British Buggy Nationals R3 wins for Holdsworth & Smith

It was a double success for Schumacher at Round 3 of the British 1:10 Offroad National Championships with Josh Holdsworth and Ben Smith taking the wins at the Robin Hood Raceway hosted event.  In 2WD on Saturday it was Team Associated’s defending BRCA Champion Tommy Hall who secured the TQ ahead of Smith, winner of the opening two rounds, Holdsworth and the Xray of Lee Martin.  While Hall opened the finals by winning A1, it was Smith who took A2 forcing the overall battle for the win to go to A3.  This was duly won by Holdsworth and with a winning time just 0.024 of a second faster than that of Smith, this gave Holdsworth the overall win on tie break from Smith and Hall, all three drivers recording a win, a 2nd and a 3rd.  In 4WD, Smith took the TQ after topping 3 of the 4 rounds with Scottish Team Associated racer Daniel Pole taking P2 after setting the fastest time in Q4.  In the finals Smith led home 3rd place qualifier Hall as Pole dropped to the back of the field after a mid race mistake.  Pole made up for his error in A2 with a brilliant last lap pass on Smith to take the win.  In A3 Smith would keep Pole at bay to claim his first 4WD win of the 2026 season with Hall completing the podium.  Round 4 of the BRCA Championship takes place at Southport on June 20/21st.

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