After a seven-round season, we witnessed the climax of SuperChamps S2 at Daytona Milton Keynes on Saturday morning. The contest took place on its classic International layout in the heats format.

There were a few notable battles to settle on the final day – the skirmish for DMAX Lightweight champion between James King and Ethan Pritchard, as well as the final two podium spaces between Harry Asher and Benjamin Tomkinson Gray; the order of the final DMAX Heavyweight podium between Lee Witney, Ashley Mayston-King & Barry Morris; and there was a chance for Liam Weatherall to knock Jacob Csepreghi off the top step and take the SODI Lightweight title, with Max Lindgren and Nathan Clark also in contention for the third step on the podium.

SODIs

After missing an earlier round, Jacob Csepreghi started on pole and needed to make up for it. being in contention for the season win in SODI lights. His brother Charlie, having missed two rounds, was out of contention and started at the back of the pack. It was a great start from Liam Weatherall who jumped from P3 to second into turn one, although after attempting a poor dive on Jacob into turn two, dropped back and allowed Jacob to pull a lead. The mid pack battled throughout the race, and it was Owen Turpin who made most of the move. Jacob took the win by just over a second to Weatherall and Charlie Fenton in the Heavyweights. Freddie Jenkins took fourth ahead of Turpin whilst Heavyweights Scott Woosey and Jaden Do-doo Ankrah finished sixth and seventh.

During Heat Two, carnage occurred on the second lap, with half the field all making contact and swapping places. Jacob found himself making places a little bit better than his brother starting from last this time round, although still struggled with a tenth-place finish at the end of the race. Out in front Charlie, who had built an early lead, dropped back into the grasp of Frederic Navarro. Navarro finally made the pass after a few failed attempts of making a dive at the hairpin of turn ten, as Charlie found the switchback each time. Navarro won the race ahead of Charlie with Max Lindgren in third, just beating Nathan Clark. Further back in the Heavyweights, Fenton took his second race win ahead of Adam Green.

The final race saw Fenton once again battling with the Lightweights at the front of the field whilst Jacob and Navarro attempted to not only keep him behind but take the win. As the race drew to a close, the battles heated up with a lot of late lunges. Carnage appeared at turn two as two lunges at the same time, up the inside of a third driver, caused a lot of contact and a couple of drivers scraped the barriers. It was all deemed as fair racing until Weatherall, who was slow out of turn three, got hit in the rear by Clark and got spun around, with Clark receiving a three-position penalty. At the chequered flag, it was Fenton who remarkably took the win, both in the Heavyweights and overall, finished ahead of Navarro and Jacob C. Turpin joined them on the podium, whilst further back, Green and Woosey joined Fenton on the podium.

With the Championship drawing to a close, Jacob Csepreghi took home the largest trophy and won the championship with 335 points. Seven points behind him was Liam Wetherall in second place, and Max Lindgren finishing in third place. After a disappointing performance in the final round by his usual high standards, Nathan Clark missed out on the podium by ten points.

In the SODI Heavyweights, Scott Woosey won the championship withs at tally of 346 points, fifteen points ahead of nearest rival Charlie Fenton. Adam Green finished in third place overall with 323 points, and consistency from Jaden Do-doo Ankrah across the season meant he finished in fourth.

DMAX

There were a few big names absent, including championship hopefuls James King and Ashley Mayston-King, who were taking part in the karting 24hr of Le Mans. This put Ethan Pritchard and Lee Witney in pole position to take control of the championship in their respective weight categories.

The first heat saw Lightweights Harry Asher and Pritchard line up on the front row ahead of Benjamin Tomkinson Gray and Ben Leslie. Pritchard was hanging onto the lead from Asher’s divebombs at the hairpin by using the switchback constantly, until a small mistake meant Asher kept the position to bolt away and take the win with a second lead. Tomkinson Gray finished in third ahead of Leslie.

In the Heavyweights, there was a clean start with Lee Witney and Kuba Wozniak racing ahead of Sailesh Shah. Barry Morris and Scott Woosey struggled to find a way past and ended up dropping back. After a few more laps, Morris made a pass and had four seconds to close on the front two. In a last attempt to take the win, Wozniak dived to the inside of the last corner too late and made contact with Witney. As Witney recovered, he had to turn into Wozniak, who ended up on the grass, losing the chance for the win and almost losing P2 to Morris, who must have been furious with himself for not finding the pace to be closer and take advantage at the end.

The second heat saw Pritchard have an amazing start to jump from the second row to the lead by the end of lap one and built an impressive lead for the rest of the race. Asher struggled to find his way past easily and fought for a few laps before making a break from Leslie and Tomkinson Gray. Asher pushed the limits as hard as he could, unfortunately receiving a black flag for exceeding track limits too many times, in what could be a costly mistake in the championship fight. The rest of their race was uneventful with Pritchard winning by over six seconds to Leslie with Tomkinson Gray a further two seconds back.

In the Heavyweights, Morris found himself with an early lead and a small gap over Woosey, Wozniak and Witney behind. Although the four drivers were all close, there wasn’t many attempts to pass, with Morris winning ahead of Wozniak and Witney. Woosey just missed out on making a pass and finished in fourth.

In the Lightweights final, Asher and Pritchard started on the front row ahead of Leslie, with Tomkinson Gray starting on a penalty after speeding out the pitlane and under yellow conditions to catch the pack ahead. It was a close race throughout with the trio on circuit battling away. Asher and Pritchard took turns leading over the fifteen minutes with their typical divebomb at turn ten and switchbacks, although at the end it was Asher who took the win just beating Pritchard, with Leslie a second back in third.

In the Heavyweights Wozniak and Witney also took turns in leading ahead of Morris and Woosey. In the end it was Wozniak who took the race win ahead of Witney. Morris finished in third ahead of Woosey.

Ethan Pritchard’s dominant performances on the day saw him crowned DMAX Lightweights champion ahead of absent James King by just a single point. The pair’s dominant mid-season performances meant they had 25 points over the much-improving Harry Asher in third.

The DMAX Heavyweights saw Lee Witney win the championship with 339 points. His consistently high scoring throughout the season meant he also had the highest drop round score of 54. Ashley Mayston-King who finished in second, three points ahead of Barry Morris.