RACE REPORT SILVERSTONE GP

The invitation class MG Midget of Ian Staines led the MG field at the end of lap one with Mark Wright’s MGF Cup in second, while charging through from the back after a troubled qualifying was the ZR190 of rapid pairing Stuart Emmett and Dan Ludlow, who gained 11 places on lap one. Wright was challenging hard, the pair side-by-side down the pit straight heading into lap five, Wright going past only to lose out later in the lap, while the great start of the Emmett and Ludlow ZR was all for naught as the car retired after two laps.

A brief safety car period on lap five closed the field right up, Wright pitting and retiring, and once racing resumed Staines was in at the end of his ninth lap, coming out ahead with Alex Fletcher now second in his ZS. A superb drive in the ‘arrive and drive’ class A car saw Oliver Kerr running third from Gary Cook’s ZR170.

Staines stayed clear to take the win, Fletcher second but in turn well clear of Kerr and Cook, the lead four all taking class wins.

“I was having fun with Mark Wright’s MGF, but after the safety car I was on my own,” said Staines.