Modified Ford Series Oulton Park 13th April 2024
OULTON PROVES A HAPPY HUNTING GROUND FOR HUTCHINSON
The second meeting of 2024 for the Modified Ford Series took place at Oulton Park in Cheshire on the 13th of April, the venue located in the grounds of the former Oulton Hall. A number of late withdrawals saw the entry reduced to a still very healthy 29 cars, having been full with reserves in the months prior.
Luke Bennett’s Eurocar V8 and the Malcolm Wise Escort Cosworth would likely fight out the Class SA bragging rights between them if the weather stayed dry but Piers Warwick’s Nissan Turbo-engined Mk1 Escort did take the class honours at the circuit in 2023. The opening race top qualifier James Allen aimed to emulate that speed in Cheshire with his highly-developed Focus RS and would be the bookies favourite for Class A and overall honours. Brothers David and Scott Matthias made their seasonal debuts with their Sapphire Cosworths, David’s white car sporting a new rear wing. Mike Manning took his series bow in his superb Texaco-liveried RS500 and was definitely one to watch. The top shelf battle between Alan Breck’s Jäegermeister Capri V8 and Mick Head’s Martini Escort Cosworth RWD would likely see the orange coupe with the best shot of a top result as the inexperienced Head gains confidence. Three of the Sonny Howard-produced Mk1 Escort RSRs graced the Class SB entry, youngster Tom Ovenden’s Team 74 car won the division and finished in the top five in Race One at Silverstone but pulled out of the soggy second race to save the car after having no wet tyres for the miserable conditions. Oval racer Daz Owen and Northern Irishman Jim Hutchinson were to be found at the wheel of the other spaceframe Escorts, Owen’s with 2.5-litre Duratec motivation and Hutchinson‘s green and gold example featured a heady 2.9-litre Millington unit. Piers Grange should set the pace among the Class B+ competitors with his very quick Mk2 Escort and should also be in contention for at least a podium. Josh Payton’s Mk2 Cortina reportedly feels more planted with its aerodynamic additions so should suit the swooping Cheshire venue. Also hoping to take home a trophy would be Paul Nevill and Wayne Crabtree, the pair in an immaculately prepared Mk2 Escort RS2000 and Gulf-liveried Mk1 Escort respectively. 2023 series winner Alex Boam had fitted a replacement Ecoboost motor into his Fiesta after the loss of his previous unit at Silverstone, the combo having shown promising speed in qualifying. Robert Lewis’ Focus Turbo along with Sam Shimwell and Todd Garner’s Fiestas would be worth keeping an eye on if the weather turns less than ideal, with each producing stand-out drives in the wet second race a few weeks ago. The two Silverstone Class B winners topped the entry in the division, Chris Baker’s vocal Mk3 Escort and Mike Thurley’s pretty Mk1 example. Oliver Bullion’s Fiesta set the class pole position time in the damp of the equivalent meeting in 2023 so could find itself at the head of the class if it rained. Colin Claxton’s Zakspeed Mk1 Escort suffered a blocked water pipe at the Silverstone season opener and hoped for a better meeting in the freshly prepared car. Jay Hinton impressed on his debut weekend with his Mk1 Focus, despite describing it as a pig to drive! Mac McCarthy completed the class entries with his Fiesta ST. Silverstone qualifying Class C fast man Dave Barrett returned with his MTS Motorsport Fiesta and faced a pair of Pumas in the hands of dad Kevan Hadfield and lad Shaun, who was making his racing debut.
Qualifying: Passing showers in the build up to the session had the drivers reaching for their wet tyres just in case but, as it was, the circuit stayed pretty much dry in the cool conditions, apart from a greasy section under trees up around Druids and Lodge. Tom Ovenden was the first to top the times but Piers Grange soon displaced the youngster. Grange then improved his benchmark on two of his next three laps before, seconds after the Mk2’s latest improvement, Ovenden went back to the top with just over four minutes remaining. However, his effort was displaced by Jim Hutchinson’s RSR just as quickly. The Northern Irishman’s grasp of pole position lasted almost four minutes until a mega lap from Todd Garner put the Fiesta to the top with the chequered flag imminent. The best times came right at the end of the fifteen minutes and Grange's Class B+ Escort snared pole position with his last lap of the session. Hutchinson also improved with his final lap to join the Mk2 Escort on the front row aboard his Millington-powered RSR, setting a time 0.980 seconds in arrears as he knocked the rust off after six years out of racing. Josh Payton’s last lap was also his fastest as the Mk2 Cortina headed the second row and was just 0.155 seconds ahead of Tom Ovenden’s Mk1 Escort RSR from Class SB. David Matthias’ Sapphire Cosworth was the first turbocar in fifth and headed series promoter Paul Nevill’s Class B+ RS2000 on row three. Garner’s Fiesta was eventually bumped back to seventh with the flurry of late improvements and would start alongside Alex Boam’s Fiesta on the fourth row. The spectacular Mike Manning's Sierra struggled for traction as he slid to ninth, whilst Oliver Bullion topped Class B in a fine tenth. James Allen suffered a coil related misfire and left the Focus with work to do from thirteenth, behind Robert Lewis and Sam Shimwell. The next clump of three all came from Class B as Mike Thurley, Chris Baker and Jay Hinton’s reworked Focus lined up in 14th, 15th and 16th, the Focus featuring a new diff, a close ratio gear kit and had been realigned. Class SA was headed by Luke Bennett’s V8 Eurocar in 21st and Class C was the domain of Dave Barrett’s Fiesta in 23rd, whilst the Hadfield family Pumas were split by 1.121 seconds as father out-qualified son.
Qualifying results: Click here
The second meeting of 2024 for the Modified Ford Series took place at Oulton Park in Cheshire on the 13th of April, the venue located in the grounds of the former Oulton Hall. A number of late withdrawals saw the entry reduced to a still very healthy 29 cars, having been full with reserves in the months prior.
Luke Bennett’s Eurocar V8 and the Malcolm Wise Escort Cosworth would likely fight out the Class SA bragging rights between them if the weather stayed dry but Piers Warwick’s Nissan Turbo-engined Mk1 Escort did take the class honours at the circuit in 2023. The opening race top qualifier James Allen aimed to emulate that speed in Cheshire with his highly-developed Focus RS and would be the bookies favourite for Class A and overall honours. Brothers David and Scott Matthias made their seasonal debuts with their Sapphire Cosworths, David’s white car sporting a new rear wing. Mike Manning took his series bow in his superb Texaco-liveried RS500 and was definitely one to watch. The top shelf battle between Alan Breck’s Jäegermeister Capri V8 and Mick Head’s Martini Escort Cosworth RWD would likely see the orange coupe with the best shot of a top result as the inexperienced Head gains confidence. Three of the Sonny Howard-produced Mk1 Escort RSRs graced the Class SB entry, youngster Tom Ovenden’s Team 74 car won the division and finished in the top five in Race One at Silverstone but pulled out of the soggy second race to save the car after having no wet tyres for the miserable conditions. Oval racer Daz Owen and Northern Irishman Jim Hutchinson were to be found at the wheel of the other spaceframe Escorts, Owen’s with 2.5-litre Duratec motivation and Hutchinson‘s green and gold example featured a heady 2.9-litre Millington unit. Piers Grange should set the pace among the Class B+ competitors with his very quick Mk2 Escort and should also be in contention for at least a podium. Josh Payton’s Mk2 Cortina reportedly feels more planted with its aerodynamic additions so should suit the swooping Cheshire venue. Also hoping to take home a trophy would be Paul Nevill and Wayne Crabtree, the pair in an immaculately prepared Mk2 Escort RS2000 and Gulf-liveried Mk1 Escort respectively. 2023 series winner Alex Boam had fitted a replacement Ecoboost motor into his Fiesta after the loss of his previous unit at Silverstone, the combo having shown promising speed in qualifying. Robert Lewis’ Focus Turbo along with Sam Shimwell and Todd Garner’s Fiestas would be worth keeping an eye on if the weather turns less than ideal, with each producing stand-out drives in the wet second race a few weeks ago. The two Silverstone Class B winners topped the entry in the division, Chris Baker’s vocal Mk3 Escort and Mike Thurley’s pretty Mk1 example. Oliver Bullion’s Fiesta set the class pole position time in the damp of the equivalent meeting in 2023 so could find itself at the head of the class if it rained. Colin Claxton’s Zakspeed Mk1 Escort suffered a blocked water pipe at the Silverstone season opener and hoped for a better meeting in the freshly prepared car. Jay Hinton impressed on his debut weekend with his Mk1 Focus, despite describing it as a pig to drive! Mac McCarthy completed the class entries with his Fiesta ST. Silverstone qualifying Class C fast man Dave Barrett returned with his MTS Motorsport Fiesta and faced a pair of Pumas in the hands of dad Kevan Hadfield and lad Shaun, who was making his racing debut.
Qualifying: Passing showers in the build up to the session had the drivers reaching for their wet tyres just in case but, as it was, the circuit stayed pretty much dry in the cool conditions, apart from a greasy section under trees up around Druids and Lodge. Tom Ovenden was the first to top the times but Piers Grange soon displaced the youngster. Grange then improved his benchmark on two of his next three laps before, seconds after the Mk2’s latest improvement, Ovenden went back to the top with just over four minutes remaining. However, his effort was displaced by Jim Hutchinson’s RSR just as quickly. The Northern Irishman’s grasp of pole position lasted almost four minutes until a mega lap from Todd Garner put the Fiesta to the top with the chequered flag imminent. The best times came right at the end of the fifteen minutes and Grange's Class B+ Escort snared pole position with his last lap of the session. Hutchinson also improved with his final lap to join the Mk2 Escort on the front row aboard his Millington-powered RSR, setting a time 0.980 seconds in arrears as he knocked the rust off after six years out of racing. Josh Payton’s last lap was also his fastest as the Mk2 Cortina headed the second row and was just 0.155 seconds ahead of Tom Ovenden’s Mk1 Escort RSR from Class SB. David Matthias’ Sapphire Cosworth was the first turbocar in fifth and headed series promoter Paul Nevill’s Class B+ RS2000 on row three. Garner’s Fiesta was eventually bumped back to seventh with the flurry of late improvements and would start alongside Alex Boam’s Fiesta on the fourth row. The spectacular Mike Manning's Sierra struggled for traction as he slid to ninth, whilst Oliver Bullion topped Class B in a fine tenth. James Allen suffered a coil related misfire and left the Focus with work to do from thirteenth, behind Robert Lewis and Sam Shimwell. The next clump of three all came from Class B as Mike Thurley, Chris Baker and Jay Hinton’s reworked Focus lined up in 14th, 15th and 16th, the Focus featuring a new diff, a close ratio gear kit and had been realigned. Class SA was headed by Luke Bennett’s V8 Eurocar in 21st and Class C was the domain of Dave Barrett’s Fiesta in 23rd, whilst the Hadfield family Pumas were split by 1.121 seconds as father out-qualified son.
Qualifying results: Click here
Race One: A pre-race shower had left the track in a treacherous state for the start of the opening fifteen minutes of racing and there was drama immediately as Paul Nevill's RS2000 swapped ends and swiped the barriers at the rolling start. Fortunately, the damage appeared to be superficial and he was able to drive the car back to the paddock despite the RS2000 taking hits to the front and rear. Jim Hutchinson's RSR led at the end of lap one, just ahead of polesitter Piers Grange - whom the leading RSR had gone around the outside of at Old Hall before completing the pass into Cascades. Tom Ovenden's Duratec-powered RSR sat in a clear third at the end of lap one, ahead of Josh Payton's Cortina, an amazing Oliver Bullion from Class B in fifth and the marauding Focus RS of James Allen. Todd Garner and Alex Boam had held an early fifth and sixth place behind Payton's Mk2 Cortina but had been demoted by the remarkable Bullion's Fiesta by Hill Top, with Garner having also slipped behind Boam. Bullion somehow didn't lose a place after holding onto a huge moment when he lost the rear under braking for the Hislop's Chicane, the Fiesta slewing sideways across the grass before the Class B leader regained control. Starting from thirteenth, Allen had passed the row ahead of him by Old Hall and was on the tail of Mike Manning's Sierra out of Cascades for the first time before getting ahead of the RS500 in the lakeside section. Allen then blasted past Garner down the hill to the Hislop's Chicane and the Focus soon gained another spot to move into sixth at Boam's expense up Clay Hill. Garner finished the opening lap in eighth, in front of Mike Manning, Robert Lewis and Jay Hinton - who was running second in Class B. Separating the Focus from the third-placed Class B car of Mike Thurley was Sam Shimwell's Class B+ Fiesta, whilst the Zakspeed Mk1 Escort had Daz Owen's RSR as a barrier to keep Chris Baker's Mk3 Escort at bay to begin with. However, Thurley would have his buffer only temporarily as Owen got around the Castrol Mk1 into Lodge. The slick conditions would catch out second-placed Grange next as he lost control having just breasted Dear Leap as they began lap two and spun into the Old Hall gravel trap. With the yellow flags waving for the beached Escort, Bullion passed Payton for what had now become third place on the approach to Old Hall but when the Fiesta quickly ceded the spot back to the Cortina, Allen's Focus took advantage to power into fourth along The Avenue. The Focus then marched onto the podium along the lakeside and the Safety Car was called for moments later to retrieve the errant Grange Escort. After a time-consuming spell under yellow, not helped by the polesitter's Mk2 refusing to fire up once out of the gravel, the field was unleashed once more with just enough time for two more laps. The SHP RSR 1-2 of Hutchinson and Ovenden from Class SB led Allen, who was up ten places into third, Class B+ leader Payton in fourth, Bullion in a brilliant fifth, Boam and Manning in the queue for the restart. Both Matthias brothers fell back on the formation lap to start at the rear before retiring behind the Safety Car due to the lack of grip from their powerful slick-tyred Sapphires, whilst Grange joined the back of the train two laps down. After the field was released, Hutchinson drove away to victory by 8.337 seconds. Ovenden came home second with his RSR but a defective alternator-induced flat battery caused the car to conk out in Parc Ferme. Allen's Focus RS was third ahead of a stunning fourth from Class B winner Bullion, who had been nipping at the Focus' heels during the last lap. Bullion had pounced immediately to jump ahead of Payton at the restart, the Cortina seemingly caught napping. Boam had also looked for a way past Payton at Cascades but the Cortina had covered the inside. Garner's Fiesta also had its tail up at the restart and slotted in behind Boam into Old Hall, having got ahead of Manning's wheelspinning Sierra. A determined Robert Lewis had got inside Owen at the restart and lightly tapped the Texaco Sierra as he completed the move at Old Hall, with the RS500 getting well crossed up. Undeterred, the Welshman then tried to repass Garner's Fiesta into Cascades but skated off into the gravel after locking up on the damp inside line. The Sierra was able to escape the gravel trap but at a loss of several places and was now behind Class SA leader Piers Warwick. Garner and Lewis had eased off whilst Manning was having his adventure and both Owen and Jay Hinton got by the pair heading up to Island Bend. Garner then moved up to challenge Boam and got around the outside of the black Fiesta into Hislop's, with Owen just getting his RSR stopped in time as he followed suit. Hinton also drove around the outside of the Fiesta as they started the ascent of Clay Hill to go into eighth. Owen had now set his sights on catching Garner and, starting the final lap, the RSR had the Fiesta under pressure into Old Hall before getting ahead along The Avenue. The ex-oval racer's next target was the Cortina of Payton and the pair fishtailed out of the Britten's Chicane together, with the Garner Fiesta and Hinton Focus in hot pursuit too. A better exit from Knickerbrook saw the Midlander past Payton up Clay Hill to take away fifth place on-the-road but the RSR would be disqualified for overtaking under yellow flags. Hinton's Focus had also got ahead of Garner up the rise but the Class B man's mighty effort would come to nought after slave cylinder failure in the gearbox left the Focus without drive as just a couple of corners remained. Garner wound in Payton through Druids and Lodge before pipping the Cortina at the post for the Class B+ spoils by just 0.101 seconds in what became fifth and sixth. Lewis' Focus also got in front of Boam's similarly Ecoboost-powered Fiesta late in the day to take third in Class B+ and seventh overall. Chris Baker’s bottom stabiliser mount snapped violently on the final lap when in battle with Mike Thurley for the eventual second place in Class B and the Mk3 Escort had just gone round the outside of the Mk1 at Island Bend to gain the place. The breakage forced his bonnet upwards and the Mk3 Escort out, which made for a busy awning as various helpers attempted to sort Nevill’s RS2000 and Baker’s RS1600i. Thurley eventually came home second in Class B and took ninth overall, ahead of Mac McCarthy in a fine third as the tricky surface played to his Fiesta’s strengths. Just behind McCarthy in fourteenth came Piers Warwick in the first of the Class SA cars past the flag, the Mk1 Escort Turbo besting Luke Bennett and Malcolm Wise. Alan Breck completed the top ten and took silver in Class A from Manning's recovering Texaco Sierra, the Class A pair sandwiching Wayne Crabtree's Class B+ Mk1 Escort in eleventh that had started from dead last. Dave Barrett's Fiesta won Class C in seventeenth from the Puma pair, with Kevan Hadfield finishing just half a second ahead of son Shaun. Novice Shaun had the kudos of setting the fastest lap for the class in his very first race.
Race One results: Click here
Race One results: Click here
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Race Two: With the opening race results forming the grid for the much drier second bout, Jim Hutchinson and Tom Ovenden headed the field on the front row with their Mk1 Escort RSRs. A contrast in development sat on row two as James Allen's Class A Focus started alongside Oliver Bullion's much less tweaked Fiesta from Class B, with the greasy conditions of the first race suiting the smaller hatchback perfectly. After the removal of Daz Owen from the Race One results, an all-Class B+ row three was formed by Todd Garner and Josh Payton. The crews of Paul Nevill and Chris Baker worked hard to get the two cars onto the grid, the RS2000 with plenty of tank tape attached and Baker's with a band-aid fix for the lower mount. The pair joined the Matthias brothers, Jay Hinton, Piers Grange and Daz Owen towards the rear of the field for the rolling start. Polesitter Hutchinson led the two Mk1 Escort RSRs from the front row into Old Hall, ahead of 2023 Mini Challenge Trophy champion Ovenden. James Allen and Josh Payton, who’d made another characteristically fast start, slotted into third and fourth, whilst in fifth was the turbocharged Fiesta of Alex Boam, who had also got away strongly to demote Race One class winners Todd Garner and Oliver Bullion. As the pack descended on Cascades, Allen and Payton came together after the Cortina attempted to go up the inside but was on a collision course with the rear quarter of the Focus and both pirouetted off into the gravel and retirement. The Mk2 Cortina suffered bent steering and front panel damage in the incident, whilst the deeply frustrated Allen’s Focus had gravel pierce its radiator. Ovenden had stuck with Hutchinson through the opening half of the lap, with the Cascades contretemps opening a gap back to Boam, Garner and Bullion. Robert Lewis, Wayne Crabtree and Alan Breck formed the rest of the top eight as the Safety Car was quickly deployed with the field in the lakeside section. The BRSCC Jaguar led the field for a solitary lap before the restart with just under eight and a half minutes to go. Starting from the eleventh row, Piers Grange had flown through the order to be sat just behind Breck’s V8 Capri in the queue when racing got underway again. A meteoric restart lap from the PRG Trailers impresario saw the Mk2 Escort move ahead of Breck's Capri towards Old Hall, before an attempt at passing Lewis' Focus was thwarted at Cascades but Grange soon sailed by along the lakeside. Garner's Fiesta was the next to fall victim at Island Bend, with the Escort completing its inexorable rise to third place up the inside of Boam's Fiesta into Lodge. The two leading RSRs from Class SB had scorched clear on the restart lap, with second-placed Ovenden 5.618 seconds up the road, so that looked like the end of Grange's charge as the pair of spaceframed Mk1 Escorts continued to edge away. The third-placed car did have a scare at Lodge for the final time when the Martini-liveried Escort Cosworth of Mick Head spun just in front of the Mk2 Escort, with the resulting dust and tyre smoke rendering Grange virtually blind but he survived to take the final step on the podium and the Class B+ trophy 17.657 seconds away from winner Hutchinson. The Northern Irishman led home runner-up Ovenden by 6.304 seconds to complete a highly successful day on his return to competition. Behind Grange, Boam's Ecoboost Fiesta took a fine fourth and was the second Class B+ runner home but there was a constantly changing leaderboard beyond as a plethora of cars came through from lower grid positions. Chris Baker was the foremost of the tail of the grid starters early on and was among the trio of Class SA cars in the Safety Car train. Jay Hinton had also cleared the Class C cars and was sat just behind Piers Warwick's Mk1 Escort Turbo, with Scott and David Matthias, Paul Nevill and Daz Owen all in a line behind Kevan Hadfield's Puma. Class B leader Bullion briefly got ahead of Garner's Class B+ car at the resumption but the Mk7 Fiesta soon retook fourth place along The Avenue. Hinton's Focus got ahead of Baker for third in Class B in the lakeside section on the restart lap and both had got ahead of Luke Bennett's Class SA-leading V8 Eurocar but Baker swiftly got third in Class B back when Hinton's Focus lost drive as in Race One, a pre-race bleed of the clutch and slave cylinder providing only a temporary fix. A rapid restart lap had seen the Fleet man's Mk3 Escort finish it on the tail of Mike Thurley's Mk1 model. Series promoter Paul Nevill was on his toes at the restart too and was working his way through the Class SA trio, whilst the Matthias brothers' Sapphire Cosworths were making steadier progress and Scott had picked up a polystyrene marker board. Nevill's RS2000 had cleared Bennett's Eurocar by the end of the lap and was chasing after Baker, sitting 5.083 seconds back as they went onto lap four. Alan Breck's rumbling Capri thundered past Wayne Crabtree's Mk1 Escort along the lakeside for eighth place, whilst Baker's bonnet had started flapping on the nearside whilst harrying the defensive Thurley. Their tussling had seen Nevill reel them in quickly and the droop-snoot Escort was with the Class B duo up Clay Hill. Baker held off the RS2000 into Druids but was powerless to stop Nevill getting by into Lodge, whilst a rapidly closing David Matthias had also reached the group with his Sapphire. Matthias soon whistled past Baker across the start/finish line with four minutes left. Just ahead, Nevill had got up the inside of Thurley at Old Hall as the Castrol Mk1 Escort was sniffing around Crabtree's Gulf example and the series head was also past Crabtree by Cascades. In the RS2000's wake, Matthias blazed past Thurley along The Avenue before doing likewise to Crabtree along the lakeside. With the upwardly mobile RS2000 and Sapphire pulling away, Baker was now back onto Thurley's bootlid and had another attempt at Island Bend rebuffed as he looked to take second in Class B. Nevill and Matthias were now hooking onto Breck's V8 Capri, whilst the second Matthias Sapphire Cosworth was ranging up the rear of the Crabtree, Thurley and Baker squabble. Nevill went by Breck up Clay Hill and Scott Matthias did the same to Baker, brother David then dispensed with the orange Capri to take the Class A lead before Lodge and Scott then got by Thurley in the same place before seeing off Crabtree at Old Hall going onto what would be the penultimate lap. Baker finally breached Thurley's defence with a much better exit from Old Hall to take away second in Class B. Daz Owen's RSR from Class SB was now appearing on the horizon behind them too as he fought back up the order from his Race One exclusion. A short distance ahead, Nevill and David Matthias had both cleared Lewis' Focus to reach the top seven and were after Bullion's Class B Fiesta in sixth. Having cleared Thurley's Mk1, Baker then passed Crabtree's similar car ahead of the Britten's Chicane and was now eleventh, with Owen already through on Thurley. The RSR was also soon past the Gulf Mk1 at Hislop's. Scott Matthias' charge into the top ten continued as he went by Breck's Capri on the run to Lodge to take ninth place going onto the final lap. Nevill and shadow David Matthias had both left Bullion behind starting the last lap and the Sapphire flew by the RS2000 around the outside of Dentons to take sixth place. The bewinged Cosworth then began bearing down on Garner's fifth place around the remainder of the lap but the third in Class B+ Fiesta just held on by 0.155 seconds at the chequered flag, whilst Matthias claimed the Class A spoils in sixth. Nevill took seventh in front of Class B victor Bullion in a superb eighth, Class A runner-up Scott Matthias' rise up the field ended with ninth and the Lewis Focus Ecoboost shored up the top ten. Owen's third in Class SB Mk1 Escort RSR also passed Breck before the end and the Capri had the Mk3 Escort of Class B runner-up Baker closing up on it as the V8 coupe took twelfth place and third in Class A. Breck's stablemate Luke Bennett triumphed in Class SA as the Eurocar V8 came home in sixteenth, ahead of Malcolm Wise and first race winner Piers Warwick. Mike Thurley was the third Class B car over the line after Baker's penultimate lap pass and Dave Barrett doubled up in Class C but couldn’t afford to slip up with Kevan Hadfield’s Puma just a handful of car lengths behind.
Race Two results: Click here
Race Two results: Click here
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Mk1 Escort driver Wayne Crabtree took away the Driver of the Day award after a pair of fine drives, having started Race One from the back after completing only two laps in qualifying.
Next up for the Modified Ford Series is a maiden visit to the popular Castle Combe circuit in Wiltshire on May Day Monday the 6th, with another huge entry promised.
Next up for the Modified Ford Series is a maiden visit to the popular Castle Combe circuit in Wiltshire on May Day Monday the 6th, with another huge entry promised.