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Stalemate at the top of the table
Double win for Simon Blanckley
The three championship leaders were all present at Anglesey for this double header meet and a last chance to race at the circuit in its current format. Its that close at the top now, who is going to blink first?
Qualifying
Torrential rain had been falling at Anglesey since Friday evening, and with running water across the track the organisers took the decision to cancel all qualifying. Instead all races did 3
laps of the circuit slowly behind a pace car.
Race 1
With the grid lined up in championship order, Jason Holmes (Rover Tomcat) was on pole with Jim Mepham (Renault Megane) alongside and John
Hammersley (Vauxhall Cavalier) in third. A good start saw Mepham hold the lead for the first three laps before Tony Soper (Alfa GTV6) got by. Simon Blanckley (Honda Accord) moved up from 7th place to take the race
win by 4 seconds from Soper, with Matthew Orford (Renault Clio Cup) coming through from the back of the grid to take 3rd. Jim Mepham held on for 4th place and a class win, while Holmes had an excellent result
beating Hammersley to 5th on the way to taking Class B. Tim Morgan-Barrett (VW Golf GTi) mopped up Class D with Simon Jackson (Vauxhall Nova) taking Class E from Andrew Glossop's Ford Puma.
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Summoned by the clerk of the course for being good boys !
Race 2
A red flagged first race saw the Audi TT and VW Golf GTi of Jerry Bate and Richard Hill unable to restart. The restarted race saw Blanckley lead from Soper and Hammersley until the latter two came together at Radar
resulting in 360 spins for each. Soper recovered first and took second place from Hammersley, 19 seconds behind Blanckley. With Jerry bate unable to restart, Jason Holmes took an uncontested class B win. No-one
in Class C finished the race while new comer Graham Fields won Class D in his Ford Fiesta as Tim Morgan-Barrett joined the others in the tyre wall. Simon Jackson revelled in having Andrew Glossop's Ford
Puma to compete with and took Class E by almost a lap.
Both Hammersley and Holmes scored 30 points at Anglesey, but Jim Mepham's DNF in race 2 has
dropped him to third. All to play for three races remaining, it looks like one of these three will be the 2006 LMA Euro Saloons champion.
Race 1:
Winner: Simon Blanckley (Honda Accord), 2nd Tony Soper (Alfa Romeo GTV6), 3rd Matthew Orford (Renault Clio Cup), 4th Jim Mepham (Renault Megane), 5th Jason Holmes (Rover Tomcat), 6th John Hammersley
(Vauxhall Cavalier)
Class Winners: Class A Blanckley, Class B Holmes, Class C Mepham, Class D Morgan-Barrett (VW Golf GTi), Class E Jackson (Vauxhall Nova)
Fastest lap: Soper (57.167 63.50 mph)
Race 2:
Winner: Simon Blanckley (Honda Accord), 2nd Tony Soper (Alfa Romeo GTV6), 3rd John Hammersley
(Vauxhall Cavalier), 4th Matthew Orford (Renault Clio Cup), 5th Jason Holmes (Rover Tomcat), 6th Graham Fields (Ford Fiesta XR2)
Class Winners: Class A Blanckley, Class B Holmes, Class D Fields, Class E Jackson (Vauxhall Nova)
Fastest lap: Blanckley (49.109 77.48 mph)
Next race: Brands Hatch 2nd September
With support from Mark Fish Motorsport and Alpha Composites
Report by Trevor Nicosia, Car 10 ( www.nyssaracing.com )
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