| Race report by Ryan Donovan |
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| The final round of the xray off-road challenge took place at the remote world model car club in slough (near Windsor). First note, well done and thank you to all race organisers who had done a fantastic job once again on running the meeting. There were a total of 91 drivers booked in for this event, another great entry for the new series. |
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| As the series has come to an end, the race for the clubman and expert title is very close indeed and wont be decided till the end of this event. The weather forecast had yet again been given rain but thankfully didnâ™t and was to stay fine and dry all day, which made for some fast clean racing. Qualifying was again to based on TQ (fastest time) and was to be 1 round of practise and 3 rounds of qualifying. |
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| Round 1 of qualifying and first to set the pace was lee taylor with a time of 8 laps in 5m 25.50,2 seconds behind was tommy chung and just ½ a second behind in 3rd was myself, matt perry was a further 2 seconds behind in 4th and to finish the top five, it was chris rowcliffe a further 2 seconds behind matt. |
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| Round 2 of qualifying and it was myself to set the pace, with a time of 8 laps in 5m 25.97,just ½ a second off leeâ™s time in the 1st round, 3 seconds behind in 2nd place was tommy chung, a further 2 seconds behind tommy was lee taylor in 3rd place, 4th place saw chris rowcliffe just 1 second behind lee and to finish the top five in this round, we saw tom Reynolds a further 2 seconds behind chris. |
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| Round 3 of qualifying and again leaving it to the last round, it was myself to set the pace with a time of 8 laps in 5m 23.33,2 seconds quicker than the TQ time set in round 1, very close behind in 2nd place was matt perry just 1/10th of a second behind, then in 3rd place was tom reynolds again just 2/10ths behind matt, in 4th place was chris rowcliffe just 4/10ths behind tom and to finish the top five in this round was lee taylor a further 3 ½ seconds behind chris, as you can see this round was very close indeed and thatâ™s how the top five looked for the lineup for the A-final. |
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| To the main final of the day and the deciding race for both clubman and expert titles, 1st lap and i had a mistake which let chris rowcliffe go through in 1st place with matt perry,myself and tommy chung following closely behind, by lap 4 matt perry had taken the lead with tommy chung behind in 2nd place. |
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I had a couple more mistakes which dropped me back to 4th place, lap 8 and the front 2 changed positions and it was tommy chung now leading with matt perry in 2nd, lap 11 and I had got myself back into 3rd place and maintained that position till lap 19 were I took the lead with matt perry right behind in 2nd place and tommy chung now dropping back to 3rd,lap 21 and it was time for my 2nd scheduled fuel stop and as I was exiting the pit lane I had an engine cut, my mechanics were on the ball and got me restarted in no time but to still loose 2 places which put me back to 3rd place with tommy chung in 2nd and matt perry in 1st place, with only 8 laps left, thatâ™s the order in which the top 3 finished.
A-Final Finishing Positions
1 Matthew Perry
2 Tommy Chung
3 Ryan Donovan XRAY XB8
4 Allan Bridgeman
5 Mark Johnston
6 Sam Taylor
7 Mark Dell
8 Jon Howells
9 Reece Sawyer
10 Lee Taylor
11 Justin Mackey
12 Chris Rowcliffe
13 Tom Reynolds XRAY XB8
14 Robert Giles |
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Overall 2005 clubman title went to Tom Reynolds â“ XRAY
Overall 2005 expert title went to myself Ryan Donovan â“ XRAY
I would just like to thank Xray/Radio Race Car/Mirage and all the clubs who have participated in the series this year, it has been a busy but enjoyable and challenging year and im sure it will be bigger and better next year.
Ryan Donovan |
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