SMITH GOES FROM THE BARRIERS TO BOUNCE BACK FOR THE FIESTA CROWN

OCTOBER 23-24

Rob Smith would have hoped his Fiesta Championship success would have been a little simpler than it turned out on the BRSCC’s Finals Weekend at Cadwell .

Fluid on track at Chris Curve in the opening laps of the first race on Saturday meant Rob and several others slid into the tyre barriers, but a patched-up car allowed him to restart from pitlane to finish 12th as Luke Pinder took the win.

With Smith seventh in the second race while main rivals

Pinder and Alastair Kellett took a 1-2, it left the top three separated just by nine points, but Kellett’s demise on the first start of the final race coupled with Pinder’s inability to get past Smith’s team boss Jamie Going on the restart gave Going his second race win and Smith the provisional title.

Jenson Brickley was also a Ford-based provisional champion in Fiesta Juniors, bagging third and second in the final two races as season-long rival Deagan Fairclough bagged a pair of wins to complete an impressive debut season.

Caterham Motorsport had four championships in action to finish their season, with Stephen Nuttall making history with his Caterham Seven Championship UK title win, claiming two victories either side of a dominant Henry Heaton win to become the first driver to win each of Caterham’s five factorysupported series in his career.

Lewis Thompson’s domination of the Caterham 310R season, despite missing the opening rounds, was completed with a final brace of wins, managing to pull gaps in both to comfortably take the flag both times.

In the Caterham 270R ranks, Blair McConachie only needed 16th in the first race to seal the title and second behind double race winner Stephen Lyall was more than enough to do so. With the Caterham Roadsport title already wrapped up, the dice for second was the main focus between Tom Cockerill, Hugo

Bush and Domenique Mannsperger. It was advantage Cockerill with a win on Saturday, a snapped gear lever ended his chances, handing the championship podium places to Bush and Mannsperger.

There was also history made as the first CityCar Cup champion was crowned after Nic Grindrod rounded off his near domination of the series with a second place behind first-time winner Andrew Dyer before another victory on Sunday.