Menzies doubles up to close in on Moran/summers
Scott Moran and Alex Summers continue to be joined on points at the top of the British Hillclimb Championship after a trip across the Irish Sea to Craigantlet, with Wallace Menzies a double winner at the road-closed course to move just two points behind.
Menzies, who claimed his second crown at the venue in 2021, was fastest on each section of the round three run-off, setting a 43.07s in his Gould GR59-M, which proved to be fastest by more than half a second.
Summers outdid Moran over the distance to finish second and set the fastest speed with his DJ Firestorm, running an Indycar engine and recording 117mph between the hedges.
Rain continued to fall into round four and Moran was fastest off the line in his Gould GR59J, but a very tight line on the third corner proved costly. Menzies, having got over set-up struggles from the opening round, asserted his dominance with a 42.20s, 0.76s faster than Moran, while Summers failed to break the 43s barrier.
David Uren, in a Gr55b-spec Gould, slipped back from last year with fourth and fifth fastest times, swapping places with Trevor Willis’s OMS 28, which proved faster off the line.
Will Hall, who has swapped to a Gould GR59 for 2022, could have been a contender only for an ECU warning to force him into limp mode.