The BRSCC’s North Western Centre headed to the coast in early Summer as they staged a race meeting at the beautiful Anglesey Circuit on 7th & 8th June.
Fun Cup
Whether they were racing in the afternoon or the evening, Fun Cup team Olympian GRD didn’t care! They won both 3 hour enduros on the Saturday of the meeting. One of these started just before 12:30 and the other at 10 to 7 pm. The car has been unbeaten in the championship so far this season.
In race 1, due to there being no Safety Cars and the new tyres used by Fun Cup this year, they went 2 laps further than the previous record for a 3 hour race at Anglesey. This was despite one of their drivers, Chris Dovell, suffering from a very painful back. Behind them, Sheradise UK were runners-up while VapeClub with EDF Motorsports were third after an epic battle with UVio/Hofmanns Motorsport in the closing stages. The latter car was hampered by an issue with the paddle-shift which has plagued the team all season.
On the very first lap of the evening encounter, Sheradise UK were involved in a multi-car crash at The Banking while in the final half hour, a gearbox problem scuppered the chances of the VapeClub entry. This race set more records – the most lead changes in a 3 hour race at Anglesey (16) while Olympian GRD’s win was the first time a team had taken 5 victories in a row since Fun Cup switched from being a series of standalone events to a championship.
Morpheus Motorsport took second while there was a huge battle for third in the closing stages. This included 2 changes of position on the last lap as AxiaMetrics beat Greenheath to the flag.
AIRTEC Motorsport Fiesta ST240 Championship
There was plenty of action for Ford engine cars with 4 series catering for them on the programme: AIRTEC Motorsport Fiesta ST240 Championship, Vinyl Detail Fiesta ST150 Challenge, Fiesta Junior Championship and Geoff Page Engineering Super Classic Formula Ford Championship.
In the ST240 series, there were lots of changes of order in race 1 as many drivers who did well on a wet track in qualifying slipped down the standings in dry conditions. Last year’s champion, Alastair Kellett, took his first victory of 2025 as second placed Jason O’Connell’s tyres faded as the clock ticked down towards the chequered flag but he managed to keep ahead Gary Miller in third.
Next time out, Kellett made it 2 wins out of 2 as a poor start by O’Connell dropped him to fourth behind Miller and Zak Lucas. Miller filled Kellett’s mirrors in the early stages until he lost fourth gear.
For the final race, the Top Ten on the grid was reversed. This put George Foxlow on pole, and despite a very sideways moment the first time he tackled The Banking, he remained ahead to take his maiden victory with a comfortable margin over O’Connell and Miller.
Kellett finished fifth having recovered from a spin on the exit of Church at the start of the contest.
Geoff Page Engineering Super Classic Formula Ford Championship
In the opening encounter for the Super Classic Formula Fords the man who was due to start from pole, Tom Hawkins, had a clutch issue with his Swift SC95 on the green flag lap and had to start from the pit-lane.
This meant Ben Powney was able to convert his front row start in his Jamun M92 into the lead with Oliver Roberts (Van Diemen RF89) right on his tail. The pair had a huge advantage over everyone else after Nigel Dolan’s Van Diemen RF90 and Ian Parkington’s Crossle 25F had a coming together at The Banking on lap 1 and delayed the rest of the field.
After a third of the 15 minute duration had passed, Roberts dived down the inside of Powney at the Bus Stop to take a lead which he kept until the end although he was unable to open a gap to his pursuer.
Hawkins battled his way up the order after his pit-lane start to claim third.
There were no issues for Hawkins in race 2 and he enjoyed a three-way battle with Powney and Roberts. It was Formula Ford racing at its best with plenty of place-swapping as the drivers slip-streamed down the back straight. Roberts came out on top from Hawkins and Powney.
Hawkins took the lead at the start of race 3 and then got a great run through Church which put him out of reach of the rest of the field. This set up a victory to end his weekend. Roberts was second as Powney coasted to a halt halfway through the event. This promoted Andrew Schofield (Reynard) up to third but when he then retired in the pits, the position went to Chris Stones in his Van Diemen RF88.
Vinyl Detail Fiesta ST150 Challenge
Championship leader, Max Buxton, won the first 2 races of the Triple Header for the Vinyl Detail Fiesta ST150 Challenge as the reigning title holder, Michael Blackburn, took the final encounter which had a partially reversed grid.
Blackburn had a great getaway when the first contest began. He took the lead but an incident further back on the grid brought out the red flags. It was Buxton who hit the front at the restart although as the race unfolded, he was unable to breakaway from a 7-car lead battle. Sam Watkins overtook him a couple of times but couldn’t remain ahead. Then, with 5 minutes to go, Dillion Davis went the round outside of Watkins at the first element of Rocket to finish as runner-up. Watkins fended off Blackburn to retain the final place on the podium.
Their second encounter saw Buxton fending off a strong challenge from Davies. They were battling so hard that Watkins and Billy Blockley were able to reel them in. On the last lap, Watkins braked ultra late to take the runner-up position from Davies who was out of tyres and brakes but handed it back to him immediately when he ran wide. Not only that but by the time he was back on track, Blockley had taken third from him.
Blackburn made a demon start from third on the grid in the finale. This put him into a lead which he never lost. Watkins and Davies battled through to occupy the remaining places on the podium.
Fiesta Junior
Tom Merritt took the spoils in all 3 of the Fiesta Junior thrashes. Archie Davies put him under enormous pressure in the first and was runner-up again in the second which was interrupted by a red flag and a Safety Car. In the third, Davies became involved in a multi-car dice for the runner-up position which allowed Merritt to pull away untroubled. Davies eventually finished fourth behind Isaac Doble and Jack Burgess.
Earlier in the day, there were third place finishes for Dara McInerny and Doble.
Nankang Tyre CityCar Cup Championship
The Nankang Tyre CityCar Cup Championship had a massive entry with 41 cars taking part in qualifying. So many of these tiny hatchbacks jostling for position made a spectacular sight in all of the races.
In the first of these, Andrew Dyer was the initial leader with his Boston College Racing team mate, Stuart Bliss, in his wheel-tracks. With a third of the contest remaining, from fifth on the grid Richard Jepp had worked his way up to third ahead of Chris MacKenzie and then, on the last lap, Jepp took second from Bliss at Peel as up ahead Dyer took the spoils.
Dyer also won race 2. He and Jepp broke away from the battling Bliss and MacKenzie. The former came out on top.
The reversed grid put Ben Spencer and Alistair May on the front row for the final CityCar encounter and they managed to remain at the head of the field to finish on the podium with Spencer winning and May in third as Brady Pollock split them at the end of 15 minutes of very intense motor racing.
Historic Formula 3
The diminutive single-seaters from the 500cc Historic Formula 3 Championship made a guest appearance with a brace of rounds. On lap 1 of the first, George Shackleton got an amazing run out of Church to pass 5 cars to take the lead which he held until the finish despite the best efforts of Peter de la Roche. Hamish Cameron-Everleigh was third. Shackleton had a few scary moments when his throttle kept sticking.
Unfortunately, Shackleton did not take the start when the motorbike-engined machines returned to the track and so de la Roche took a comfortable victory, especially as a change of gear ratios gave him even more speed. James Wilson and Finlay MacIntosh joined him on the podium.
In both races all the front runners used Cooper chassis.
Thank you!
The BRSCC would like to thank all marshals and officials for their assistance. We hope you had a good weekend’s racing.
Dave Williams