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The third
and fourth round of the BRCA 19turn national series took
place at West London with its infamous ‘Douglas
D’ which catches some of the best drivers out from
time to time and ‘Theos’ which is one of
the other corners on the track that catch people out;
both of these turns driven correctly can be the key to
those ever important fast lap times. The past few weeks
before the national allowed for little practice time
at the track due to the wet weather, but this was not
the case this weekend; sunshine prevailed and perfect
conditions and good traction was the order of the day.
Despite the presence of a few of the top 19turn drivers,
the meeting was always going to be competitive with the
likes of Chris Kerswell, Russell Williams, Christopher
Delves, Keith Robertson etc… but the favorite
for the win this weekend was rounds 1 and 2 winner Chris
Kerswell. |
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The first round of
qualifying resulted in three drivers split by less than
0.5 seconds. Christopher Delves at the top of the pile,
setting a new lap record, Chris Kerswell in second place
and Russell Williams in third. These drivers pulled away
from the rest of the pack in this run, being in a league
of their own, 7 seconds in front of Stuart Cann at this
point of the day. The second round saw no change, which
would be of no surprise considering the majority of drivers
would save their tyres for either the last round of qualifying
or the finals. The temperature at this point had cooled
down slightly, but the track still had the heat in it,
and provided good conditions for the final round. Christopher
Delves was still on pole for the third round and took
a gamble and ran his tyres for the third time in a row,
opting to have a new set of tyres for the finals. Chris
Kerswell on the other hand went for the new tyre option,
and in the third round drove brilliantly to take the
new track record and FTD of the meeting. Russell Williams
was on for bettering his time in the last run, but dropped
off towards the end of the run. In a previous heat Richard
Thorpe had put his car firmly into the middle of the
A final, despite a small mishap coming onto the straight
involving the infamous ‘Douglas D’; but well
done to Richard for making his first national A final
with his RDX PHI (his first outing with the car as well).
Steve Lissamore put his car into the final regardless
of problems during the day with electronics to give four
Horizon Hobby UK/Corally drivers in the finals; showing
the strength of the RDX PHI. |
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In the first leg of
the A final, Christopher Delves drove closely behind
Chris Kerswell from the start, which after a minute into
the race placed him only a second behind him with Russell
Williams only two seconds back from Christopher, but
Russell made a small mistake allowing both Chris’ to
extend their lead over the rest of the pack. Christopher
Delves put a charge on to catch his fellow team mate,
and as the gap came down the pressure was on Chris Kerswell.
At the four minute mark Chris K would make a small mistake,
clipping the ‘Douglas D’ unsteadying his
car and allowing Chris D to pass him on the straight.
Chris K fought hard to come back, but made a few more
errors causing him to loose time on Chris D. At the end
of the 5 minutes Chris D took the win by 5 seconds from
Chris K in second. Russell recovered from his earlier
incident to take third from Keith Robertson. |
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Christopher Delves
needed to win this final to take the overall win from
fellow team mate Chris Kerswell. From the start Chris
D was close behind Chris K, but Russell Williams was
put the pressure on Chris D too! A first corner accident
between Steve Lissamore and Daniel Fallows put Steve
out. He didn’t complete a lap ending the day on
a low for Steve who had tried hard to solve his problems
through the day. After a minute Chris K managed to pull
away from Chris D who had made a few mistakes, getting
his car a little too sideways on occasions; this allowed
Russell to close the gap, but Stuart Cann had worked
his way up from fifth to join the front runners and was
racing Russell for third! Russell eventually passed Chris
D and so too would Stuart at the half way stage; at which
point Chris Kerswell was comfortably in the lead and
not about to make any mistakes like earlier. The battle
between the three drivers continued with Stuart getting
into second and Russell and Chris D dicing for third,
with some very tight and tidy overtaking, and also a
little door rubbing! Russell slightly clipped the ‘Theos’ turn
and rolled his car onto its roof rendering him helpless
to defend his third place from Chris D. Russell then
defended his fourth position from Richard Thorpe who
chased him hard, but Russell maintained his lead by 0.03seconds
from Richard! At the end of the 5 minutes Chris K took
the victory and with it his second national win, with
Stuart Cann in second and Chris D in third giving him
second overall at the meeting. |
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Congratulation to Chris Kerswell for another national
win, continuing his dominance and extending his lead
of the 19turn national Championship.
Thanks to both Stuart Cann and Niel Mead for the images
of the meeting.
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