The Vodafone Dmax 2013 Championships

The Vodafone Dmax 2013 Championships Round 4 19 th May 2013 Rye House The Vodafone Dmax Champs retur ed to Rye House Cir uit for Rou d of this years ha pio ships. Last year s first ever visit to Rye House featured on-off rain throughout the day but this year, despite the forecast, 114 drivers enjoyed sunshine and a dry circuit for the entire day. Heavy - Qualifying Vinod Hirani (VH) set the early qualifying pace for the Heavies with a 44.074, but was soon deposed as David Vincent (DV) popped in a 43.322. He was followed by Robert Bennett (RB) and James Griffith (JG) who were both within half a second of DV. The lap times began to tumble as the drivers found their rhythm with DV dropping his time to a 43.020 to increase his advantage only to have Vince Cogzell (VC) put in a 42.734 a take provisional pole. DV responded with a 42.592 as VC lowered his time to 42.543 leaving 0.049 seconds between the pair. Simon Ross (SR) was holding on in 3 rd, 0.323 seconds back with JG and VH rounding out the top 5 with 0.462 seconds between all 5 of them. DV dug deep and set a 42.433 and VC responded with a 42.481 which was not enough to take back provisional pole. The field were close with just 0.448 seconds covering the top 10 as the chequered flag was waved and DV managed to eke some more performance out of the kart on the final lap to take pole with a 42.217. VC was 2 nd, 0.264 adrift with JG, VH and RB completing the top 5. time lap 1 16 David Vincent 21 42.217 20 76.746 2 22 Vince Cogzell 21 0.264 42.481 14 76.269 3 6 James Griffith 20 0.281 42.498 13 76.239 4 42 Vinod Hirani 20 0.325 42.542 19 76.16 5 25 Robert Bennett 21 0.327 42.544 19 76.156 6 2 Michael Mckeegan 20 0.444 42.661 18 75.948 7 17 Jamie Pender 20 0.558 42.775 19 75.745 8 20 Simon Ross 18 0.56 42.777 13 75.742 9 48 Michael Ballinger 21 0.644 42.861 15 75.593 10 26 David Scott 20 0.664 42.881 18 75.558 11 44 Peter Hayes 21 0.703 42.92 20 75.489 12 8 Chris Carter 19 0.891 43.108 19 75.16 13 50 Gareth Holt 20 0.933 43.15 18 75.087 14 14 Chris Munro 15 0.939 43.156 13 75.076 15 11 Andrew Haine 13 1.097 43.314 13 74.803 16 49 Lewis Holt-Brown 19 1.157 43.374 19 74.699 17 7 Ian Brooks 19 1.222 43.439 19 74.587 18 40 Paul Hibbeard 20 1.231 43.448 12 74.572 19 12 Adam Daly 20 1.538 43.755 15 74.049 20 39 Steven Hussey 20 1.832 44.049 20 73.554 21 51 Sam Claughton 20 1.881 44.098 16 73.473 22 5 Andrew Sirkett 16 1.921 44.138 11 73.406 23 46 Dane Clark 19 2.505 44.722 15 72.448

Race David Vincent (DV) held onto the lead as the green flag was waved and was followed through the first sequence of corners by Robert Bennett (RB) who had a good start from 5 th. James Griffith (JG) was up to 3 rd with Vince Cogzell (VC) dropping down to 4 th. RB took the lead from DV on lap 2 with JG dropping the pole sitter down to 3 rd, setting up a 4 way fight for the lead. DV got back past JG and took VC and Vinod Hirani (VH) with him with the pass allowing RB to put some distance between himself and those behind him. DV soon started to come back at RB setting the fastest lap of the race so far with a 42.265 on lap 7 and a 42.054 on lap 8, decreasing the gap by half a second a lap and getting back onto the rear bumper of RB with VC and VH right behind him. This train of 4 was soon joined by JG making it a 5 way scrap for the top spots with just 1.044 seconds separating them. DV regained the lead 10 minutes into the race having got a good run out of the chicane and passed him on the brakes into the hairpin. Chris Carter (CC) had joined the train in 6 th as DV looked to try and get away from the chasing pack, setting a new fastest lap with a 42.044 and extending his lead to 1.4 seconds. A third of the way through the race and as the leaders started to make their way through the back markers, DV was able to increase his lead with a combination of his pace, those behind getting caught out by back markers and the chasing pack fighting amongst themselves. This meant that JG was now leading the group behind in 2 nd, with Simon Ross 3 rd, RB 4 th, CC 5 th, VC 6 th and VH 7 th ith the group o starti g to spread out. At the fro t DV s lead as out to 7.172 seconds but was not increasing as JG was matching his pace in 2 nd. At the halfway stage, JG had decreased the gap to DV to 3.749 seconds and had built a healthy lead of his own over SR in 3 rd. The main fight in the race was for 4 th as RB, VC, CC a d VH all follo ed i ea h other s heel tra ks, changing positions on more than one occasion, but allowing the podium positions to start slipping away. They gradually began to settle down with VC holding off those behind in 4 th, VH in 5 th, CC in 6 th and RB in 7 th. With a quarter of the race left, JG had closed the gap to DV and was now right with him and challenging for the lead. JG s hance nearly came when they went into a group of back markers coming out of the chicane, allowing JG to try on the inside of the hairpin, but not managing to make it stick. This dropped him back a couple of kart lengths but he regained the time within a couple of laps to e a k o DV s rear u per. As the pair approa hed a other group of back markers, DV was caught out at the hairpin and JG got ahead as they exited the first hairpin and approached the second. JG proceeded to pull away by a few tenths of a second a lap from DV and soon had a lead of 1.4 seconds with 5 minutes of the race left to run. He built on this lead over the remainder of the race and took the chequered flag, 3.482 seconds clear of DV in 2 nd. SR completed the podium and further 3 seconds behind with VC and RB completing the top 5. time lap 1 6 James Griffith 85 41.894 78 77.338 2 16 David Vincent 85 3.482 41.924 52 77.283

3 20 Simon Ross 85 6.393 41.991 69 77.159 4 22 Vince Cogzell 85 15.019 41.87 53 77.382 5 25 Robert Bennett 85 20.047 42.112 57 76.938 6 11 Andrew Haine 85 21.093 41.972 75 77.194 7 42 Vinod Hirani 85 22.102 42.15 53 76.868 8 8 Chris Carter 85 23.115 42.192 51 76.792 9 17 Jamie Pender 85 40.208 42.37 10 76.469 10 48 Michael Ballinger 85 40.73 42.295 16 76.605 11 26 David Scott 84 1 lap 42.203 25 76.772 12 50 Gareth Holt 84 1 lap 42.273 75 76.645 13 2 Michael Mckeegan 84 1 lap 42.121 66 76.921 14 44 Peter Hayes 84 1 lap 42.36 31 76.487 15 14 Chris Munro 84 1 lap 42.484 46 76.264 16 7 Ian Brooks 84 1 lap 42.611 56 76.037 17 49 Lewis Holt-Brown 83 2 laps 42.692 66 75.892 18 5 Andrew Sirkett 83 2 laps 42.847 63 75.618 19 51 Sam Claughton 83 2 laps 42.925 58 75.48 20 12 Adam Daly 83 2 laps 43.028 78 75.3 21 40 Paul Hibbeard 83 2 laps 42.59 77 76.074 22 39 Steven Hussey 83 2 laps 43.174 56 75.045 23 46 Dane Clark 78 7 laps 43.15 60 75.087 Lights - Qualifying With the lights completing their first few flying laps, it was Tom Kempynck (TK) who was on provisional pole with a 42.263 with Christopher Hackworth (CH) close behind in 2 nd. CH soon took pole from TK however, posting a time of

41.678 seconds giving him an advantage of 0.068 seconds over James Baldwin, who had moved himself into 2 nd with a 41.746. TK came back at CH with a 41.647, putting him ahead by 0.024. This advantage was increased when TK put in a 41.403 only to have CH to go back on top with a 41.200. JB was just 0.273 seconds adrift in 3 rd with Andrew Collins (AC) and Ben Leslie (BL) completing the top 5, just 0.775 seconds off of pole. AC move up into 3 rd with 5 minutes to spare with a time of 41.294 meaning the top 3 were separated by 0.061 seconds. Jane Gibbons (JG) posted a 41.697 with a minute remaining to go provisionally 5 th as TK popped in a time of 41.128 on his final lap giving him pole by 0.072 seconds from CH in 2 nd. JB took 3 rd, AC 4 th and Paul Cox 5 th with just 0.258 seconds separating the top 5 and 0.948 seconds across the top 10. time lap 1 13 Tom Kempynck 22 41.128 22 78.778 2 3 Christopher Hackworth 22 0.072 41.2 8 78.641 3 21 James Baldwin 20 0.112 41.24 20 78.565 4 4 Andrew Collins 22 0.166 41.294 13 78.462 5 40 Paul Cox 19 0.258 41.386 19 78.287 6 23 Jane Gibbons 21 0.569 41.697 20 77.703 7 43 Steve Moody 19 0.672 41.8 18 77.512 8 9 Andrew Grove 19 0.796 41.924 19 77.283 9 1 Ben Leslie 21 0.847 41.975 11 77.189 10 16 Marc Coltelli 18 0.948 42.076 18 77.004 11 12 Mez Evans 21 0.993 42.121 17 76.921 12 18 Tanis Roberts 21 1.485 42.613 20 76.033 13 15 Tanzi Besant 21 1.75 42.878 18 75.563 14 6 Dominic Tucker 20 2.04 43.168 14 75.056 Race The light drivers got off to a clean start with the top 5 remaining in their starting positions; Tom Kempynck (TK) leading from Chris Hackworth (CH). The drivers behind quickly started to put some distance between themselves with James Baldwin (JB) running in 3 rd ahead of Andrew Collins (AC) and Paul Cox (PC). CH took the lead from TK after just a couple of laps, passing TK through the long turn 1. TK hung onto the rear of CH and the pair were soon joined by JB to make it a leading trio. CH was 1.403 seconds clear of TK after the first 15 minutes with JB a further 2 seconds back in 3 rd. AC was holding onto 4 th, albeit 5.7 seconds behind JB with PC just 0.1 seconds behind him in 5 th. TK was starting to edge closer to CH at the rate of 0.2 seconds a lap and setting a new fastest lap with a 40.963 with 40 minutes of the race still to run. TK s harge to ards CH peaked soo after ards a d the ra e started to s i g a k i CH s fa our as he posted a new fastest lap with a 40.939 at the halfway stage. His lead was now out to 2.228 seconds and as TK was being held up in traffic, JB closed to within 0.3 seconds of him. PC had managed to get ahead of AC to take 4 th and had pulled away with an advantage of 8 seconds over AC who was running in a comfortable 5 th.

As the race approached the final quarter, CH was still leading, but only by 1.221 seconds after 45 minutes of racing ahead of TK who was holding of JB, 0.254 seconds behind in 3 rd. PC was still in 4 th and looking comfortable ahead of Steve Moody (SM) who had made his way up to 5 th after AC had to make a pit stop. As TK and JB made their way through the chicane on lap 69, JB got a better run out of the corner approaching the hairpin and passed TK on the brakes. TK tried to come back at the following hairpin, but JB managed to hold on around the outside and secured 2 nd place. With 5 minutes of the race left to run, TK got a run on JB out of the final corner and dived passed JB into the long turn 1 to regain 2 nd but JB was not about to give up and hung onto the back of TK. 3 laps later, JB came out of the first hairpin well but was on the outside for the second hairpin that followed. He was just ahead as the pair reached the braking zone and held on around the outside and took the place through the fast left, right at Pylon. TK came back at JB through Pylon a lap later and defended for the rest of the race to hold off JB. CH took the win by 6.423 seconds ahead of TK in 2 nd with JB taking the final spot on the podium, just 0.163 seconds behind TK. PC came home in 4 th 20.555 seconds clear of SM who completed the top 5. time lap 3 Christopher 1 Hackworth 88 40.939 44 79.142 2 13 Tom Kempynck 88 6.423 40.963 27 79.096 3 21 James Baldwin 88 6.586 40.888 57 79.241 4 40 Paul Cox 88 40.129 41.164 11 78.71 5 43 Steve Moody 87 1 lap 41.125 67 78.784 6 16 Marc Coltelli 87 1 lap 41.23 45 78.584 7 23 Jane Gibbons 87 1 lap 41.445 21 78.176 8 9 Andrew Grove 86 2 laps 41.533 47 78.01 9 12 Mez Evans 86 2 laps 41.961 36 77.215 10 4 Andrew Collins 85 3 laps 41.345 11 78.365 11 15 Tanzi Besant 85 3 laps 41.964 62 77.209 12 6 Dominic Tucker 84 4 laps 42.66 20 75.949 13 1 Ben Leslie 83 5 laps 41.752 70 77.601 14 18 Tanis Roberts 50 38 laps 42.689 22 75.898

Inters - Qualifying The Inters qualifying started off under yellow conditions as Andrew Bilecki (AB) got caught out at the penultimate corner and stopped just to the side of the track. Once the yellow was cleared, it was Adam Nakar (AN) who was sat on provisional pole with a 42.631. This was short lived however as the rest of the field got up to with Dave Clarke (DC) putting in a lap of 42.232, only to have it beaten by Andrew Knap (AK) with a 41.992. The lap times continued to drop with DC, AK, James Pratt (JP) Joe Holmes (JH) and AN changing positions within the top 5. The full course yellow came out with 5 minutes remaining with JH on pole with a time of 41.930, DC was sitting in 2 nd just 0.006 seconds off and AK in 3 rd, 0.062 seconds adrift of pole. The green flag came out very soon after to give the drivers a 4 minute shoot out in which to improve their times. JH went quicker to increase his narrow advantage with a., the gap out to.. JH s follo i g lap as e e faster; a.. Ti M Keega TM stru g a lap of 41.742 seconds together with a minute to spare to steal provisional pole from JH, only for JH to respond with a 41.651 to regain provisional pole. This was enough to secure pole for the race, 0.111 ahead of TM. JP was in 3 rd, 0.225 adrift of pole with Konstantinos Kyritsis (KK) in 4 th and DC in 5 th, just 0.282 seconds off of pole. One second covered the top 14. time lap 1 20 Joe Holmes 18 41.651 17 77.789 2 6 Tim McKeegan 19 0.111 41.762 17 77.582 3 24 James Pratt 21 0.225 41.876 21 77.371 28 Konstantinos Kyritsis 11 0.236 41.887 10 77.351 4 5 58 Dave Clark 20 0.282 41.933 19 77.266 6 23 Andrew Knapp 21 0.341 41.992 9 77.158 7 10 Andrew Tempest 20 0.558 42.209 16 76.761 8 5 Adam Nakar 19 0.564 42.215 15 76.75

Race 9 7 Bruno Botelho 20 0.623 42.274 17 76.643 10 15 Joseph Ellis 21 0.661 42.312 20 76.574 11 68 Thomas Hill 20 0.691 42.342 17 76.52 12 22 Stuart Foster 17 0.729 42.38 15 76.451 13 70 Alec Tucker 21 0.85 42.501 21 76.234 14 17 Ben Chapman 21 1.006 42.657 21 75.955 40 Tomasz Zaustowicz 20 1.13 42.781 20 75.735 15 16 25 Josh Tomlinson 21 1.29 42.941 21 75.452 17 44 Allan Curtis 20 1.428 43.079 18 75.211 18 66 Ronan McClintock 20 1.443 43.094 8 75.184 19 14 Alex Del Verne 21 1.455 43.106 21 75.164 20 69 Andrew Bilecki 14 1.55 43.201 12 74.998 21 67 Darren Martin 20 1.71 43.361 9 74.722 22 31 Stuart Shearman 20 1.791 43.442 11 74.582 Joe Holmes (JH) held onto the lead at the start with James Pratt (JP) slotting into 2 nd through turn 1, dropping Tim McKeegan (TM) to 3 rd. JP then went for the lead on JH through the chicane, but could not make it stick at lost out to TM at the hairpin. These three were closely followed by Dave Clarke (DC) with Joseph Ellis (JE) just a few kart lengths back in 5 th, holding off Andrew Tempest (AT). JH quickly started to pump in some quick lap times and gradually started to build a lead by a couple of tenths a lap with TM doing likewise to JP and DC behind him. AT soon began to drop back from JE as he was caught up in a fight for 6 th between himself and Adam Nakar (AN) and Bruno Botelho (BB) behind him. The leaders soon settled down, putting a few kart lengths between each other, with the gap at the front between JH and TM remaining at around 1 second. With the first 15 minutes of the race completed, JH had built a lead of 2.18 seconds over TM, who in turn had built a lead of 3.040 seconds over JP who was running in 3 rd. The closest fight on track was or 6 th as AN was holding off AT and Ben Chapman (BC) with half a second covering the three of them with Alec Tucker (ATu), BB, Stuart Foster (SF) and Andrew Knapp (AK) also running in close company with positions changing as they made their way through the lapped traffic together. JH had extended his lead out to 5.032 seconds at the mid-point of the race having found a good rhythm around Rye House and continued to pull away at a few tenths a lap from TM. TM was looking comfortable in 2 nd with a 5 second advantage over JP who was also looking pretty comfortable in 3 rd. JE had moved himself up into 4 th ahead of DC with 1.8 seconds between them with BB nearly 20 seconds behind them in 6 th. As the race entered the final 10 minutes, the podium spots looked secure with JH looking set to take the win with a gap of 7.863 seconds over TM in 2 nd, who in turn had a lead of 8.785 seconds over JP in 3 rd, who had a 7.657 second advantage over JE in 4 th. Despite this, the leaders were not holding back, still putting in low to mid 41 second lap times after 50 minutes of racing. After 87 laps of racing, it was JH completed a hat-trick with pole, fastest lap (41.356) and the win, 10.496 seconds clear of TM. JP rounded out the podium with JE coming home in 4 th ahead of DC in 5 th.

time lap 1 20 Joe Holmes 87 41.356 16 78.344 2 6 Tim McKeegan 87 10.496 41.469 35 78.131 3 24 James Pratt 87 19.913 41.662 76 77.769 4 15 Joseph Ellis 87 27.539 41.734 31 77.635 5 58 Dave Clark 87 35.379 41.751 15 77.603 6 7 Bruno Botelho 86 1 lap 41.821 44 77.473 7 70 Alec Tucker 86 1 lap 41.891 65 77.344 8 5 Adam Nakar 86 1 lap 42.016 12 77.113 9 17 Ben Chapman 86 1 lap 41.996 55 77.15 40 Tomasz Zaustowicz 86 1 lap 41.881 55 77.362 10 11 23 Andrew Knapp 86 1 lap 41.883 24 77.358 12 10 Andrew Tempest 85 2 laps 42.092 29 76.974 13 14 Alex Del Verne 85 2 laps 42.124 59 76.916 28 Konstantinos Kyritsis 85 2 laps 41.623 36 77.842 14 15 66 Ronan McClintock 85 2 laps 42.192 63 76.792 16 68 Thomas Hill 84 3 laps 41.779 67 77.551 17 44 Allan Curtis 84 3 laps 42.545 69 76.155 18 22 Stuart Foster 84 3 laps 41.966 77 77.205 19 67 Darren Martin 84 3 laps 42.535 57 76.173 20 25 Josh Tomlinson 83 4 laps 41.91 54 77.309 21 69 Andrew Bilecki 83 4 laps 42.752 43 75.786 22 31 Stuart Shearman 83 4 laps 42.233 59 76.717