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The G Final featured a group of four who'd had a less than satisfactory qualifying...

   

Kev lined-up his Bulldog in blue lane, Dylan's Bulldog in red, Nathan's Mega-G+ in yellow and James with white club car. It was a clean first lap, with Kev leading the way. Then it got a big crashy - Dylan off on lap 2, the other three all off on lap 3 and then Dylan and James on lap 4. The race did eventually settle down, Kev maintaining the race lead after the early carnage...

   

Nathan was looking good in yellow lane, until a big off lost him 30 seconds. Instead, it was James who was Kev's closest rival, albeit finishing two and a half laps back. Miraculously, Nathan returned to the action with just a lap to go - and that was just enough to pip Dylan to third.

Kev stepped up into yellow lane in the F Final, up against Kevin (blue), Steve (red) and Ethan in white...

   

Both Bulldogs - Ethan and Kev - crashed on the first lap, leaving Steve and Kevin out front in the early stages. Steve's Turbo was going nicely, just easing out the gap to Kevin's Gen6 Mega-G+. A crash dropped Steve back to second on lap 6, but Kevin was off the next time round and Steve was back in control of the race...

   

Steve kept things clean to the end and Kevin simply had no answer. A couple more offs meant a winning margin of exactly three laps. In the battle of the Bulldogs, both lost bodies and spent a long time off track... Kev's body went back on rather more quickly, so he grabbed third.

Steve was delighted to step up to the favoured blue lane in the E Final, where he'd face Isaac (yellow), Stephen (white) and Phil (red)...

   

Isaac, Phil and Steve all had sloppy first laps, leaving Stephen with a decent lead in the white club car. Isaac responding with a storming lap and his Super-G+ took the lead, which he held for 3 laps before another off handed first place back to Stephen...

   

The club car runner plugged away in the outside lane, but Steve's Turbo gradually cruised up and took the lead on lap 8. Isaac had lost nearly a lap, but gradually chipped away at Steve's advantage by a tenth or two of a second a lap. Steve responded well, holding the gap in the closing stages after it looked a mere formality that the youngster would catch and pass. Those final few laps were a compelling watch, both driving magnificently. A late lunge by Isaac left him a tantalising twentieth of a lap behind at the end. Phil put together a good run to grab third and top rookie honours, Stephen's race having got rather ragged after losing the lead.

Two wins for Steve and he stepped up to white in the D Final. He faced stiff opposition from Duncan's Life Like (red), Ollie's Super-G+ (yellow) and Mike's Gen6 Mega-G+ (blue)...

   

Ollie was quickest off the line, with Duncan close behind. Steve binned his Turbo on lap 2, dropping to the back and finding the pace ahead just too hot to handle. Duncan grabbed the lead on the following lap, when Ollie had a wobble, but the junior racer was straight back through on lap 4 - that was before two crashes on consecutive laps dropped him right to the back...

   

Duncan's legendary Life Like was now in front and lapping almost half a second a lap quicker than Mike's Mega-G+ in second. With neither making errors, the lead grew and grew. By the time the chequered flag fell, the gap was a lap and a half, such was the Life Like's advantage in Duncan's masterful hands. Behind, Ollie made short work of Steve, even though a late and lengthy off dropped him back to within a lap and half of the Turbo.

Duncan's evening would continue into at least the C Final, which we'll get onto next.