Round four of the 2010 BRCA 1/10th off road national series took place at Oswestry in the Mid West UK - on the border of Wales. The venue is the same as in previous years - the Oswestry showground, and the track itself is similarly laid out just for this event on a gently sloping grass field.

This event is very unique in that section chairman and racing supremo Paul Worsley was absent due to his attendance at the on-road worlds in Germany (traitor!). In his place, section secretary Mad Charlie Fraser took over the proceedings, and backed up by Stuart Whyman the team took to the rostrum to deliver the chat. Drivers briefing was a more jovial affair than usual, with input from the lads in the moshpit as usual standby Charlie had to take the lead and dish out the orders. TomCock informed us that the weather booked for this weekend was to be dry but with extreme temperatures and the occasional light wind following last nights tandoori suprise.

Compared to the infamous Talywain drivers briefing however, todays gathering was relatively uneventful.

Grass tracks - love them or hate them. Some drivers believe that off-road racing should entail a variety of surfaces with various obstacles and features. The Oswestry team are limited as to what changes they can make to their venue here, however they always put in maximum-best effort to produce a good show, with the off-track facilities out-doing the on-track features.

Spy shot of Dave Duggan who works for our bessie buddies CML Distribution. See the love in those eyes.	Charlie Fraser the Scottish gangsta MC on the mic.

Neil Oliver was seen out with the mower between qualifying and finals to ensure the surface was prepared optimally for the ultimate final performance. Danny McGee made an early appearance prior to the national to offer his annual grass-cutting assistance - Danny likes his trimmed neatly.

P-Dub Racing - AKA Paul Wragg gets some C-Cup love.	A warrior

osfest is on the same weekend as glastonbury, many were worried it would affect attendance at the great unwashed and music extravaganza but the beautiful sunny weather brought fans out in force to both events. Kylie Minogue, having been double booked for both events had to cancel her attendance at Osfest causing life long fan Andrew Jones to faint with dissapointment. The unconsoleable Jonesy subsequently had to be sent home to be comforted by his family whilst watching neighbours re-runs from the 1980's, and was unable to return to racing for the remainder of the weekend.

	Round 1 Qualifying
	position name result 1 Ellis Stafford 12/307.97 2 Grant Williams 12/311.55 3 Simon Moss 12/312.24 4 Nathan Waters 12/312.47 5 Lee Martin 12/312.63 6 Phil Sleigh 12/313.52 7 Danny McGee 12/314.66 8 Craig Collinson 12/315.50 9 Paul Bradby 12/317.01 10 Tom Yardy 12/317.57

In round one local hero Andrew Jones was beating Graham North, despite him being in hospital at the time. Northy forgot to put his Personal Transponder in his car for round one, and only outqualified Ben Riley by default due to the alphabetical order in which his name was placed. Northy had a further run of bad luck in round two when he experienced the wrath of electrical gremlins. Ellis Stafford was the MAN however and went way quicker than anyone else to take the round - Grant Williams was on pace to out-do Ellis early on but there was no way he was keeping up the mighty pace and despite finishing second was a whopping 4 seconds behind. Wowzer.

	Round 2 Qualifying
	position name result 1 Ellis Stafford 12/310.15 2 Lee Martin 12/312.43 3 Danny McGee 12/312.63 4 Simon Moss 12/312.74 5 Kevin Lee 12/314.40 6 Tom Yardy 12/316.18 7 Tom Cockerill 12/316.22 8 Grant Williams 12/317.51 9 Nathan Ralls 12/317.64 10 Chris Bowater 12/318.51

Special mentions: Tony Bishop on his return to electric offroad nationals placed in BQ position with 2 rounds completed, whilst mighty Stuart Wood running the Ansmann X Pro car was sitting in B3.

	The new Tamiya TRF 201X has been running in the UK National series since the opening round at Talywain - where it won in the hands of Lee Martin first time out. The car was released just before this event and a few of the Tamiya fan-boys had them already. Tamiya UK 'The Hobby Company' apparently brought a massive 6 of the new cars into the country - we'd guess that means a box worth. Apparently all the spares will be special order and we'd guess take weeks to arrive because Tamiya UK aren't interested what so ever in the racing side of things. Allegedly. Lee Martin - Making Tamiya popular again. Andy Griff had only received his kit from MK that morning Dave Gibson was running his 201X for the first time Neil Round was also out for the first time with his 201X

	Round 3 Qualifying
	position name result 1 Ellis Stafford 12/313.59 2 Tom Cockerill 12/315.52 3 Simon Moss 12/315.70 4 Grant Williams 12/316.43 5 Chris Bowater 12/320.62 6 Paul Bradby 12/322.14 7 Nathan Waters 12/322.28 8 Phil Sleigh 12/322.40 9 Paul Robinson 12/322.42 10 Kevin Lee 12/322.52

Less than half a second seperated the 5 drivers between 6th and 10th in round 3, close racing. In addition to this, if Ben Jemison (in B6 place) had been given a 10 second penalty, he would have been demoted to F6 place - sadly though he wasn't.

	Round 4 Qualifying
	position name result 1 Ellis Stafford   2 Grant Williams   3 Simon Moss   4 Tom Yardy   5 Tom Cockerill   6 Nathan Waters   7 Lee Martin   8 Phil Sleigh   9 Paul Bradby   10 Kevin Lee

	Mini Tornado Toward the end of qualifying a small 'prelude' of wind lifted our pitting gazebo slightly from literally nowhere and we stood up to make sure it was secured properly - then suddenly a much bigger gust of wind came through from nowhere and lifted our little pitting area like a giant dyson vac. We grabbed for it but couldn't hold it - resulting in carnarge. As the gazebo came to rest on top of someones car we saw the mighty mini tornado work its way down the field, lifting tents and gazebos at random high-high into the air which caused huge carnage. A certain racers lovely GOLF R32 was the biggest loser in the mayhem with very significant damage. This isn't funny in any way at all - just like to get that out of the way and it wouldn't be right to take photos of the cars damaged as it's a bad situation for all. Stu Evans of the oOple team managed to snap the photos during the madness above - although you don't get a real picture of how high this stuff was from the above photos. Joe Cockill provided some light entertainment amid the destruction. His used underpants were discovered in the field many leagues from where his tent had been originally planted and despite the mighty heights his entire tent reached these mythical undercrackers were the ONLY item to exit the open door and go missing. The sorry looking set of arse covers were found by a fellow racer - photographed - and then buried. Thanks Joe, this makes up for some of the heartache and upset of this whole sorry incident.

With his UTTER DOMINATION of qualifying, Ellis Stafford rightly took the TQ as you'd expect. Grant Williams took second on the grid with a couple of 2nd-in-round results and Simon Moss took third overall on the grid with a couple of 3rd place's counting.

	Overall Qualifying.
	position   name Best time Score 1 Ellis Stafford 12/ 307.97 0 [0 0 (0) (0)] 2 Grant Williams 12/ 311.55 4 [2 (8) (4) 2] 3 Simon Moss 12/ 312.24 6 [3 (4) 3 (3)] 4 Lee Martin 12/ 312.43 7 [5 2 (49) (7)] 5 Tom Cockerill 12/ 315.52 7 [(100) (7) 2 5] 6 Danny Mcgee 12/ 312.63 10 [7 3 (32) (115)] 7 Nathan Waters 12/ 312.47 10 [4 (67) (7) 6] 8 Tom Yardy 12/ 320.71 10 [(10) 6 (12) 4] 9 Phil Sleigh 12/ 313.52 14 [6 (12) 8 (8)] 10 Kevin Lee 12/ 314.40 15 [(16) 10 5 (15)]

Finals

2WD A final leg 1. Ellis Stafford lead the pack away from the grid with a clean start, and attempted to commence an instant pulling off from his peers. Grant Williams was fast though, and piled the pressure onto Ellis' rear. Ellis caved in and hit the track marker coming around the corner at the end of the first lap, and Grant was through into the first place, followed by Mossy. In all Ellis lost 4 places with this error, but wasn't about to give up any time soon. Ellis lead them away - Grant pressing hard. Ellis succumed to the pressure and stuck it under a pipe. Three laps in and the race order was Grant Williams, Simon Moss, Lee Martin, Ellis Stafford, and Tom Cockerill, with a gap back to Phil Sleigh. Grant was holding his lead well until his car slipped on the track where some grass had melted, hit the track marking and spun out across the track to the other side. Now it was Grants turn to lose 4 places, and Mossy took the lead followed by Lee Martin and Ellis Stafford. Ellis took a bad landing coming over the tabletop jump, and Tom Cockerill was promoted to 3rd place. Ellis was displeased at this poor sequence of events, and instantly hammered down on the young studenty-type Schumacher hero's gearbox, desperately looking for a way through. Tom kept his backdoor tightly shut for the following lap, but it was coming through the bendy bits after the loop when Ellis managed to make his pass. Ellis lead them away - Grant pressing hard. Moss took up the lead with Lee Martin chasing. Lee dances off for an eventual win whilst Simon Moss goes all roly-poly in the background. Simon and Lee remained up front, Simon became entangled with a track marking, and Lee was through into the lead. Grant Williams was now in fourth place whilst Ellis had been demoted down the field into 5th place, followed by Danny McGee. With all the scuffles happening behind him, Lee Martin had pulled a 2 second lead and was out on his own. Simon Moss held onto 2nd place with an ever-closer Tom Cockerill in tow. Simon wheelied as he entered the tabletop jump, and needed a tap from behind to help him up. With 10 seconds to go though Simon still held onto 2nd place over team buddy TomCock. It was a race to the line and cockerill throttled with super power to try and overtake Moss, disasterously Tom caught a track marking at the end of the straight, Lee and Moss  were through for a final lap as the rest of the cars came in to finish. Moss gained distance on Lee but Lee had it in the bag, and took the leg win over 3 seconds ahead of 2nd place Moss.

	2WD A Final Leg 1
	position   name Best time 1 Lee Martin 12/ 324.24 2 Simon Moss 12/ 327.51 3 Tom Cockerill 11/ 301.17 4 Grant Williams 11/ 303.83 5 Nathan Waters 11/ 306.58 6 Ellis Stafford 11/ 307.64 7 Tom Yardy 11/ 308.91 8 Kevin Lee 11/ 311.40 9 Danny Mcgee 11/ 312.59 10 Phil Sleigh 11/ 317.39

2WD A final leg 2. Ellis led the lads away from the grid with another clean start, and a relatively uneventful first lap other than Danny McGee moving up into 5th place. Ellis pulled out a small gap on the straight, and Grant was pushing to close the gap, but went wonky coming over the small kick-up jumps,  landing into a track marker and losing a place to Simon Moss. Danny McGee popped something coming off the tabletop jump and required marshalling assistance, Nathan Waters moved up into 5th place. Simon Moss went for a jam roly-poly coming down off the tabletop jump, and Grant Williams moved up into 2nd place. Mossy kept close to Grant though, and the battling duo enabled Ellis to pull more of a lead. The fight was now on as Grant, Simon and Lee raced very closely in 2nd, 3rd and 4th place. Ellis leads round Grant Williams and Simon Moss.   Lee Martin landed badly (on his roof) coming off the tabletop jump, allowing Grant and Moss some breathing space, Lee flipped back onto his wheels though with nothing more than a dented ego (well, maybe), and re-joined the race. As the top 4 spread out somewhat, the fight was on for 5th place as Nathan Waters recevied some excessive rear-end pressure from Tom Cockerill. Tom tried to make a pass at Nathan, but he wasn't having any of it and squeezed his back door shut, Tom clipped a track marking and ended up driving THE WRONG WAY on the track as he performed a U-Turn and was back in the race with no places lost. The focus was now on 2nd and 3rd place, Mossy was eager to slip through Grant after a great days qualifying, and saw a couple of opporunities which didn't materialise, in the end however Mossy just manned it, and undertook his team mate as the pair came through a tight corner. Grant pushed hard but in the end his effort was no no avail, Mossy took the 2nd place with Grant finishing on his lid in 3rd. The leg winner though, that was Ellis. Grant - Si Moss & Lee Martin all fighting for 2nd. Grant and Simon battle as they cross the line - Si just edging Grant out for 2nd.

	2WD A Final Leg 2
	position   name Best time 1 Ellis Stafford 12/ 318.82 2 Simon Moss 12/ 322.64 3 Grant Williams 12/ 322.84 4 Lee Martin 12/ 325.03 5 Nathan Waters 12/ 326.85 6 Tom Cockerill 12/ 329.56 7 Phil Sleigh 11/ 302.73 8 Tom Yardy 11/ 303.56 9 Kevin Lee 11/ 307.66 10 Danny Mcgee 11/ 311.10

	GHEA pistons seem to be getting more and more popular with an ever expanding range of their 'tapered' piston designs being release for various brands. The Schumacher Cougar SV and CAT SX2 'big bore' dampers are now catered for and already have impressive wins in the capable hands of drivers like Tom Cockerill.

The A finalists line up for their last bash at winning something or going home with a degree of self respect. 2WD A final leg 3. Mossy went for a dramatic start from the line, wheelying and becoming entangled with Lee Martin, causing chaos and debauchery as cars tried to avoid the mess he had created. Mossy was down to 9th place before the first corner was complete, whilst Ellis and Grant took advantage and pulled off from the rest of the field. Tom cockerill was up to third place following the chaos on the start line, but despite initially closing in, Ellis and Grant were soon moving away again. Grant was hot on the tail of Ellis' car, waiting eagerly for an error. Grant took the corner too fast at the end of the straight and skidded around on two wheels, allowing Ellis to increase the gap and seeing Tom cockerill closing in. Another error over the kick-up jumps saw Grant on his lid on the wrong side of the track marker, and TomCock moved up to 2nd place. Ellise - Blah Blah Blah - leads them away. Oh come on! Some of the lads not good enough to be up front. The mid-west crew were on top form Tom Yardy was in 4th place and very close to the gearbox of Grant Williams.Meanwhile with all the excitement going on behind him, Ellis nudged up to a track marking and ended up facing the wrong way on the track, he quickly adjusted himself however Tom Cockerill was now hot on his tail and looking eager to make a pass. Another pipe nudge from Ellis was all Tom needed to move up into 1st place, with Ellis moving into second and Grant williams joining the chase in 3rd. Loving the track markers, Ellis once again became caught up and allowed Grant Williams through into 2nd, holding onto the third spot but with a keen Yardy up his rear. Lee Martin was in 5th place and keeping close to Yardy, looking every way to make a pass at him. Following a series of schoolboy errors, Ellis was in the weong zone, and made another error, this time enough for Yardy to sneak through into third place. Another altercation with a track marker one lap further on was the nail in the coffin for Ellis' poor abused toy, and it was pulled off the track. Ellis and Lee go toe-to-toe - Lee battles past. Ellis loses his nut and has to retire - the dream is over. Tom Cockerill leads Grant Williams on his way to the national win - and lead in the 2010 series. With one lap to go, Tom Cockerill was owning the race, and Grant Williams was catching up well, Danny McGee had been messing around at the back of the field and the two leaders came around to pass, the two cars crossed the loop for one final lap and kept their cool until Grant flipped out coming up to the last jump, giving Tom all the breathing space he needed to cruise gently down the straight to the finish line to take the leg win, and win the 2wd Oswestry national 2010.

	2WD A Final Leg 3
	position   name Best time 1 Tom Cockerill 12/ 325.71 2 Grant Williams 12/ 330.33 3 Tom Yardy 11/ 303.34 4 Lee Martin 11/ 305.05 5 Phil Sleigh 11/ 316.76 6 Kevin Lee 11/ 318.08 7 Nathan Waters 11/ 323.83 8 Danny Mcgee 10/ 302.23 9 Ellis Stafford 8/ 222.82 10 Simon Moss 7/ 202.41

	Stuart Wood has been racing for Ansmann during 2010. Whilst Stu is still waiting for the 4WD buggy to arrive he's been having success with the 2WD car - the 'X Pro'. Stu says the car has been geting better all season and with the price drop from the original launch to below £100 it has to be the cheapest competitive 2WD there is. Stu is running all Ansmann gear in his car, including servo and ESC and managed to place his car in the sharp end of the B final. Stu Wood with his Ansmann   Stu made a simple front air dam to give more high speed steering. The pistons are drilled in the dampers and there's an optional alloy+brass front hinge pin block at the front. Stu also has thinner front hex wheel adaptors and has ground the end of the axles to make the car legal width - other than those things the car is pretty much standard.

	Overall results - 2WD A Final
	position qual name result car 1 5 Tom Cockerill 4 [ 3 6 1] Schumacher Cougar SV 2 3 Simon Moss 4 [ 2 2 10] Schumacher Cougar SV 3 4 Lee Martin 5 [ 1 4 4] Tamiya TRF 201X 4 2 Grant Williams 5 [ 4 3 2] Schumacher Cougar SV 5 1 Ellis Stafford 7 [ 6 1 9] XFactory X6 6 8 Tom Yardy 10 [ 7 8 3] Associated B4 7 7 Nathan Waters 10 [ 5 5 7] Losi XXX CR2 - Atomic Carbon 8 9 Phil Sleigh 12 [ 10 7 5] Associated B4 9 10 Kevin Lee 14 [ 8 9 6] XFactory X6 10 6 Danny Mcgee 17 [ 9 10 8] Losi XXX CR2 - Atomic Carbon

Simon Moss (2nd) Tom Cockerill (1st) Lee Martin (3rd)	Lee shows us where the motor is supposed to be - but the Schumacher lads were having none of it.

Tom Cockerill - Oswestry winner, oOple Invernational winner and 2WD BRCA series leader after 4 rounds.

Sunday 27th June 2010 - 4WD Day The track was being run the same exact layout as the 2WD event but in reverse. The two main jumps were designed to be jumped in either direction with no problems - the small ramps that sat on one of the diagonal straight sections in the middle of the track were turned around to match the new direction but were removed before qualifying began as they were rubbish. The grass had worn heavily on the racing line after the previous days racing and the 4WD cars were doing their best to hammer any remaining threads of organic matter into submission. Traction on the dirt was lower than that off the racing line and some of the top drivers were known to be using Schumacher GREEN compound tyres which have a little more traction on the dirt underneath.

With no gazebo to pit under (after Saturdays events) and the sun blazing down to make the conditions somewhat hard to work in - and the screen next to impossible to see, we didn't get a lot more done after the events of the previous day had taken place. The morning of the 4WD event started much the same way with blazing hot sun on the early morning baking-alive those lazy bones that attempted to stay in bed. The sun went behind clouds for a short while toward the end of the second round of practice and we took the opportunity to move our reporting setup to the Schumacher south pitting area - gratefully suckling on their power supply like hungry piglets.

Lee Martin - 4WD GOD that he is - took round one of qualifying with the only 13 lapper with his Tamiya TRF511 buggy. Ellis Stafford put his Predator X11 up to second in round just ahead of Paul Bradby.

	Round 1 Qualifying
	position name result 1 Lee Martin 13/323.74 2 Ellis Stafford 12/302.95 3 Paul Bradby 12/303.32 4 Nathan Waters 12/303.45 5 Phil Sleigh 12/303.81 6 Kevin Lee 12/305.29 7 Chris Bowater 12/306.55 8 Simon Moss 12/306.97 9 Tom Cockerill 12/307.66 10 Danny McGee 12/308.39

Phil Sleigh was riding the TQ position all the way to the bank in round two of qualifying and it didn't look like anyone would be able to wrestle it away from him after Lee Martin made an error in the last heat. Danny McGee made the most of Lee's error and piloted his distinctly ancient Losi XX4 Worlds Edition to the win. A few years ago there was a count of chassis's at Oswestry national and nearly half of drivers were running the XX4 - still competitive clearly, but they're a rare sight these days outside the Losi/Horizon team drivers.

	Round 2 Qualifying
	position name result 1 Danny McGee 12/301.39 2 Lee Martin 12/303.12 3 Phil Sleigh 12/303.83 4 Kevin Lee 12/304.38 5 Nathan Waters 12/305.88 6 Tom Cockerill 12/306.13 7 Tom Yardy 12/306.94 8 Simon Moss 12/307.45 9 Paul Bradby 12/307.50 10 Grant Williams 12/309.83

Danny McGee couldn't replicate his performance in round two after his power switch 'fell off' and the car went dead for a moment after a roll. Danny pulled off (!) to save his tyres for the final round - his studenty roots coming to light once again. Lee Martin came back in this round to take the win and a provisional TQ with one round to go. The times again fell slightly, proving the track conditions were getting progressively slippier.

	Round 3 Qualifying
	position name result 1 Lee Martin 12/302.02 2 Paul Bradby 12/303.96 3 Ellis Stafford 12/304.10 4 Tom Cockerill 12/306.17 5 Kevin Lee 12/306.24 6 Nathan Waters 12/306.64 7 Stuart Wood 12/309.51 8 Craig Collinson 12/310.87 9 Colin May 12/311.20 10 Andy Griffiths 12/311.25

Stu Evans missed his round 4 race because he foolishly dumped his entire pitbox in the grass. Nob.	Northy didn't drop anything - and did well.

Lee Martin affirmed his position at the top with the final round of qualifying going in his pocket

	Round 4 Qualifying
	position name result 1 Lee Martin 12/301.89 2 Paul Bradby 12/302.79 3 Ellis Stafford 12/304.95 4 Tom Cockerill 12/307.27 5 Kevin Lee 12/308.25 6 Nathan Waters 12/308.31 7 Stuart Wood 12/310.37 8 Craig Collinson 12/310.41 9 Colin May 12/310.65 10 Andy Griffiths 12/312.25

	Overall Qualifying.
	Qualified   name Best time Score 1 Lee Martin 13/ 323.74 0 [0 (2) 0 (2)] 2 Ellis Stafford 12/ 301.89 2 [2 (17) (3) 0] 3 Paul Bradby 12/ 303.96 5 [3 (9) 2 (3)] 4 Danny Mcgee 12/ 301.39 6 [(10) 0 (104) 6] 5 Phil Sleigh 12/ 303.83 8 [5 3 (16) (5)] 6 Tom Cockerill 12/ 306.17 8 [(9) (6) 4 4] 7 Nathan Waters 12/ 303.45 9 [4 5 (6) (10)] 8 Kevin Lee 12/ 304.38 9 [(6) 4 5 (9)] 9 Colin May 12/ 310.37 16 [(11) (18) 9 7] 10 Simon Moss 12/ 306.97 16 [8 8 (105) (17)]

4WD A final leg 1.

The boys all left the start line at the same time, which was when the buzzer sounded, this was a good thing and resulted in zero pile ups. Lee Martin had TQ'd the event so this meant he had the advantage of being ahead of everyone else, and he made a good performance of remaining so for a good part of the race. Lees car was HOT, it looked like it was on fire, only without the smoke and flames, but he was down on the track like a duck gets down to water, or like cheese on toast.
Ellis was pulling out some tricks though and started throttling down hard on the superhero ahead, followed closely by Paul Bradby, Danny McGee, Phil Sleigh and TomCock. Kevin Lee moved up to 7th on the first lap, good skillz. Nathan Waters, Simon Moss and Colin May were bringing up the rear.

Lee Martin leads the posse around the first corner	Ellis close in

As the top three started to pull away from the rest of the field, Ellis was making his move on Lee, looking every way for a chance to pass. Lee went wide on the line coming through the tight corners, and Ellis seized the moment, and went for the undertake, but the two cars' wheels touched briefly and Ellis went for a tumble. He was back on his wheels before Bradby could say 'lapping' and maintained his second place. For now. Lee had a moments breathing space to pull off down the straight. An error from Ellis towards the end of the straight however saw Bradders make his move into 2nd place. Bradders was piling the pressure onto Lees rear end, however made a sausage roll shape coming through the corners, and Ellis sneaked back up into 2nd place. Bradders was on his lid but thanks to some quick marshalling he was back in the race before 4th place Sleigh could overtake.
Lee and Ellis had now pulled a 3 second lead back to third place, but Bradders was pushing hard to catch up. Lee lead Ellis around the track nice and smoooothly for the next few laps, but as the race came closer to the finish, Ellis started dancing harder for a way past.

Lee - Ellis and Bradby assault the 'straight'	A brief roll didn't damge Ellis's chances

Ellis rammed it in hard coming down the straight, shunting Lee wide around the dusty corner at the end, and Ellis was through into the lead. After a fabulous race so far, Lee wasn't going to give this up without a battle, and went for the pass at the next corner. The two cars made contact, and with their wheels entwined it was 3rd place Bradders who came off the best, making his lucky pass into 1st place as Ellis and Lee broke their embrace. Ellis was pushing Bradders hard for the next lap, but was receiving rear end pressure from Lee, and soon the battle was on for 2nd place. Lee made his move past Ellis as the pair came off the tabletop jump, but they both landed badly, with Lee on his roof, Ellis was back through into 2nd place; Bradders was now three seconds ahead of the battling duo. 4th place Tom Cockerill was gaining distance on the pair. Bradders had this one in the bag, the distance too great for any of the other competitors to catch up on the final lap, Ellis maintained 2nd place, and Lee finished in 3rd.

Ellis built up the pressure and it was ON.	Ellis goes for it - the pair turn for the corner way early and slide like a couple of swans doing a love-dance around the first corner - gosu D-R-I-F-T stylee.

Drifters Lee and Ellis collided - one of several incidents between the pair which was looked at by the referees.

Lee Tangles up with Ellis in frustration - but waits for Ellis to get going.	...Too big a chance for Bradby as he slips past the pair to take up the lead.

After the race there was an investigation into one of the three coming-to-gether's that Ellis and Lee had. In the end no action was taken.

4WD A Final Leg 1

4WD A final leg 2.

Lee Martin led the boys away from the grid, once again with a clean start. Lee, Ellis, Bradby, McGee, Sleigh.
At the end of the first lap, Lee navigated the corner prior to the start of the straight, following the dirty brown groove where many had been before, but turning in too tightly he clipped the track marker and flipped like a pancake out of control across the track. He landed on his wheels but not before Ellis had taken the lead with Bradders close behind in 2nd place. Lee slipped back inside before anyone else could sneak through, and throttled down hard behind Bradby. Coming through the corners at the end of the straight, Ellis' lead was short lived as he performed a similar roll to his Southern rival, again landing on his wheels but this time Bradders was through into the lead. This was it... With one leg win already pocketed, Bradders had a tight grip of the Oswestry National 4wd win, and he was now storming ahead, leading Ellis, Lee, McGee, Sleigh, Cockerill and Nathan Waters, followed by some other top guys too. Danny McGee made an error with a track marking, and collected Sleigh, allowing the top three some breathing space to move away, and Tom Cockerill was up to 4th place and throttling hard to catch up.

Lee leads them round for a short while	Ellis took over the lead with Bradders in tow

Ellis goes all jelly-riffic and allows Bradby through for the lead - could he take the WIN!?!!??!

As Bradders pulled off ahead with the win in his sights, the fight was on behind him for 2nd place, with Ellis barely holding off Lee Martins tamiya, the pair were wrestling like a couple of oily pigs, but Lees chance came when Ellis clipped a track marker coming through some corners, and rode the groove on two wheels; Lee was through and ready to hammer down hard on the Northern leader.
As Bradders drove like a warrior for the next few laps, Lee gradually closed the gap. A mistake from Ellis saw Tom Cockerill promoted to 3rd place.

Bradby - Ellis - Lee	Ellis went nuts again - Lee back up to 2nd

The gap between 1st and 2nd varied between 1 and 2 seconds, and Bradders was holding on well to his victory, heroically owning the track where he had won his first National event 3 years ago, when suddenly disaster struck in the form of an internal meltdown (connector failure) and Bradders car stopped MID TRACK. Worried bystanders worked on the limp and flaccid B44 but this was to no avail and Lee was out on his own, cruelly snatching Bradders hopes of a 2nd leg win from under his nose. 2nd place Tom Cockerill was 3 seconds behind, Ellis 3rd, McGee 4th, Moss 5th. With less than 1 minute to go, no-one was close to catching Lee Martin, and all eyes were on 2nd and 3rd place Tom and Ellis. Tom was receiving some serious rear-end pressure from Ellis, who was looking every way to make a pass, visually on the track Ellis was through, but not before the loop had counted tom as finishing in 2nd place, a whole 0.01second ahead of Ellis.

Bradby's car died - his battery connector melted.	Ellis looks on the inside of Tom Cockerill - toward the finish line.

4WD A Final Leg 2

Paul Bradders ‘not quite winner’ interview. Bradders, can you sum up your feelings of the event and how your weekend went? The event as a whole was cool, the Oswestry club put a lot of effort in and it shows as the tracks improve everytime. The weather was pimping too, which always helps. As for my racing..... 2wd was super hard work, the condition of the track changed every run and my car didn't feel good during any of them!! Nothing really went right all day, resulting in a dissapointing B main. 4wd was night and day better, car was good every run out and it was down to me to drive it right. It was a bit frustrating not to have come away with the win, especially as I felt so comfortable in the 2nd leg, but shizz happens and nowt can be done about it now. It would have been nice to make Lee work a bit harder for the Championship win though ;-p What is your favourite ‘tipple’? Havana Club rum 'n' ginger ale Your nick name is “Bradders”, can you explain why? I presume it's some genius wordplay someone came up with.... I only get called it at racing though. What road car do you drive, is it fast mate? A very old fiesta.... and no it definitely isn't. I prefer to walk or ride places anyway. It's quicker! What do you do for a job? Organise vaccinations and medicals etc for school kids. Do you like “Deadliest Catch” the program about crab fishing in the Bearing Sea? Aye, I used to watch it on the regular. You gotta be a wee bit tapped in the skull to actually want to do it for a job though surely?! Are you scared of anything? Not scared as such, but the sight/smell/thought of tuna makes me want to hurl. Even when it's sealed up in a can! Does that count? Do you like dags? Yeah, they're tasty. I think monkeys are a bit random, what do you think about them? Not as tasty as dags... but they give better high 5's What is under your cap? Money from busking. Have you got a funny joke you can tell us? You probably can't print this but here goes.... ERM, no Paul had to delete that mate. But thanks anyway for the good effort.

4WD A final leg 3.

With two legs completed and two winners already, the third leg commenced with about 4 different drivers who could potentially win (although actually only one of them could really take the win) – Lee Martin and Paul Bradby who already had a leg win each, Tom Cockerill, and maybe Ellis?

Lee lead the drivers away from the grid with another clean start, and a good opening lap. Simon Moss made his move into 9th place at the end of the first lap. Bradders went for a spectaculat cartwheel through the corners on lap 2 and required some marshalling assistance, losing him valuable places in his final chance to take the win. Lee and Ellis gained some distance on the track, but Ellis went too wide coming around the corners, and slipped into a nest of bush clippings. He lost some momentum but remained in 2nd place, now with Danny McGee close to his rear, Sleigh was in 4th place, Cockerill in 5th, and Paul Bradby down to 6th place.

The top three were running closely, Danny McGee caught some pipe coming around a tight corner, and skidded around on two wheels.

Ellis was now hot on the tail of Lee Martin, and hassling him hard for the lead position. Lee kept his back door firmly shut, and pulled a small distance on the chasing Ellis. Ellis clipped a track marker which allowed Lee some more breathing space. Now it was Ellis' turn for some rear end pressure as Danny came up right behind him and pushed to make a pass. Bradders had gained some places and was now in 4th place, whilst Simon Moss had made it up to 5th. Lee now had more than a 2 second lead, and was gradually increasing this on each lap. Ellis continued to clip a series of track markings, but was lucky and kept his car on its wheels, and still managed to pull away from Danny.

The cars were all quite spaced out on something by the end of the race, which Lee took almost effortlessly,and with it bagged the National Championship title 2010 after just 4 events. Ellis finished in 2nd place, Bradders car had a wheel hanging off it by the end of the race.

4WD A Final Leg 3

Lee's Tamiya TRF511

Speed Passion power

Number 1! - The all-conquering Lee Martin takes his third 4WD national series title.

Overall results - 4WD A Final