Rug Racers 2016/2017 R5

The penultimate round of RugRacers was about to get underway on a freezing cold morning.  Whilst we don’t normally talk much about the RugRacers team it was noteworthy that due to limitations from the facility the day before they got the whole thing setup in just under 2 hours about an hour faster than usual, on behalf of the team many thanks to those that came in early to help with the setup ahead of the club night allowing both to run smoothly.

Controlled practice was the 1^st order of the day then straight into the qualifying format of 4 rounds of FTD.

GT12 and Champion elect Tim Hancock was out fastest improving his FTQ time each run leaving Neil Mottram, Owen Smith & Stuart Dye fighting over 2^nd place ahead of the 2 Leg finals.  Leg 1 saw Tim take full advantage of his earned pole position with a faultless drive to the flag, aided by lots of fighting happening immediately behind him allowed him to lap the whole field.  Leg 2 was a closer affair with Owen pushing Tim hard, a small mistake dropped him down the order but he was able to charge back through the field to 2^nd leaving Tim with another win but a smaller margin.

3rd, Neil Mottram, 1st, Tim Hancock, 2nd, Owen Smith

Pos	Car	Name	Result
1	1	Tim Hancock	2 [ 1 1]
2	2	Owen Smith	5 [ 3 2]
3	4	Neil Mottram	6 [ 2 4]
4	3	Stuart Dye	8 [ 5 3]
5	7	Mark Deacon	12 [ 6 6]
6	6	Carl Beecroft	14 [ 7 7]
7	5	Stewart Wilcox	14 [ 9 5]
8	9	Matthew Gammons	15 [ 4 11]
9	8	Alan Chipolina	18 [ 8 10]
10	10	Chris Graco	19 [ 10 9]
11	11	Alex Carter	19 [ 11 8]

17.5 Blinky, Matt Worton would post FTQ for each round taking pole, the top 5 cars being so close that Aaron Rose was 2/10ths behind after Round 2 & 3 cars within .5secs of each other in Round 4.  Leg 1 would ultimately go to Colin Jackson after a race long battle for the lead with Matt Worton who crashed on the final lap to tumble down from 1^st to 4^th.  Leg 2, Matt held his nerve & the lead to take a tone to tone win ahead of Ricky & Jakub finishing within 1 sec of each other giving Ricky the overall win.

2nd, Matt Worton, 1st, Ricky Copsey, 3rd, Aaron Rose

Pos	Car	Name	Result
1	4	Ricky Copsey	4 [ 2 2]
2	1	Matthew Worton	5 [ 4 1]
3	2	Aaron Rose	7 [ 3 4]
4	3	Colin Jackson	10 [ 1 9]
5	7	Jakub Plechac	10 [ 7 3]
6	5	Leyton Foster	13 [ 5 8]
7	9	Tom Hampson	14 [ 8 6]
8	6	Malc Hall	15 [ 10 5]
9	8	Thomas Garnham	16 [ 9 7]
10	10	Shaun Batt	16 [ 6 10]

F1, Extra competition saw Olli Payne & Shaun Batt joining F1 for this round, Luke Lee with the title now in the bag was enjoying the close challenge of Ollie with Luke setting the early pace only to be pegged back by Ollie who would take Pole,  Leg 1 would be taken by Ollie with a controlled drive to the flag, Leg 2 was a battle at the top again with Luke taking the win from Ollie, Remo of MoodyFools making it up to 3^rd from 6^th on the grid with a superb drive.

2nd, Luke Lee, 1st, Ollie Payne, 3rd, Remo "MoodyFools" Casadei

Pos	Car	Name	Result
1	1	Ollie Payne	3 [ 1 2]
2	2	Luke Lee	3 [ 2 1]
3	6	Remo Casadei	8 [ 5 3]
4	8	Chris Mucklow	10 [ 4 6]
5	3	Tom Hampson	11 [ 3 8]
6	7	Lee Owen	11 [ 7 4]
7	9	Michael Cook	13 [ 6 7]
8	4	Shaun Batt	14 [ 9 5]
9	5	Martin Southall	17 [ 8 9]

13.5 Open, Marcus Askell set the early pace for Dean Gibbs to improve then Ashley Wiffen to stretch out an extra second to take pole ahead of the finals.  Leg 1 went to Dean Gibbs after putting the pressure on managed to get past Ashley to take the win, Leg 2 went to Marcus up from 3^rd on the grid with a clean drive to the flag.

2nd, Dean Gibbs, 1st, Ashley Wiffen,, 3rd, Macus Askell

Pos	Car	Name	Result
1	1	Ashley Wiffen	4 [ 2 2]
2	2	Dean Gibbs	4 [ 1 3]
3	3	Marcus Askell	5 [ 4 1]
4	6	Damian Giddins	7 [ 3 4]
5	5	Douglas Campbell	11 [ 6 5]
6	8	Jamie Vassallo	13 [ 7 6]
7	4	Jon Seals	15 [ 5 10]
8	7	Dominic Baker	15 [ 8 7]

A look through the field saw the juniors in all classes finish as follows:

GT12

Owen Smith                      2^nd          A Final
Daniel Robins                   2^nd          B Final
Darcie Smith                    7^th            B Final
Jake Vincent                     11^th          B Final
Shane Chipolina               1^st            C Final
Preston Eldridge               4^th            C Final
Ethan Southall                  5^th            C Final
Holly Cook                       6^th            C Final

17.5 Blinky

Adam Southgate               6^th            B Final
Frazier Tucker                  2^nd               D Final

As usual many thanks to you all for coming on behalf of the whole RugRacers team and a big thanks to all our sponsors who without we couldn’t put this together.  We look forward to seeing you for the final round off RugRacers 2016/2017 on March 5^th.

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All the A Finals tech sheets can be found on the UK Rug Racers Facebook page.

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