IN THE HEADLINES

HUNTER BEATS OP TO RACE

Former Mini Se7en champion Max Hunter finished on the podium last Sunday at Brands Hatch, only hours after being discharged from hospital following a kidney operation. After his enforced absence from Saturday’s action, he had to start the second event from the back of the grid but charged through to third by the start of lap three. He held the position to the flag but was later be promoted to second when Andrew Deviny was excluded post-race.

DYSON IN JUNIOR RETURN

Former Ginetta Junior racer Harry Dyson made a return to the series at Knockhill last weekend with the Premiership Academy Racing squad. Dyson contested the first seven rounds of the series last year before switching to British F4 with the JHR Developments team. It was a difficult return for Dyson, though, as a time penalty for gaining an unfair advantage limited him to 11th in race one and he finished the second contest in the gravel.

FOX ATTACK IN C1 24

Ginetta squad Fox Motorsport will take part in the second Citroen C1 24 Hour race at Rockingham this weekend. Team boss Paul Mcneilly will compete for the first time in two years and will be joined by GT regular Jamie Stanley and Fox

Ginetta GT5 Challenge racers Nick Halstead and James Townsend.

RAVEN RETURNS TO UK

Former Formula Ford Festival winner James Raven (below) endured mixed fortunes last weekend in the Champion of Brands races, which were his first back in the UK this year. Raven, who last raced in the UK at the Walter Hayes Trophy meeting at Silverstone last November, took time out of competing in the Formula 4 United States Championship to steer his Ray GR14/15 to second in the first race, before clipping a trackside bollard in the second at Graham Hill Bend and recovering to sixth.