Rounds 6 & 7 of the British Junior Rallycross Championship at Pembrey, sponsored by Bill Gwynne Rallyschool, saw Brad finish 1st and 3rd to put the Championship out of reach of closest rival Simon Quinn.

Brad leads title rivals Quinn and Hudson at Pembrey

Although Quinn challenged hard, Brad remained calm and reaped the rewards from a mature and accomplished driving performance.

The British Championship now moves on to the final round at Mallory Park, but accounting for dropped rounds, even a win for Quinn and non finish for Brad will still see Brad crowned Champion in arguably the most coveted Championship out of the 3 that the Juniors compete for. And although technically Brad had sealed the British Junior Rallycross Championship, ironically a protest from Simon Quinn meant that Brad’s engine was also sealed.

Rounds 5 and 6 of the BTRDA Championship were a bit less eventful at Pembrey, with Brad taking the chequered flag first on both days, to give him another armful of trophies and a mass of maximum points.

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.