Round 1 see us at Herts Model Car Club just outside of town called Ware UK. We had racers coming over from around the uk and even from France. We had open practice for the racers getting there setups ready for Sunday race day. we ended up early Sunday with rain pouring out of the sky's which racing started at 8.30am with Q1 on very wet track with only 4 rounds of qualifying with the best 3 out of 4 to count with track keep changing each round setup and tyres going be tricky.
Qualifying
Truggy Class
Qualifying started off with 2 heats of Truggy's class 2 full heats of Truggy's. SWORKZ Driver Daniel Thorne was able to take TQ in Round 1 by 4 seconds ahead of Tekno Driver Daniel Austin in 2nd and Tekno Driver Chris Carlisle in 3rd. Q2 saw again SWORKZ driver Daniel Thorne was able take another TQ with Daniel Austin Again in p2 but only 2 seconds behind then Darren Keeble in 3rd. Q3 which saw the track started to dry up a bit which saw again SWORKZ driver Daniel Thorne TQ once again 7 seconds gap to 2nd which was James Clarke then 2 seconds further back was Tekno's Daniel Austin in 3rd. With overall TQ Wrapped up in truggy class other places on the grid was still up for grabs with Daniel Thorne had few issues lead Tekno driver Chris Carlisle Take Q4 TQ ahead of team mate Daniel Austin in 2nd which he was 3 seconds behind then Darren Keeble in 3rd. Here's your top 10 in your truggy class who made the A-Final
1st Daniel Thorne
2nd Daniel Austin
3rd Chris Carlisle
4th Darren Keeble
5th James Clarke
6th Charles Krontiris
7th Andy Beaumont
8th Kevin Goodman
9th Clive Maland
10th Joe Chew
E Buggy Qualifying
Q1 started on very wet track which means it could go to anyone in the field of 70 drivers which ended up with Xray driver Paul Crompton TQ round 1 with 3 seconds gap over 2nd place which was HB driver Dom Nunn which was 1 second ahead of WIRC driver Billy Grindley & special shout out to Mugen driver Cayden Stenhouse which landed a 4th in Q1. Q2 was same again at the front with Xray Paul Crompton was able to TQ in Q2 2 seconds clear of WIRC driver Lewis Jones in 2nd and Xray driver Jonny Skidmore in 3rd. Q3 saw someone else TQ this round which was Agama driver Erik Lykke which put in an awesome run which saw him 4 seconds ahead of Xray Driver William Skidmore then HB driver Dom Nunn in 3rd. Going into last round TQ still up for grabs which saw again Agama driver young Erik Lykke TQ round 4 with 9 seconds gap to his team mate Kevin Brunsden in 2nd and Xray Paul Crompton in 3rd. Overall TQ went to Xray Driver Paul Crompton & here's your top 10 who made the A Final
1st Paul Crompton
2nd Erik Lykke
3rd Dom Nunn
4th Lewis Jones
5th Jonny Skidmore
6th Kevin Brunsden
7th Billy Grindley
8th William Skidmore
9th Graham Alsop
10th Cayden Stenhouse
Finals got underway straight afterwords which saw it started with G Final E Buggy & remember top 4 to bump up from each final
G Final E Buggy
1st Luciano Pini
2nd Sophie Clarke
3rd Larry Brown
4th Millie Brown
B Final Truggy
1st William Turlin
2nd Nick Simmerson
3rd Oliver Smith
4th Jonathan Haynes
F Final E Buggy
1st Paul Markham
2nd Russell Brown
3rd Lewis Trafford
4th Daniel Lewington
E Final E Buggy
1st Zak Edwards
2nd Darren Moult
3rd Stewart Baldridge
4th Karl Braddish
D Final E Buggy
1st Harvey Ward
2nd Zak Edwards
3rd Matt Alcock
4th Liam Mokes
C Final E Buggy
1st Mike Lewis
2nd Robert Johnson
3rd Ben Stephenson
4th Mick Butler
B Final E Buggy
1st Harry Weymouth
2nd Mike Lewis
3rd Jon Hazlewood
4th Holger Lykke
After all of the lower finals we finally got the A-Finals we started off with Leg 1 of E Buggy A Final which saw your TQ man Paul Crompton lost the lead over young Erik Lykke which saw him lead most of the race until little error let Jonny Skidmore through & keep hea of Erik Lykke which lead Jonny Skidmore to Leg 1 win over Erik Lykke in P2 only 1 second behind then your TQ Man in P3 Paul Crompton. Truggy A-Final up next which was an 30min race and from the start TQ man Daniel Throne was able to keep a good distance to 2nd place for most of the race then starting to gap out by the time we reached half distance the gap was getting bigger then around 20min mark with 10 mins to go your 3rd place man Chris Carlisle had a engine cut and dropped down which means Joe Chew from 10th on the grid went into 3rd. in the end your TQ man Daniel Thorne with the SWORKZ was able to take the win by 36.6 seconds ahead of Tekno Daniel Austin and WIRC driver Joe Chew took the last spot on the podium. E Buggy A2 was up straight after words which saw very crazy start to A2 Which saw very early on TQ man Paul Crompton had early error which was Agama driver Erik Lykke took the lead and never looked back and WIRC Driver took 2nd place and holding of Jonny Skidmore until Lewis made a costly error which give Xray Jonny Skidmore 2nd place tried to catch Erik Lykke but it was too late Erik was able to take the win in leg 2 with Jonny Skidmore in 2nd 9 seconds behind then Lewis Jones in 3rd.
After the 2 Leg A Final E Buggy which saw Erik Lykke & Jonny Skidmore had 1 & 2 in both finals which lead to an tie break but Erik time in Leg 2 was faster then Jonny time in Leg 1.
Top 3 Overall In E Buggy Final
1st Erik Lykke AGAMA
2nd Jonny Skidmore XRAY
3rd Paul Crompton XRAY
Truggy Top 3 A Final
1st Daniel Thorne TQ SWORKZ
2nd Daniel Austin TEKNO
3rd Joe Chew WIRC
Biggest Congratulations to Erik Lykke on taking the win in E Buggy class and to Herts Model Car Club holding a round of our national series we ended up with 94 Competitors from the weekend national which is great to see. now we will move onto round 2 of our national championship in July on the 14th AT Deerdale Model Car Club.
Will update the series & championship results very soon but for now thank you all for attending round 1 remember to book in round 2.
BRCA Truggy & E Buggy Section Committee
