2010

What a meeting this turned out to be, only eleven cars arrived but that eleven put on some close racing.

Heat one

Well for the warm up laps there was some confusion whether we was racing or just warming up as the green flag was dropped, Cliff Bunn, Neil Clarke and Marc de Land took it for racing and by the end of the second lap was up to 3rd 4th and 5th But then came the red flags and all the cars had to re line up. Carl Checkley the lone white graded driver got the cars away, by the end of lap two the red graded cars were up with the blues, Neil Clarke managed to pass Pete Dorrell who had some handling trouble, next up was Steve Dawson and Andrew Bilby who had got his old BMC back on the track, On lap 5 Daniel Pooley managed to pass Marc de Land and then Cliff Bunn. Carl was still out in front and had increased his lead by the end of lap 9, Neil had moved up to second after demoting Steve Dawson, the next lap Steve young passed to take over the third spot. With two to go Cliff was trying to pass Pete exiting turn two and the pair banged wheels but luckly enough they did not damage cars. The race win went to Carl Checkley his first win in a Grang Prix Midget well done Carl.

RESULTS 1/C.Checkley 2/N.Clarke 3/S.Young 4/ S.Dawson 5/D.Pooley 6/J.Pooley 7/A.Bilby 8/C.Bunn

Heat two

This was a lively affair, the winner of race one Carl took up the early lead from Andrew Bilby Steve Dawson and Pete Dorrell. By lap 4 Cliff tryed to pass Pete going into turn three but with Petes handling problem he started to drift wide so Cliff tryed to move to the inside but Mr Clarke was also going for the same space then had to brake and Marc de Land who was onlt inches behind Neil could not avoid tapping the rear of the number 77 car and putting him into a spin, On Lap 6 Daniel retired with a broken drive shaft. Going into turn one there was a group of cars Marc deland on the inside Steve Young on the out, Marc`s front wheel just touched Steves inside rear, Steve slid towards the fence Steve Dawson got involved and also hit the fence he retired with broken upright, as the race was stopped to clear the damaged cars Marc also retired with damaged steering, while the race was stopped the cars re-lined up, Carl who had a good lead before the accident now had his lead chopped to just one cars length, Neil Clarke came out best as he was a lap down but was now in contention. Jonathon Pooley was soon up along side Cliff Bunn making his car stick on the dusty outside line he then past Pete Dorrell, Cliff tried to do the same but coming on to the home straight Pete and Cliff tangled damaging both cars Cliff spun exiting turn 3 and Pete retired, Cliff manage to rejoin the race but two laps down. With three to go Jonathon passed Carl to take up the lead where he stayed to the finish, Neil took second on the last lap.

1/J.Pooley 2/N.Clarke 3/C.Checkley 4/A.Bilby 5/C.Bunn

Final Central Cup

With only nine cars making it out for the final Poor Carl Checkley only made it to the rear of the red grade befor his car broke down so we was don to eight cars, Cliff elected to start from the rear of the field as he had some sort of problem with his car, after the warm up laps for some reason the red grades lined up in single file. It was Pete Dorrell who lead the cars away going into turn one from Andrew Bilby and then the flying Danial Pooley. By lap three Daniel was leading from Andrew in the BMC, Jonathon had managed to drive around the outside of Marc de Land but there was a battle between Pete and Neil for third this held Jonathon up and marc took advantage to retake the number 31 car for two laps Jonathon battled back Marc went to take the outside line to get pasr Neil this allowed Jonathon through and passed neil at the same time.

By lap 8 it was the Pooley brothers one two with Andrew Bilby third who had Neil and Marc breathing down his neck, Andrew drove really well to hold for five laps and take a well deserved third, Daniel went on to win from Jonathon.

1/D.Pooley 2/J.Pooley 3/A.Bilby 4/N.Clarke 5/ M.de Land 6/ C.Bunn 7/ P.Dorrell