Round four of the BRA PCRA championship was run at the ever popular Wakefield Park circuit on a pleasant winters day.
Racing was close and exciting in all classes with many podiums decided by hundreds of seconds.
Motolites: #68 Shane Wilcox Honda RS85cr won all three races to score maximum points and hoist himself into 2nd place in the Motolite Championship. Airing the promising Aprilia 150RS for the first time #81 Robert Tisdell was runner up. #94 John Olip kept the venerable Moriwaki 85 in the hunt placing third and going up to third in the championship. Number170 Michael Child Supermono197 finished fourth, a DNF in race one didn’t help.
Superlites Pro: #38 Junior Murphy won all three races but was pushed all the way by #169 Ian Gregory. Third place went to #8 Kurt Wagus (SkyAce180). #65 Tim Smith (Honda CB180) had a day to forget finishing fourth and losing the championship lead to Junior albeit only three points behind. #2 Ken Lindsay finished fifth with #62 Jim Murphy and #56 Hermann Wagus coming in next. Only 24 points difference spans fourth to first in the points table so an exciting finish coming up in the Superlite Pro Championship final round.
Commuterlite Pro again saw #39 Ken and #43 Keo Watson circulating in close formation with Keo taking the win narrowing the gap to Kens diminishing Championship lead now down to 5 points. Keo will have to win 2 races and not finish lower than 3rd in one race to win the Commuterlite championship. #3 Peter Lindsay came in 3rd consolidating his third place in the Pro Championship. #4 Martin Kraymaat finished 4th. with #60 Gregory Oates 5th.
Commuterllite AM Class Newcomer #9 Brent Barassi won overall with two wins and a sixth. #194 Bradley Burt competing in only his second meeting this Year finished second. Third place went to #21 Craig Stewart. Round three winner #31 Christopher Dobie finished fourth. Championship contender #78 Mark O’Toole finished 5th to close the gap to the leader to 21 points and just 1 point behind 2nd placed #66 Andy Lewer. Championship leader #49 Gregory Burt finished sixth overall. Finishing order for rest of field, 7th #66 Andy Lewer, 8th #73 Daniel Florence, 9th #54 Raymond Wright, 10th #41 Max Young, 11th #37 Luke Young, 12th #53 David Hagney, 13th #22 Tom Harvey, 14th #24 Tom Harrison.
Superlite AM: #57 Stuart Ellis 2016 AM Champion doing a one off meeting pedalled his smart looking Suzuki GS150 to win his three races with #120 Nathan Taylor (Suzuki GS150)finishing second. Championship leader #666 Shaun Bray (Suzuki GS150) didn’t add to his points score.
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