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Gold Medal winner Gerry Marshall was guest of honour at the Caterham Graduate
Racing Club's first race of the year at Silverstone. Gerry presented trophies to
the winners and best improvers in the Graduate and Super-Graduate races, saying
how much he admired the friendliness and camaraderie of the series.
He added that he was delighted to see such a mixture of ages and sexes in the
races, with particular mention to 18-year-old Sarah Reader's pole position in
the Super-Graduate race.
In contrast to Gerry Marshall's 600 race victories, both drivers on the top
step of the podium were first-time winners in the championship. A capacity grid
of 34 cars took the start of the Graduates race; it was Chris Bruney who took
the win after a race-long slipstreaming battle. Second and third were the 2001
champion and runner-up, Jamie Ellwood and Paul Manyweathers, with less than
seven tenths of a second covering the first five cars across the line.
In the Super-Graduates race, Franek Low took the chequered flag ahead of
guest driver John Gaw in his less powerful Roadsport B car. A newcomer to the
series, 18-year-old Jonathan Barnes, took third. Less than a second covered the
first five across the finish.
Another newcomer to racing, Caterham employee Simon Lambert, was unlucky to
be sidelined in a first-lap incident while leading. Lambert recovered to finish
tenth, taking the lap record along the way.
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