Kingsley Ruddy (MSG Racing and Dyno Suzuki 1000) took advantage of the absence of series’ leader Steve Hix, to go to the top of the ACU Clubmans’ Championship in the fourth round of the competition at Cadwell Park.
The 18-year-old from Hoyland, near Barnsley took three wins, a second and a third in the five championship races at the Derby Phoenix club’s two-day meeting, while Hix was away on his honeymoon in Zanzibar.
Ruddy moved from second place to the top of the championship table, turning a 37 points deficit into a 74 point lead over Hix.
Ash Chivers (MSG Racing and Dyno Suzuki 1000) stayed third in the standings, but after finishing third behind Ruddy and Mark Lister (Kawasaki 1000) in race one and following that with four fourth places.
Chivers, the 23-year-old from High Wycombe, was a little disappointed with his results, blaming a switch to Dunlop tyres instead of the Pirellis he normally uses.
Even so he closed to within 34 points of Hix...
Lister and BSB Superstock competitor, Mike Booth (Rapid Solicitors Kawasaki 1000) made life difficult for the championship contenders.
Lister, the 38-year-old from Enfield, was second home in the first four races and then decided the tyres on his LCS/HM Racing Kawasaki 1000 were go off and the weather was worsening so he gave the final championship race a miss.
Booth, the 21-year-old from Brough, Yorkshire, had to start at the back of the grid in race one on the Saturday, pulling through to finish fourth.
A better start position took him to third behind Ruddy and Lister in the next two races and he won the final two events.
Father and son crew, Ian and Carl Bell, stayed top of the 2012 ACU/FSRA British F2 Sidecar Championship after a dramatic third round of the series, but their advantage over Gary Bryan and Jamie Winn is down to three points.
The Bells pulled out of race one with a broken crank, when lying third, leaving Bryan to take victory from Dougie Wright and Martin Hull.
That cut Bell’s lead over Bryan from 34 points to nine.
Wright won the second race, with Carl Fenwick and Mark Sayers second after Bryan had gone into the chicane too hot in the closing stages, dropping back to third.
The first three over the line were covered by just 1.2 seconds.
The Bells were sixth home, collecting just ten points. They now have 96 points to Bryan’s 93. Fenwick is third on 76.
The next round is at Anglesey on July 28-29.