Jordan Harrison dominated Classic FF1600
Mike Gardiner won the first HTC race
Tom Muirhead heads a Clubmans pack
Murray Shepherd was the sole Classic FF2000 runner , so he joined the near capacity grid and ended up taking a weekend double despite the very best efforts of Historic front runners Benn Simms and Ian Pearson .
On Saturday , after a multiple car spinnage at Gerard ’ s on the opening lap , Simms battled wheel-to-wheel with Shepherd until his Reynard ran out of fuel with three laps to go . A new fuel tank had recently been fitted and it failed to pick up the last couple of litres that should have got Simms home .
On Sunday , Pearson made a blinding start to lead for much of the race under pressure from Shepherd only to have his Royale stick in third gear at the Hairpin and slip to fifth . It was far less than he deserved . Meanwhile , Simms drove a tremendous race to battle from the back of the grid right up to second . He passed eight cars before Gerard ’ s on the first lap and was quickly into the top five . He then closed in on the battling Pearson and Shepherd but was never quite able to get on terms as Shepherd took his second win of the weekend . Ben Glasswell was a fine third on Sunday to round out the overall podium while on Saturday it had been Graham Ridgeway completing the podium ahead of son and father Ben and Stephen Glasswell .
Another champion crowned in fine style was Jeremy Timms who took two resounding victories in Historic Formula 3 to settle the title in the final races of the season with his Chevron B15 . After a soaking wet and shortened
The Historic F3 pack qualifying session the grid was very jumbled and Timms started only eighth . However , he was quickly into his stride and swept up the order to move ahead of Ian Bankhurst and Steve Seaman in a thoroughly entertaining race . Sam Wilson had been right with them in Paul Waine ’ s De Sanctis but spun at Gerard ’ s and a starter motor problem ensured that he was not able to continue .
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