National finals at Goodwood 18th October

Reporter Bob Carter

Once again we got excellent weather for the finals. We had high hopes for a good result as Goodwood is a smooth track  without sharp bends. However at scrutineering we over-adjusted the brakes to the point that they were binding on  Zebedee. Luckily we had a couple of practice laps to sort this out. Although we were still on old batteries, Zebedee  was able to pull out a lap lead in the F24+ final which it held on to win in good style. Brian had our only set of new  batteries in a bid to hang onto the other in-form car in the class (Simple Trug) but alas we were not able to, and in fact  also narrowly lost our 3rd place in the last seconds of the race. Zebedee got a new lap record (in spite of Livvy  "taking it easy" as per the drivers instructions.....).

In the F24 final both cars started well and Zebedee was leading by a small margin when it got a puncture after about 90  minutes when we had to swerve to avoid an errant slower car. Unfortunately with all the traffic and the old batteries  we were not able to recover from this and finished in 4th place after Rotary Racer, SCO7 and Rpod. Brian had a quiet  race, coming in 10th. It would have finished much higher if we had not forgotten to turn the power back up for the  fresh batteries in the 2nd half of the race........

So: good day - F24+ national champions and a new lap record, plus Zebedee got the prize for best engineered car.