Tommy Hall does double at Scotty Ernst UK Showdown

The Scotty Ernst UK Showdown saw Tommy Hall do the buggy double at the inaugural running of the 1:10 Offroad event.  The famed American race announcer brought his Showdown to the UK’s legendary Robin Hood Raceway where the astro turf track played to its advantage with any rain not stopping play at the Schumacher Racing supported event.  Capitalising on the British Bank Holiday weekend, the 3-day event saw Sunday’s main action decide the 2WD Champion with the 4WD and Stadium Truck battles fought on Monday.  In 2WD Buggy, it was Team Associated’s Tommy Hall who took the TQ before the former European Champion went on to win the final ahead of the Schumacher pairing of Ben Smith and Lee Martin.  In 4WD, it was the second of the Hall brother’s Jamie who would TQ ahead of Martin with Tommy P3 after four rounds.  In the triple finals however it was Tommy, the newly crowned British National Champion, who took the first two A-Mains to completed the perfect weekend with Jamie securing P2 with the win in A3 as Martin again completed the podium in third.  In Stadium Truck the finals produced three different winners with 2WD Buggy runner-up Smith taking the overall victory from Martin for a Schumacher 1-2 ahead of Jamie and Tommy Hall.

Image: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]