BRCA 2023 4WD Touring National Round 5

Elliott returns and dominates, while Ollie Payne wins and takes the 13.5 Championship.

The 2023 BRCA 1/10th 4WD Touring Car Nationals are in the books.

Is this the premier Nationals series for Touring Car racers in the world?

The 5 round series see's the best of the UK Touring car drivers come head to head at 5 venues across the UK to battle out to be crowned the British Modified, 13.5 Stock and 17.5 Stock Champion.

Round 5 saw us head to the south east of England to Colchester, a small and characterful circuit that really test's all levels of car and driver performance.

The Schumacher team has grown in popularity over the last 12 months, thanks to the performance of the Mi8 and the on track team support offered to the drivers.

Colchester is not really a track that the teams go to to test so nobody really had any advantage apart from a few regular club drivers.  In the end it turned out to be a very strong showing for the Schumacher team.

In 17.5T an amazing total of 9 of the 10 A finalists ran an Mi8.  Tony Broad took the win from TQ after a fantastic tussle with Schumacher's Mason Weston and young Jack Collins.

1 Tony Broad

2 Mason Weston - Schumacher Mi8

3 Jack Collins - Schumacher Mi8

4 James Taylor - Schumacher Mi8

5 Jamie Hickin - Schumacher Mi8

6 Shane Chipolina - Schumacher Mi8

7 Dani Young - Schumacher Mi8

8 Alex Brocklebank - Schumacher Mi8

9 Liam Tyrrell - Schumacher Mi8

10 Chris Parrott - Schumacher Mi8

Congratulations to Tony on the win.

In the overall Championship Tony also took the win from Schumacher's Mr nice guy Alex Brocklebank followed by Dan Moorey, on tie break with Jack.  Jack Collins, Mason Weston, Jamie Hall, Jamie Hickin and Chris Parrott made the championship top 10 with the Mi8.

17.5 TC

Pos        Name    `Ability  Points    R1         R2         R3         R4         R5

1           Tony Broad        100%     300       0           100       100       100       100

2           Alex Brocklebank98%     295       98         92         98         99         93

=3         Dan Moorey      98%       294       97         98         99         96         70

=3         Jack Collins        98%       294       95         99         97         97         98

5           Mason Weston  96%       289       93         97         0           93         99

6           Jamie Hall          95%       285       99         0           94         92         85

7           Jamie Hickin      95%       285       0           93         96         76         96

8           Mark Trinder     95%       285       96         94         0           95         90

9           Darren Tickner  94%       282       88         95         93         94         89

10         Chris Parrott      93%       279       100       86         88         88         91

In the 13.5 class 4 drivers were still able to take the Championship going into this last round,   Schumacher's Ollie Payne, James Hart, Billy Fletcher and perennial winner Zak Finlay.

Ollie took the TQ in a drama filled qualifying, with Zak lining up second and Ricky Copsey 3rd.  It was extremely tight in this class with 17 cars within a lap of TQ.  There was drama in every leg of the final with even rain getting in the mix too.  Ollie drove a superb first two legs, winning both with Ben Moorey coming from 6th on the grid to take second and Ricky 3rd.  5 x Mi8's made the A final.

1 Ollie Payne - Schumacher Mi8

2 Ben Moorey

3 Ricky Copsey

4 Zak Finlay

5 James Hart - Schumacher Mi8

6 Sam Nicholls

7 Billy Fletcher - Schumacher Mi8

8 Charlie Colby - Schumacher Mi8

9 Sam Law - Schumacher Mi8

10 Alex Bold

With the win Ollie too his first BRCA Touring Championship, tied with Zak but with more wins so taking it.  Billy Fletcher finished 3rd and James Hart 4th, Sam Law and Charlie Colby were 9th and 10th with the Mi8.

13.5 TC

Pos        Name                 Ability   Points    R1         R2         R3         R4         R5

1           Ollie Payne        99%       298       0           100       98         96         100

2           Zak Finlay          99%       298       99         97         99         100       97

3           Billy Fletcher     99%       296       98         98         100       95         94

4           James Hart        98%       295       100       92         96         99         96

5           Ben Moorey       98%       295       96         99         97         92         99

6           Chris Gunter      96%       289       97         94         95         97         86

7           Sam Nicholls      96%       287       93         0           94         98         95

8           Ricky Copsey      94%       281       89         93         80         90         98

9           Sam Law                         94%       281       95         89         92         94         92

10         Charlie Colby     93%       278       90         95         0           83         93

Last but not least the premier Modified class.

Modified saw a return of 2 former champions, Elliott Harper and Olly Jefferies for this race, competition was crazy and seriously fast.  

Elliott took the win in dominating style from Alex Thurston and Kyle Branson.  Huge shout out to Bailey Graves for his fantastic P5 in with such great competition.

Mod TC - A Final

1 Elliott Harper - Schumacher Mi8

2 Alex Thurston

3 Kyle Branson

4 Olly Jefferies

5 Bailey Graves - Schumacher Mi8

6 Daniel Robins - Schumacher Mi8

7 Peter Eagles

8 Andy Murray - Schumacher Mi8

9 Matthew White - Schumacher Mi8

10 Richard King

The championship was already decided with Hobbywing and Intellect driver Kyle taking the win, Zak Smith second with the Mi8 and Alex Thurston 3rd.  Mi8 drivers included Zak Smith, Chris Grainger, Andy Murray, Matt White and Dan Robins.

Mod TC

Pos        Name                 Ability   Points    R1         R2         R3         R4         R5

1           Kyle Branson      100%     300       100       100       100       100       98

2           Zak Smith           98%       295       99         98         98         0           0

3           Alex Thurston    98%       294       91         0           99         96         99

4           Harley Eldridge 97%       291       98         99         91         94         0

5           Chris Grainger   97%       291       95         95         97         99         0

6           Peter Eagles      96%       289       97         94         94         98         94

7           Andy Murray     95%       286       89         92         96         97         93

8           Matthew White 95%       286       94         97         95         92         92

9           Ben Cosgrove    94%       283       96         96         81         91         0

10         Daniel Robins    94%       282       92         0           92         95         95

It’s been a fantastic team performance all year, thank you and well done!

Congratulations especially to all the juniors!

Carpet season up next!