Tough Brake for NORA
By Team TMX on 15th Jul 15
Heavy rain showers meant just one full block of racing was completed at the seventh round of the NORA Series at Brakehill on Sunday before the organisers had to halt the event on safety grounds.
Only the Masters and Clubman classes ran a second race in muddy conditions but as they struggled it was clear the youth groups would not be able to manage and proceedings were stopped.
As is often the case in the wet, some riders upset the form book, and none more so than 17-year-old Clubman rider Marco Zaffino.
In the opening race he was 12th but in muddy race two he kept rolling while others around him faltered to record a debut seven-second victory.
It was enough to secure third overall in the group, as well as victory in Clubman B.
The opening Clubman race had followed the usual script with runaway championship leader Dafydd Davies taking a 25-second victory over Kyle Hawkes, who overhauled Ryan Griffin in the closing stages.
Davies had led the second race in the early stages before a mistake allowed Zaffino and Griffin through, which is the order in which they finished.
In the Masters, Ed Davies made no mistakes to win both races – the first by 34 seconds from Gary Aldington and Darren Bridge.
In the second, though, with conditions at their worst he was two-minutes 49-seconds ahead of the field.
Chris Murphy bagged second ahead of Matthew Kirk, with Bridge's fourth spot enough to secure him second overall in class ahead of Rob Swann.
Victory in the Clubman B group – his first – went to Simon Naylor thanks to a best-ever finish of fifth overall in the rain-hit second race.
FOR FULL REPORT & PICS SEE TMX NEWS, JULY 16, (ISSUE 1980)
