Hemel weekend

5th May - Hemel Club National
With 236 racers it was always going to be a long day and whilst it wasn’t quite the ice age fighting back global warming we did have to wait almost the whole day to see anything that remotely resembled sunshine. On the track Nathan Breese followed up the promise of the Celtic Cup series openers compiling three superb runs to claim a highly creditable 5th place in the minis category. Jordan Fellows also proving his consistency with the three fastest times of the day in the minis to take 1st place. In the girls Abby had a morning to file away and forget with a brace of DNF’s, Georgina Gould failed to build on two great morning runs with a DNF in her 3rd run, Charlotte Shrimpton claimed 12th place in chi 2 with three solid times and Charlie Gould smashed her seed point ranking by taking an excellent 9th Place in jn1. In the boys Ashley claimed 4th place in chi 1, Joe Humfress instantly took his seed points below the 250 mark in claiming 17th in Chi 2, a feat that would have been matched by Ben Cooper but for the most officious of officials, whom for every ounce of common sense also had an ounce and a half of pettiness, chose to disqualify Ben for missing a verbal instruction. Quite why men feel the need to detach their brain when wearing a florescent yellow jacket is the eighth wonder of the modern world. God help us.

6th May – Hemel Grand Prix
And so to the first Grand Prix of summer 2007. On a brute of a second course Ashley, lying in 3rd place after run 1, straddled whilst looking like improving on his position. Abby also followed suit and so it was left to the two Charlotte’s to battle it out for Telford. In ch1 2 Charlotte Shrimpton claimed 9th place and in jn1 Charlie Gould placed 14th.