PROTESTS OVER COMBE TRACK-LIMIT PENALTIES

LEADING FIGURES FROM the Castle Combe Formula Ford Championship took part in a protest before the traditional end-of-season Carnival event on Saturday, after the championshipdeciding race was blighted by track-limits penalties.

The top four on the road – Michael Moyers, Luke Cooper, Roger Orgee and Michael Eastwell – were all hit with time penalties for exceeding track limits. Officials then declared fifth-placed finisher Nathan Ward the actual race winner. The result cost Moyers victory, and with it second place in the Castle Combe championship.

In response, several drivers undid their seat belts and stood beside their cars on the dummy grid for the Carnival as a protest.

“The track limits have been a complete joke,” said Moyers. “Some people are being done, others aren’t. We want changes to be made.”

Moyers’s team boss Kevin Mills added: “They [Castle Combe] have brought in a new clerk of the course for the last round of the championship when there are championship positions to be finalised.”

Responding to the protest, club director Steve Weston said: “As a club we will have a debrief on this event and the season as a whole, and then we can make a proper assessment and comment.”