Rob
weathers storm to win title
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Top
ten finish is scant reward
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Can
Robert conquer at La Conca?
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Foster-Jones – European
Vice-Champion!
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Robert
qualifies for European Championship
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Southend
kart racer hopes to reign in Spain
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Vital
podium puts Foster-Jones in hunt
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Testing
times ahead for Robert
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Motor
failure robs Foster-Jones
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Confidence
made the difference
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Foster-Jones
O-ver the moon
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Robert
denied certain podium
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Gremlins
give Robert Italian nightmare
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Can
Rob sweep to victory
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Campione!
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Rob
takes Shen-sational victory!
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Rob
gives rivals Winter Blues
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Superb
7th for Robert at World Cup
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Foster-Jones
Rob’d of title
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Robert:
I can still win it
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Rob’s
going to the World Cup
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Rob
weathers storm to win title
Robert won the British
Super 1 Championship at the very last round, held
in terrible conditions.
Driving rain and bitterly cold
winds lashed Shenington in Oxfordshire last weekend
(4/5 October) but failed to dampen Robert’s
charge to his third major title victory of the year.
Prior
to the finale of the season, Rob was 3rd in the
title-chase, (26 points behind the leader, Welshman
Jordan Chamberlain) and acknowledged that he needed
to go on the attack - “We’ve just got
to win the races. We’ve got to try and do
a better job than the others.”
In timed qualifying,
he posted the 3rd fastest time to give himself
a better grid position than
both
Chamberlain (6th) and his other title-rival, Michael
Simpson in 13th.
Solid performances in his heats
earned the 18-year old P4 on the grid for the first
of the day’s
two point-scoring finals. However, Simpson would
start immediately behind him - with Chamberlain
further back, on row 7.
Some feisty exchanges between
the 23 competitors saw Simpson lose two places
in the opening lap,
whilst Rob held onto his 4th place. Moments later,
Simpson
was down to 16th whilst Rob was moving forward.
With 3rd-placed driver Charles Bonsey pushing
his rear
bumper, Rob took 2nd and began to pressure the
appropriately named, Shaun Carter, for the lead.
Braking Bonsey’s tow, Rob made the fight for
the lead a two-way affair with Carter. A daring,
late-braking manoeuvre at the top of the circuit
saw him slice down Carter’s inside and
assume the advantage. With clear air in front
of him, Foster-Jones
powered his way to the chequered flag and 50
vital championship points. Behind him, Chamberlain
and
Simpson finished in 7th and 11th scoring just
enough points to make sure that the following
race would
be the title decider.
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He almost settled dad, Gary’s
and his Ricky Flynn Motorsport team’s nerves
with a perfect start from pole position, whilst the
fast-starting Chamberlain clipped Bonsey and ran wide
at the circuit’s second hairpin to lose ground.
Rob
began to ease away from the chasing pack - with Chamberlain
and Simpson embroiled in battles behind
- to seal the championship with a commanding victory.
He said, “It’s fantastic, I’m ecstatic!
I said beforehand, that my sole intention was win
the races and it fell my way.”
Having already
come to the attention of several leading motorsport
teams and managers, Rob gave the merest
hint of his future plans and ambitions, he added, “Hopefully,
this will influence the people we’ve been
talking to.”
Robert’s team boss, Ricky
Flynn was justifiably proud of his young charge
- “He was stunning.
He’s done a very professional and mature
job. When he went back at the start of the first
final,
he didn’t panic. He just got his head down,
hit the front and went away.”
Robert’s
win also made history, as it made it the third
year running that his team have won the British
title. Flynn joked, “I wonder if they’ll
let us keep the trophy for winning it three times,
they do in football.”
“My thanks to everyone at RFM - especially Ricky and
Moose (Mickey Higham, his mechanic). I’d
also like to thank Ole (Haugard of One Engines),
Martin
and Dan at Pro Performance and my family – mum,
my little brother Harry and of course, my dad.”
obert’s plans for 2009 will
be announced shortly.
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