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Micro Scalextric Street Stock Eliminators - Round One

Fourteen on the ladder would give us a nice, flowing competition with two 'proper' semi-finals. First up were first and last qualifiers...

   

Jeremy's Veyron was smoking badly on the warm-up, but suddenly found some revs from somewhere. Would that give Clive a surprise? The answer was... no. A routine 0.196 second win for the Audi R8 - and a 0.664 second run, compared to 0.843 for Jeremy. At least the body stayed on.

   

Next up and Sue served up a shock - her Audi TT putting together the perfect run to beat Bill's cute DB5 by 0.023 seconds. It looked like the Aston had it covered, but the Audi crept up and passed on the line. Their ETs were 0.665 and 0.693.

   

Another upset followed in the battle of the Boxsters - Rebecca beat Iain by 0.018 seconds. Another quick first round race with Rebecca clocking 0.675 and Iain 0.696.

   

No surprises in this one... Jane went through in 0.648 seconds to beat Andy's Alfa by 0.109. A quick time for the Nissan.

   

Seventh and eighth qualifiers and a close encounter expected. Alan got the hole shot, but Rose's Peugeot just wouldn't give up... she caught her prey just before the line - the winning margin 0.001 seconds. The ETs 0.724 and 0.731.

   

Jerome was quick yesterday and had way too much for his dad - the Veyron clocking 0.687 and winning by 0.037 seconds.

   

Two Aston Martin DBR9s faced off in the final first round race - Laura's green machine taking the honours by 0.031 seconds. The ETs 0.679 to 0.708.