The BRSCC’s North Western Centre headed East to Cadwell Park for a fabulous weekend of racing in glorious sunshine.
Clapham North MOT Mazda MX-5 SuperCup Championship
Will Antrobus’ car caused the first encounter to be halted when something let go on and covered Barn Corner in something very slippery.
Alistair Dendy had an amazing get away from the second row to take the lead at the restart. He held off Ollie Hall and Sam Middleton to take his first SuperCup win.
Race 2 was a cracker with 5 cars dicing for the lead. Thomas Langford was the first to see the chequered flag but he dropped to sixth when a 10 second penalty for a jumped start was applied. This meant the Top 3 in the final classification were Middleton, Hall and Dan Parrans-Smith – Middleton had passed Hall at the Mountain when the latter missed a gear on the last lap.
Dendy’s third outing got off to the worst possible start when he was spat out of the pack and into the barriers half way down Park Straight on the opening lap.
Antrobus established an early lead before, with 15 minutes to go, Hall outbraked him at Park to move ahead. Then, with 5 minutes to go, Middleton tried the same manoeuvre on Hall but ran wide on to the grass. Middleton finished fifth as Hall took his maiden victory.
Antrobus was running second but was shuffled off the podium in the closing stages by Langford and Parrans-Smith.
AD Modular Mazda MX-5 Championship
Steve Foden was unstoppable, winning all 3 of the MX-5 Championship rounds at Cadwell Park. He was fastest in qualifying and led every lap in the races.
In the closing stages of race 1, Adam Sparrow came very close to overtaking Foden at Park but ran wide. He finished second, just ahead of Paul Simard. Reigning title-holder, Ali Bray, pulled off onto the slip-road just before Mansfield with a mechanical failure.
This retirement meant Bray had to start the next encounter from the back row of the grid. He worked his way up the order to finish eighth.
At the front of the field, Sparrow made a slow start allowing Foden to break away. Sparrow’s tyres over-heated in the closing stages which allowed Simard to demote him to third.
Race 3 saw Bray finish second on the road but the stewards issued a penalty for gaining an unfair advantage which moved him one position down the order behind Simard.
Kumho Tyre Mazda MX-5 Clubman Championship
Jordan Pimley arrived at Cadwell Park unbeaten in 2026 but that run ended in race 1 of 2 for this category when his battle for the lead with Michael Taylor got too close at Park Corner. They made contact and spun. Matt McLuckie had been running third but, just before the decisive incident between Pimley and Taylor, he had retired with a smoking car. Therefore, Matt Flowers was able to take his first win in the championship just ahead of Harrison Leach with Keith Dengate in third.
With the results of the first encounter deciding the starting order for the second Taylor, Pimley and McLuckie began the contest 6th, 17th and 19th respectively. The Clerk of the Course awarded Pimley with a 10 place grid penalty for causing a collision earlier in the day – that is why he was so far back in the line-up.
The trio came through to finish 1-2-3. Pimley had managed to get into the lead at one point but Taylor passed him with an amazing move around the outside at Coppice.
Nankang Tyre BMW Supercup Championship
Darren Rickaby took a hat-trick of victories. Simon Waterfall was his closest challenger in the first encounter with Thorburn Astin completing the podium.
Next time out, Astin got a great start to move into second as Waterfall fended off Aydan Hassan. On the last lap, Astin’s brake pedal went long at Park Corner and he ended up on the grass on the outside of Chris Curve. Rather than get in the way of the Waterfall/Hassan battle, he remained on the green stuff by-passing the Gooseneck. Unfortunately, when he did get on the tarmac at Mansfield, he was collected by Hassan.
So, Waterfall was once again the runner-up as Aspin limped home in third.
In race 3, Aspin managed to hold on to second place until the finish having fended off Waterfall, Hassan and Molly Pugh.
Nankang Tyre CityCar Cup Championship
The popular Nankang Tyre CityCar Cup Championship had so many entries that Cadwell Park didn’t have the capacity to enable all the drivers to share the same grid. Therefore, to give everyone two races, they were split into 3 groups.
In the A&B contest, Richard Jepp and Andrew Dyer worked together in the opening laps to pull away from third placed Alistair May. Jepp held on to take the win.
Having taken victory for Group B over Group A, next time out, Jepp was victorious over the Group C runners too. Jack Burgess was his closest challenger until a cable failed on his battery forcing him to coast to a halt with a couple of laps to go. Therefore, Alex Foden and Joe Moss completed the podium.
With Jepp and the rest of the Group B drivers on their way home, Groups A & C did battle in the final CityCar encounter. Dyer and Burgess pulled away from May in third. Just after half distance Burgess nipped ahead at Park Corner to take the win for Group C.
JMRG Caterham Graduates Championship – Sigma 150
This saw 2 fabulous races as Callum McDougall, Ian Howes, Ben Winrow and William Van Es battled it out at the front of the field. In the opening encounter, McDougall was the early leader but Van Es and then Howes overtook him. McDougall soon got back in front to take the win. Howes recovered from a trip across the grass at Park to finish in the runner-up position ahead of Winrow and Van Es.
The stewards decided that Howes’ excursion at Park was triggered by McDougall not giving enough space and they gave him a 5 place grid penalty when the field returned to the track. As the starting order was determined by everyone’s second fastest lap time in qualifying, this put McDougall down in eigth. This disadvantage didn’t prevent him from making it 2 victories out of 2 at the end of a thrilling 25 minutes. Winrow, Van Es and Howes followed him home.
JMRG Caterham Graduates Championship – Sigma 135
The first time the smaller engined Caterhams took to the track, the two Jamies – Ellwood and Winrow – swapped the lead back and forth until, with just over 3 minutes left, Winrow found himself on the grass. He finished seventh as Ellwood took the win from Nick Bryant and James Newman.
In race 2, Ellwood had to make a pit stop and finished down in eleventh. This left the way clear for Winrow to break away from the madly battling pack and take the spoils. James Hapgood and Nick Bryant were second and third.
DDMC Northern Saloon & Sports Car Championship
Mike Williamson’s Mitsubishi EVO 4 has unbelievably straight-line speed and catapulted away from the line in the first encounter for this series which got racing underway on Sunday. However, as the EVO runs in Class B, it runs treaded tyres which meant the slick-shod Class A runners Mike Cutt (BMW M3) and Scott Hubel (Peugeot 205 T16 Replica) quickly demoted him to third. Cutt’s Beemer was revelling in the cooler conditions of the morning and he crossed the line almost 25 seconds ahead of Hubel.
Each driver’s second fastest lap in qualifying determined the grid for race 2. This was an issue for Hubel because he had lost a wheel during qualifying which meant he started from twelfth. This didn’t prevent him from coming through to finish second behind Cutt. Damien McKay completed the podium in his Westfield.
Durley Garage Fiesta ST150 Challenge
Dan Robinson dominated the opening race as Spencer Lane followed him home. It looked as though Jake Humphrey was going to complete the podium but he retired in a cloud of smoke with a couple laps to go. This promoted Stephanie Sore to third.
The first 3 were the same next time out although an intermittent brake issue kept Robinson on his toes.
Thank you
Thank you to all the marshals and officials who helped us to deliver another superb weekend of racing.
Dave Williams