Snetterton - 24th October 2004

Qualification:

Pos  Driver Gp  Time Pos Driver Gp Time
1 Richard Perry A 1:35.979 13 Dominic Mooney C 1:44.889
2 Edward Reeve A 1:39.465 14 Gareth Penn B 1:44.958
3 William Smallridge B 1:39.944 15 Ian Langford C 1:45.952
4 Mark Turner B 1:40.558 16 Bernie Baxter A 1:49.923
5 David Weston A 1:40.941 17 Graham Smeeton A 1:56.118

Results:

  Group A Best Group B Best Group C Best
1st Richard Perry 1:21.774 William Smallridge 1:23.611 Dominic Mooney 1:30.969
2nd Edward Reeve 1:24.031 Mark Turner 1:24.379 a a
3rd Bernie Baxter 1:35.793 a a a a
4th Graham Smeeton 1:33.342 a a a a

Race Report by Larry Quinn:

This was a sunny, good natured event with everyone trying to tidy up their end of season points.

GP A - Richard Perry led from start to finish on scratch and won the race.  Ed Reeve finished third on scratch but took the Group A Championship for the first time in his career.  Meanwhile Bernie Baxter and Graham Smeeton moved themselves into the top six of the class points table.

GP B - Will Smallridge led at the end of the first lap in the Group B contest then Mark Turner developed an appetite for a race and mounted a charge which took him to the front of the class for the next five laps while Gareth Penn moved in behind him.  Will took the class lead again on lap seven until the finish and beat Ed Reeve on scratch, Gareth slowed and retired on lap twelve.  However Mark kept up his charge, but unlike Richard Perry who met duelling GP C runners Mooney and Langford, also at Riches, four laps earlier and hung back to pass them on the straight, Mark unwisely put his slicks between their treads right on the corner and consequently all three went off.  Mark restarted to finish the race second in class. Will is also a first time class champion.

GP C – Ian Langford and Dominic Mooney had the race of the day in constantly changing places with not much more than a tenth of a second between the pair, but after the lap thirteen incident, only Dominic was able to continue and finish the race.

Memo to all Modifed drivers - Remember road tyres ‘turn in’ different to slicks.