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Hottrax Cadwell Park: Weekend race review

National and Junior Endurance Race – Three Hours

It was Karl Harris who earned pole for Splitlath Motorsport (KH/John Simpson) on his Aprilia RSV; next up were top 600 plot Freddy's Gonna Get Ya (Freddy Pett and Russo), BLDS Couriers (Jonty Dixon/Byron Beckett) and GB Moto (Pete Jennings/Ace Endurance man Alex Cudlin).

Freddy's got a stormer of a start but it only took a short while for Karl Harris to steer the Italian V twin into P1 and begin to build a lead over GB Moto, TANC (Chris Mason/Jon Otter), Freddys and DR4 (Neil Garnham/Tony Rogers). At the one hour mark Freddys were on top, a shade up from GB, BLDS, Splitlath and championship leaders Sweatshop (Mick Godfrey/Hugh Brasher).

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Karl Harris’ Aprilia retired at the bottom of the mountain, transponder plundered Irish youngster Simpson was out quickly. With half the race left the pace car popped out, the sudden slowing up caused DR4s Neil Garnham to clash with Tango & Crash's Ryan Myler causing the white flag period to be extended, GB Moto lost out big time being dumped a lap down the field.

With an hour left on the clock BLDS were ten seconds in front of Sweatshop who were only two seconds ahead of Freddys, six teams were a lap down on the leaders; PS Racing, M & M, Handbags & Shoes, Pit Stop (Marc + Peter Dilks), Splitlath and DR4.

Cadwell felt autumnal as the chequered flag dropped on the race which saw Freddys cross the line a whole lap in front of regulars Sweatshop and BLDS with Splitlath a couple of laps adrift along with PS Racing (Paul Atkinson/Steph Waddelow), M & M (Lewis Mason/Robbie Moore), the Pit Stop brothers and DR4.

After the time keepers had removed all the wildcards from the timing sheets; National 1000 experts Sweatshop were credited with the National 1000 class and overall, BLDS were second in front of Ridgeback (Mark Clark/David Stolliday) and Insignia (Einar Torlen/Rob Loveday). Newcomers PS Racing took honours in the National 600 class with a lap’s grace over title favorites M & M who had Pit Stop breathing down their necks in the closing stages. Things were close in Junior 1000s which saw yet another win for Derek Redmond 4, a whole lap ahead of Blujets who were just over a second in front of Banzai Racing (Tom Webb/Rupert Thompson) and Extreme Wraps (Loveday/Pearce). The smallest grid gave a deserved win for Brand Brothers (Martin and Peter) who luxuriated in a three lap cushion from Apex Racing (Nick Matthews/Glen Levy).

MotoGrande 1000

Race 1

Local hero Phil Crow turned pole into an emphatic win, at one time his lead was so dominant that he was able to cruise to the flag with a couple of laps to go. Big Phil was chased home by Brazilian Rhalf Lo Turco who was under a second ahead of Dan Fowler who was given a 10 second penalty for a jump start. With title leader Julian Hughes finishing in fourth ahead of Ash Daughtrey, Mallory specialist Gary Arden and Brooks he was able to extend his lead.

Race 2

Crow was swamped from the grid by Fowler who managed to keep the BMW at bay in second for half distance before Phil dived for the paddock only to re emerge a lap later. Lo Turco had worked his way up to second from new to series Fowler with Hughes and Daughtrey, Arden, Brooks, Bridle and Adam Reeve. Crow completed the race to finish in an eventual 11th place as well as taking the fastest lap.

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Race 3

Crow stormed off from pole to pull out a huge gap over Lo Turco and Fowler who slid into second before our leader headed for the paddock again. This enabled Fowler to take control of the race to win from busy man Lo Turco and Hughes who was happy to bank lots of points for his season's campaign. Arden made fourth his own from Brooks and Daughtrey, Phil Crow rejoined the masses to post thirteenth place.

MotoGrande 600

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Race 1

An early incident involving Andrew Nicholson and Martin Stanier bringing out the red flag, at the restart Dave Sellers stole the front position with Ludgate in pursuit, Matt Smith and Richard Dilks ahead of a blanket of four riders all covered by less than half a second; Paul O'Connor, Colin Norris, starting from the back of the grid Andrew Nicholson and Andrew Lund at the end of the shortened eight lapper.

Race 2

It took Ludgate a couple of laps to overhaul Sellars with Smith in third before the red flag was shown. For the six lap restart Ludgate made it a bit more convincing until the closing lap when Sam and Sellars disputed the lead on the run up to the last corner giving Ludgate the win from Sellars, Smith, Richard Dilks, Nicholson, Andy Lund, John Burr and Norris

Race 3

It was another red flag restart over six laps and it Ludgate did a sterling job in keeping Sellars at bay for the duration. Smith maintained his regular third spot holding a huge gap over Paul, Norris, Slater, Dean Martin, Warren Verwey, Vince Brett and Nick Matthews.

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Previous multi race winner Neil Appleby stole a couple of wins from Andy Challis, although Challis was able to take victory in the final race by less than half a second. Danny Hornblow took a trio of third places and Paul Payne posted three fourths. Top Class B honours went to Paul Bradbury with two wins and David Jenkins with a lone class victory over the weekend.

Click the link below to download all the results

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