RugRacers Round 4 – Report

The fourth round of British indoor touring car series Rug Racers took place over the weekend where it was Schumacher’s Elliott Harper maintained his perfect score with win number four.  With pressure building into the penultimate round of Hertford Radio Car Club organised series, the door to the Stock and Frontie championships is wide open as to where the Rug Racers 24/25 titles will go.  In Modified Harper was looking to keep his clean sweep for the series going with Alex Thurston & Harley Eldridge keeping him honest all day as he locked up the TQ spot for the 2 leg finals.  Leg 1 started with strong pace from the front 4 cars breaking away before a rare mistake saw Elliott fall down the field and promote Thurston to the point, Elliott set back through the field and managed to make it back to Alex but wasn’t able to pass and Leg 1 went to Thurston ahead with Andy Murray in 3rd.  Leg 2 and no mistake and a storming race time, Harper went lights to flag untroubled, Thurston & Eldridge putting on a great battle for the 2nd spot that Thurston held onto by a few 10ths at the line, the pair joining Harper on the podium in that order.

Modified Result
Elliott Harper
Alex Thurston
Harley Eldridge
Andy Murray
Matthieu Dambrine
Bailey Graves
Richard King
Ashley Wiffen

Stock saw a familiar battle for TQ break out with 3 title contenders; Finley Whitelock, Billy Fletcher and Ricky Copsey secure our top spots in qualifying after an intense four rounds of FTQ qualifying where Finley would take the favoured starting position by just 2 tenths over Billy! In A1 Billy was able to capitalise on some bad luck for Finley where he was caught by a back marker, however Finley was able to chase until the end, but Billys strong defence was able to keep Finley at bay to secure the leg win. A2 saw a very different scenario play out where an early mistake from Billy allowed Finley to break from the field, however a late mistake from him would allow Ricky Copsey to slip through to secure the win, tailed by Finley. This would mean that Finley would take the overall win for the day, followed by Billy and Ricky, where all 3 of them were able to secure valuable points in the championship towards the final clash where the champion will be crowned at round 5!

Stock Result
Finley Whitelock
Billy Fletcher
Ricky Copsey
Adam Southgate
Mason Weston
Martyn Ross
James Snashall
Dave Ringsell
Mark Wilson
Charlie Colby

Front wheel drive was as ever super close and getting towards the business end of the season 6 drivers were still in with a shout of winning the championship Adam Southgate Struck 1st with the only 26lap run in Q1 to set the benchmark, Q4 & Andy Murray just missed the TQ by 3ths putting him amongst the title contenders of Adam Southgate, Ricky Copsey, Sam Jones, Ethan Southall & Liam Tyrell. A1 a race long battle ensued at the front with Andy Murray finding a way through to hang on for the win, A2 saw another brilliant race with the top 5 nose to tail for the run, Adam Southgate defending superbly from Andy Murray before an overtake and a swift retake had the crowd cheering. Super close and clean racing saw Adam check out the Leg 2 win. Sam Jones would bring the car home in 3rd place ahead of Ethan Southall & Thomas Looney, taking Ricky & Liam out of the championship fight. The Championship now set to go to the Leg 2 final in the last round.

FWD Result
Andy Murray
AdamSouthgate
Sam Jones
Ethan Southall
Thomas Looney
Ricky Copsey
Jon Seals
Stuart Collard
Malc Hall
Liam Tyrell

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