Harris makes it two at King’s Lynn and puts himself in the F1 shootout hot seat BRISCA F1
Organiser Trackstar Where: King’s Lynn When: September 22 Starters: 39.
Tom Harris dominated Saturday night’s meeting at King’s Lynn, winning both his qualifying heats and the final. It was Harris’ second consecutive win at the Norfolk oval and he will go for an unprecedented hat-trick at the track in October.
Jake Harrhy, who had earlier won his first race, took the early lead but was forced to retire with mechanical problems. Harris had made a quick start and took over the race lead before the halfway point opening up over half-a-lap advantage from his rivals.
As the laps wound down, Stuart Smith Jr began to close in but could not get near enough to launch an assault on Harris on the last lap.
“I got a great start; the car is set-up to run when the track is a bit wetter as it is to begin with,” said Harris. “I have had a great start to the shootout and I am starting at the front of the shootout drivers. I am going to try and take advantage of that before I move back in the grid. I have learnt some driving techniques from racing a sprint car in America, and I have finally got the car to handle to the different way of driving.”
Second-placed man Smith nearly did not make it out for the final. He said: “We had an oil leak during my heat race. The crew worked really hard to get me back out. Harris was a bit too far ahead of me, I had a lot of traffic to get through at the start and by that time he was a long way ahead. But I think I had the faster car at the end and was closing in on him, we just needed a few more laps.” Results 1 Tom Harris; 2 Stuart Smith Jr; 3 Nigel Green; 4 James Morris; 5 Karl Hawkins; 6 Bobby Griffin; 7 Patrick Tersteeg; 8 Bradley Harrison; 9 Joe Nickolls; 10 Danny Wainman.