Double delight in Fun Cup for champions
ANGLESEY BRSCC 12-14 AUGUST
Defending Fun Cup champions Uvio/ Hofmann’s Lotus showed their dominance with a double win at Anglesey’s into the night meeting. Fabio Randaccio managed to ease clear from the start of the first three-hour race, with his gap more than doubled when Track Focused’s Teddy Wilson suffered a steering breakage.
With Randaccio/scott Fitzgerald sharing the lead for all but seven of the 118 racing laps, their rivals were left to fight for second. A broken driveshaft put the Stobart crew out of contention, but it was nose-totail between MJ Tec GITI, GCI Racing and Team Viking across the final laps.
Contact at the Corkscrew between GCI and Viking left MJ Tec’s Martin Gibson/scott Jeffs to seal second, while Greenheath’s Gary Bate/paul Turner claimed third after Viking received a post-race penalty, dropping them to fifth behind the recovering GCI crew.
Track Focused were the pacesetters in race two, with Wilson in the clear for the first 30 laps. But Uvio/hofmann’s led at the end of the first hour from Track Focused and Stobart Sport as darkness approached. And they then increased their lead to over 28 seconds at the two-hour mark.
In the final hour, Paul Ellis-smith spun at the final turn and was hit hard by Jeffs in the MJ Tec car. Both drivers were unhurt but the race was red-flagged, with Uvio the victors, from Stobart’s Richard Webb/ Jonathan Hoad and Greenheath.
There was little to separate James Murphy and championship leader Aaron Head in the Caterham Seven UK races. Lewis Thompson joined them in an early break in race one, but spent the rest of the encounter watching his rivals swap positions as Murphy won.
It was almost a repeat in race two, with lead changes between the lead duo on every lap. Henry Heaton split them briefly and almost took them both at Rocket In on the last tour, but it was win number two for Murphy, from Head, Heaton and Thompson.
Head finally got his win in race three, increasing his lead when Murphy pitted, with Heaton and Thompson again behind.
Charlie Lower led the first Caterham Roadsports race from the start but, after a three-lap safety car intervention, came under attack from championship leader Geoff Newman. He nosed ahead into Rocket In on the penultimate lap, but Lower took it back a lap later after Newman ran wide. Theo Theato just held onto second, taking
the flag with Marc Jones, Mark Kendle and the recovering Newman inches behind.
Theato briefly had the lead into Rocket In on the second lap of race two, but couldn’t hold the place as Lower then dominated. Newman ousted Theato for second at Rocket In on lap 10 of 12, but his rival’s attempt to take it back a lap later resulted in him overshooting and settling for third.
Andrew Schofield’s Reynard FF89 snatched a win in the Northern and Super Classic Formula Ford opener, after a mid-race challenge on John Murphy’s Van Diemen RF90 exiting the Bus Stop. Murphy got his revenge in race two, ousting Schofield into Rocket In as Peter Daly’s Van Diemen RF88 came home a close third.
Both the Caterham 270R and 310R races went to the wire. Philip Bianchi managed to edge away from Hugo Bush in the first of the 270R contests, with Taylor O’flanagan coming out on top of a race-long duel with Domenique Mannsperger in the sequel.
Although Harry George crossed the line ahead in the first 310R race, both he and third-placed Jack Sales were penalised for yellow-flag infringements, handing victory to Blair Mcconachie, from George and Harry Cook. Cook headed home a four-car battle in race two, from Sales, George and Alan Cooper.