TURICCKI ADDS TO HIS TROPHY CABINET WITH VICTORIES
Pickup champion George Turiccki added another double win to his season’s tally but was made to work for it.
In race one he managed take
Dale Gent exiting McLeans on the third lap, but couldn’t shake him off as Daniel Hunn joined in. Turiccki just held on to win, with David O’Regan promoted to third, as Hunn picked up a tracklimits penalty.
Gent led the first six laps in race two again, until O’Regan briefly led, before Turiccki passed them both into the chicane on lap seven to take win number two.
After Miles Rudman had headed home Will Gibson in the first of the weekend’s Legends races, Gibson won race two after an early twocar break with Marcus Pett.
But it was Stephen Whitelegg that took Saturday’s final spoils, having lost his earlier advantage to Rudman and Jon Mickel. He claimed the win on the final lap, just holding off Rudman, Mickel and Andy Bird.
Rudman had another win in Sunday’s opener, with Gibson holding off Mickel for second. But Gibson was dominant winner in the second race, before taking a last-lap victory in the Sunday final, over Jack Parker, Mickel and Rudman.
The first Junior Saloons race was abandoned after a double red flag, but in the second race Daire Flock’s early break kept him in front until the chicane on the penultimate lap, when Maximus Hall snatched the win, with CJ Morgan topping a great scrap for third.
Reigning British Truck Racing champion Ryan Smith led their first race of the weekend from the opening lap, with Stuart Oliver and Simon Reid holding station behind.
It was Reid’s turn to dominate race two and, with Smith an early retirement, Oliver and David Jenkins joined him on the podium.
Jenkins ousted Ricky Collett from his early lead in race three to take the spoils, leaving Collett to defend second from John Newell and Oliver. His defence was finally breached by both a lap from home, with Smith claiming a late fourth too.
Michael Oliver topped a restarted race four, with Smith a close second, before Smith took his second win over Oliver and Jenkins in Sunday’s finale.
The British Endurance race was a battle of the GT3 Mercedes. Sacha Kakad/Hugo Cook led most of the race, but two short-pitstop penalties handed victory to Wayne Marrs/Tom Jackson.
Jon Woolfitt’s Spire took another double win in the CNC Heads Sports Saloons and in the Praga Cup Gordie Mutch/Jimmy Broadbent and Charles Hall/Scott Mittell shared the victory spoils.