Harper wins EWS Round 4 – Report

The fourth round of the high profile UK based EWS took place over the weekend.  In Modified, Elliott Harper (Schumacher) took the TQ, but each time was only a few tenths of a second ahead of the chasing pack.  Kyle Branson lined up second ahead of his Xray team mate, and winner of the previous event, Harley Eldridge, with Alex Thurston rounding out the top four for Yokomo.  In the A Final, Kyle kept the pressure on Elliott for the entire five minutes, with Harley and Alex looking to pick up any pieces. Elliott withstood the pressure and managed to take the win, with Harley taking second from Kyle on the very final corner.

In Stock, Zak Finlay secured TQ for Xray, setting the best time in Q2, Q3 and Q4 after Tony Broad had set the best time in Q1 with his privateer Xray. Andy Murray led Schumacher team mate Billy Fletcher to line up third and fourth, with Martin Ross rounding out the top five.  Zak had another of his lights-to-flag domination of the A Final, securing not only another victory but another overall championship. The crowd were entertained by the scrap for second place between Andy and Billy, with Billy trying everything to get past his car’s designer. They finished in that order, leaving the overall championship positions to be settled at next month’s Finale.

In Fronti, Ben Moorey who already had the championship wrapped up, made it another TQ, whilst behind some great scraps had Andrew Cooper lining up ahead of Mark Caton, Craig Woods and Stuart Collard. Ben also cruised to a solid victory, with Andrew having a quiet run to second place. Mark had some brilliant racing, the FWD rules once again proving the right choices for close and fair action. Mark managed to take a popular podium to round out the top three.

The season concludes with Round 5 in March.

Source: EWS [ewsevents.co.uk]