CATON AND HAND GRAB JUNIOR SALOON VICTORIES

OCTOBER 23-24

Harvey Caton and Charlie

Hand shared the victory spoils in the Junior Saloons at Donington Park.

Caton led race one until McLeans on the penultimate lap, when Hand exited alongside and made his move decisive into Coppice.

When Will Redford missed a gear Ruben Hage snatched third place, only for Alfie Jeakins and Redford to charge by again into the Esses on the last lap.

There was a lights-to-flag win for Caton in the second race but second place went down the wire. Jamie Petters joined

Hand and Hage in the dogfight. Petters was ahead in Goddards on the last lap but ran wide, allowing Hage and Hand to retake.

The first Mini Miglia race was cancelled after two red flags but the second race went the distance. Endaf Owens survived a safety car intervention which preceded a two-lap sprint to the flag.

Rupert Deeth had been piling on the pressure but it was Aaron Smith who grabbed the last-lap victory. With Owens exiting

Goddards on the grass, Deeth snatched second and Ashley Davies third.

There was a first-corner incident between a number of the Pragas in the first Britcar Endurance race. After that melee, a storming second-half drive from Gordie Mutch that secured victory in his Praga shared with Jimmy Broadbent, 21 seconds clear of Miles Lacy’s similar car.

Will Powell’s McLaren GT3 was third on the road but a penalty dropped him and co-driver Dave Scaramanga to sixth. That was still enough for the title.

Mutch and Broadbent made it a winning double, after overtaking Richard Wells/Tim Gray (Praga) on lap 26. Second meant Wells was crowned as the first Praga champion.

Conor O’Brien grabbed the lead from Mike Jordan exiting Coppice on the second lap of the first Mini Seven race. Jordan eventually finished third after losing out to

Spencer Wanstall.

After Jeff Smith had led from the second lap of race two, he suddenly plummeted a lap from home. That left Jordan to snatch a lap victory from Nicholas Croydon-Fowler at the Old Hairpin.

Croydon-Fowler and thirdplaced O’Brien both received jump-start penalties, which promoted Smith back to second from Joe Thompson.

David O’Keeffe and Luca Proietti were the 2CV winners, with Mark Lee’s Ginetta G56A and Simon Baker/Ollie Reuben’s

BMW victorious in the Britcar Trophy.