2012 Round of England

2012 Round of England
Date	April 8, 2012
Location	Brands Hatch, England
Laps	35
Polesitter	Kevin Dwyer
First	Arto Kekkonen
Second	Zelda Ashby
Third	Scott Steudler
Cautions	0
Race Results

The 2012 Round of England was the fourth round of the 2012 TM Master Cup season. It was held at the Brands Hatch road course in England.

Pre-race storylines

In a surprising announcement, the controversial Calton-Morel Altair of Hodges-Walter Racing was declared legal, despite many insiders believing that the cars would be declared illegal and disqualified from the first three races. For now, Adrien Devereux's points lead remains intact.

Hodges-Walter Racing was warned that the cars were dangerously close to the weight limit after Carbondale, but Alan Hodges stated that his cars were built with the expectation being that his two drivers would be two pounds heavier. Carl Walter echoed those sentiments. "I sat down with Sam Morel and the rest of our engineering team and we went over the rules to the letter. We knew our interpretation was correct." Hodges stated. "It's a more clever interpretation than what the other teams have implemented. It's that simple."

The decision to uphold the legality of the Calton-Morel Altair was met with protest, as FLASH Racing, Team Saar USA, Mitchell & Sons Racing, BlackDiamond Racing, Majestic Motorsports, and Scuderia Tutino filed a joint appeal of the outcome. Xenos Racing reportedly intended to appeal as well but did not get the paperwork in on time. The appeal will be heard at an unspecified date.

Summary

Coming soon.

Results

For the complete finishing order, click here.

Position	Number	Driver	Sponsor	Team	Car	Points
1	9	Arto Kekkonen	Gessler	Gessler Richter MC Team	Gessler MTW12	65
2	55	Zelda Ashby	Nintendo	DeGarmo Enterprises	Juneau S2	50
3	74	Scott Steudler	Hershey's	Mitchell & Sons Racing	Tremwell Knight	45
4	25	Yamino Tenchi	Pikachu	DeGarmo Enterprises	Juneau S2	40
5	7	Jose Luis Martinez	Jjaro/Tecate	Katzev Engineering	Katzev KE03	35
6	44	Michael Sykes	Launch Energy	FLASH Racing	Inglesby Sonicboom	30
7	72	Kevin Dwyer	Pepsi	Team Saar USA	Saar Eagle	33
8	999	Marcos Leonard	Umbrella Corporation	Xenos Racing	Xenos Claymore	26
9	6	Divina Henton	Lynxe	Volpi Racing Team	Volpi VC04	24
10	126	Cameron Taylor	Applebee's	RTR Engineering	Omecha MA03	22
11	2	Packer Carroll	MaiaSoft	Volpi Racing Team	Volpi VC04	18
12	8	Yuliya Nosova	Arotel/Lukoil	Katzev Engineering	Katzev KE03	16
13	42	Vijay Pushanda	HP	Scuderia Tutino	Tutino T12	14
14	777	Ian Cooper	Dangi/Lysander	Team EFR	Journer MC90	12
15	30	Charlie Waters	Delano	James Dalton Racing	Dalton Blackbird	10
16	22	Dale Roswell	Freedom for Palestine	BlackDiamond Racing	Omecha BDM3	8
17	20	Mika Tervo	Angry Birds Space	FinnTech	Omecha MA03	6
18	16	Kurt Plissken	The Regular Show	Power Steering Incorporated	Tonare Surge	4
19	12	Rene Recarmier	LaCie/Airlantis	Majestic Motorsports	Gasnier Spahi	2
20	231	Jacob Eichholtz	Red-Hot Race Wear	Eichholtz Autosport	Omecha MA03	1

Points

For the complete points standings, click here.

Devereux maintained the points lead, but saw his lead cut into by race winner Kekkonen. Zelda Ashby sit third, 55 points off the lead. Rounding out the top five were Luciano Soveral and Yuliya Nosova.

Penalties

• Anthony Griffith – 30 points for causing an avoidable collision, suspended from Round of France
• Kurt Plissken – 30 points for causing multiple avoidable collisions, suspended from Round of France
• Packer Carroll – 15 points for causing an avoidable collision, demoted to rear of the field for Round of France
• Mathias Taube – 15 points for causing an avoidable collision, demoted to rear of the field for Round of France
• Charlie Waters – 15 points for causing an avoidable collision, demoted to rear of the field for Round of France
• Tom Delgado – 15 points for causing an avoidable collision, demoted to rear of the field for Round of France
• Chris Johaanes – 15 points for causing an avoidable collision, demoted to rear of the field for Round of France
• Ian Cooper – 15 points for causing an avoidable collision, demoted to rear of the field for Round of France
• Scott Steudler – warning for causing an avoidable collision.