The winning Lenham in the Guards Trophy contest
Chris Keen bagged a Griffith Haig victory
Car Legends series made an encouraging debut with a quality grid that was headed in both races by the flame throwing Nissan Skyline R32 of Ric Wood . In Saturday ’ s sprint race , Daniel Brown headed the chase of Wood in the family Ford Sierra RS500 but on Sunday Brown posted a late retirement in the car he shared with his father Sean when it cut out and refused to restart . Instead Mike Manning came through to second in his RS500 after a big effort to rebuild the car following an accident at Castle Combe .
A bumper grid of Historic and 70s Road Sports and Historic Touring Cars delivered a fabulous spectacle and victories for John Shaw ’ s Morgan Plus 8 and John Williams in his Porsche 911SC . They were the class of the field with Shaw topping the Historic division and Williams heading the 70s contenders . Best of the touring cars on Saturday was Neil Wood in his Ford Anglia and then at the end of Saturday afternoon Wood again topped the division as Williams got the better of Shaw in the overall contest .
The two Derek Bell Trophy races delivered a wonderful spectacle as mighty Formula 5000s and nimble Formula 2 and Atlantic cars went into battle . In the opener , Christian
Christian Pittard won the first Derek Bell Trophy race
Pittard was able to make an escape in his Chevron B28 as Mark Charteris took a few laps to find a way around the Chevron B37 of Neil Glover who was battling a rare handling imbalance .
Once through into second Charteris and his March 782
Formula Junior variety at Donington
rocketed away after Pittard and closed the Chevron down , but just didn ’ t have enough laps to make an attack and was half a second behind over the line . Paul Campfield challenged Glover for third and Mark Dwyer wrapped up the top five in his ex-Jody Scheckter Trojan T101 .
The Touring Car Legends series got underway
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