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Stage One: Friston Forest

Winner: Mike Dadson, SRC Porsche 914/6GT

   

Group A would start their night on this SCX & Scalextric Classic end-to-end layout. The footprint was the same as the summer, but there was more C164 Rough Terrain pieces to catch out drivers taking too much air over the humpback bridge and out of the final corner. Anyone with a super-wide car would also need to be cautious around these fiendish nobbly obstacles...

   

Terry's Scaleauto RS200 was the fastest through of that first group with a 50.51 stage time, ahead of Lee's SRC Porsche 914 and Olivers NSR Punto.

   

Next through the forest trails was Group D, Andy's Ninco Subaru and Porsche 911SC both going faster than Terry. Steve's Scalextric Subaru was third quickest from this group, but not quite on the pace of the front-runners. The best time was now 47.78 seconds.

   

Jeremy's Scalextric / Amato Triumph TR7 V8 was the pick of Group C, his time of 48.71 splitting Andy's two Ninco runners to take second spot. His Ford Puma WRC went quickest by two seconds in the standard Scalextric class and Peugeot 206 was the pick of the SCX models so far.

The final action in the forest saw Mike shave almost four seconds off the best time as Group B worked their way through the forest trail. Matthew and James - sharing another SRC Porsche 914 - would put themselves in fifth and sixth, with Scott's Ninco Peugeot 306 eighth. Six of the top ten were from that final group - confirming the hunch that drivers get better as the night goes on...

   
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Congrats to Mike on his stage win. Jeremy picked up best times for Scalextric and SCX. Isaac's Lancer took five seconds off Ollie's Impreza in the junior battle - and Stephen had four seconds over Kevin for Club Car honours.