A very tight race and a great result for everyone. The story of the race was as follows:

At the end of heat #1 the order was Scuderia Vermicelli (Joel Thura, Richard Powell, Graham Robinson), Estuary Equipe (Tony Avis, Colin 'Razor' Wilkinson, Ian 'Biscuit' Castleton), Scuderia Italia (Mark & Josh Nicholson) and SSRC (Alan Shawe, Vic Bettell).

By the end of heat #4 it was all change and SSRC nabbed the lead. By the end of heat #5 Scuderia Vermicelli completed their slow decline into 4th place. Not to be outdone Estuary fought back to retake the lead at the break.

SSRC took a temporary lead at the end of the first heat after the break (heat #7). This fired up Estuary Equipe and they came back at them to retake the lead at the end of heat #8 and never gave it up to record a solid victory.

Still Alan and Vic never gave up and only 1 lap and 15 parts separated the teams going into the last heat.

Congratulation to Tony, Colin and Ian for a well deserved victory. Two teams cracking the 600 lap target and it could have been three with Mark and Josh just 3 laps and 12 parts adrift.

Well done everyone. The race almost ran to schedule but that was down to me. I need to look at reducing the race time as the 600 laps came up 1min 44secs early.

Here is the full result from the evening's festivities.......

1st Estuary Equipe     -    Tony, Colin & Ian 617.00 laps 2nd Southend SRC     -     Alan & Vic 611.08 laps 3rd Scuderia Italia     -    Mark & Josh 596.24 laps 4th Scuderia Vermicelli     -    Joel, Richard & Graham 568.02 laps F.L. Southend SRC 8.093 secs. Many thanks to Vic for the refreshments at the break. Thanks again for your support. Graham Robinson Return to our home page from here.