Pleased to announce that Leon Dorsett is the new Vice Chairman for the club. A popular decision and I hope that Leon enjoys his position within the club.

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I had a nice email from Phil & Linda Owen regarding the results of last weekends BAS Round, it sounds like all the NS drivers that attended had a good weekend & all did well.

Dan Owen (NS15 Junior Special) did particularly well winning his 1st & 3rd heat and coming 4th in the B Final for the weekend! Well Done Dan ! The future looks very bright for this keen and confident young racer keep it up ! Heat 1 – 1st/Heat 2 – 7th/Heat 3 – 1st/B Final – 4th

Also Angela Evans (NS219) has kindly emailed some other results:

Sam Gould (NS343 Class 9) has to have the main applause as he drove absolutely fantastic, he won all his heats then went out and won the final ~ Good Driving from Sam ~ a well deserved Win !

Leon Dorsett (NS293 Class 3) drove well but missed out on making the final, as did Andy Pipe (NS205 Class 7). Sams dad Martin Gould (NS334 Class 3) did well with two 1sts in the heats and then went on to get 4th in the final, unfortunately Ben Gould (NS434 Class 6)  did not have the same luck and he suffered mechanical problems which put him out of final, never mind Ben there’s always another race meeting

Josh Fowler (Ns697 Class 1), Class 8 Geoff Berrisford (NS55) and Tom Chadwick (NS151) all did us proud.

Liam Evans (NS120 Class 10) had bad luck after winning his 1st heat, he finished 6th in his 2nd heat due to his steering wheel coming off  Liam was in line for winning his 3rd heat but unfortunately he was given a black flag after the race had finished due to his exhaust coming off after a collision with another car

John Wilde (NS70 Class 5) had good heat’s throughout the weekend and made the final, which he was winning until the race was stopped, then after the restart John could only manage to finish in 3rd place.

Cary Evans (NS249 Class 2) also had good heats and made the final to finish a respectable 2nd behind Lee Evason (SR54 STAR).

All the junior drivers drove really well,  Joe Pipe (NS206 Junior Saloons) won all his heats and Will Henry (NS19 Junior Saloons) also drove well and made the B Final, but we don’t know how you both did in the final’s? So Joe & Will, if you are reading this and want your final result putting on this section please email me at startlinem@talktalk.net  

One final point is in relation to Gary Mertin (NS119 Class 2) we are pleased to announce that he managed to race all the heats this weekend, apparently at the 2nd BAS round he unfortunately missed his last heat, not down to a mechanical problem, just he was talking so much that he missed his heat (Angela says ”nothing unusual there”) Gary Gary Gary….

If you raced at the 3rd BAS round and would like to be included in the above report please just email me at startlinem@talktalk.net or call 01948 666936.

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Once again the weather gods were on our side for last Sunday’s meeting and we were pleased to be able to put on another Sunny North Shropshire (DRY) meeting, how fortunate we are this year, it’s been horrible in Whitchurch today  As with the rest of the country the ground is rock hard, the track was watered on Saturday and Sunday before the racing started, however, Dust was inevitable and I am sure that unfortuntely it spoilt a few people’s day, Martin tried his best on the water bowser but the Dust just wasn’t behaving yesterday.

The turn out was quite good considering it was a pre-BAS weekend and we are now so close to the nationals for alot of drivers, the meeting gave the opportunity for the drivers going to the nationals to be “pre-nationals scrutineered” and to collect their nationals information packs. Don’t forget if you have not been pre-nationals scrutineered or received your nationals information pack you need to get in touch with Ernie Ashley on 01948 663415 as soon as possible. 

I think only class 4, 5 and 10 were thin on the ground but apart from that nice full grids, we had alot of away drivers coming from Leewood, North Wales, BC and York, thanks to you all for travelling to North Shropshire and I hope you enjoyed your visit.

Once Me & Jacko had arrived at the track I did a stint in the signing on van and once it had quietened off I asked Pat for permission to leave so that I could take some pre-race photographs… soon after asking I sneaked away and got chance to wander the pits with my trusty Kodak, take a look at the gallery section to see if you were caught on camera, someone somewhere will have been missed I’m certain of that, but have patience I will be trying to do more photos next meeting on the 15th August 

After the drivers meeting racing got underway soon after 11.30am, overall the meeting ran pretty smoothly with the unavoidable delays for track watering, we had a couple of roll overs later on in the day and Ernie the Chairman decided to test his own personal section of Armco out (Again… ) this was in his first race, looking on the bright side due to the damage Ernie did to his car meant that we gained a full time marshall for the rest of the meeting

The highlights of the day for Jacko was he noticed Tom Chadwick was driving very well~up until his last race when he unfortunately ended up in an incident which was probably dust related, for me Driver Style of the day goes to BC18 Lady Junior Special Driver who had a very nice style of driving and I am sure you are a future champion. Class 1 and 2 seemed to be going very fast yesterday, the track conditions must of suited you, some drivers were saying the track was perfect others said it was cutting up, just goes to show how you get differing opinions from different classes/drivers. We do want to get some more work done to the start line as grids 1 & 3 seem to be suffering quite abit, we are hoping this work can be done before the next meeting on the 15th August. The last Juniors race was very entertaining and the top 5 or 6 cars were all equally challenging for 1st position, unfortunately it didnt quite end without a casualty with NS999 Raife Mcdonald coming off the worst. Never mind, there’s always next meeting. Geoff Berrisford provided some entertainment to those watching by the start line by wheeling off the hump up the start straight, if we ever did Santa Pod style drag racing it would be VERY entertaining please Ernie let us

I think the Most Pleased Award should go to Maurice Powell NS44 who seemed to be having a great day, even if he did try to use his lady’s undergarments as a balaclava I don’t know who substituted the balaclava but it will make us all smile whenever we see him from now on He also discovered that he had no tape in his roll offs, which is bad when your in class 9 Other problems of the day were Ian Roberts NS225 came to the line when he noticed his fuel pump was noisy and then he remembered in time that there was no fuel in his car, so he dashed off to refuel, we held the race for him as we would do for anyone as its just for fun at the end of the day. Gary Merton NS119 managed to pop a driveshaft on the start line and Ernie Ashley NS143 also left part of his break disc on the start, he thinks that contributed to his mishap on the top bend, we’ll never know for certain  I do collect all “treasure” found on the start, I am planning to take a photo at the end of the season just so you can see how many important bits & bobs get left behind in the dust & fume cloud !

We had a few first timers out on the track on Sunday, NS95 Tom Henry made his debut in his Junior Mini Saloon and Rebecca Millington had a go in NS92 on a Ladies class one day licence, you both did well and I hope you come back next meeting for more of the same. NS218 William Spencer Logan has now switched from Junior Mini Saloon to Junior Specials and I must admit he seemed quite at home. All the juniors whether it be saloons or specials always give it their all and Sunday’s racing was no exception, keep it up

On behalf of the North Shropshire Committee I would like to thank everyone that helped to get the track set up in readiness for Sundays meeting, your help is appreciated, without you all the meetings could not take place. I would also like to thank everyone that helped out in some way on Sunday, remember our next meeting is probably going to be the biggest meeting of the year for North Shropshire, so if you can help in anyway either leading up to the meeting on the day (15th August) please volunteer, we will need you

Anyone taking note will of noticed that me & Jacko have kept to our swopped jobs, Jacko doesn’t mind starting the races, whereas I prefer his job, so for now thats how it will stay hopefully. Special thanks goes to Alison Spencer who volunteered to help Pat with the lap scoring in the 1st half of the meeting, with Keith & Jenny Lenton helping in the 2nd half, we really do need to get this position filled by a permanent person, if you are a little bit interested but are unsure on whats involved please just give Pat a call on 01948 663415 and she will be more than willing to explain the job, you can be male or female and as said previously no qualifications are necessary, just a willingness to help is required. I know I keep going on about this job but I am sure there is someone out there thats just itching to get involved

Finally I would just like to add that these comments are my own and not necessarily the comments of the North Shropshire Committee, if you have any highlights of this or any other race meeting and you want them to be included just get in touch with me @ startlinem@talktalk.net

Thats all for now folks, see you on the 15th August, I cant wait, them F600′s sound just perfect on the line Emily.

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For Sale : Porta loo with tent £20.

Please Contact:Angela Evans, Class 12, NS219. Tel: 01952 840447.

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Please note that nationals pre-scrutineering will be taking place at North Shropshire’s next Race Meeting on Sunday 11th July.

All league cars and drivers must be pre-scrutineered by Keith Belcher and the scrutineering form must be signed by Ernie Ashley.

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