BRSCC MAZDA MX-5
championship 2014
Silverstone International 5th & 6th April 2014 | Rounds 1&2
■■ Johnathan (JJ) Clements wins the first rounds in the 2014 BRSCC Mazda MX-5 Championship
All photography: Jonathan Elsey
By Jonathan Elsey You could be forgiven for a sense of deja vu as the BRSCC Mazda circus rolled into Northamptonshire for the first rounds of the 2014 campaign. Six months since the curtain fell on the 2013 season, the UK’s premier MX-5 championship was back at the very same Silverstone International circuit. The venue was looking mighty familiar, the weather was the same – wet and cold – and a first glance round the paddock could
have led you to conclude that it was ‘business as usual’, much the same as last year. But when you looked a bit closer there were in fact some crucial differences. Some of last season’s big hitters were absent – 2013 runner-up Brett Smith was away at university, young hotshot Alex Preston had left to race Ginettas and while Tom ‘Mr MX-5’ Roche was still in the paddock leading his Blendini team, the big news story of the first Mazda meeting of the year, was that he would not be back to defend his title.