Not quite such a good field for the Guards Trophy which clearly needs time to develop. A good mix of cars nonetheless. Whilst Michael Schryver's Chevron B6 wasn't present, his place at the front was this time taken by the yellow JCB liveried B8 of Andy Newall who duly put the car on pole. He led from start to finish and is seen here leaving Hall Bends to enter the Hairpin:-
Martin Stretton created a bit of an identity crisis with our commentators, particularly Marcus Pye, when he appeared on the grid not wearing his well known helmet but one that looked like that of Mark Clubb, the entrant of the pretty Elva 7S. Marcus soon decided that he should go by the press-on style of driving rather than the helmet, and Stretton took the Elva to a comfortable second place. In fact, having seen Newall drive away at the start, Stretton for a while stabilised the gap and briefly looked as though he might close it. However, Newall pressed on and Stretton's times dropped off a little (braking problems?) and the gap was over 21 seconds at the end. Here he is seen, at the beginning of the race heading off the Mountain towards Hall Bends with Jim Chapman's Ginetta in close attendance and Philip Nelson's Marcos 1800GT:-
Stuart Tizzard blamed himself rather than his Lenham for what was for him a lowly (7th) grid position and proved his point by lapping 4 seconds faster in the race and finishing 4th right on the tail of Jim Chapman's Ginetta G16. Here he is with Charles Allison's Marcos 1800GT and Michael Hibberd in the background:-
After the quicker of the sportscars had sorted themselves and re-established themselves in front of the fast starting Nelson, Allison, by dint of some hard driving brought himself onto the tail of Nelson and they diced together like this for several laps before the fall of the flag and finished in this order, 5th and 6th:-
