The Mini battle in the Touring Car race
second . Similarly , in fourth , another great battle raged between and Dominic Jackson , making his debut in the Lotus 59 from the Wrigley stable , and Grant . Somehow , Jackson got the place by a thousandth of a second .
The tremendous Thundersports grid looked and sounded stunning with a fabulous array of sports-racing and GT cars from the 1970s and early 1980s . Calum Lockie on board the mighty March 717 was peerless and shot clear on the opening lap . Lockie ’ s escape was boosted when Dean Forward had a big moment under braking into Stowe and spun his McLaren M8F . Forward got going again but dropped a lot of places in the process .
Meanwhile , John Burton had started his Chevron B26 from the back of the bumper grid after a late problem with a gear ratio change . A lengthy safety car period while several stricken cars were moved then interrupted the race and allowed the field to bunch up . From the green Lockie again went clear as Forward chased , moving into second when Warren Briggs spun his McLaren M8E at the restart . The battle for the best of the 2-litre cars came down to a fine contest between Tony Sinclair ( Lola T292 ) and Burton . It was nip and tuck over the closing laps , and the place changed several times before Burton used all his experience to edge his rival to the line by a whisker .
The second race started with Lockie heading Forward , but within a couple of laps the rain arrived and became heavy enough for the race to be sensibly halted to allow teams to change tyres . After a break , the race resumed on a very wet track but that made little
difference to Lockie , who continued his tremendous performance to win again as Forward gave brave chase in the mighty McLaren . Burton was the best of the 2-litre cars as Sinclair posted a late retirement .
Andy Newall in the Chevron B6 previously raced by Michael Schryver was the class of the massive 45-car Guards Trophy field . None of them had any answer for the pace of Newall , who went clear with a typically attacking opening stint . Second became a father
Simon Garrad won twice in the DSCC and son battle between the Lenham of Simon and Cam Jackson and Westie and Ben Mitchell in their Chevron B8 . However , the Lenham , which Cam Jackson had put on pole by a huge margin , started to overheat and was retired , leaving the Mitchells to take a well-deserved second place . Third was Richard Piper ’ s Brahma while the GT battle of the TVRs fell to Mike Whitaker . The 30-car Historic Formula 2 field provided another glorious spectacle on the Grand Prix circuit . Spots of rain on
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