Lydden July 14

There was a good turnout of MM contenders for this full-day sprint at Lydden. The format was a 2.7 lap practice and 3 timed runs of 1.7 laps. After threatening rain all week the day was gloriously sunny. Jonathan Dalby took 2nd in Class 2 in his 309 GTi, some way behind the extremely quick Alfa of Nathan Corridon.
Class 4 had MM contenders take the top 3 slots with Mike Edwards winning, Andy Actman second and Dick Athow third. Chris Fulke-Greville won a small Class 5. Both he and Andy Webber are riding high in the overall scores right now, but a continuing small class means they will soon start dropping scores and will slowly filter down the table.
Class 6 was enormous as usual. Neil Armstrong was highest placed MM contender in 2nd place, the mighty EVOs knocked off the top spot by one of the legendary Nissan Skyline GTRs, which turned in the fastest road legal time of the day. Neil did turn the tables on Jon Miles' EVO VII though which ended up in 3rd position. Keith Crocker was highest placed 2WD car in this class once again. David Offen was the only contender in the small kit car class, coming home in 6th place after being absent from sprinting for over a year.
Ian Crocker won Class 8 with his second timed run and then promptly stuffed it into the earth bank on his last timed run causing a fair bit of damage to the car. However, thanks to the efforts of brother Keith, Jon Miles and Chris Fulke-Greville the car made it home under its own power albeit with no electric fan and a radiator held in with cable-ties. The Craig brothers took 1st and 2nd in Class 10, Nigel winning and going on to win his race there the very next day as well. Class 12 was boosted in numbers by a bunch of GT40s. Rik Lee came home 3rd in the 6R4 and collected 20 points for doing so.

Not as impressive as Darren's at Goodwood, but bent suspension and a lot of front-end damage on Ian's Westfield means heartache all the same!
 
 
 
 

Ian Crocker