Harrison shows what has been missing
Ryan Harrison hasn’t competed in every round of the National Series Shootout, but if he had, there is every chance he would be in the running for the series title. On Saturday night at Birmingham he clicked off his second consecutive Tarmac final win.
Mark Adkins led the early stages of the race in his first outing of the season following his switch to BRISCA F1s after a stint in the F2 series. However, following a yellow flag that bunched the field up, he lost the lead to Mark Sargent.
Further back, Harrison had began to make his move and passed 10 cars in the opening five laps. As the race entered the closing stages, Harrison barged his way into the lead. However, a backmarker momentarily slowed him and that allowed Sargent to close back in on the race leader but he couldn’t get near enough to take advantage. Sargent held off a late-race charge from Nigel Green to claim second.
After a steward’s inquiry, Harrison was deemed not to have jumped the early-race restart and was confirmed the winner.
Harrison said: “I don’t think I did anything wrong, I went when everyone else did so I knew I hadn’t jumped the start. The car is handling great at the moment, we have worked on it all season and although we have had some wins all year, you always have to be trying things to make a car go better.”
Result
1 Ryan Harrison; 2 Mark Sargent; 3 Nigel Green; 4 Todd Jones; 5 Alex Wass; 6 Tristan Jackson; 7 Stuart Smith Jr; 8 Mat Newson; 9 Lee Fairhurst; 10 Frankie Wainman Jr.