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Micro Scalextric Street Stock Eliminators

A field of eight gave us a very neat quarters, semis and final.

   

Kev comfortably dispatched Andy's Alfa in the first race. The winning margin was 0.121 and the ETs 0.630 and 0.742.

   

The second race saw a minor upset - fifth qualifier Bill beating fourth qualifier Clive by 0.030 seconds. Their ETs were 0.640 and 0.668.

   

Jane beat Rebecca by 0.045 seconds - the ETs 0.639 and 0.683.

   

And finally for the Round 1 races, Iain took advantage of a Smokey Joe no-show to cruise to a 0.173 second win with an ET of 0.692. Jeremy eventually made it to the line - coughing and spluttering - in 0.865 seconds.

Semi-finals

   

Kev made this look easy with a scintillating 0.604 second run - close to the fastest ever Street Stock time. The inspection crew wanted another look under the hood, but nothing was amiss. Bill clocked an excellent 0.639, but was 0.043 seconds behind at the line.

   

Jane's margin of victory was greater - 0.054 seconds - but she needs to find seventeen thousandths of a second to match Kev's best. Her run of 0.621 seconds was more than enough for Iain, who managed a 0.678 with his awesome Halloween-themed machine.

That gave us the showdown we were all looking forward to...