Meeting Results 16.3

Hednesford 16th March

Race Results

POS	HEAT 1	HEAT 2	FEATURE	G / N
1	25	25	25	25
2	80	80	80	80
3	551	100	100	67
4	844	844	844	100
5	100	67	67	2
6	311	551	551	10
7	67	17	17	52
8	17	2	2	588
9	2	52	10	17
10	52	10	588	275
11	10	21	198	202
12	119	119	311	311
13	8	19	262
14	588	588	275
15	101	8	19
16	19	311	280
17	280	280	8
18	198	202	119
19	202	275	202
20	175	262	395
21	151	198
22	275
23	18

Total Meeting Points

POS	#	NAME	PTS
1	25	ANTHONY MASTERS (Grade Award)	111
2	80	KEITH MURPHY	100
3	100	ADAM RUBERY	93
4	67	ANDY PASSEY (Grade Award)	88
5	2	TONY McCARTHY	78
6	17	LEE COOKE	77
7	10	ANTONY BAKER	72
8	844	NATHAN ETHERIDGE	69
9	551	KEITH BARNARD (Grade Award)	66
10	311	PHIL BOINTON	62
11	588	VICKI KINGSTON	62
12	52	PETER ROBERTSON	55
13	275	IAN BELL (Grade Award)	43
14	202	DAVE PENNINGTON	41
15	119	KEVIN WILTON	39
16	19	STUART BEVAN	37
17	8	DAVE MORLEY	36
18	198	DAVE BENTON	31
19	280	DEAN HAMILTON	31
20	262	TERRY HUDSPETH	21
21	18	ROBIN KINGSTON	18
22	21	JAMES SPITTLE	16
23	101	DAN COOPER	12
24	175	ANDREW BELL	7
25	395	THOMAS SUTTON	7
26	151	DAVID GUNN	6

Meeting Points Dropping Lowest Heat / GN Score

POS	#	NAME	PTS
1	25	ANTHONY MASTERS	84
2	80	KEITH MURPHY	75
3	100	ADAM RUBERY	71
4	844	NATHAN ETHERIDGE	69
5	67	ANDY PASSEY	68
6	551	KEITH BARNARD	66
7	2	TONY McCARTHY	61
8	17	LEE COOKE	58
9	10	ANTONY BAKER	56
10	311	PHIL BOINTON	51
11	588	VICKI KINGSTON	49
12	119	KEVIN WILTON	39
13	52	PETER ROBERTSON	38
14	275	IAN BELL	38
15	19	STUART BEVAN	37
16	8	DAVE MORLEY	36
17	202	DAVE PENNINGTON	33
18	198	DAVE BENTON	31
19	280	DEAN HAMILTON	31
20	262	TERRY HUDSPETH	21
21	18	ROBIN KINGSTON	18
22	21	JAMES SPITTLE	16
23	101	DAN COOPER	12
24	175	ANDREW BELL	7
25	395	THOMAS SUTTON	7
26	151	DAVID GUNN	6

Another excellent start to the season and considering there were no National Points on offer it was a decent turnout for the Season Opener.

As usual we had some fantastic new paint schemes and we definitely won’t miss Dave Benton on track as they have spent lots of hours in the workshop prepping the car for ’08. Keith Barnard also debuted his new purchase and another fancy paint job along with Dan Cooper, along a fabulous new colour for the Driver of the Year 2007 Vicki Kingston. Plenty of photos were taken before the first race and are featured on our new website.

Anthony Masters couldn’t have wished for a better start to his 2008 season and becomes only the sixth person to ever win four out of four races. He was on excellent form all day and after taking that opening heat win, outwitting Barnard and Bointon in the closing stages, he knew he had the car and the ability and he was away – congratulations to Anthony, not only does he top the meeting points chart he obviously leads the way in the World Wide Qualifiers.

Keith Murphy was wishing that Anthony Masters hadn’t made it out for meeting number one as he claimed the runner up spot all afternoon, forced to follow the 25 machine under the chequered. It was a valiant effort in the Feature and perhaps one more lap and it would have been a different story but still a very strong start by the 80 superstar. After a cracking two heats and finale, claiming three fourth places, it was a shame Etheridge was forced to retire in the National but he wasn’t alone and after a very hectic race we saw only thirteen finishers and the first yellow flag of the afternoon for a stranded Barnard machine.

Sunday also saw round one of the Spring Nationals and this is very interesting, proving that it is all about finishing and every point matters. After a fantastic debut by Ian Bell, he leads the way in the Spring National Championship and is ready to hold onto his lead this weekend. To score 43 points overall at your first meeting is fabulous so well done to Ian. Dave Pennington also had an excellent afternoon avoiding all the chaos and also racking up four finishes and he currently resides in the third spot. Will it all change this weekend or will the white tops hold on?