OULTON PARK HOSTS BRSCC ONE MORE TIME IN 2025 TO DECIDE TITLES
For the final time in 2025, the British Racing & Sports Car Club and its North Western Centre heads to Oulton Park in Cheshire to help close out another magnificent season with a day of racing to settle a few scores – and championship crowns. With an epic Fun Cup Championship finale in store across their final two races, plus more action guaranteed from both ClubSport Trophy and the combined Metro Cup & Classic VW grid, it’s sure to be a thriller to wrap up our Cheshire activities.
Saturday could prove to be the most dramatic and exciting day of the season for the Fun Cup Endurance Championship – not only because it’s the finale to decide who wins the title, but also due to a stellar entry with some 30 teams taking to Oulton Park to enjoy the occasion too. This will mean a busy circuit in qualifying and the pair of races ahead (a 1 hour “sprint” followed by a final 3 hours to round off the season). The title fight is nicely poised and given the tone that’s been set all the way through, this one will be a nailbiter.
Going into the final two races, defending champions Olympian-GRD are still top of the standings – just. Having not won a race since round four, their early dominant form has helped them remain P1, but their main rivals have caught up no end. In fact with two wins and a second place in the last four races, former champs UVio/ Hofmann’s Motorsport continue to be perennial rivals to Olympian and are just three points back going to Oulton Park. You can guarantee these two will be at each other’s throats from start to finish on track, and given how dramatically it ended on the last lap last year, literally anything could happen…
VapeClub with EDF Motorsports are slightly back in third place 16 points off the top, but not totally out of it. A couple of strong results and others going in their favour could see them spring a surprise if Olympian and UVio falter. Axiametrics looks comfortable enough in fourth, while fifth is to be contested between Greenheath and Red River Sport, ahead of PLR Racing, Team Pacific and Sheradize UK. With many more solid squads up and down the field, expect this Fun Cup finale to be just as entertaining as ever!
Heading back to Oulton Park for the first time in a while, the SW Motorsports ClubSport Trophy is ready to enjoy one final outing of their “regular” season in 2025 this weekend, before the special “ROR ClubSport” race takes place at this year’s Race of Remembrance at Anglesey once more. As ever there’s a bumper field of over 30 entries ready to do battle on the International circuit in Cheshire, all looking for class glory respectively.
Class A is almost Volkswagen central, with several all bidding for class honours on Saturday. Some of the initial favourites include Phiroze Bilimoria, Roman Grendel and Ben Walkingshaw in Sciroccos, while the rest of the VWs are all Golfs including David Cox, Mike Parsons, Chris Coomer, Adam Marshall and Rob Andrade in Golfs. They’ll be joined by the ever formidable Shane Kelly in the Morgan Plus Four, and also the Mazda MX-5 of Alex Wilkinson-Hughes. Class B will feature more VAG machinery with no less than four Audi TTs on the grid for Alistair Lindsay, Oliver Devine-King, Nick Brady and Rory Pickles, joined by numerous other German and Japanese machines including Mark Jones’ Honda Civic Type R, Darren & Joseph Jukes’ BMW Z4, and Theo Millward’s BMW E36 among others.
For Class C, it will simply be a one-on-one duel between Garry Wardle’s MINI Cooper and Andrew Stephens’ Honda Civic Type R, meaning that will be a fascinating battle between them on track. There’s going to be a five way dance set for Class D, with Dan Kennard’s BMW, David Shead’s Renault Clio, Jonathan Hobbs’ Peugeot 106 Rallye, Cavan Taylor’s Clio and the MINI Cooper of Martin Smith ready to scrap for class honours too, and with them all in hot hatches, that will be a proper battleground to watch.
Finally in Class E, a pair of Citroen DS3 Cup cars will line up here in the hands of Stephen Oates and Mike Collinge in one, and Rob Chalmers and Bailey Coupe-McGuffie. They’ll be against Ben Amorim-Draper’s Mazda MX-5, Gary Hobbs’ Hyundai Coupe and Christian White’s MINI Cooper. They’ll be sure to put on a great show on track too.
Sharing a grid for the final time in the 2025, the Hickford Construction MG Metro Cup and Ricci Concept Classic VW Cup will bring an excellent retro mix of machines together on track at Oulton Park, as they sign off their seasons before hibernating for the winter. In the Classic VWs, favourites here are certain to be Nick Sanderson’s SEAT Leon SuperCup, Simon Tomlinson’s VW Golf, Tim Evans’ Audi TT, up against Donald Dewar’s Mk1 Golf, Steven Watson’s Scirocco and Paul Dunningham’s Audi A3.
In the Metro Cup, Jack Ashton is hoping to sign, seal and deliver the title in fine style, but he knows that despite the pace that he’s carried all season, that his main rivals will keep him honest. 20 points ahead going into the final two races with Matthew Simpson second and Tim Shooter in third a further eleven back, all three will be pushing hard for strong results. The likes of Jon Moore and Dick Trevett are also likely to be challenging towards the front too.
Scott Woodwiss
