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Published on Monday, 21 May 2012 12:03

Written by BSI Editor

UK National Round 1, SLough

Team Nemo arrived early Saturday morning ready for the first practice round at 10am, the track was looking in good shape if a little dusty, some overnight rain helped. With over 20 drivers pitting under the Nemo roof it was a busy affair, with Barkley and Chris over from Ireland all our regions were well represented.

During practice all of the team were testing tires and the most popular choice were V-Max in Supersoft. Jon and Richard both had decent practice runs, the youngsters also showed really well at their first national getting good practice runs under their belts.

So onto qualification and Jon and Richard popped their cars into Semi’s with relative ease with Richard in 6th and Jon in 10th, both drivers running V-Max in supersoft in the earlier runs then using soft in the later runs. Brennan Ralls, Jon Wolfe and Young Jack Embling competing in his first national all qualified straight into the quarters, Bren and Jon used a mix of Supersoft Cubez or V-Max, young Jack used V-Max all day.

Darren Cole, Leon Goode and Jonny Skidmore all made the 8ths. Barkley, Ollie Currie and myself made the 16ths, Luke Walsham, Pete Wrigglesworth, Stephen Brunsden and Chris McCauley qualified into 32nds. Andy Walsham and William Skidmore made the 64ths.

So the team had a decent showing in qualifying with some having better days than others but all working as one unit and the team atmosphere was fantastic.

It was a bit colder for the finals so the team made some changes to shock oils and went to work, Andy Walsham bumped out of his final but would not quite make it out of the next one. Chris McCauley went on a marathon bump up mission and bumped up a further 2 finals. Luke Walsham bumped out of his final along with Pete Wrigglesworth, Pete would bump again. Leon Goode bumped up into the quarter with a great drive. Bren bumped into the semi. Richard and Jon both bumped out of the semi’s into the main.

The main final didn’t go quite to plan for our drivers as Jon and Richard had to try and battle through traffic, both cars were good but early incidents put pay to both drivers challenges.

As a whole the team performed fantastically well, the new format is more reliant on a team ethic and everyone pulled together to get the best out of their packages.

Next round is at Coventry!

Thats all for now, track is clear

Rob