Brad Jackson Racing

 UK National Drag Racing Championship – Super Pro

Summer Nationals Santa Pod 27/28th June 2015

Hi reader

 UK National Drag Racing Championship – Super Pro

We went to Santa Pod with high expectations of continuing Brad’s recent success and the team were in a confident & buoyant mood due to Brad leading the championship. Brad had work commitments so we didn’t arrive at Santa Pod until 11pm Friday night, Brad’s fantastic crew had the pit all set up and the car fully prepared.
We woke up early Saturday to a beautiful day and looked forward to our 3 qualifying sessions; it was going to be a tough day with a field of 27 drivers with some very fine cars from Holland, Switzerland and Germany in attendance too. 

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 Brad’s first run was a 0.030 reaction and 7.77 run on a 7.70 dial in gave a good 7th place start to the day. Brad’s second qualifier improved with a 0.064 reaction and a 7.738 on a 7.73 dial which moved Brad up to 2nd place. On the 3rd and final run everyone had a handle on the track conditions and we could hear on the commentary that Brad was getting overtaken. Brad again did a fantastic job with a 0.002 reaction time and a 7.762 on a dial of 7.76, 2 thousandths of a second incredibly was only good for 3rd place but this was a great result for Brad, Rene Ehrismann from Switzerland was #1 with a perfect 8.340 on an 8.34 dial in, Marius Blackburn #2 with 8.731 on a 8.73 dial in and Brad 2 thousandths of a second off in 3rd.
With qualifying over for the day we were very satisfied with #3 and the points that this would add to Brad’s tally of points.
Sunday morning we woke up to light rain and had to wait until lunchtime before the rain ceased and the track crew had dried the track.
In the first round of eliminations Brad had drawn our sister car in the team with Chris Parker driving this was going to be tough with the knowledge both drivers and crew had of each other.
Chris’s car is faster so we knew that Chris would be able to control the race , both drivers pulled 0.07 reaction lights and unfortunately for Brad Chris took the win by 2 hundredths of a second, congratulations to Chris, it was now a case of how many points our championship contenders would win.
Simon Gough won the event and Ian Powell lost in the quarter finals so Brad’s first round exit didn’t damage his championship challenge too much and Brad ended the event in 3rd place in the championship

The unofficial points standings (yet to be ratified) are;-
1. Simon Gough 2420
2. Ian Powell 2160
3. Brad Jackson 2100
4. Scott Hauser 1650
5. Rick Cooke 1600

 

 


We have a break for summer know and look forward to the Open Sports Nationals at Shakespeare County Raceway in Stratford upon Avon on the 29th August.

Brad is leading the Apira club championship and this is the last round of this championship


Kindest Regards

Wayne Jackson

Brad Jackson Racing Ltd

Results, Respect, Excellence, Integrity

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