Moderator's Report
Congratulations to Ian Stanley for scoring his second Clubman win, first one of the season. Though its safe to say that Ian's victory charge was helped by a mass disco on lap 1 which eliminated, amongst others, Phil as as strong contender for a win here, Ian's win is certainly well deserved as he had to beat an on-form Bernie and Chris, both of whom had faster chassis underneath them.
Bernie could have easily fought for the win but his first part of race was rather wobbly and he lost too much ground to a very consistant Ian Stanley. Bernie did claim the fastest lap of 1m43.021s but Ian was less than tenth behind.
Michael Turner makes his podium debut after driving a fine race and even holding the fastest lap up until the end of race where Ian and Bernie sped up fighting each other. Michael also claimed the third fastest lap confirming his podium position.
The championship now looks good for Bernie who moves 36 points ahead of Phil and with two races to go, it looks more and more as a two horse battle. However, three more drivers, Chris, Will and Art, stand a mathematical chance for the title but bookies have it all on the two leading drivers.
Next up is Silverstone and a first match ball for Bernie.
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Lap 1 - between T2 and T3
Phil Thornton gets the Vaill's Bend slightly wrong and goes wide opening the doors to Ian Stanley's BRM. They get to go through the esses towards the Beagle's Nest side by side and both drivers try and give room to each other however, track in this part is rather tricky and racing line is a bit undefined.
They touch wheels and Phil goes of the track momentarily however, disconnects immediatelly and its difficult to tell how it would end.
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Lao 3 - Flat turn
Ian Stanley is approaching Michael Turner's Ferrari which went a bit out of shape through the Climbing corner. Michael did a good thing and went off the racing line in order to recover his speed, which is very commendable, and sort of half expects Ian to pass him much faster. Ian was however very cautious over the hump so they approach the flat turn side by side but Michael is in less favourable position as he is on the far right, taking a right turn. He'a bit far from Ian who can barely see him, even when looking to his right - Ian turns in a bit too soon, obviously unaware of Michael's presence and they touch slightly but both drivers are luckily able to continue.
This is not a major offence as there are mitigating circumstances amongst which is the hump over which Ian had to slow down and therefore to him, it could easily appear that he was going to pass Michael much farther. Also, there was a small element of warp involved.
I will caution this as when in doubt, one should always leave some room to avoid such situations.
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Lap 3 - Pete Stenning makes a mistake and flips his Lotus requiring a Shift R but fails to carry out a Stop and Go to compensate.
