MORTIMER ENDS MINI DROUGHT
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Scotsman Oly Mortimer returned to winning ways at Croft today (Aug 26th) taking the spoils in the second Mini Challenge race in the sixth meeting of this year’s Great & British Dunlop Motorsport Festival. Having won the opening seven races of the season the championship leader had gone five races without a win but worked his way back onto the top step of the podium again with an almost faultless performance. Yet he wasn’t the biggest points scorer on the day, that accolade going to Ireland’s Jenny Ryan who won both races in the Club class category of the series. The result means she’s now Mortimer’s closest rival in the overall Mini Challenge standings with just two meetings, at Pembrey and Brands Hatch respectively, remaining.
Nigel Moore’s hopes of a double victory were cruelly snatched from him when his rear suspension collapsed on the final lap of the second PlayStation Ginetta GT Junior race. The youngster from York had already won Saturday’s opener and was embroiled in a fascinating three-way scrap for first place with Christopher Clayton and eventual race winner James Jefferson when a coming together resulted in Moore’s misfortune. Despite this he still has a handsome lead at the top of the standings
Jacob Greaves was another driver who was left to rue what might have been. He’d won Saturday’s Dunlop Radical Enduro championship race and with four laps completed in Sunday’s race he’d opened up a healthy advantage at the front but he was forced to pit when his Radical SR8 suffered a technical problem on lap five. He eventually rejoined and finished last in a race which was won by Richard Ince and Austin Kinsella, cementing their overall lead in the championship. In the SR3 class it was the turn of Anthony Dunn and Barry Gates to cross the line first, Paul Thomas having done the same on Saturday.
In the Dunlop Radical Biduro championship, Daniel Rowbottom won both races, his first victories of the 2007 campaign and on the same circuit where he won his first ever Biduro race a year ago.
Martin Wallbank won both Dunlop Sport MAXX cup races but was made to fight by Simon Gusterson in race one, just eight tenths of a second separating them in trace one and Jethro Bovingdon in race two, four second the difference this time. There were also class wins for Adrian Miller, Simon Shaw, John Hayman and James Brunton.
Highlights of the weekend’s racing in the core championships will be broadcast on Sky Sports and Motors TV
For more information visit www.driversknow.co.uk.
Nigel Moore’s hopes of a double victory were cruelly snatched from him when his rear suspension collapsed on the final lap of the second PlayStation Ginetta GT Junior race. The youngster from York had already won Saturday’s opener and was embroiled in a fascinating three-way scrap for first place with Christopher Clayton and eventual race winner James Jefferson when a coming together resulted in Moore’s misfortune. Despite this he still has a handsome lead at the top of the standings
Jacob Greaves was another driver who was left to rue what might have been. He’d won Saturday’s Dunlop Radical Enduro championship race and with four laps completed in Sunday’s race he’d opened up a healthy advantage at the front but he was forced to pit when his Radical SR8 suffered a technical problem on lap five. He eventually rejoined and finished last in a race which was won by Richard Ince and Austin Kinsella, cementing their overall lead in the championship. In the SR3 class it was the turn of Anthony Dunn and Barry Gates to cross the line first, Paul Thomas having done the same on Saturday.
In the Dunlop Radical Biduro championship, Daniel Rowbottom won both races, his first victories of the 2007 campaign and on the same circuit where he won his first ever Biduro race a year ago.
Martin Wallbank won both Dunlop Sport MAXX cup races but was made to fight by Simon Gusterson in race one, just eight tenths of a second separating them in trace one and Jethro Bovingdon in race two, four second the difference this time. There were also class wins for Adrian Miller, Simon Shaw, John Hayman and James Brunton.
Highlights of the weekend’s racing in the core championships will be broadcast on Sky Sports and Motors TV
For more information visit www.driversknow.co.uk.
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