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Two wins out of two for Junior
Rotaxer
Ed
Brand remains unbeaten in the British Super 1 Championship after being declared
the winner at a wintry Shenington in Oxfordshire last Sunday (6 March).
The
13-year old – who comfortably won the opening round of the Championship at Clay
Pigeon in Dorset on 16 March – arrived at the
snowbound circuit early on Sunday morning, and immediately joined fellow
drivers, marshals and mechanics to help clear the track. Ed says: “About three to five inches of snow had
fallen over night and completely covered the circuit. After my win at Clay
there was no way I wasn’t going to race, so I grabbed a spade and did my bit.”
However,
with the racing getting under way late in the morning, a curtailed programme
was necessary. Only the heats were run, leaving the crucial finals to be axed.
Ed
demonstrated that his Clay Pigeon win was no fluke by taking two heat wins and
a 4th place. This gave him sufficient points to be declared the
winner once all hope of running the Finals had been abandoned.
Despite
having a 39 point lead in the Championship, Ed remains cool about his
performance: “I’m quite relaxed and
chilled about the whole thing really. I just did my job (on Sunday). There’s along way to go, so I’m not even
thinking about the championship just yet.”
His
team boss, Paul Carr of Paul Carr Racing agrees: “When you’re in Ed’s position you’ve just got to keep your head and
keep at it. That’s the way to be British champion.”
Ed’s
Super 1 title hunt will resume in June when he travels to Buckmore
Park in Kentrd round. for the 3
Before
then, he will be keeping himself sharp by competing in a couple of club races -
the first of which will be at his ‘home’ track of Whilton Mill near Daventry in
Northamptonshire on 27 April.
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