The Wairarapa Car Club held their final sealed surface event for the year at Admiral Road on Sunday 7th November 2010. Twenty drivers were at the drivers brief on a pleasant Wairarapa afternoon for an event which was also the final round of the WMSA Duncan McKenzie Sealed Series. There were only two drivers who could possibly win the series, Ron Scanlan and Webster Gough, and as Webster didn't put in an appearance Ron Scanlan was the new Duncan McKenzie Sealed Series champion, without even starting his motor. However Ron did start his EVO 3 and did quite well! It was great to see Tim Sillay back in action after destroying his 240RS at Upper Hutt earlier in the year (although he wasn't in his "premium" race car) and we were extremely impressed with the beautifully presented KE25 Toyota Corolla coupe of Stu Andrews. Harvey Kibble was also back in his Subaru Omega and John MacDougall showed up in the very interesting 1100cc Star Car having given his normal 1300cc Datsun Sunny to Mel Jesson to compete on the hill. 
The competing length of Admiral Road is 900 metres, all uphill and so there is no chance of recovering from a bit of a "whoops". On this road you have to get it all right and nail it the whole run or your time will not be competitive. After a practice, the three official runs were under way.
Ron Scanlan (Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 3) aimed to prove he was a worthy Duncan McKenzie champion when he sprinted passed the finish line on the first run in a shattering time of 37.31 seconds. The time on his first run was so quick that he had the winning of the event right there and then. Second placed after the first run was Don McLean (Datsun 240K) in a time of 40.24 seconds and third was a great run from Peter Collins (Toyota Corolla) in a time of 40.68. There was then a bunch of cars on variations of 41 seconds - Harvey Kibble (Subaru Omega), John MacDougall (Star Car), Alan Groves (Subaru Impreza WRX), Anthony Futter (Toyota Corolla Turbo), and Mike van Ansem (Subaru Legacy) which showed that it was going to be close at the top.
Run two followed much the same pattern as Ron Scanlan lowered his time to 36.59 seconds, his quickest time of the day. There were now three other cars that had broken the 40 second barrier - Harvey Kibble (39.21), Don McLean (39.83) and Alan Groves (39.86). Peter Collins and John MacDougall were close behind. Stu Andrews's Corolla was leading Class A (0-1300cc), and Peter Collins, Kevin George (Toyota Levin) and Les Edwards (Datsun 1200SSS) were battling it out in Class B (1301-1600cc). Tim Sillay was leading Class C (1601-2500cc) from Dick Butters (Nissan Pulsar) and the leaders in Class D (over 2500cc) and the Sports Classes were the top drivers already mentioned 
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The final official run of the day saw another spirited run from Ron Scanlan to deservedly win the event and the WMSA championship overall. Second on this event was Harvey Kibble who had a great day to just edge out Don McLean who was third. Mike van Ansem had a big spin on this run but fortunately the car was ok. The rest of the top 10 were - 4th Peter Collins, 5th Alan Groves, 6th John MacDougall, 7th Mike van Ansem, 8th Anthony Futter, 9th Kevin George and 10th Les Edwards. Stu Andrews won Class A from Mel Jesson, Peter Collins won Class B from Kevin George and Les Edwards, Tim Sillay won Class C from Dick Butters and Geoff Denovan (Presso), Ron Scanlan, Harvey Kibble and Don McLean won Class D and the Sports class was won by John MacDougall. 
It was also good to see local Wairarapians out there competing and there was a real battle between John Esler (Ford Escort), Norm Anthony (Toyota Starlet) and Elwyn Priday (Toyota Starlet) during the day which eventually fell in John Esler's favour. As there was some time to spare until road closure there were unofficial runs which followed Run 3 and Elwyn Priday put his Starlet off the road coming out of the hairpin slightly damaging the car. Another good event from the Wairarapa Car Club with only one event left for the year - the Gravel Sprint at Dorset Road on 12 December 2010.
