Autotest Round 2 – 27th of April 2014

By Barry Lindsay

At the end of April it was thought that ground would be hard…well it wasn’t! But the event went ahead with some tricky conditions and would reward those with a feel of grip through there right foot.
Ian Robinson had designed some new routes for the event and set the event off marshalling tests 1&3 while Barry Lindsay ran 2&4 at the same time.

Geoffey Harkness

Geoffrey Harkness was fastest on the first test with 1m 06. Nigel Harkness was next on 1m 14 then Andrew Graham & Kieron Stynes on 1m17. John Ross, George Carrick & Alex Beaty all wrong tested.
Test 2 Neil Thomlinson was quickest on 54sec ahead of Nigel on 55sec, Richard Clark with 57sec then Kenton Pattison, Andrew & John on 58sec.

Plenty of mud flying – Neil Thomlinson

Test 3 Neil quickest with 1m06 after some tyre pressure adjustments, Nigel got 1m07 then Geoffrey on 1m08, Richard, John & Andrew on 1m10. George Carrick got a wrong test.
Test 4 Geoffrey was quickest with 53sec but it was close, Neil, Richard & Jerry Hettrick all on 54sec then John & Nigel on 55sec

Positions after 4 tests
1st   Geoffrey Harkness   4m 07                  9th    Jerry Hettrick                       4m 41
2nd Nigel Harkness 4m 11               10th   John Ross 4m 51
3rd Neil Thomlinson 4m 13               11th   Kenton Pattison    4m 54
4th Richard Clark           4m 19                  12th   Kieron Stynes Inc 10%            4m 59
5th Andrew Graham    4m 21            13th   Alex Beaty                                  5m 05
6th Eric Ritchie           4m 32             14th   Jon Stynes Inc 10%                  5m 10
7th Helen Gibbon           4m 35                 15th   George Carrick                           5m 21
8th George Edminson   4m 39

Quick change around and we were onto 5 & 7 with Ian and 6 & 8 with Barry.

Test 5, Geoffrey & Jon Stynes were quickest with 58sec ahead of Andrew & Neil on 59 then Richard & Kenton on 1m00. Nigel wrong tested.

George Edminson

Test 6 Geoffrey & Neil shared the honors with 47sec. Nigel & Eric Ritchie got 48sec then Andrew, Kenton & Jon got 50sec. Alex Beaty & Jerry wrong tested.

Test 7 Jon & Jerry topped the times with 58sec followed by John, Geoffrey, Andrew, Neil & George Edminson on 59 sec.
Test 8 Geoffrey quickest with 46sec ahead of Neil on 47sec, John & Jon on 48sec then Richard, Kieron, Andrew & Kenton on 49sec. George C wrong test.

George Carrick

Test 9 Nigel got 1m07 then Neil & Eric with 1m08,then Andrew, Kenton & Jon on 1m09
Test 10 Richard & Nigel were quickest with 1m04 followed by Geoffrey & Andrew on 1m05, Neil on 1m06 then Jerry on 1m07. Kenton & Alex both wrong tested.

Richard Clark

Tests 11 &12 were run but a shower of rain made it very slippery and times went from under 1min to over 2 min so results were taken from after test 10.

Hope everyone enjoyed the event and thanks to Ian for marshalling and the routes. Thanks also to Joe & Neil Thomlinson for the use of the field.

Results from Round 2.

1^st Geoffrey Harkness 9m56 9^th George Edminson 11m00

2^nd Neil Thomlinson 9m59 10^th Kenton Pattison 11m12

3^rd Andrew Graham 10m12 11^thJohn Ross 11m17

4^th Nigel Harkness 10m18 12^th Jon Stynes Inc 10% 11m49

5^th Richard Clark 10m24 13^th Kieron Stynes Inc 10% 11m53

6^th Helen Gibbon 10m49 14^th George Carrick 12m27

7^th Jerry Hettrick 10m53 15^th Alex Beaty 12m29

8^th Eric Ritchie 10m55

Championship points after 2 rounds

1^st Geoffrey Harkness 19 11^th Jerry Hettrick 6

2^nd Neil Thomlinson 18 = Eric Ritchie 6

= Andrew Graham 18 = George Edminson 6

4^th Nigel Harkness 16 = Jon Stynes 6

5^th Kenton Pattison 15 15^th Joe Thomlinson 3

= Barry Lindsay 15 16^th Kieron Stynes 2

7^th John Ross 11 17^th George Carrick 1

8^th Stephen Dixon 10 = Christine Ross 1

9^th Richard Clark 8 = Rob Glendinning 1

= Helen Gibbon 8 = Alex Beaty 1