Acklam autograss driver Chris Chilvers has made a flying start after narrowly missing out on the top spot in the first race of the season
Teesside's Chris Chilvers made a flying start to the new autograss season.
The Acklam driver enjoyed a highly successful 2013 campaignn, storming to both the Formula 600 Yorkshire Dales Club Championship and the Formula 600 Dales League Championship titles.
He and dad Malcolm are intending that 2014 should be a more relaxing season, with the emphasis on the fun side of racing rather than points scoring.
But you wouldn’t have thought that when the Team Autocare drivers took to ther track for the opening Yorkshire Dales meeting of the year at Thornborough.
Chris Chilvers was running fourth in his first heat with a slight misfire when a spin by the third-placed car at the final corner promoted him to third at the finish.
A second place in his next race secured a place in the final.
The final proved to be a tough battle and he missed out on the win by half a car’s length after scrapping all the way.
Chilvers Snr also brought some silverware to the family mantelpiece last year after taking third place in both the Stock Hatch Yorkshire Dales Club Championship and the Stock Hatch Dales League Championship.
In his first heat at Thornborough this season he was thwarted at the start by a crossover incident which left him running in fifth place, although he was placed fourth after the offending car was disqualified.
The second heat brought him another fourth place and, with an excellent turnout of three stock hatch grids, that left him as a reserve for the finals.
Darlington’s Graham Blackburn took victory in the class seven final.
The next meeting at Thornborough is the Stu Nicholls Memorial meeting on Bank Holiday Monday, May 5, tarting at 10.30am.
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