NATIONAL UK CHAMPIONSHIP 2003 REPORT By Eugene Beirne

Well despite rain in the evenings, the weather stayed dry and sunny for  the 2 day event and we had 53 boats running in all but 2 race classes.  Unfortunately Hydro 1 and Mono 2 Open classes had only 1 boat entered in each class.   Competitors came from Electra, NFERC and SWAMBC respectively and provided some keen racing with a number of class winners being separated by only a few seconds…

Before I list the results I would like to thank all those who attended and helped out with race duties and in particular to Sue and Jenny for ordering us about (immediately) and John Ives from the Northampton Club for manning the rescue boat during the weekend.

Race Result

The results below have been taken from the race sheet records.

Eco Standard

Competitor

1st Heat

2nd Heat

3rd Heat

Total

Position

Nick Rees

14 (DNF)

36 (6sec)

37 (8sec)

73 (14sec)

1

Steve Rayner

36 (15sec)

37 (7sec)

34 (9sec)

73 (32sec)

2

Andy Hassan

33 (14sec)

34 (1sec)

35 (6sec)

69 (7sec)

3

Graham Cornford

34 (14sec)

33 (6sec)

34 (20sec)

68 (34sec)

4

Eco Expert

Competitor

1st Heat

2nd Heat

3rd Heat

Total

Position

Roger Cumbers

35 (11sec)

3 (DNF)

33 (14sec)

68 (24sec)

1

Stephen Hart

34 (18sec)

32 (10sec)

32 (3sec)

66 (13sec)

2

Graham Cornford

35 (10sec)

29 (1sec)

6 (DNF)

64 (11sec)

3

Nick Rees

29 (DNF)

15 (DNF)

33 (4sec)

62 (4sec)

4

Steve Rayner

5 (DNF)

31 (5sec)

27 (9sec)

58 (14sec)

5

Tim Watson

28 (26sec)

28 (13sec)

24 (8sec)

56 (39sec)

6

Bob Yates

3 (DNF)

30 (12sec)

13 (DNF)

43 (12sec)

7

 

Eco Team

Competitor

Total

Position

Team Electra

96 (10sec)

1

Team Graham

94 (3sec)

2

Team Jordan

75 (4sec)

3

 

Formula 1

Competitor

1st Heat

2nd Heat

3rd Heat

Total

Position

Nick Rees

18 (15sec)

14 (10sec)

18 (17sec)

36 (32sec)

1

Roger Cumbers

14 (14sec)

15 (26sec)

15 (11sec)

30 (37sec)

2

Grahams Cornford

0 (DNF)

0 (DNF)

0 (DNF)

0

-

 

Formula 2

Competitor

1st Heat

2nd Heat

3rd Heat

Total

Position

Paul Severs

16 (5sec)

15

14

31 (5sec)

1

Nick Rees

15 (12sec)

16 (5sec)

8 (DNF)

31 (17sec)

2

Paul Rayner

0 (DNF)

0 (DNF)

0 (DNF)

0

-

 

Formula 3

Competitor

1st Heat

2nd Heat

3rd Heat

Total

Position

Nick Rees

16 (23sec)

5 (DNF)

15 (22sec)

31 (45sec)

1

Ian Severs

14 (13sec)

14 (12sec)

15 (15sec)

29 (27sec)

2

Graham Cornford

14 (14sec)

14 (16sec)

14 (10sec)

28 (24sec)

3

Roger Cumbers

12 (17sec)

13 (21sec)

13 (24sec)

26 (45sec)

4

George Roberts

9 (16sec)

13 (30sec)

13 (20sec)

26 (50sec)

5

 

Formula 400

Competitor

1st Heat

2nd Heat

3rd Heat

Total

Position

Tom Watson

19 (8sec)

19 (1sec)

23 (10sec)

42 (11sec)

1

Ian Phillips

18 (11sec)

18 (8sec)

21 (14sec)

39 (22sec)

2

Roger Cumbers

18 (11sec)

19 (11sec)

20 (13sec)

39 (24sec)

3

Ian Williams

17 (3sec)

18 (DNF)

20 (8sec)

38 (8sec)

4

George Roberts

4 (DNF)

16 (37sec)

17 (21sec)

33 (58sec)

5

 

Mono 1

Competitor

1st Heat

2nd Heat

3rd Heat

Total

Position

Ken Brown

18 (13sec)

18 (14sec)

11 (3sec)

36 (27sec)

1

Paul Heaton

18 (4sec)

17 (12sec)

17

35 (4sec)

2

Trevor Goodison

18 (5sec)

17 (9sec)

17 (24sec)

35 (11sec)

3

Ian Phillips

16 (12sec)

7 (18sec)

18 (22sec)

34 (34sec)

4

Paul Severs

16 (35sec)

11

15

31 (35sec)

5

Stu Brown

7

14 (27sec)

11 (5sec)

25 (32sec)

6

Ian Williams

11 (19sec)

13

11

24 (10sec)

7

 

Mono 2 (Restricted)

Competitor

1st Heat

2nd Heat

3rd Heat

Total

Position

Paul Heaton

17 (10sec)

18 (20sec)

1 (DNF)

35 (30sec)

1

Trevor Goodison

16 (10sec)

17 (18sec)

5 (DNF)