Shropshire cleans up at Ironbridge
Shropshire had a phenomenally successful days racing at ironbridge today with lots of people racing and lots of people winning.
In K1 racing Matt Whittle won his first ever div 7 K1 race taking the lead right from the start and maintaining it throughout the race. Paul Crisp came second in the div 6 race (his second hasler race, and first div 6 race), overtaking at least one div 5 K2 on the way through and Sam Rudd came a commendable 5th in div 8 - again, only her second K1 race!
The K2s were equally successful with Connor and Joseph just pipping Anker Valley's Liz Franklin and Jenny Sykes to first place by 4 seconds, closely followed by Marcus & Cameron who beat another K2 team into third place by just one second. The finishs for these boats was so exciting I forgot to get any photos. Sorry.
The div 9 race was consolidated with div 8 so Kate and Dave, despite their protestations that they like being in div 9 and shouldn't be promoted because they're not fast enough for div 8 managed to beat several div 8 crews to come second in the combined race which makes their chances of promotion reather more likely.
Also in the running for promotion are Anita and Gari who decided to enter the 8 mile div 6 race rather than do their normal div 7 course and again managed a second place.
Almost everyone came home with a pot and shed loads of club points. Well done team.
Mick is sorting out the HRM so promotions etc should be known in the next week or so. Hopefully (or maybe not) we'll know before the nationals - Kate & Dave and Gari & Anita might be racing their first races in new divisions...
[Edit by Andy - a few photos from today]
