BYSOUTH STORMS TO THE FRONT FOR MAZDA WINS
Colin Bysouth bounced back from a difficult qualifying to score a hattrick of wins and move to within a handful of points of the title lead during the penultimate round of the British Racing and Sports Car Club’s MX-5 Supercup Championship at Donington Park.
His chief rival Will BlackwellChambers lined up on pole for the opening contest, as Bysouth was left with ground to make up in ninth. Richard Amos kept Blackwell-Chambers honest in the early stages, before the latter went off at Fogarty. Bysouth profited to move into third before passing Amos and Patrick Fletcher to take the honours, as Blackwell-Chambers recovered to fourth.
Bysouth climbed from sixth to second behind Blackwell-Chambers in the sequel, and a good exit from Old Hairpin enabled him to move ahead into McLeans and take his second triumph. James Cossins briefly led the final encounter ahead of BlackwellChambers and Bysouth before a sideways moment exiting Goddards allowed the two title contenders to move ahead. Bysouth repeated his race two pass into McLeans and then held off his rival again to seal the treble.
Steve Foden was untouchable in the MX-5 Championship, with three dominant victories keeping the pressure on points-leader Fraser Fenwick. After winning the first two contests by comfortable margins, Foden was pegged back in race three by a safety car period. Fenwick dived up the inside at Melbourne after the restart, but Foden responded to reclaim the lead into McLeans as Fenwick slipped back to fourth behind Tom Smith and Jason Greatrex.
Kevin Mills Racing’s Jordan Dempsey sealed the National Formula Ford title despite a trouble-filled weekend at the season finale. Despite taking pole for race one, a collision with team-mate Michael Eastwell in qualifying put Dempsey on the back foot from the beginning, and an off at Old Hairpin followed by a collision at McLeans left the Irishman last of the finishers with a bent track rod. The 2018 champion Niall Murray took victory on his
FF1600 return for Team Dolan after resisting pressure from a trio of Ammonite Motorsport cars, headed by Colin Queen.
As Dempsey put in a risk-free recovery drive from 19th on the grid to eighth in race two, Queen came out on top in a battle with team-mate Shawn Rashid and Murray to clinch his third win of the campaign. Andre Lafond led another Ammonite one-two in the final race ahead of Queen, as Dempsey cruised to seventh and a maiden crown.
The penultimate round of the Fun
Cup went the way of Team Viking, who snatched a dramatic late victory from Team Olympian, who then spun on the final lap, promoting Shire GB and points leaders CGI to second and third.