Schumacher BTCC Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the Schumacher BTCC Touring Car series took place at the midlands based club Stafford. The Stafford club is one of the oldest in the country and pulled out all the stops to make the BTCC family of racers as welcome as possible. With some mixed weather about on the Sunday it would make for an interesting days racing with both dry cars and wet cars in use during the day. All the UK’s top modified drivers were out in force getting some valuable knowledge for the BRCA national next weekend. Olly Jefferies took TQ in the Modified class but was pushed hard by Elliott Harper. The final was run in wet conditions and the crowd were treated to an epic battle between Olly and local hot shot Zak Smith. Olly managed to hang on by just 2 tenths of a second ahead of Zack with Elliott third.

Modified A-main result:
1. Olly Jefferies
2. Zak Smith
3. Elliott Harper
4. Andy Moore
5. Colin Price
6. Stefan Chodzynski
7. Chris Grainger
8. Scott Booth
9. Andy Murray
10.Chris Ashton

In the 13.5 boosted class James Hart put in a convincing display taking TQ and the win with Zak Finlay 2nd and local veteran Andy Robson 3rd on the podium.

13.5T Boosted A-main result:
1. James Hart
2. Zak Finlay
3. Andrew Robson
4. Jimmy Maddison
5. Chris Gunter
6. Lee Price
7. Jamie Beasley
8. James Greener
9. Nathan Wilson
10.Mark Wallace

Colin Jackson took 17.5 with fellow team mate David Hough 2nd and Michael Ball 3rd.

17.5T A-main result:
1. Colin Jackson
2. David Hough
3. Michael Ball
4. Nick Turner
5. Gary Jones
6. Adrian Sully
7. Javier Jimenze-Pradi
8. Bradley Coaker
9. Kris Kennedy
10.James Mcfadyean

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]