After several abortive attempts to run the final round of the 2009 SRH-motorsport-photography.co.uk ironman kart series (originally scheduled for Nov 22nd) Stockton & District Motor Club finally got 25 racers to take to the once again snow bound circuit at Teesside on Sunday. There were 3 drivers with a chance of taking the championship and they were all made hungrier for action by the postponed race. Redcar’s Chris Roe was the series leader and perhaps strongest placed with less rivals to detract points from him in Class B, Colin Peacock & Warren Clough were separated by just 2 points in the larger but more spread out Class A.
qual: Peacock was
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 In bright, low sunshine & almost freezing conditions the karts tentatively set off for practice and qualifying on the cold, wet asphalt, at the end of this Peacock and Clough occupied places 1 and 2 on the grid. This did not tell the whole story of qualifying where Peacock was a massive 2 whole seconds faster than anyone else in the field. Roe also took pole in his class.
From the start Peacock took off in search of the win still mindful of the conditions, but his championship hopes also rested with Roe finishing at best 3rd and with out fastest lap in class . As the race went on Peacock drew an ever increasing lead over Warren Clough of Norton, Brian Naylor of Milton Keynes was joined in a battle for the final podium spot by Warren’s father Keith, Brian eventually winning this tussle by a mere 0.15 seconds.
 At the flag Peacock was 25 seconds to the good, with pole and fastest lap in the bag, he could do no more than wait on the other results. Chris Roe crossed the line second in class and also fastest lap in class to capture a well deserved title against very strong opposition in a hotly contested championship. Round 1 of the 2010 series is on March 7th.
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