Bedford Heat and a WIN for Projectile

Bedford heat saw our first race of the season with 2 cars from the Plume stable attending in a field of 31 cars.

Race one, saw the year 10 girls start well with Megan Bramley enthusiastically pulling away from the front row of the grid and driving brilliantly reaching 2nd place right the way through her 30 minute stint. After a swift driver change Fiona Walton continued with some cracking lap times before an unfortunate incident caused the car to shed its drive chain and require recovery. Having sorted the problem the car headed back out with Mitzi Boyle taking the wheel and bringing Projectile home in a very credible 12th place.

Meanwhile the year 11 team headed out in the newly completed Plume Power with Yasmin Tennant pulling smoothly away from the line and driving cautiously as she learned the characteristics of the new car. Alex Kay took over for the second stint and really began to push the car harder and harder as his turn progressed. Jane Marie Osborne began the final stint of the race well and drove confidently to finish in 24th place.

The Formula 24+ senior race saw Lizzie Docherty competing in a field of 18 cars. Lizzie drove fantastically and her lap times were consistent and fast! After an hour of hard racing with only one minor misadventure into a gravel trap, Lizzie finished in a personal best of 7th, beating teams of apprentices from Jaguar Landrover, Perkins Engines, MIRA  and Renishaw Engineering.

Onto Race 2 and the year 10 boys. Following the F24+ race, a front tyre had to be hastily changed. This delay meant that Adam Lunn started further down the grid than in race one. From the outset Adam drove like a demon weaving his way past car after car and working his way to 1st place and on to build up a lead of 3 and a half minutes over 2nd place. The fastest pitstop of any team on the day saw our second driver Michael Brandon exit the pits still in front of 2nd place and continue to grow our lead to an incredible 7 and a half minutes over 2nd place. Our final driver George Hammond maintained our lead and drove brilliantly on fading batteries to nurse the car home an incredible 2.8 miles ahead of 2nd place.....what a result!!

The lads not only won, but also set the distance record and the lap record for the track.

The Dream Team with their medals and trophy

The year 11 team drove well but sadly suffered a rear tyre blowout in the second race, which took 18 minutes to fix. Despite this, Jane Marie nursed the car home to 19th place, a considerable improvement on race one.

So onto next weekend and Dunsfold Park (Top Gear track) and the final heat before the International Final.......