Armed Forces eMotorsports championship: McFadden takes double victory

The Royal Air Force are just about out of sight in the Armed Forces eMotorsport Championship after a double win by Stu McFadden.

Going into round 8 at Oulton Park, the RAF had 3,141 points in the championship, with the Royal Navy second on 1,899 points and the British Army on 1,462 points.

Leading the drivers' championship, the RAF's Ryan Martin with 1,111 points, followed by Chris Pauley on 1,047 and Tom Stevens 3rd on 910.

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In the first race, McFadden started in pole position, with Martin and Stevens second and third on the grid.  

With plenty of drama in the first lap, the 15-minute race produced plenty of thrills and spills, with a mass coming together in the first lap, but McFadden kept his nerve to come through the winner.

Chris Pauley produced an excellent performance to take second, and Ryan Martin, who will surely claim the title this season, wasn't pushing too hard as he took third.

The spin of the wheel meant a top seven grid reverse for the second race, which meant that Adam Barron, Darren Berrys and the Army's Craig Durrant held the top three starting positions.

With few overtaking opportunities on the Island circuit, it guaranteed some exciting battles for crucial championship points, and so it turned out.  At one stage, six cars were in the mix for the top places.  

Barron drove a terrific rear guard for the majority of the race, holding off the challenges of Durrant, who has not had the greatest of seasons so far, McFadden, Martin, and Pauley.  

But eventually, the pressure took its toll, and it was Stu McFadden who claimed a double victory, with Martin second and Durrant 3rd.  

Chris Boland did well to force his way into the top 10, with a 7th place and Adam Barron was 8th. The only female driver in this season's championship, Linda Noble, driving her Mission Motorsport car, had her best result of the season, 15th.

There are four rounds of the championship left over the next two weeks, at Silverstone and Donington. Ryan Martin could trap up the drivers' championship next week.