The final round of the TYRO National took place on the 7th of September and it was promised to be an exciting race on the infamous Herts track. Multiple drivers could take the TYRO championship so it was all to play for. Rain had been falling on and off, very heavily some times, the week leading up to the race day but the work from the HNMC team helped make the track race able on the day. It was a wet start however the track did dry out and by the finals the track was looking great, however neared the end of the day the track did start to become rutted by it was not to serious.

Carl Richards managed to TQ the race day with Keith Robertson close behind in 2nd and Marc Knight qualifying 3rd. Carl Richards ran into problems early on in the race falling to 7th on the first lap slowly dropping down the places until lap 8 where he retired. Keith Robertson dropped to 5th on lap 2 however got back into 2nd 4 laps later. Keith swapped places many times during the race falling back into 5th and 4th and then making the ground back up. Marc Knight was fighting with Matthew Lewis, who had come up from 10th, for 1st and 2nd place until lap 22 where one of the inserts blew out of the rear tyre of Marc Knight’s car, this was followed by the other insert a few laps later. Matthew Lewis seemed to have the win secured with Jess Saunders who had a bad start slowly worked his way up the field into 2nd at around the same time Marc’s rear tyres ‘blew-out’. Mark Tatman was in 3rd until 4 laps until the end Keith Robertson overtook Mark and got 2nd. The final results were:

1: Matthew Lewis 39/1805.35
2: Jess Saunders 39/1817.86
3: Keith Robertson 39/1819.33

Detailed results can be found here…

Photos of the event can be found here…