Shakespeare Nationals 18-19 June 2005

Shakespeare County Raceway

Entrants

Qualifying

3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday produced the following:

1. OA 3        Paul Wright                  7.997  /  172.2mph
2. OA 2        Paul Hensher                8.275  /  167.6mph
3. OA 222   Mark Pointer                8.367  /  159.9mph
4. OA 14     Ian Norman                    9.217  /  148.9mph
5. OA 31     Cliff Griffin                    9.984  /  127.5mph 
6. OA 81     Simon Barlow               11.850 /  109.5mph

Eliminations

 1st Round 

OA3 Paul Wright  v  OA81 Simon Barlow

Simon was unable to fire-up in the staging lanes leaving Guv on a solo. 8.09/168.3mph

OA2 Paul Hensher  v  OA31 Cliff Griffin

OA222  Mark Pointer  v  OA14 Ian Norman

Mark Pointer won the  Street Rodding in Motion reaction time prize, with a 0.075 reaction in the 3rd qualifying session.

Semi-Final

OA3 Paul Wright  v  Bye

a Maltese half pass 8.975/108.8mph

OA222  Mark Pointer  v  OA2 Paul Hensher

Final

OA3 Paul Wright  v  OA2 Paul Hensher

Paul Hensher won this one on the tree, a better reaction time negating Guv's slight ET advantage. 8.20 / 168.5mph win to 8.17/168.6mph lose ( 0.08 seconds at the top end.)

Paul Wright won the Carter Motorsport Lucas Oil prize, with the best ET of the meeting 7.997, which was also good enough to reset the class record at SCR backed up with a 8.003