: Cristofaro, Harrold, Jones, Taylor, Sam Jenkins.

Clay Bits

Richard Singleton crashed on the first lap of timed qualifying, so was consequently last on the grid for the heats.

Second round Cadet winner Max Goff was excluded from the meeting for an ineligible carburettor after a heat.

Cadet Spencer Barrow was fined £100 for disobeying an official, and had three points added to his licence.

Oliver Rowland and Will Stevens were put to the back of the first heat after three failed attempts to start the race. “They should not be flat out coming to the line,” said deputy Clerk of the Course Phil Cox.

Next MSA round is at Larkhall on 19th June.

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