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Supercar
A dozen cars arrived for the event, Irish championship contenders Procter, Derrick Jobb and Eddie Kinirons joining the BRC regulars in the event that also formed the opening round of the 2008-2009 Motorsport Ireland Rallycross Championship.
O'Donovan eventually claimed pole for the A final but the champion had a rocky start to the event and missed the first heat after his Peugeot suffered clutch failure in practice. Fastest in the second heat and second fastest in the third, was enough to put the London Irishman ahead of a three-way tie for second place. This was eventually resolved in Procter's favour, the Yorkshireman starting from the centre of the front row after setting second fastest time in the first and second heats during the first event with his newly acquired Ford ST ERC. Pat Doran completed the front row of the grid and had been fastest in the first heat and third in the third heat but had suffered a rear diff failure in his Ford Fiesta ST ERC in the second heat.
Liam Doran shared the second row with Gibson who had non-finished the first heat because of a driveshaft failure. Hill and Andy Grant were the last direct qualifiers and were joined on the back row of the grid by Mike Manning who won the B final ahead of Tommy Graham and Jobb. Kinirons non-finished here but had managed to limp his Focus through the event with transmission problems to bag useful IRC points.
The A final was stopped in the first lap when Mike Manning went off because of steering damaged sustained in a first corner bump. O'Donovan had led at the time of the stoppage and was on the front again in the restart. Doran led the chase of O'Donovan until the end of the second lap when Procter made a pass to take second and take over the pursuit of the leader. Hill and Gibson kept the lead trio in their sights, Grant running sixth with Liam Doran trailing the field and finishing in last place after his RS200 lost rear-wheel drive.

SuperModified
The class championship was won by James Bird here, the Renault driver taking his third win of the year as well as FTD to claim a maximum points score and put the title beyond the reach of his rivals.
Bird started the A final from pole, second place on the grid held by leading Irish racer Michael Coyne with Ben Power, who was fastest in the third heat, completing the front row starters. Driving his ex-Gordon Rogers Vauxhall Corsa for the first time, Willie Coyne qualified fourth despite driving for most of the event without the benefit of power steering. Mike Turpin set fastest time in the first heat and started the A final fifth, alongside Coyne. John Collins and Dessie Tierney start on the back row of the grid in their similar Vauxhall Tigras, joined there by B final winner Mike Howlin.
Bird led turpin in the first lap of the A final and was then able to ease out a small lead as Turpin became occupied with defending his position from Michael Coyne. The Irishman passed Turpin in the third lap and then closed quickly on Bird, the last couple of laps bringing a close contest between the pair but with Bird always just holding the upper hand. Turpin remained third with Tierney and Collins running close together for much of the race in fourth and fifth places. Howlin made his way up to sixth before a late race spin dropped him back to eighth place. Willie Coyne hung on to his car and finished seventh, Power placing a disappointed sixth after being pushed off the track in the first corner.

Stock Hatch
Fastest time of the day in the third qualifying heat helped Julian Godfrey to claim pole for the Stock Hatch A final. Tony Lynch, fastest in the first heat, started alongside with Ryan Lawford who had set fastest time in the second heat completing the front row of the grid. Irish drivers played a part here too, Robert Critchley and Michael Duke sharing the second row of the grid with Phil Chicken and Mike Jones the last two direct qualifiers in their 16v 'Stock Hatch 1-A' cars.
Fergus Lynch escaped a frantic B final to take the last place on the grid for the A final which also had its share of fun and games. Lawford got the best start and led through the first couple of laps, the pace of his car seemingly not affected by a rough sounding engine. At the end of the second lap, however, Godfrey managed to battle his way past Lawford to take the lead and carried Duke, Lynch and the rest with him, Lawford eventually rejoining in last place.
Godfrey led over the remaining distance and was able to establish a small lead in the latter laps as Duke came under increasing pressure from Lynch. Critchley had a relatively quiet run to fourth place ahead of Jones who was best of the multi-valve cars ahead of Lynch, Chicken and Lawford. Chicken's second in class, together with fastest time, was enough for him to claim the championship for the new multi-valve class.

Superfinal
The first attempt to run the Superfinal was stopped after Hill crashed heavily early in the second lap, the Mitsubishi driver getting on to the grass on the approach to the gravel section and then sliding into the barriers at almost unabated speed.
The first corner had been rough: O'Donovan's Peugeot sustaining two punctures from contact with other cars while Gibson locked up his brakes and slid into Doran's Fiesta, damaging its rear suspension and putting Doran out of the race. O'Donovan was denied permission to start in the re-run. Tierney, Godfrey and Lynch were the three available reserve starters who came into the restarted race which was better behaved and provided Procter with a relatively easy run to his first event win. Gibson kept Procter within his sights throughout on his way to second place while Grant claimed his best result of the year in third place. Bird was best of the two-wheel drive cars, chased again by Coyne on his way to fourth place. Tierney, Godfrey and Lynch completed the order.

Bill Gwynne Rallyschool Junior Rallycross Championship
Fastest in the first and third heats, Matt Thompson started on pole for the final with Jess Gwynne and Samantha Thom, who was fastest in the second heat, completing the front row of the grid.
Keifer Hudson and dan O'Brien shared the second row of the grid, Brad Bailey, John Quinn and Sam Kinirons completing the starters. Rebecca Elliot fought back from a first heat crash but was one of the two unlucky non-qualifiers along with Padraig Leeson.
The first lap or so of the final was very close, Thompson, Gwynne and Hudson running side-by-side and nose-to-tail as they disputed the lead. Eventually Gwynne asserted herself in the lead ahead of Thompson and Hudson. Thom joined the party and the top four ran close together until Thom suffered mechanical problems in the third lap and was forced to park her Mini. Gwynne held steady at the front and collected her second win of the year, ahead of Thompson and Hudson. O'Brien was fourth ahead of Bailey while Quinn recovered from the first lap spin to pass Kinirons for sixth place.

BTRDA Clubmans Championship
In the final round of the nine-event BTRDA Clubmans Rallycross Championship the overall title was still up for grabs. Junior racer Dan O'Brien led the scoring entering the event but the strongest hand was held by Rick Horton who needed only to finish within the top four places of the Stock Hatch category to take the title.
On the day Horton excelled himself, qualifying on pole and then leading the A final from start to finish to win and take the championship in style. O'Brien, meanwhile, suffered a miserable time of things, qualifying fourth for the Junior final and then ending up in sixth place after a last lap incident.
At the other end of the Junior final, Keifer Hudson qualified third but then moved ahead in the race and took the win ahead of of Brad Bailey and Matt Thompson. The latter's strong showing, coupled with O'Brien's troubled run meant that it was Thompson who claimed the Junior class championship.
The event had the best SuperModified grid of the year and it was Irishman Eric Fleming who took the win in his new Opel Corsa. Gary Pusey edged out Nick McAdden in a last gasp dash for the finish line, but McAdden's third place was sufficient for him to take the SuperModified class title.
With Horton stepping up to take the overall championship title, the Stock Hatch class title is won by Dave Martin who placed second to Horton in the last A final of the year.

Support race: RX150 Off Road Racers
Making its second appearance at a Rallycross event, the RX150 off road formula drew 11 starters for it's first outing at Pembrey. Andy Scott set fastest time in the first and third heats to take pole for the final with Craig Bracewell topping the order in the second heat. However, it was Leo Forster, with second fastest time from the first and third heats who qualified second to Scott, Forster qualifying third.
Craig Smith and Tom Keet shared the second row of the grid with Damian Cole, Joe Shrimpton and Marc Scott on the third row.
Delays caused by several incidents during the day meant that the event ran late and when the strictly enforced 1800 curfew arrived the event organiser was forced to abandon the RX150 final, meaning that results for the category were based on qualifying order with Scott the winner.

2008 Kumho Tyres MSA British Rallycross Championship

Sun-Mon Mar 23-24 Lydden
Sat May 3 Pembrey
Sun May 4 Pembrey
Sun Jul 6 Croft
Mon Aug 25 Lydden
Sun Sep 28 Pembrey
Sun Oct 14 Mondello Park (IRL)