16th Oct 2010 Ken Wharton International Autotest

Would like to wish the lads all the best for next weekends event and lets hope the trophy is coming back on the boat next Sunday Very Happy

Teams are
ENGLAND
E 1 Roger Holder Mini 1400
E 2 Lee Valentine Nova 1600
E 3 Richard Pinkney Caterham 7 1600
E 4 Alastair Moffatt Mini Special 1400

NORTHERN IRELAND
NI 1 Sam Bowden Mini 1430
NI 2 Raymond Donaldson Nova 1600
NI 3 Paul Blair Striker 1600
NI 4 Steven Ferguson Mini Special 1400

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
RI 1 Eamonn Byrne Mini 1430
RI 2 David Thompson Nova 1600
RI 3 Simon Echlin Caterham 1600
RI 4 Eddie Peterson Mini Special 1430

WALES
W 1 Rob Rolston Mini 1400
W 2 Lloyd Bass Nova 1600
W 3 Gordon Holmes Westfield 1800
W 4 Dave Evans Blitz 2000

Reserves

ENGLAND
A1 Howard Everingham (E) Mini 1400
B1 Andrew Egger (E) Nova 1600
C1 Ian Chapman (E) Striker 1800
D1 Stephen Wild (E) ABS Freestyle 1430

NORTHERN IRELAND
A2 Robin Lyons` (NI) Mini 1400
B2 Mark King (NI) Nova 1400
C2 Trevor Ferguson (NI) Striker 1600
D2 Norman Ferguson (NI) Mini Special 1400

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
A3 Chris Grimes (RI) Mini 1400
B3 Liam Cashman (RI) Starlet 1295
C3 Andrew O’Donohoe (RI) Westfield 1600
D3 J J Farrell (RI) Mini Special 1430

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C'mon Ireland !

Best wishes and good luck to all the crew.

Tim

Good luck guys!! Very Happy

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Best of luck boys , fly the flag:)

Good luck lads.

Best of luck lads, and enjoy it!

Update 1 thanks to Paul Phelan...

Not a good start –

Test 1 – Northern Ireland 293.8, Ireland 303.1, England 325.4.

Test 2 – Northern Ireland 576.4, Ireland 607.8, England 613.1.
Eddie P’s gear lever broken – FAIL.

Test 3 - Northern Ireland 857.7, Ireland 892.5, England 907.2.
line penalty for David Thompson.

Individuals –
Alastair Moffatt 202.6,
Steven Ferguson 206.7,
Richard Pinkney 207.5,
Eamonn Brne 208.6,
Sam Bowden 209.1

Proceedings halted at the moment – timing gear problems.

Reserves after test 2 –
J J Farrell 134.7,
Stephen Wild 141.9,
Robin Lyons 143.9.
(At that stage, Alastair was best team member on 137.4)

More later...

Last edited by Piers14 on Sun Oct 17, 2010 7:08 pm; edited 1 time in total

Gap after Test 3 – 34.8 secs

Test 4 - Northern Ireland 1148.2, Ireland 1174.0, England 1203.8. Gap 25.8
Paul Blair pylon

Test 5 - Northern Ireland 1435.1, Ireland 1452.8, England 1491.7. Gap 17.7
Paul Blair another pylon

Individuals –
Alastair Moffatt 337.6,
Steven Ferguson 341.3,
Eamonn Byrne 345.1,
Sam Bowden 345.9,
Richard Pinkney 350.1,
Eddie Peterson 359.9

Reserves –
J J Farrell 341.9,
Robin Lyons 354.4,
Chris Grimes 366.5

Final layout for tests 6-7-8 now being set up.

More later...

Gap after Test 5 – 17.7 secs

Test 6 -
Eamonn took 0.1 off Sam to lead the Mini class by 0.9
David beat Raymond by 6.7 to take the class lead by 0.4
Simon beat Paul by 1.7
Eddie dropped 1.0 to Steven

Gap now 10.2 with two tests left

Test 7 – Heavy shower of rain just before Minis went.
Eamonn got the worst of it, Sam was 2.0 quicker to take the class lead for
the first time since test 1
David beat Raymond by another 0.9
Simon got 0.3 on Paul
Eddie and Stevie dead level

Gap 11.0 starting the final test.

Test 8 -
Eamonn took 0.4 off Sam – team gap 10.6 – Sam wins Mini saloon class by 0.7
David flew, beat Raymond by 3.7 – gap down to 6.9 – David wins Nova class
Simon got 0.3 on Paul (again) – gap 6.6 with just Mini Specials to come
(England’s Richard Pinkney wins sports car class by 26.9s after dominating
all day)
Eddie 0.1 slower than previous time, Stevie took things carefully to make
sure not to break anything, 2.3 slower than Eddie

RESULT –

Northern Ireland regain Ken Wharton Memorial Trophy by 4.3 seconds

Ireland second after fighting back from 34.8s deficit after three tests

England a distant third after lots of car problems

Individuals –
Alastair Moffatt led for most of the day but a broken CV
joint on the final test cost him a fail –
Steven Ferguson took a last
minute win by 4s from Richard Pinkney, Sam Bowden, Eamonn Byrne, Moffatt
and Eddie Peterson.

Reserves –
J J Farrell (2s behind Pinkney) from Robin Lyons and Chris Grimes

More detail later plus hopefully some photos

PP

Thanks for all the updates Paul and well done to Northern Ireland for retaining the trophy.

Well done to all the Ireland team for coming so close after a great fight back..