BTCC Rd 4 Halifax

The super fast circuit of Halifax was the venue for the BTCC this past weekend, virtually all racers turned up on Saturday for lots of practice time, the weather was dry and the forecast was good all day Saturday.

However the forecast for Sunday was totally the opposite, we knew that very heavy rain was predicted in the early afternoon, so due to this the decision was taken to start the event slightly earlier on the Sunday morning, to try and get the event complete in the dry conditions.

The format for the day was 4 rounds of qualifying with round by round and then 1 final for everyone.

As forecast the rain held off until the last few heats of the final qualifying round, then a little started to fall here and there to make things a little more insteresting.

For the finals everyone was preparing their wet cars on wet tyres as it was a little moist!!

Schumacher's Colin Price took his form from the great win at the last BRCA National and stamped his authority in the Modified 'A' main.  Taking the win from Olly Jefferies and Chris Grainger.

Modified Result Ave.Lap Best Lap
1 Colin Price 12/301.58 25.13 24.19
2 Olly Jefferies 12/302.25 25.19 24.42
3 Chris Grainger 12/304.30 25.36 24.11
4 Zak Smith 12/306.32 25.53 24.75
5 Elliott Harper 12/309.94 25.83 24.45
6 Alan Bickerstaff 12/310.87 25.91 24.66
7 Stefan Chodzynski 12/312.77 26.06 25.15
8 Matthew White 12/315.91 26.33 25.19
9 Andy Murray 12/318.21 26.52 25.32
10 Phil Chambers 11/314.85 28.62 26.12

James Hart with his Mi5evo copied Colin, just the same as Stafford by taking the win from a very fast Ross Walker with Lee Price in 3rd all running Mi5evo's.

13.5 Boosted Result Ave.Lap Best Lap
1 James Hart 12/308.53 25.71 24.79
2 Ross Walker 12/310.15 25.85 24.78
3 Lee Price 12/311.31 25.94 25.08
4 Zak Finlay 12/311.74 25.98 24.94
5 Chris Gunter 12/318.47 26.54 25.53
6 Jimmy Maddison 12/321.35 26.78 25.06
7 Mark Wallace 12/325.16 27.10 25.05
8 Thomas Ridgley 11/300.43 27.31 25.36
9 Nathan Wilson 11/302.34 27.49 25.58
10 Andy Low 11/303.39 27.58 25.73

The 17.5 class was comfortably won by Michael Ball from MB models with Bradley Coaker 2nd and James Stewart 3rd.

The A Final results were as follows:

17.5 Blinky  Result  Ave.Lap  Best Lap
1 Michael Ball  12/320.77 26.73  25.61
2 Bradley Coaker 12/324.55 27.05  25.79
3 James Stewart  12/325 47 27.12  25.24
4 Mike Mansell  11/306.94 27.90  26.19
5 James Robinson 11/309.14 28.10  25.86
6 Kris Kennedy  11/323.97 29.45  27.40
7 Bryony Freeman 11/325.22 29.57  27.28
8 Steve Hudson  DNS 

After some brilliant racing in the tricky conditions, we did the traditional trophy and sweet presentation and also the famous Schumacher raffle, congratulations to all the lucky winners of the prizes.

Star prize winner of the Highest LP servo was Adam Howe, congratulations!!

As always a massive thank you to everyone that attended the event. A huge thank you to the Halifax club for hosting the event with us, to Muriel for overseeing things, to Bev on race control and to Craig at scrutineering, you all did a great job!

Also to Kris Kennedy for some entertaining commentary in the Finals!

The next round of the series is at Bedworth on 16th August, we hope to see you all there. Booking in at: www.centralbooking.org