Tim Tulie seems to be checking his race time as he spins his Westfield over the line. The time of 34.87 was good enough to give him the class win in his last run of the day. (Picture by Andrew Le Poidevin, 0634861)

NICK SAUNDERS registered his third fastest-time-of-the-day in a row in Saturday’s last Val des Terres hill climb of the year.

Due to scattered showers, the day was a stop-start affair, with the competitors having to keep swapping their slicks for wet weather tyres.

At the dryer end of the day, Saunders, in his last run, posted 31.73sec. in his Office Solutions Reynick single seater to beat Dave Hockaday’s 32.32 with his Sound City Tony/Parilla kart.

‘It was getting close and I didn’t think I was going to do it with the black clouds coming over,’ he said. ‘It’s my third FTD in a row, so I’m very pleased indeed.’

In the early part of last month, the 34-year-old IT worker became the quickest Guernseyman up the hill when he set 29.68 to break Mike Dean’s record of 29.71.