First race on Sunday and this big field was out again. 35 starters although 8 failed to finish.
This time Rod Begbie glued his TVR to the back of Neil Howe's TR4 and stayed there for half an hour. He seemed to have cured his braking problem from the day before, and it was Howe who was locking up, particularly into the Russell Chicane staving of Begbie, who was quicker through Coram. They both put their fastest lap in on lap 14, but Begbie's was fully half a second quicker than Howe's. However, it was not the quickest lap of the race, for that was achieved by Ian Bankhurst in his TVR on lap 7. He had started from the back and was up to 3rd by lap 6, 6.3 seconds behind the two leaders. However, he was then caught and repassed by the always quick Jeremy Cottingham in his MGB. The lap chart then suggests that Bankhust had a moment or spin since he fell back a little and took awhile recovering, finally re-emerging in 3rd on lap 20, after Cottingham had retired on lap 18, and far too late to make any impact on the leaders who finished nearly 14 seconds ahead of him. Here the two leaders storm down the Revett Straight into the braking area for the Esses. Their battle was mighty and Howes just kept the TR4 ahead to win by 0.195 of a second to complete a weekend double:-
Nick Wilkins brought his MGA home in 16th:-
Stephen Bond (85) made this move on Marc Yates (20) up the inside into the Esses stick, finishing 11th, with Yates 12th:-
Jan Boyes continued to entertain in this race, finishing 6th:-
Alasdair Bruce (35) has just lapped the battling pair of Nick Crewdson (21) and Paul Freeman (13). They finished 10th, 21st and 22nd respectively:-
Brian Arculus did rather better this time, finishing 13th in his TR3A and just keeping George Edney's MGB (9) behind:-
