Cragg and Martin split British Winter Open Championship

0 Feb. 10, 2016, 6 p.m.

By Aaron Waldron
LiveRC.com

This is our abridged version of what happened - for Tony Evdoka's full report from the BRCA BWOC, including two brilliant galleries, click here:
www.brca10thoffroad.co.uk/2016-bwoc-report/

The crew at Silverstone hosted the BRCA British Winter Open Championship last weekend as a kickoff to the 2016 season, and attracted 249 individual entries in mere hours - prompting the BRCA to begin planning how to handle an even larger turnout next year.

Lee Martin and Neil Cragg traded the first three rounds of 2WD qualifying, then recorded identical finishing times in the all-deciding fourth round. The tiebreaker went to Martin, who started from the front row of the grid ahead of Cragg and three Schumacher teammates. Cragg executed a terrific pass on Martin to win A1, then repeated the feat again to win A2 to secure the overall. Martin won A3 to earn second overall ahead of Tom Yardy.

Results:

Neil Cragg - Associated
Lee Martin - Yokomo
Tom Yardy - Schumacher
Nathan Waters - Schumacher
Tom Cockerill - Yokomo
Ellis Stafford - TLR
Iain Mellish - Kyosho
Greg Williams - Schumacher
Chris Doughty - Durango
Kev Lee - PR Racing

Martin TQ’d all four rounds of the 4WD division, getting faster throughout the day and setting the quickest time in the final heat. He then dominated all three finals to take the BWOC championship ahead of Neil Cragg, who finished second in A1 and A2, and first-time Worlds finalist Tom Cockerill.