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| Race report by Gareth Coates |
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| At R4, Jamie ran the XB2â™18 for the first time along with the other XRAY team drivers present that day â“ it was a fairly impressive performance as Jamie set TQ and romped home with the Modified Class win, all while setting a staggering fastest lap pace of 13.88 seconds (the 2nd fastest drivers lap pace was 14+ second pace)!! |
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| 2WD podium: |
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1. Jamie Beasley - XRAY XB2
2. Dom Nunn - XRAY XB2
3. Tony Bishop - XRAY XB2
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4wd is always interesting to watch as those cars are so fast and they can lay the power down so quickly they literally fly round the track.
Elliot Taylor made a guest appearance in 4wd this time, and the BRCA 8th RallyX National A Finalist wasnâ™t hanging around for anyone easily winning and setting TQ â“ it is still interesting to see that Elliotâ™s fastest lap of the day was only a mere (just under in fact) 2/10thâ™s faster than Jamieâ™s 2wd!!!
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| 4WD podium: |
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1. Elliot Taylor
2. Robert Shaw - XRAY XB4
3. Steve Bunning
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Stadium Truck â“ I still absolutely love racing my XT2 truck â“ it seems so does my nemesis Daniel Hopkins... We have had a series long battle and this round was no different. Iâ™ll point out that today I was running 2wd Mod class also and I had focussed a bit extra on 2wd â“ so I skipped the last round of qualifying to rebuild my XB2 â“ it was during that last round of qualifying that Daniel took TQ, fair play though as it was the fastest time of the day, as well as it being round by round qualifying, but it was still tight!!
In the Final it was a matter of whoâ™s crash cost less time as both myself and Daniel had 1x big crash and long marshalling each, in the end Daniel took it by just over 2x seconds.
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| Stadium track podium: |
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1. Daniel Hopkins
2. Greg Hill - XRAY XT2
3. Brandon Young
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| Stock Class was again won by Nick Priest, a nice TQ & 1st place giving him a decent lead in the overall Championship also. Kirk Beasley was 2nd qualifier but had â one of those racesâ™ in the finals and pulled out the final with suspected car damage after a heavy car-on-car incident finishing â knee highâ™ in the wall at the end of the main straight.. Ouch!! Daniel Hopkins ended up 2nd a fair distance behind Nick and Anthony Drayton in 3rd. To be fair, only Nick enjoyed a clear run in this final, I think there was a bit of â red mistâ™ and adrenaline following.. |
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| Stock class results: |
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1. Nick Priest
2. Daniel Hopkins
3. Anthony Drayton
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