Stiles, Robertson & Jefferies Win at BRCA 1/12 Nationals R4
A fast and open track layout greeted the 100+ drivers entered for the event, which ran over two days and catered for both stock & modified LMP12 classes as well as GT12.
Round 4 of the BRCA 1/12 nationals took place at Crewe last weekend. Mark Stiles reports...
Saturday
Saturday’s LMP12 10.5 stock class saw one of the closest ever qualifying results at a BRCA national event. Olly Jefferies took TQ with his Reedy equipped chassis, with reigning champion David Spashett 2nd a mere 0.04s adrift of Olly’s benchmark. Fellow Reedy driver Mark Stiles was next up ahead of Matt Varah. These 4 drivers were covered by less than half a second after 8 minutes of qualifying! In fact the entire top-10 was split by around a lap (12 seconds), so the A-final promised to be a close encounter. 8 out of the 10 A-final drivers chose Reedy 10.5 motors and 5 chose the Reedy #312 7000mAh 1S LiPo cell.
The A-final delivered on its promise. Olly led the field away and once the race settled down it became clear that it would be a 3-horse race. Matt Varah couldn’t quite match the pace of the lead trio with Olly, Dave and Mark circulating nose to tail for most of the race. With 2 minutes remaining the three drivers were covered by 1 second. It looked like Mark had the best pace and Olly was struggling slightly, so the gaps decreased and entering the final minute things got really close – less than 0.5s from first to third now. With 2 laps to go, Dave attempted to take advantage of a slightly wide line by Olly exiting the chicane and the pair touched. Mark capitalized and jumped to the front, where he would stay until the finish to take his first national win of the season and his first for the Yokomo R12C3. Olly recovered to 2nd, with Matt Varah, also driving Yokomo, climbing to 3rd in the dying seconds.
LMP12 10.5 Stock A-Final Result
- Mark Stiles Reedy Sonic Mach 2 10.5 / Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
- Olly Jefferies (TQ) Reedy Sonic Mach 2 10.5 / Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
- Matt Varah Reedy Sonic Mach 2 10.5 / Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
- Mick Farrell Reedy Sonic Mach 2 10.5
- David Spashett Reedy Sonic Mach 2 10.5 / Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
- Chris Kerswell
- Daniel Holmes Reedy Sonic Mach 2 10.5 / Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
- Andy Murray
- Jim Spencer Reedy Sonic Mach 2 10.5
- Adam Walker-Catchpole Reedy Sonic Mach 2 10.5 / Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
Sunday
In Sunday’s open modified LMP12 class, Olly Jefferies was utterly dominant. Winner of all four qualifying rounds and a comfortable A final victory; a race in which he lapped the entire field! There was close racing between 3 drivers for 2nd place though, with Chris Kerswell finishing ahead of Adam Walker-Catchpole.
With his win, Olly wrapped up the 2013/14 open modified national championship; his 4 wins from 4 events now an unassailable points tally. Congratulations!!
LMP12 Open Modified A-Final Result
- Olly Jefferies (TQ) Reedy Sonic Mach 2 3.5 / Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
- Chris Kerswell
- Adam Walker-Catchpole Reedy Sonic Mach 2 4.0 / Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
- Mark Stiles Reedy Sonic Mach 2 3.5 / Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
- Andy Murray
- Mick Farrell
- Matt Varah Reedy Sonic Mach 2 3.5 / Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
- David Spashett
- Daniel Holmes Reedy 1S 7000mAh LiPo
- Leigh Dibble
In the LMP12 Sport class for 10.5 motors, it was Keith Robertson who was top qualifier and comfortable A final winner with his Team Associated RC12R5.2 car. Mark Jewitt fended off Jim Spencer and those two completed an all-Associated/Reedy, car/motor podium. Keith and Mark also used Reedy batteries.
The penultimate round of the championship with take place at Milton Keynes in February, where the drivers will do battle in front of members of the public in a special event being run in one of the UK’s largest shopping centres. The event will be streamed live on the internet so you will be able to follow the action.
