GB4 DELIVERS THE SHOCK OF THE NEW
In the first-ever race for the junior single-seater GB4 championship, Fortec driver Nikolas Taylor in his first-ever car race dominated from pole, leading all the way with Elite’s Alex Walker and Kevin Mills Racing’s Tom Mills in his wake.
“I just kept my head down and kept pushing,” Taylor told Motorsport News. “I was really nervous to be honest because we were doing practice starts and we couldn’t do proper ones because our tyres were so cold. But I’ve done racecraft online, I was pretty confident with my ability to race.”
In race two however Walker was able to take Taylor’s lead at the first turn by running impressively around the outside. Then at Brundle on lap one, in dirty air and on cold tyres, Taylor spun to the back. He recovered to finish sixth while Walker led Mills home.
Megan Gilkes won the reversed-grid race, taking the lead with a fine start then holding her Hillspeed team-mate Max
Marzorati at arm’s length, both drivers making 11th-hour oneoff appearances at Snetterton. Marzorati maintained second place after a frenzied battle with Fortec’s Elias Adestam.
Gilkes’triumph made up for a weekend wherein she missed half of qualifying due to officialdom being unhappy with her seatbelts, then she retired from race two due to a holed radiator.
“I just needed to get away at the front, I almost wanted to turn my mirrors down to avoid making any mistakes while looking behind me,” Gilkes told MN. “I had a frustrating weekend but I knew the pace was there from testing.”
Christian Pittard won the opening Magnificent Sevens race after a close fight with runner-up Ben Simonds. Early leader Stephen Nuttall dropped out with an electrical gremlin, but returned for race two and roared from the back to lead after three laps and won from Pittard.
Andrew Windmill won the Tin Tops race comfortably while
Carl Chambers won the Turbo Tin Tops race from a rapidly closing Nigel Tongue in his VW Scirocco shared with
John Hammersley.
Karl Cattliff won in Modern Classics, passing the long-time leading Diet Coke-sponsored BMW M3 of Wesley Butcher who had taken over from
Dave Griffin.
Former Pickup racer Daniel Petters dominated the New Millennium race in his recently acquired Porsche 911. Stuart Daburn similarly dominated the Future Classics race from pole while Sam Smith had an equally imperious showing in Classic K.
William Pratt won the opening Morgan race by thrillingly pipping Andrew Thompson in the run to the line. Thompson won race two after Pratt spun to the back on lap one.
Sam Polley won the Swinging Sixties race for cars up to 2000cc, recovering from a spectacular off at Wilson. Oliver and Nigel Reuben cruised to win the over2000cc race.