Link Up Ltd MSA British Autotest Championship - JCS Kegworth Loughborough Autotest

2008 British Champion Alastair Moffatt took the honours in a wet JCS Kegworth Loughborough Autotest. The Mini Special driver had won all the previous events, but made life difficult for himself by collecting a 30 second penalty on test two, dropping him down well outside the top 10.  Richard Pinkney in the Caterham took charge at the head of the field, with the Nova of Gavin Dickson just 4.5 seconds behind after the first round of three tests, but the tricky conditions caught them out with two penalties for Dickson and a wrong test for Pinkney over the following round. Stephen Wild's ABS held a slim lead over the Lindsay Special of Malcolm Livingston, the Westfield of Ashley Lamont and John Moffatt's Nova, just 2.7 secs covering the top four. 

Alastair Moffatt was making his move though and was up to fifth and only 3.9 secs off the lead. The rain had stopped and conditions were improving and by test eight he had regained the lead and followed that with fastest times on the remaining tests of the day.  Pinkney was unable to make back the time lost in his earlier wrong test and had to settle for second in class behind the Westfield of Lamont.  The Novas of John Moffatt and Gavin Dickson were separated by less than two seconds, but three penalties for Dickson over the last six tests handed the class victory to Moffatt.  Howard Everingham took a convincing win in the Mini class taking the fastest time in class on all the tests.

Event Results Top 6

Alastair Moffatt       Mini Special             894.6

Stephen Wild           ABS                         923.3

Ashley Lamont        Westfield                 934.3

Duncan Wild            ABS                         948.9

John Moffatt            Nova                        955.3

Richard Pinkney      Caterham                 957.2