With the first qualifying session for the Over 40 Light class being the fourth session of the morning, Team Green Racing decided that the cool temperatures warranted higher tyre pressures in an attempt to find as much grip as possible. As each session is only four minutes in length, it is critical to get the tyres up to temperature within a couple of laps.

The first session went well, with a best time of 41.385 seconds being achieved on lap 5. This put Robert in a provisional fifth on the grid, which is about where we had hoped to be given the quality of the opposition.

For the second qualifying session, we dropped the tyre pressures by four pounds to allow for the warmer late morning temperatures. Unfortunately, the pressures were still too high, and the tyres quickly overheated. This was evidenced in the fact that Robert's best lap for the session was posted on lap two and at 41.468 seconds was in fact slower than his best lap from first qualifying and only good enough for seventh place in this session. The only other driver with a slower time in qualifying two was Dale Madden, but he had such a gap over the rest of the field from the first session that no-one was going to get near his provisional pole time.

So, with grid positions determined by the drivers' best times from either session, the final qualifying positions for the two heats this afternoon are as follows:

Pos       No.       Name                Best Time

1          59         Dale Madden      40.639

2          40         David Cramp      40.834

3          60         David Reading    40.869

4          16         Steve Crocker    41.030

5          57         Peter Rogers      41.069

6          66         Robert Green     41.385

7          51         Chris Price         41.415

8          8          John Schofield    41.686

9          33         Terry Chadwick  41.742

10         80         Greg Hanson     41.907

11         75         Bill Bostock        43.584