Starters - 20
Classsified -18
Julius Thurgood seems to take a fairly flexible view of what constitutes a Gp 2 Touring car, but it seems to work and we get to see cars that don’t get many opportunities to race. It was therefore, extremely disappointing that frontrow man, Ian McDonald was unable to start due to the aforementioned pulley failure on the Warwick 350GT. However, one Joe Allenby-Byrne (71 - Cortina Mk1) of this ‘ere parish was on pole position, displayed his prowess and engaged in battle with the Jaguar 3.8 Mk2 (10) of Peter Dorlin, the lead changing hands several times before Joe prevailed to pull away to score a fine victory by nearly 20 seconds. In fact it seems that Dorlin had a poor lap 6 and fell into the clutches of the similarly mounted Nigel Webb (21), these two engaging in a classic Mk2 battle to the flag, with Webb taking the runner up spot by a couple of seconds. Another Tenther, Ben Shuckburgh was a strong 4th in his Alfa Romeo Guilia Super (68) and another Alfa, the Guilia Sprint GT of Geoff Turral 5th albeit over half a minute further back. 6th went to another Jaguar Mk2 (69 - Peter Burton). I'll do a second lot of pics for this race but since Joe has displayed such impatience, I'll do that tomorrow morning!
