Final Round of the British Sprint Championship

[Steve Wilkinson]

After the August Bank Holiday Colerne event (Rd 13 of the SBD Motorsport British Sprint Championship) the championship is set for a cracking final round at Aintree on the 8th September. The current Top Twelve positions are as follows:

1= Dan Pickett & Matt Oliver 118 pts
3 Mark Smith 89 pts
4 Nick Algar 76 pts
5 Bill Oliver 73 pts
6 Tom Potter 73 pts
7 Kevin Lealan 64 pts
8 Stewart Robb Snr 59 pts
9 Steve Miles 56 pts
10 Dave Sims 53 pts
11 Terry Holmes 52 pts
12 Andrew Platt 44 pts

With the head-to-head between Pickett & Oliver the main talking point the whole outcome is thrown up in the air by the entry of Roy Dawson in the GR55. There are also the Stewart Robbs in their shared MP88 so what looks on paper like a heads you win tails I lose situation is far more complex.

The battle for the remaining places is also getting complicated with 4th down to 11th liable to change dramatically.

As the admission charge is a meagre £3.00 plus there are still plenty of vacancies for marshals consult your diaries and see whether a trip Up North might not be justified!

[Westysprinter]

Nice to see the ex Westy boys up there in 3rd and 4th
I finished 2nd overall to Mark Smith in last Years WSCC speed series.

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by Westysprinter

Nice to see the ex Westy boys up there in 3rd and 4th
I finished 2nd overall to Mark Smith in last Years WSCC speed series.

Dan Pickett's first sprint/hillclimb car was a Westfield!

Kevin Lealan is an ex-Caterham driver!

Steve Miles had a Robin Hood!!

And finally who could forget the exploits of Andy Platt in the Westfield Megashed!!!

[Steve Wilkinson]

Follow this link if you are interested in marshalling:

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=99748

[kevfvl]

Originally Posted by Steve Wilkinson

Dan Pickett's first sprint/hillclimb car was a Westfield!

Kevin Lealan is an ex-Caterham driver!

Steve Miles had a Robin Hood!!

And finally who could forget the exploits of Andy Platt in the Westfield Megashed!!!

Steve i was also a fellow Westfield driver and not a Caterham !

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by kevfvl

Steve i was also a fellow Westfield driver and not a Caterham !

OOPS! Perhaps I should have stuck with Locaterfield!!!

[Westysprinter]

Westfields
sorry I was only aware of the guys I competed against over the past couple of years
good luck to everyone

[Dennis.Doyle]

I reckon championships are more interesting with more "back story". My little contribution is as follows:

Nick Algar was clearly on fire at Anglesey on Saturday, recording a 103 point somethingorother on first practice. This was about as good as he did at the June meeting when the track was a good 10 degrees C warmer & this Saturday a number of us acted as if Rocket were a corner of more than 360 degrees .

Unfortunately, it didn't count as BTD as it wasn't a timed run & I understand the Firehawk blew a head gasket as those got underway. Hope it was only that & he gets it fixed for this Saturday.

BTW I guess dropped scores will be pretty significant too. Anyone care to do the what-ifs?

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by Dennis.Doyle

BTW I guess dropped scores will be pretty significant too. Anyone care to do the what-ifs?

The only drivers who are dropping scores are:

Dan Pickett (11); Matt Oliver (8); Mark Smith (5); Nick Algar (4); Tom Potter (3) and Steve Miles (3).

Kev Lealan would have been dropping a 3 pointer IF he had been entered!

Thus with all the possible permutations of scores I would probably be hear this time next week still trying to work out the possibilities!!!

[Westysprinter]

Nick was on the phone on Sunday night about the headgasket (or Worse!) fingers crossed

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by Westysprinter

Nick was on the phone on Sunday night about the headgasket (or Worse!) fingers crossed

I was at Anglesey when whatever is the trouble set in! There was water in the base of the 2nd & 3rd plug cavities which led everyone to believe it was just a head gasket. Mind you it sounded very rough indeed!

As you say fingers crossed as he has to defend his fourth place in the championship.

[Steve Wilkinson]

Less than 24 hours to the start of the event!

Hope to see plenty of you lot there!

[Suze]

So....what was the result? Who is champion?

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by Suze

So....what was the result? Who is champion?

I couldn't possibly say!

Oh go on then.

Saturday proved to be a very special day as what I believe to be a record crowd saw the Outright Course record lowered no less than three times! The winner of the run-off was Roy Dawson who stamped his authority on the meeting when in practice he unofficially broke the record! He qualified fastest by some margin and in the run-off lowered the record by over a second leaving it at 36.03 seconds.

Also inside the old Course record were...
Stewart Robb Junior on only his first visit to Aintree; and Matt Oliver on only his second visit - last year's event being run in a deluge!

Stewart Robb Senior was fourth in the run-off, again on his first visit to the Liverpool course.

In the Championship Matt Oliver's late season pace was too much for Dan Pickett as the MP58 driver could only manage fifth leaving Matt a delighted champion! Roy Dawson is undecided as to whether or not to continue competing in 2008 but I suspect the hunger is still there.

Other notable performances were ....

Bill Oliver who stopped the clocks at an incredible 1.81 seconds for the first 64 foot!

Nick Algar who decimated the 1600 racing Car class & Championship records!

In the classes there were new records for Stuart Nelson in the 1600cc Rover K powered Haggispeed Sports Libre; Simon Bainbridge in the awesome 4.2 Twin Turbocharged Four-wheel-drive Audi TT Replica; Nick Algar & Roy Dawson.

Liverpool Motor Club ran a superb meeting with 688 starts in the day averaging 100 starts per hour throughout the day!

Finally the Top Twelve was one of the best I have seen for long time. There were close calls and even the odd spin! And to cap it all the former outright Course record holder John Garnett was there to see his 2000 record broken!