June thoughts from  Alan Jenkins, Rhodri, Philip Bendall & Ken Davies

Hi All, Trust you all had a very enjoyable weekend, The weather was kind and the BRSCC even kinder giving us all that track time. Unfortunately it was marred By Ken's off but I hear he has been released and seems to be ok, we all wish him well. More news soon,  Alan

I though I’d add some “spectators comments” to Rob’s race reports from the weekend.

First, what an achievement! Did you know that 29 cars (yes 29!) entered for the weekend. We lost a few in the week leading up to the Championship because of car gremlins and moving pavements causing broken wrists(!!!), but if you look at the results no fewer than 25 cars raced in at least 1 of the 4 Welsh races over the weekend.And the good news is that now that we are a saloon and road sports Championship with closer speed differentials, we can have a grid of 32 cars rather than the old 26 at Pembrey. Let’s target September for the first 30+ grid in the Championships history!

And what about the racing? I can tell you that as a spectator it was terrific right through the field. In the various races you had the tremendous sight of the ex-Touring cars and of course Rhys in his Seat full on at the front, with a smattering of other cars like Nigel’s Marcos, Chris’s Ginetta and Martin’s Cosworth mixing it too. And not just that, but behind you had the Hondas, “Caterham” type cars and Fords in their own battles, (often with all of the battles joined together!), and behind that yet more dicing with the up to 1600cc class. To add even more interest, when the faster cars did eventually start lapping the slower cars, race craft really came into it – as the quick boys
found out. I particularly liked Rhys’s comment to Mark Nicholson after one race – Mark had signalled Rhys past, but was wondering why Rhys hadn’t blasted past him. After the race Mark asked why, and Rhys said “I was going as fast as I could – your car is a lot quicker than you think!!” That made Mark happy, and just shows that you have to really plan your overtaking for best advantage when there are that many cars out on track, all of them really quick in their own classes, and all involved in their own individual battles! I think the overall standard of driving throughout the weekend was very high, with a few pure racing incidents just being unfortunate to happen at the wrong place at the wrong time to cause a few red flags.

The comments from people I spoke to were resounding in their support of the new look Championship. Oliver Reid, photographer and reporter for Autosport and Motorsport News, thought it was great, and the commentary team were fulsome in their support of the new regulations, as were the BRSCC team. And a final word must go to Championship Co-ordinator Alan Jenkins, and that word is THANKS!!! As we all know, Alan is doing a magnificent, tireless job in getting us all out on the grid. Keep it up, Alan! Regards Rhodri

 
From: Philip Bendall,  Great news about Ken; also could you pass on my thanks to all the WRDA guys for a friendly welcome and all the help they gave me over the weekend. cheers Philip

Ken Davies. Thanks for update on Ken's well-being Alan & good news, I throughly enjoyed my 3 races on Sunday and the usual camaraderie of fellow WRDA racers. I hope that I didn't get in anyone's way whilst being lapped and apologise if I did, after 5 laps I was watching mymirrors more than where I was going! To the cars ye olde Porsche was able to race with, thanks for clean no contact driving that I'maccustomed to with HSCC. Ciao, Ken