
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 |