Following on from his double win at Blyton, Brad took another clean sweep of winners trophies in rounds 6 & 7 of the open championship, at last weekends double header at Pembrey race circuit, in Carmarthenshire, South Wales.

Brad took 47 out of a possible maximum 48 points over the weekend to take the lead from Keifer Hudson at the top of the Open Championship table. The championship is now wide open heading to the final round at Croft in October, where points must count towards the final total.

Open Round 6 – Saturday 25th July 2009

Round 6 on Saturday saw Simon Quinn perform well in the early heats, taking victory in Fuchs Challenge heat 1 and Open championship heat 2. But it was Brad that dominated the rest of the heats winning the other 4 races. Quinn’s day finished in heat 2 of the Fuchs challenge with a blown engine, after having given Brad a large nudge in Heat 2 of the Open Championship.

Having sealed pole for both the Fuchs and Open “A finals” (the Open A final is shown in the video above) Brad won both comfortably ahead of the depleted field.

Open Round 7 – Sunday 26th July 2009

Sunday’s round 7 saw Brad win all the heats that were run, and complete the perfect day by sealing victory in both finals. The Fuchs Challenge proved eventful even with only two cars remaining, as Brad led on the penultimate lap then lost control and spun. He regained track position behind the only other remaining competitor, Paul Barrett, but Barrett himself then lost control for Brad to regain the lead and take the chequered flag, sealing his 5th Fuchs Junior Rallycross Challenge win in only 7 rounds.

The Open Championship A final win, together with victories in all heats saw Brad pick up a maximum 24 points for the round, the first driver to do so this year. The maximum points victory takes Brad into a 7 point lead in the Open Junior Rallycross (Chris Birkbeck Rallyschool) championship, ahead of Keifer Hudson in his newly liveried white 553 mini.

And next…

Attention now turns to the MSA British Championship (BRDA & BTRDA) with round 5 at Lydden circuit “the home of British Rallycross” in Kent, on August 31st bank holiday Monday. There it is expected that Brad will compete again with Hudson and Quinn for winners honours and maximum championship points.

Brad continued to show his class with domination of both the Fuchs and Open Championship events at Blyton Circuit.

Brad took wins in 5 out of 6 heats, securing pole position for both the Fuchs A final and the Open Championship round 5 A final. Brad already enjoyed success last time out at Blyton on 17th May (round 4), where he won both finals on that occasion too.

The finals were a tense close affair, with the Open Championship final in particular providing plenty of controversy, with Brad and championship rival Keifer Hudson having a coming together on the penultimate lap. (A protest from the Hudson camp was lodged, and after careful deliberation the officials decided not to uphold it and classed it as a racing incident – though as always with these things it could have gone either way). Still, on the last lap, Brad had it all to do with Chris Ingram putting in a good drive having taken full advantage of the coming together. With Ingram now leading into the last lap, Brad caught him on the final corner to pip him to the chequered flag.

Brad now closes the gap on Hudson at the top of the Open Championship table, just 5 points adrift of the lead with 3 rounds remaining. See tables here.

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