Thank you, Esper!
The Derek Bell Trophy had the smallest (16 cars) grid of the day and sadly Marcus Pye was not able to race due to the non attendance of his 'drive' and with a race stoppage after a couple of laps, we further lost Mike Littlewood's March 793, Tim Barry's Trojan T102 and Neil Glover's Lola T300. Neil had been particularly pleased to get onto the second row of the grid, although he expected (as happened) to be passed by one or two of the quicker F2 cars. To add insult to injury, upon returning slowly to the pits, the Lola announced its arrival by catching fire, quickly extinguished, but it wasn't exactly Neil's day!
After the restart, Mike Wrigley and Frank Lyons put on a wonderful display of close racing. Wrigley won by half a second, with Lyons taking fastest lap. Here Lyons just has the advantage:-
John Monson's lovely old Surtees TS8 ('the rear wing provides no downforce whatsoever, it's purely decorative!') had his hands full staving off John Dunham in his March 712 ......
...... until this happened! Monson finished 5th and Dunham got going again without losing a place to finish 6th:-
James Claridge took his Lola T240 to 7th place:-
