RICHARDS BACK AT COMBE

An interested visitor to Castle Combe on Monday was Terry Richards, the circuit’s Formula Ford champion in 1975. Having caught the racing bug, builder Richards trained with Motor Racing Stables at Brands Hatch and bought a second-hand Merlyn Mk11 with a trailer for £1000 and raced it from 1970-76. Lacking funds to buy a newer car to remain competitive, watching Ben Mitchell (below) rewrite the historic class record in a Mk20 brought back memories.