The team of UK drivers found the smooth driving easy handling style of Phils Lola to their liking as its consistant performance made it  a well deserved winner.Despite the brute power of Grahams CLK the UK drivers who had come from as far away South End on sea to race could not use it to gain a home advantage.Early casualitys were Chris Priest and Les Fennel  who suffered gear problems through out the meeting,Chris problems started when the car was involved in a massive pile up coming out of Pendles hairpin resulting in a trip to the floor,Les's car got graduly worse as the day progressed ,Both cars have now been repaired and the gears replaced for tommorows race.

Greg Petrolati also suffered body work damage when Andy Green  who had been pushing Nick Hirst hard  for the lead  lost it big style comming off on the bridge.

Trev May who had traveled from South End  to do the event drove steadiley and increasingly faster as he got  to know the track.

All the drivers enjoyed the cars finding most easy to drive ,Grahams new CLK proved a bit of a handfull for some of the drivers but despite its short comings still managed to set fastest time and finish second to Phils Lola.

Chris Briggs  and Erlings cars  were very evenly matched and were good round most of the circuit ,but did struggle a bit with the hairpin,having front wheels touching the track they needed  to attack the hairpin in order not to loose pick up on the exit.

Adrian and Dave Grays cars went very well round Pendle Adrians taking a good 3rd place,

Rhys's cars were just a bit lacking in top end power for the track but were consistant runners .

Most drivers found Larrys R+S great but stuggled with the Corvette.

Bill Brehms Panoz was very good on the Pendle track and despite a substantial power disadvantage put up some great runs even taking a victory in one heat

Tommorow the competition moves on to Bolton the results at the moment stand as follows

1st Phil Kalbfell Lola         182.82 laps

2ndGraham Windle CLK  176.27 laps

3rdAdrian Gray CLK       175.91 laps

4thRhys Filbee Mosler       175.76laps

5thGraham Windle Porsche174.00 laps

6thLarry Shephard R+S      173.81laps

7thChris Briggs BMW         173.58laps

8thChris Briggs CLK           172.44laps

9thPhil Kalbfell Mosler         170.26laps

10thErling Brox  Porsche      168.99laps

11thDavid Gray McLaren     165.79laps

12thGreg Petrolati BMW      163.28laps

13thGraham Windle CLK 2  160.78laps

14thBill Brehm Panoz            160.68laps

15thRhys Filbee Mosler2       157.03laps

16thLarry Shephard Corvette 154.79laps

17thChris Priest Mclaren        99.32laps

18th Les Fennel Mclaren        85.52laps

A full break down of the lap times and heats will be published soon

Car #	Builder	black	Time	yellow	time	white	time	blue	time	red	time	total	Pos o/a
17	G Windle	Heat1 38.06	7.21	Heat17 38.51	7.62	Heat13 35.21	8.07	Heat9 32.69	7.69	Heat5  31.80	7.71	176.27	2
16	G Windle	Heat5 34.64	7.74	Heat1 37.30	7.85	Heat17 35.24	7.81	Heat13 34.61	8.10	Heat9  32.21	8.17	174.00	5
11	P Kalbfell	Heat9 32.94	7.91	Heat5 34.56	7.58	Heat1 35.93	8.02	Heat17 34.98	8.10	Heat13 34.84	7.75	170.26	9
18	G Windle	Heat13 29.17	8.33	Heat9 27.53	8.03	Heat5 34.65	7.75	Heat1 36.82	7.95	Heat17 34.61	8.31	160.78	13
14	R  Fillbee	Heat17 34.69	8.04	Heat13 34.64	7.92	Heat9 36.98	7.61	Heat 5 35.08	8.27	Heat1 34.42	7.96	175.76	4
10	A     Gray	Heat2 35.02	7.71	Heat18 34.41	7.69	Heat15 36.62	7.67	Heat10 33.83	8.10	Heat6 36.03	7.75	175.91	3
15	E     Brox	Heat6 29.45	7.98	Heat2 32.95	8.37	Heat19 36.67	7.68	Heat14 37.91	7.70	Heat10 32.01	7.81	168.99	10
12	P Kalbfell	Heat10 37.53	7.57	Heat6 37.71	7.64	Heat2 37.74	7.71	Heat18 34.44	8.52	Heat14 35.40	7.85	182.82	1
3	L Shephard	Heat14   34.15	8.18	Heat10 37.13	7.63	Heat6 28.72	8.54	Heat2 38.16	7.93	Heat18 35.65	7.86	173.81	6
6	C  Briggs	Heat18 33.23	7.73	Heat14 29.81	8.23	Heat10 35.14	7.93	Heat 6 35.61	7.55	Heat2  38.65	7.35	172.44	8
13	R   Filbee	Heat3 29.94	8.35	Heat19 30.59	7.93	Heat15 35.48	7.92	Heat11 27.59	8.32	Heat7 33.65	8.14	157.03	15
5	C  Briggs	Heat7 33.65	8.24	Heat3 36.64	7.92	Heat19 36.60	7.33	Heat15 34.60	7.95	Heat11 32.09	8.41	173.58	7
9	D    Gray	Heat11 32.18	8.07	Heat7 32.62	8.30	Heat3 34.26	8.01	Heat19 34.61	7.92	Heat15 32.12	8.20	165.79	11
1	G Petrolati	Heat15 31.12	8.10	Heat11 27.45	8.26	Heat7 33.15	7.92	Heat3 36.63	7.79	Heat19 34.93	8.21	163.28	12
2	L Shephard	Heat 4 29.94	8.30	Heat20 32.56	8.07	Heat16 30.71	8.21	Heat12 30.93	8.25	Heat8 30.65	8.10	154.79	16
8	L  Fennel	Heat 8 5.00	10.00	Heat4 30.68	8.30	Heat20 retired	0	Heat16 19.69	8.66	Heat12 30.15	8.68	85.52	18
7	C    Priest	Heat12 15.95	8.68	Heat8 7.63	8.37	Heat4 13.00	0	Heat20 31.08	8.25	Heat16 31.66	0	99.32	17
4	B  Brehm	Heat16 31.94	8.47	Heat12 32.06	8.48	Heat8 32.99	8.60	Heat4 31.61	9.11	Heat20 32.08	8.70	160.68	14

Each entry was given a 1 minute run on yellow lane with Jim Brown doing the driving as he had not yet driven any of the contenders so we would be sure of an unbiased performance..

First up was Greg Petrolatis BMW which ran round pendles 118 ft with out incident.

2nd qualifer was Larry Shephards Corvette ,Larrys car  was a really smooth runner but was very tippy on the pendle surface and never allowed Jim to exploit its immense power.

3rd up Larrys R+S ,this was a very different car to the Corvette  and was immediatly on the pace setting a very creditable time the motor had lots of punch and the chassis a joy to drive

4th to qualify was the front engine Panoz of Bill Brehm,at first view Bills car was an odd set up but Jim was pleasantly surprised by the way it drove ,but unfortunatly it just didnt have enough power to give the time it was hoping for

5th qualifier was the first of Chris Briggs entrys  the BMW  v12 Chris's cars go very well and suited the pendle track quite well despite being a bit on the heavy side

6th up Chris Briggs CLK  performance wise it was similar to his other entry but the handling was better and this was reflected in itbeing 2hundreths faster than his BMW

7th qualifier was Chris Priests. McLaren ,while good round most of the track Chris's car stuggled to keep traction in some of Pendles left hand bends  when pushed to the limmit it was only after that we discovered the guide was catching in the chassis causing the inside rear wheel to lift and tramp when this problem was cured the car ran much better ,and should be better in the race than its qualifying position suggests

8th qualifier was Les Fennels Mclaren ,this car ran much better in qualifying than it ever did in the shake down but some times can be a bit unpredictable on the exits causing it to deslot with out warning

9th qualifier David Grays long tail Mclaren ,was very easy to drive but stuggled to get round pendles hairpin  some attention to the guide before the race will improve the cornering.

10th up Aidrian Grays Merc CLK ran smooth taking provisional pole from Larry

11th qualifier Phil Kalbfells Mosler came next setting the track alight and making Aidrians pole short lived

12th up Phils Lola while a good strong runner this car just didnt have the power of his other entry

13th qualifier Rhys Filbees demon chasssied Mosler lots out with  a touch of axle tramp but still qualified well

14th car Rhys's scratch built Mosler ran smooth and strong but not good enough to knock Phil off pole

15th up was Erlings entry just like Chris+Gregs similar car Erlings ran well  with an untroubled run

16th entrant was Graham Windles Porsche on its home track put up a time 1/10th sec faster than any other so far

17th qualifier Grahams new CLK flew totaly destroying any opposition with the only sub 7 second lap of the night

18th qualifier was a late extra entrant from Graham to fill up the entry the plastic chasssied CLK which raced in Tasmania  ,the light weight of this car helped give it a good qualifying position  but was more of a handfull than some of the other entrants

1st Graham Windle Merc CLK              6.92

2nd Graham Windle Porsche                  7.30

3rd Phil Kalbfell Mosler                          7.40

4th Graham Windle Merc CLK               7.41

5th Rhys Filbee Mosler                            7.48

6th Aidrian Gray Merc CLK                    7.52

7th = Erling Brox  Porsche                       7.59

7th = Phil Kalbfell Lola                           7.59

9th Larry Shephard R+S                          7.69

10th Chris Briggs Merc CLK                   7.73

11th Rhys Filbee Mosler 2                       7.74

12th Chris Briggs BMW                           7.78

13th Dave Gray Mclaren                          7.79

14th Greg Petrolati BMW                        7.81

15th Larry Shephard Corvette                  7.95

16th Les Fennel Mclaren                          7.98

17th Chris Priest Mclaren                         8.13

18th Bill Brehm Panoz                             8.35

The qualifying positions will determine the starting positions for the first race after which the   the cars will be re seeded by finish positions for the race at Bolton and again for the race at Slot -Tech

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Trev May waits patiently for  the other drivers to join him

L to R       Chaddy ,Graham Walker,Trev May,Andy Green,Nick Hirst,and Derek Howell.

Trev looks with disbelief as Nick transforms into a gorrilla

 L to R Graham Walker ,Mark and Luke Brandwood

Pendle is a 118 ft 5 lane pollyurathane coated MDF routed track the pick up tape is copper tape laid on top .Timing and race contoll is by computer and is acurate to 100th/sec.

Power is by truck battery and constant charger

A fast lap with  a scalex  car is round the 8 sec mark ,alms proxy cars as tested for the tracks already used are running in the low 7 secs,but this is using a 10-39 gear ratio ,international 32 /cheetah  type cars run in the very low 6's with 16ds turning in 5 second laps so you can see it is a very fast track

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