Mendip Summer Champs Round 8 Report

Bit of a weird one yesterday at Mendip. Lots of grip roll in practice, so I widened the rear out to +3.0 on the hexes. Think I should have burned a set of Mini Darts, but the Mezzos were fine. Very happy to see the end of straight bump/launchpad had been fixed (Thankyou to everyone who worked hard to fix this). Went with the calmer 7.5t Hobby wing motor.

Despite the car feeling good, I just had a morning filled with mistakes, virtually all of them unforced, see for yourself:

Round By Round. Best 2 Rounds to Count

2wd Buggy

Pos	Name	Best	Tie Break	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	Lewis Hopkins	15 / 314.03		0	0	0	0
2	Martin Owen	14 / 303.60		4	2	5	2
3	Gavin Knight	14 / 308.46		6	4	2	4
4	Keith Halsey	14 / 305.17		6	3	3	14
5	Martyn Hadley	14 / 313.41		7	14	4	3
6	John Pape	14 / 316.04		10	5	15	5
7	Chris Cooke	13 / 300.95		12	6	6	13
8	Nick Langdon	13 / 310.28		16	10	16	6
9	Ted Calder (J)	13 / 310.73		17	8	9	18
10	John Farringdon	13 / 309.04	13 / 309.04	19	19	7	12
11	Andrew Nelson	13 / 310.55	13 / 310.55	19	12	12	7
12	Dale Calder	13 / 310.35		19	11	8	11
13	Sophie Calder	13 / 311.53		20	13	10	10
14	Kevin Greenway	13 / 309.46		21	7	14	17
15	Gary Simmons	13 / 314.54		22	16	13	9
16	James Santer	13 / 312.96		23	15	18	8
17	Wayne James	13 / 311.54		29	18	11	20
18	Neale Carbis	13 / 311.98		30	9	21	21
19	Michael Halsey (J)	13 / 319.35		33	17	17	16
20	Alistair Munro	12 / 300.70		34	20	19	15
21	Oscar Mills	10 / 302.33		39	21	20	19

To be honest, RD3 would have been where I should have started from on usual form. But a lot of folk were out of sorts, notably my own mentor, Neale.

All three finals were pretty much the same thing, just too many mistakes:

Finals – Round 1

Race 1 – 2wd Buggy – C Final

Pos	Car	Driver	Result	Best10	Best
1	4	Neale Carbis	13 / 312.88	23.18	22.88
2	5	Michael Halsey (J)	13 / 322.91	24.09	23.04
3	1	Gary Simmons	13 / 327.92	24.25	22.62
4	2	James Santer	12 / 307.99	25.20	23.85
5	6	Alistair Munro	12 / 324.79	26.24	23.33
6	3	Wayne James	11 / 326.20	26.69	23.06
7	7	Oscar Mills	10 / 308.08	30.80	26.62

Finals – Round 2

Race 1 – 2wd Buggy – C Final

Pos	Car	Driver	Result	Best10	Best
1	3	Wayne James	13 / 315.14	23.34	22.34
2	4	Neale Carbis	13 / 318.35	23.51	22.36
3	5	Michael Halsey (J)	13 / 321.37	23.56	22.73
4	2	James Santer	12 / 305.31	24.25	23.01
5	1	Gary Simmons	12 / 309.53	24.84	23.07
6	6	Alistair Munro	12 / 317.17	25.75	23.58
7	7	Oscar Mills	10 / 303.55	30.35	27.10

Finals – Round 3

Race 1 – 2wd Buggy – C Final

Pos	Car	Driver	Result	Best10	Best
1	3	Wayne James	13 / 313.12	23.36	22.28
2	4	Neale Carbis	13 / 320.19	22.92	22.05
3	1	Gary Simmons	12 / 308.76	24.73	23.50
4	2	James Santer	12 / 311.40	24.92	22.99
5	5	Michael Halsey (J)	12 / 315.63	25.05	23.04
6	6	Alistair Munro	12 / 317.26	25.66	23.62
7	7	Oscar Mills	10 / 300.94	30.09	26.32

Even round 1 was no consolation, Wayne missed a lap because he was fixing his car (although I did enjoy donating the parts and helping him sort it).

2wd Buggy – C Final

Pos	Car	Name	Tie Break	Points	R1	R2	R3
1	3	Wayne James		2	6	1	1
2	4	Neale Carbis		3	1	2	2
3	5	Michael Halsey (J)		5	2	3	5
4	1	Gary Simmons		6	3	5	3
5	2	James Santer		8	4	4	4
6	6	Alistair Munro		11	5	6	6
7	7	Oscar Mills		14	7	7	7

So a day to forget on the track. But enjoyable in all other ways.

Championship wise, it was just a drop score day. I don’t think young Halsey can catch me now, A decent finish is in the bag, there are a couple of good peddlars with only 4 scores that can push me down a peg or two, but If can score one more point than Gary’s worst score next meeting, I can still pip him, which I’ll be very chuffed with.

Off Road Summer Championship 2022

Best 5 Rounds To Count. Tie Break: Countback

2wd Buggy

Pos	Name	Ability	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9
1	Keith Halsey	98%	496	99	0	98	100	0	100	99	96	0
2	Kevin Greenway	95%	481	93	97	0	94	99	0	98	90	0
3	Chris Cooke	93%	471	88	93	91	92	101	0	0	94	0
4	Gary Simmons	91%	461	92	91	86	0	0	95	97	83	0
5	Alistair Munro	91%	461	86	0	0	96	94	91	94	81	0
6	Michael Halsey (J)	90%	455	89	0	83	91	0	96	95	84	0
7	James Santer	90%	455	0	0	89	0	96	92	96	82	0
8	Wayne James	88%	445	84	92	90	93	0	0	0	86	0
9	Gavin Knight	99%	398	0	0	99	0	0	100	101	98	0
10	Dale Calder	94%	378	96	99	95	0	0	0	0	88	0
11	Andrew Nelson	93%	376	94	0	0	0	95	94	0	93	0
12	Sophie Calder	92%	370	90	99	94	0	0	0	0	87	0
13	Oscar Mills	84%	338	81	85	0	0	0	0	92	80	0
14	Martin Owen	99%	300	0	0	101	100	0	0	0	99	0
15	Oli Davies	95%	289	0	95	96	98	0	0	0	0	0
16	Jos Hooper	94%	285	95	0	0	97	0	93	0	0	0
17	Daisy Miller	84%	256	0	84	81	0	0	0	91	0	0
18	Martyn Hadley	97%	196	101	0	0	0	0	0	0	95	0
19	Matthew Hodges	95%	192	0	0	0	95	97	0	0	0	0
20	Dan Hurrell	94%	189	0	96	93	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	Paul Rose	92%	186	98	0	88	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Bradley Satterley	91%	184	87	0	0	0	0	97	0	0	0
23	Paul Curtis	91%	183	0	0	0	90	93	0	0	0	0
24	Cam Pollinger	90%	182	0	90	92	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	John Farringdon	89%	180	91	0	0	0	0	0	0	89	0
26	Leon James (J)	89%	179	0	0	0	89	0	90	0	0	0
27	Ted Calder (J)	88%	177	0	0	85	0	0	0	0	92	0
28	Miles Harris	87%	176	83	0	0	0	0	0	93	0	0
29	Alan Pritchard	85%	172	0	88	84	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	Nigel Godber-Ford	84%	169	0	87	82	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Lewis Hopkins	100%	101	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	101	0
32	Stuart Ball	99%	100	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=33	Charlie Klinkenberg	97%	98	0	0	0	0	98	0	0	0	0
=33	Mark Cox	97%	98	0	0	0	0	0	98	0	0	0
=35	Steve Ashton	96%	97	97	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=35	Dan Harding	96%	97	0	0	97	0	0	0	0	0	0
=35	John Pape	96%	97	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	97	0
38	Ken Fung	93%	94	0	94	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	Haiden Hicks (J)	91%	92	0	0	0	0	92	0	0	0	0
40	Nick Langdon	90%	91	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	91	0
41	Terry House	88%	89	0	89	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	Todd Simmons	86%	87	0	0	87	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	Riley Mills	85%	86	0	86	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=44	Steve Pollinger	84%	85	85	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=44	Neale Carbis	84%	85	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	85	0
46	Ethan Owen (J)	81%	82	82	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=47	Theo Gooding	79%	80	80	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=47	Luke Harding	79%	80	0	0	80	0	0	0	0	0	0
49	Olivia Pritchard (J)	78%	79	0	0	79	0	0	0	0	0	0