Levett Takes Home Silver Medal
10.11.2014
This year’s truckracing season has finished. While the last round of the European truckracing championship took place in the midst of October, the British Championships only came to its end in November. Last weekend Mat Summerfield celebrated victory and Chris Levett, pilotting a truck built in our technology centre, reached silver medal.
The concluding event of the British Truckracing Championship took place on the Brand Hatch circuit. The Championship series finished right where it had started. It was nowhere else than at the Brands Hatch, where the season, consisting of eight weekend rounds in total, had kicked off. Chris Levett and his Renault were holding the lead during the whole series; however, one unlucky weekend was enough for Summerfield to take over and Levett had to put up with the second position. Despite the fact that Levett managed cut Summerfield’s headstart to a mere point, fortune did not particularly favour him the following weekends, and he did not succeed in beating his fellow Englishman. Not even the crowded Brands Hatch circuit changed the situation. Levett reigned over the qualifying race immediately. Afterwards, the audience had the opportunity to watch fierce battles over the victory, also fought by Ray Coleman. At weekend’s end Mat Summerfield was the happiest guy. His total point gain after the year-long competition reached 300. The silver Chris Levett came twelve points short and the bronze Steve Thomas twenty-two points short respectively.
The result means a third title in a row for Summerfield, while Ray Coleman, having joined the series only in its second half, can pride himself on a fantastic performance. He and his north-Bohemia-born truck passed their opponents one by one. Not only did he make it to the „top ten“ but eventually landed got to the final eighth position.
British Championships – overall ranking:
1. Mat Summerfield 300
2. Chris Levett 288
3. Steve Thomas 266
4. Stuart Oliver 249
5. Dave Jenkins 231
8. Ray Coleman 83
