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2000 Elf-Hill House Hammond S1 National Kart Championships Newsletter Clay Pigeon
Seniors Round 5 All
the championships go down to the wire after several
upsets amongst the leaders at Clay Pigeon. A sudden
shower of rain wreaked havoc with the Formula A
form-book. TV
cameras were much in evidence, with the first FASTRAX
showing scheduled for Tuesday 12th September. ¨¨¨¨¨ Hill
House Hammond MSA British Kart Championship Qualifying: Conway, Panrucker,
Trott, Sheader, Spencer. In the heats, Conway
showed a clean pair of heels to Chris Trott. Final
1: As Conway blasted off the line to lead, Panrucker had
a flier from the second row but soon had to give best to
Sheader and James Wright. But Sheader left the door
open at the Horseshoe, Wright filling the gap and Oliver
Jarvis following, only for Sheader to fire his team-mate
off at the next corner, losing places to Panrucker, Chris
Rogers and Michael Spencer whilst Trott dropped away to
seventh. Final 2 looked to be shaping up
for a repeat, as Conway led Panrucker, Spencer and
Wright. But a first lap pile up in the Esses left
Pippa Mann’s kart in the middle of the track, the
unsighted leader having to take violent avoiding action
dropping him to third. Conway quickly fought back
to the lead whilst Spencer retired promoting Rogers.
Then the rain came with Conway’s kart losing its
advantage and Panrucker soon through to lead. Chris
Rogers found the most grip, disposing of Conway and
moving up to win. Conway’s woes were not over
yet, as Mark Litchfield’s attempted overtake knocked
him onto the grass at the hairpin, dropping him to 7th.
Conway later retaliated in the pits, earning both drivers
an official reprimand. Mark Rochford was superb in the
tricky conditions, coming from grid 17 to third, ahead of
Sheader and Litchfield. Final 1: Conway, Wright,
Panrucker, Rogers, Spencer, Sheader. Final 2: Rogers,
Panrucker, Rochford, Sheader, Litchfield, Williams. ABkC Formula 100C
Heat
Wins: Jakins, Adams, Harroway, Baines, Smith. B Final:
Baker, Jarman, Wright, Marshall. A Final: In a race
of attrition, Scott Baines and Simon Harraway battled
throughout for the win, Harraway in front when it
mattered. But behind Mansel Smith retired, James
Styrin seized, Stewart Baker crashed out and through all
this Tiffany Chittenden emerged in third – a fine
celebration for her 19th birthday. Result:
Harraway, Baines, Chittenden, Derbyshire, Mills, Whitby. ABkC Formula TKM Heat
wins: Milner, Coles x 2, Taylor, Hobbs, Beacroft. B
Final: Hookey, Bruce-White, Soden, Parker. A Final:
Champion Adrian Coles led initially but slipped away to
tenth. James Beacroft took over at the front
leaving a huge battle for second. Chris Lamare
stormed through all of that from grid 14 for second,
followed by James Hobbs, Kane Tarrant and Matt Hall.
Harry Soden made sixth from the ‘B’.
Provisional result: Beacroft, Lamare, Hobbs, Tarrant,
Hall, Soden. ABkC Champion ICA Heat Wins: Inglis, Marshall,
Pierce, Nash, Oman. B Final: Railston, Gardner, Marshall,
Rayner. A Final: Points leader Iain
Inglis had a poor start to fourth behind Jason Edgar,
Chris Nash and Ed Pead, but he was awesome with his
overtaking on the fast downhill section to claim the win.
Runner-up Pead gave him the hardest challenge, with Edgar
just holding off Barry Eldridge and admitting he was just
not fast enough. Result: Inglis, Pead, Edgar, Eldridge,
Griffiths, Langley. Clay Chat:
Several drivers walked away from spectacular accidents
without serious injury. 100C driver Malcolm Clark
received nasty bruises after his kart was launched into
the barrier upside down… TKM
results remain provisional pending analysis of engine
components… Wesley
Godwin was excluded from the meeting and had his
competition licence suspended for 30 days for abusive
behaviour towards an official. Webmaster: Graham Smith
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Last Updated: 31st August
2000 |
