2011 VERC Round of Brands Hatch

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2011 VERC Round of Brands Hatch
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Date
Location Brands Hatch, Kent, United Kingdom
Laps 20
Polesitter Ivan Nikolayev
First Cameron Taylor
Second Elena Wagner
Third Jeff Zindler
Cautions 0
Race Results

The 2011 VERC Round of Brands Hatch was the first race of the Vaughn European Racing Challenge's inaugural season. It was held at Brands Hatch in Britain.

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Summary[edit | edit source]

Ivan Nikolayev qualified on the pole with Bill Wainwright on the outside pole. Cameron Taylor started third.

Into Druids early in the race, Wainwright spun and fell far back. Elena Wagner began challenging Nikolayev and Taylor, however on Lap 1 coming out of Druids, Taylor took the lead and began turning lap times several seconds faster than the rest of the leaders.

Meanwhile, at the back of the field, Wainwright hooked Josh Mertz, spinning him into the barrier going down the hill. By the half-way point Taylor had pulled out an enormous lead, with Nikolayev in hot pursuit. By this point Nikolayev was turning the fastest lap times. However, he ran Dingle Dell too wide, tapping the wall and getting a flat tire. The incident forced Nikolayev to pit.

This left Taylor with a big enough lead to cruise to his first career victory, which stunned most of the paddock since Taylor was a relative unknown.

Results[edit | edit source]

For full results, please see here.

The top 10[edit | edit source]

Position Number Driver Sponsor Team Car
1 149 Cameron Taylor Applebee's/Kodak RTR Automotive Engineering Inglesby Flashback M-Type
2 11A Elena Wagner Pizza Hut Camryn Jackson Racing Volpi VC03
3 01 Jeff Zindler Alex Harrison Racing Fortner FS260
4 50 Jefferson Mikually My Tire Monkey/vtech Dangerous Dog Racing Inglesby Flashback M-Type
5 03 Kristjian Jankovic Oreo Serbian Racing Team Inglesby Flashback M-Type
6 114 Alno Estvikolla Lester Racing Calton-Morel Nova
7 20A Buetch Mayland GameStop Camryn Jackson Racing Volpi VC03
8 900 Steve Johnson Extenze Last Row Autosport Juneau S1
9 18A Matt Shimoda Sony Camryn Jackson Racing Volpi VC03
10 146 Andrew Tammerzan Applebee's/Yellow Pages RTR Automotive Engineering Inglesby Flashback M-Type