Schumacher Indoor Masters Rd7 – Report

This past weekend was the seventh and final round of the ever popular Worksop Series, with once again a full entry of drivers across the three classes of 2WD, 4WD and the Vintage Buggy. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. The track layout had some great features in it and was proper off-road. Many people commented what a brilliant lay out it was. As always a huge thanks go out to the fantastic Worksop track team.

Qualifying in 2WD saw a dominating performance by Craig Collinson, taking TQ in three out of the four rounds to take pole position from Greg Williams and Allan O Brien. In 4WD it was a similar story with Craig Collinson taking TQ, ahead of Greg Williams and Tom Cockerill who lined up second and third respectively. In the Vintage class it was Chris Slater who dominated proceedings, taking TQ in three qualifying rounds to line up on pole. Rob Fox was 2nd and Lee Broadhurst lined up 3rd.

In the 2WD A-final it was then Greg Williams with the win from Craig Collinson and Josh Holdsworth.

2WD final result:
1. Greg Williams – PR Racing
2. Craig Collinson – Xray
3. Josh Holdsworth – Schumacher
4. Karl Marsden – Kyosho
5. David Snee – Kyosho
6. Allan O Brien – Schumacher
7. Edward Callan – Team Associated
8. James Helliwell – Xray
9. Eugene Galley – Schumacher
10.Mitchell Fiddling – Schumacher
11.Dom Nunn – Xray

The 4WD main was also won by Greg Williams with Tom Yardy and Allan O Brien coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. TQ Craig Collinson had to settle for 4th overall.

4WD final result:
1. Greg Williams – PR Racing
2. Tom Yardy – Schumacher
3. Allan O Brien – Schumacher
4. Craig Collinson – Xray
5. Josh Holdsworth – Schumacher
6. James Helliwell – Xray
7. Edward Callan – Team Associated
8. Karl Marsden – Kyosho
9. Tom Cockerill – Yokomo
10.Dom Nunn – Xray
11.Mitchell Fiddling – Schumacher

The Vintage A-final result saw Chris Slater taking the win with Rob Fox and Lee Broadhurst coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Vintage Buggy final result:
1. Chris Slater
2. Rob Fox
3. Lee Broadhurst
4. Phil Barlow
5. Steve Lander
6. Sam Hunt
7. Kevin Bishop
8. Simon Kemp
9. Paul Brooks

As this was the final round of the series, the overall Championship trophy boards to be handed out and also the traditional raffle prizes. Unfortunately both Neil and Jonathan couldn’t attend this final round due to other commitments.

2WD overall top 3:
1. Neil Cragg
2. Craig Collinson
3. Ben Smith

4WD overall top 3:
1. Craig Collinson
2. Neil Cragg
3. Jonathan Skidmore

Vintage overall top 3:
1. Chris Slater
2. Lee Broadhurst
3. Phil Barlow

The 2019/20 season kicks off on the 13th of October and it concludes at the 15th of March 2020.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]