Thanks to John for this latest write up from the Isle of Wight Car Club. In his own words. Ed
Round ten (USS) 15th September 2013
A long-awaited venue for many as it gave an opportunity for a large open track layout to be set out and a great track it turned out to be. The weather forecast was cloudy with possible heavy showers, thankfully the showers stayed away until the event had finished.
RUN 1 First to set the pace was Darren Taylor posting a time of 1:02:16 closely followed by John Dutch on a 1:02:33 then Wayne Hole on a 1:06:07, Kevin Richardson on a 1:07:30 and Dan Morgan on a 1:07:31.
RUN 2 Saw everyone improving their time as the track was giving more grip with the grass coming off the surface of the field. First to set this new pace was John Dutch on a 58.34 seconds followed by Dan Morgan on a 1:00:04 then Darren Taylor on a 1:00:06 then Terry Steele on a 1:00:76 then Wayne Hole on a 1:01:76 then Toby Allen on a 1:02:17 and finally Kevin Richardson on a 1:02:49.
RUN 3 The track grip was now getting much better and the times were getting closer but John Dutch was still setting the pace with a 58.34 seconds, but hard on his heels was Terry Steele with a 58.50 seconds then Wayne Hole on a 59.34 seconds then Dan Morgan on a 59.54 seconds then Darren Taylor on a 59.79 seconds and finally Matt Price on a 59.97 seconds, the only six to be under the one minute barrier.
RUN 4 Once again saw John Dutch set the pace with a time of 56.49 seconds but Dan Morgan was chasing hard with a time of 57.23 seconds closely followed my Andy Williams on a 57.90 seconds then Terry Steele on a 58.29 seconds, then Darren Taylor on a 58.49 seconds and finally Dean Long on a 58.88 seconds.
RUN 5 Saw Ryan Munt in his 4WD Subaru coming from nowhere to put in a stunning time of 56.27 seconds, pushing John Dutch into second place overall, followed by Terry Steele with an improved time of 57.92 seconds then Dean Long on a 58.05 seconds, then Wayne Hole on a 58.07 seconds and finally Darren Taylor on a 58.19 seconds.
RUN 6 The final chance for everyone to get their fastest time and knock Ryan off the top of the leader board, but no one could improve their times apart from Andy Williams with a 57.14 moving him into 3rd place overall and Darren Taylor with a time 57.96 seconds.
All a bit too close for Ryan but his RUN 5 time of 56.27 seconds was enough to push John Dutch off the top of the leader board by only 0.22 of a second and give him his fourth win of the 2013 season and with only two USS rounds to go it looks like John (the 2012 champion) will be handing over the USS Title to Ryan at the end of the year.
Congratulations to Ryan on a great drive and his win.
Overall position
1st Ryan Munt
2nd John Dutch
3rd Andy Williams
4th Dan Morgan
5th Terry Steele
6th Darren Taylor
Fastest Ladies of the Day
1st Vicky Cox
2nd Marion Saunders
3rd Jill Williams
4th Linda Burt
5th Sue Mitchell
Class 1
No entries this time
Class 2
1st Dean Long
2nd Daryl Turner
3rd Tony Long
4th Scott Hatton
5th Mark Hatton
Class 3
1st Wayne Hole
2nd Kevin Richardson
3rd Brad Cullen
4th Marion Saunders
5th Dominic Clements
6th Matthew Bennet
7th Steve Brett
Class 4
1st Ryan Munt
2nd Dan Morgan
3rd Brian Robbins
4th Vicky Cox
5th Dan Cheek
6th John Cheek
Class 5
1st John Dutch
2nd Andy Williams
3rd Terry Steele
4th Darren Taylor
5th Matthew Price
6th Cullum Steele
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Image: © Ryan Munt at previous autotest – used with permission of Allan Marsh
