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30 December 2012 Autotests

It didn’t rain!  Small but friendly turn out this year.  Robert hit a cone on both runs at Test 1, which is why he is further down than usual.

1.     Roger Dudley           166.56

2      Pete Nicholas          173.94

3      Richard Arrowsmith  175.67

4      Andrew Dudley         176.34

5      Robert Dudley          181.48

6      Andrew Green          183.62

7      Amber Botteley        184.71

8      Alice Dudley            199.50

 

 

29 December 2011 PCA

Our annual half day affair.  Andrew Green was C-of-C and produced 4 deceptive but enjoyable Tests.

Very close at half-way, less than a second between the top 2 and similarly close all the way down.

Much changing of places in the second half, resolved as below.  Adam didn’t do that badly, he made a right Horlicks of the last test – twice – and got a Maximum.

1      Mike Biss              155.62

2      Roger Dudley         157.16

3      Alan Wakeman      161.26

4      Andrew Dudley       164.04

5      Rob Dudley            164.57

6      Ben Powers           172.10

7      Rob Green             173.25

8      Pete Nicholas        174.90

9      Amber Botteley      176.62

10    Christina Dudley     177.03

11    Rod Botteley          177.38

12    Owen Wakeman     178.65

13    Stephen Green       179.59

14    Adam Tyler            206.23

 

 

30 October PCA

Hooray it rained!  No dust at long last, and it made the concrete quite slippy = lots of sideways action.

We cancelled the planned Autotest because of lack of numbers and just ran it as a single class PCA, but a good time was had by all.

1      Mike Biss              235.39

2      Andrew Green        253.89

3      Andrew Dudley       257.83

4      Alan Wakeman      261.02

5      Rob Dudley            261.84

6      Ben Powers           264.52

7      Adam Tyler            266.97

8      Oli Wakeman         278.01

9      Robert Turner         288.81

10    Becky Greenaway  289.10

11    Sarah Green          330.53

Photos to follow

 

25 September Autotests

MORE dust!  Sorry we had to cut it short, but we need to protect the venue.

1   Roger Dudley           222.38

2   John Peterson          225.81

3   Andrew Dudley         232.51 = 1st PCA

4   Rob Dudley              234.11 = 1st Novice

5   Rob Turner               245.08

6   Tim Hare                  246.29

7   Adam Tyler              249.10

8   Alan Wakeman        250.18

9   Becky Greenaway    258.09 = 1st Lady & Beginner

10  Oli Wakeman           267.90 = 1st Junior [sorry, missed a picture]

11  Ben Powers             278.16

12  Amy Hare                306.87

 

22 May 2011 Grass Autotest

A very good entry on a challenging day. Very dry and VERY dusty.

1 John Peterson 292.13

2 Roger Dudley 296.49

3 Mike Biss 301.16

4 Matt Helm 316.08

5 Robert Dudley 316.88

6 John Plant 321.25

7 Andrew Green 324.35

8 Andrew Dudley 328.42

9 Oli Wakeman 330.81

10 Robbie Philpott 331.24

11 Alan Wakeman  332.52

12 Cath Woodman 350.88

13 Amber Botteley 356.01

14 Nigel Bartram 356.90

15 Thomas Ince 395.51

16 Amy Hare 409.15

17 Michael Botteley 458.72

18 Aron Hare 521.93

Apologies from Roger. He managed to get all the cars but not all the drivers.

 

17 April 2011 Grass Autotest

A respectable entry on a glorious day.  The unusually warm weather resulted in many overheating – cars that is.  Sorry not everybody is on photos as the camera battery went flat.

 

1 John Peterson 313.65

2 Roger Dudley 315.74

3 Andrew Dudley 342.10

4 Rob Dudley 351.93

5 Andrew Green 354.73

6 Robert Green 359.15

7 Bob Tatum 359.95

8 Rob Turner 361.03

9 Stephen Green 378.84

10 Christina Dudley 384.30

11 Amber Botteley 390.50

12 Becky Greenaway 423.76

13 Polly Judge 445.48

15 Rob Judge 448.00

 

17 October Gravel Autotest

Andrew Green’s debut as C-of-C (for a great many years anyway!) was well received by most, on another good day.

The Johnsons came all the way from Louth in their 1966 Triumph Herald only for the fuel pump to pack up on test 3.  Roger D’s first competitive event for 18 months, having done the CofC duties ever since.  Robert T and Becky so enjoyed their first experience in May – see below - in a Mondeo that they turned up with a Fiesta on a trailer!  Amber – having passed her Test first time last month – was thrilled at having beaten her dad on 3 tests.

1 Roger Dudley 302.07

2 Matt Helm 319.94

3 Andrew Dudley 331.77

4 Robert Dudley 346.54

5 Robert Green 358.75

6 Robert Turner 362.35

7 Hayley Bloomfield 363.00

8 Rod Botteley 364.66

9 Christina Dudley 369.97

10 Amber Botteley 371.53

11 Amy Hare 460.02

12 Becky Greenaway 474.25

DNF Andrew Jonhson – Fuel Pump

DNF Sarah Johnson

 

 

25 July Gravel Autotest

Another hot and dusty day.  Only 8 entries but we ran it anyway.

1 Mike Biss 250.07

2 Andrew Dudley 262.17

3 Rob Dudley 275.14

4 Cath Woodman 280.74

5 Andrew Green 283.85

6 Stephen Green 287.72

7 Amber Botteley 302.43

8 Sarah Green   361.25

Photos behind the links still available on application.

 

23 May Gravel Autotest

What a good day we had! 16 starters on the day, plus a couple who couldn’t make it in the end, glorious weather (equals, to be honest, bloody hot!) and a good time was had by all.

The inevitable dust problems at Little Houghton led to an unusual instruction from the start marshal “Go when you can see the cones!”.  Rob Turner and Becky Greenaway are 2 people connected with the Hare clan who somehow got them selves talked into doing it for the first time.  Becky had never sat behind the wheel of a car before today!  All said how well she did – in a Mondeo!
With this size of entry we were going to struggle to fit in 3 goes each at 6 tests and, truthfully, with the heat we had all had enough anyway, so we dropped Test 6.  But it was still good fun and remarkably close as you can see from the results, apart from Mike Biss of course (but we used to say the same about Roger Dudley not long ago – perhaps we can persuade him to bring the Scamp out for a head to head?).  Pete Nicholas brought out his ‘new’ Ł200 Ford Ka at last, after his trailer failure last time.  Sadly he broke his exhaust manifold around halfway, which saw him slip from 2nd overall at the time.  Brother Dave had to take his child (sorry, I don’t remember what variety!) back to University, but still wanted to come out and have a go.

The Wakemans are father and son collecting signatures so Owen can qualify for the MSA Formula 100 championship.

Cath should have won 3 awards, but generously backed out of Lady and Novice.

 

 

18 April Grass Autotest

Only 10 made it to this last minute event, thanks to John Filby for use of the field.  Pete Nicholas had a “major trailer failure” on the way so non-started.  Nice to see some CSMA friends turning out, though sadly Mike Biss’s Corsa broke an engine mounting and was forced to retire.

Nevertheless a beautiful day was enjoyed by all and if Bob Tatum hadn’t had complete brain fade on Test 7 and got 2 WC’s the results would have been different.

 

 

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