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Race 1 - 70's Road Sports
29 starters; 25 finishers.
A great variety of cars for this 15 minute race, in which Paul Anderson was on pole in his Porsche 928 (64) and led the field away , with Richard Plant (19 - Morgan +8), Phil Briggs (29 - Porsche 928), Julian Barter (9 - TVR 3000M) in hot pursuit (see pic 1). Pic 2 shows the contrasting Loti (I still don't know what the plural of Lotus is; does anybody?) of Steve Cooke (65 - 7 S4) and Stewart Richardson (12 - Europa) side by side through Copse. Cooke failed to finish but Richardson finished in 11th place. As they start lap 2, (See pic 3) Plant has already snatched the lead from Anderson, and three V8s lead two V6s, with Peter Shaw in his V6 Tuscan briefly getting the better of Barter to take 4th place; these 5 already moving away from the pack. Pic 4 shows the third Porsche 928 of Richard Armstrong (18) getting a bit out of shape with Paul Stafford hoping to capitalise in his Datsun 240Z. He was never able to though and they finished 12 & 13th respectively but still this close together. 23 is Will Morton's Alfa 200GTV which finished 16th.
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