[Gareth]

C Final

   

Ollie B had picked white lane for his pole position and I gleefully seized red which had been the only lane I’d had a good run in during the heats.  Not even a full chassis swap could cure my poor driving it seemed.  Matthew too had not had the best of times in the heats.  He would be going from blue leaving Mike to swap from the outside lane to the much tighter inside yellow lane.  

Ollie certainly caught his elder (but not elderly!) rivals by surprise as he blasted into the lead on lap 1.  I gave chase and immediately crashed, Matthew having done the same thing a lap before.  That left Mike briefly in 2nd place before the two Super Gs screamed back past him.  The pace was certainly there for Matthew and I but sadly we’d both left our talent in our other trousers as crash after crash left us multiple laps off of the flying Ollie.  

I often comment in these reports that Ollie is either dominant or wildly erratic and this was one of his dominant runs.  He didn’t put a wheel wrong all race as he claimed the junior medal and the C final victory.  Matthew managed one less crash than I did to finish exactly 1 lap ahead for 2nd while Mike trailed home in 4th.  But he would have another race to do later.