The weekend before last was round two of the oOple Series, held at Robin Hood Raceway. The weather was looking good and it was clear the track crew had put in a lot of effort. The Schumacher team were once again in attendance to offer support and help to their customers trackside. The racing was very close all weekend, with the format seeing four rounds of qualifying on Saturday, then a final round Sunday morning before heading into finals. It was James Helliwell and Tom Cockerill who came out on top in qualifying in 2WD and 4WD respectively. James was closely followed by Greg Williams in 2WD, and James wasn’t far behind in 4WD, setting up some exciting finals.

The 2WD class saw some great racing with very little between the top two. A mistake from James saw Greg come through to take leg one, before an epic battle in leg two saw them cross the line so closely no one was sure who had taken the win! The computer was in Greg’s favour giving him the leg and the overall win by just 0.01 of a second! Greg was backed up in the A final by Tom Cockerill and Steve Pierce both driving the SV2.
In 4WD it was much of the same with the battle now between Tom and James. James came out the gate fighting in leg one managing to take the win, but Tom came back to take the second leg setting up a deciding third and final leg. The pair of them raced very closely for the first two minutes of the race, until a small mistake from James gave Tom the gap he needed to pull away and take the win, and his second meeting victory in the series.
It was another great meeting put on by the oOple crew. The series next rolls into Southport on 6-7 July, and again the Schumacher team will be in attendance.

Source: Schumacher