PATERSON’S CHASSIS SWITCH NOT LEGENDARY
Steve Mcgill, David Newall and John Paterson were all victorious in the Scottish Legends as Paterson was left to lament a change to a new chassis around Knockhill’s anticlockwise configuration.
Paterson struggled with the handling of his Legend but managed to keep his championship deficit to Newall at 55 points; the same margin that separated the duo ahead of the weekend.
Mcgill checked out from pole position in the first heat before it was Newall’s turn to grace the top step in the following contest. Paterson survived a heart-stopping moment in the final when leading where he was being pushed along the straight by team-mate Duncan Vincent but speared off onto t he grass at high speed. Sensationally he managed to gather the car together and rejoin the track in second but behind Newall.
A move around the outside of
Hislop’s granted Paterson the inside of Clark’s, and he took the lead to win the race ahead of Mcgill, who passed Newall at the chicane.
Robbie Dalgleish “stamped authority” on the Scottish Mini Cooper Cup as title rival Michael Weddell hit trouble in the second race. But the pair came to blows early on as they ran each other off the circuit and into the gravel at the hairpin on the opening lap of the first contest, triggering a four-way scrap through Hislop’s that left Hannah Chapman in the outside tyre wall. Weddell followed Dalgleish as they carved through the field but moved ahead in the title race as Dalgleish was muscled wide at Duffus on the final tour.
Race one winner Mark Geraghty spun out from the lead of race two at Mcintyre’s as changeable track conditions caught him out. Dalgleish sliced his way through the pack and sealed second behind Vic Covey Jr, boosted by a retirement for Weddell, whose Cooper popped a driveshaft.
Dalgleish then dominated the final encounter as Weddell climbed from
21st to seventh, trailing by 34 points heading into October’s decider.
Finlay Brunton overhauled Ryan Smith to lead by 13 points in the Citroen C1 Cup championship as he was on “full send”. Starting fifth, Brunton climbed his way up to second behind race winner Steven Brewster with a succession of moves into Clark’s, including on Smith.
He then took the second race as
Smith frantically battled Brewster and Kieren Preedy, Smith grabbing third behind Preedy with a late lunge on Brewster into Mcintyre’s.
Jack Davidson thought he’d made a winning return to the Scottish Fiesta Championship but was disqualified when he failed post-race scrutineering. There would be no denying him at the second time of asking though, profiting from an early termination of the race when Stewart Scott and Russell Morgan collided at the hairpin. He won the contest outright with the winning Mini of Oly Mortimer only fourth.
Neil Broome took a clean sweep of Scottish Formula Ford 1600 wins but couldn’t deny Jordan Gronkowski the 2019 title. Due to a depleted track of just five cars, Formula Junior controversially shared the grid with FF1600, which would help dictate the race results.
Gronkowski had led the opener but was forced wide out of Mcintyre’s when trying to lap the Formula Juniors; dropping to third but still earning the title. Gronkowski sat out race two as Broome defended from Matthew Chisholm, but an issue of his own trying to lap a Formula Junior left Broome vulnerable and he crossed the line just 0.019 seconds ahead of Chisholm.