EMAX MOTORSPORT UNTOUCHABLE IN C1 ENDURO OUTINGS

Unusually the Citroen C1 Endurance three hours double header showed a similar pattern in both races as Jake and James Little were double winners for Emax Motorsport.

Jake did the opener’s first half before handing to father James, and spent most of his stint chasing JWB’s Nick Beaumont.

With no pitstop windows, the varying strategies only proved to be a success or failure as the final half hour arrived. Jake Little was back in the car for the final stint and had just made his final stop when the safety car came out.

Phil House was in second for JWB from Emax’s Murdo Macleod and Scuderia Pollo Rosso’s Frank Claydon but the final 20 minutes suddenly became 10 when the red flags came out after On the Edge had lost a wheel.

With Macleod, Claydon and fifth-placed Trojon’s Munday all picking up penalties,

CSC’s Dave Scotting/Stephen Cunniffe were classified third from Ardcor Modelmakers John Ardis/Mike Graham, with Macleod fifth.

For a while it looked like Emax were heading for a 1-2 finish in the second race as the Littles led into the final hour from team-mates Finn and Macleod with JWB in third.

Finn led when the Littles made their final stop but their own stop handed second to House, with Trojon’s Adam Willis and Jonathan Munday completing the top four.

All three CityCar Cup races provided race-long battles. Richard Bliss’s Toyota Aygo fended off the C1s of Andrew Dyer and Ben Creanor for most of race one. Creanor briefly led on the penultimate lap, but ran wide and settled back in third.

It was the same trio in race two, with Bliss winning again from Creanor and Dyer. In the third and final race Creanor managed to see off both Richard and Stuart Bliss over the last three laps.

Robert Buckland’s Renault Clio won both Track Attack

Race Club races. He hunted down Ken Lark’s VW Corrado in race one, making the decisive move exiting Tower on the last lap, having tried the same thing unsuccessfully a lap earlier. Simon Tomlinson’s Golf just held off Chris Adams’ similar car for third.

The second race was restarted over three laps, but Buckland took charge again when Adams ran wide at Tower on lap two. Tony Absolom had taken over Lark and managed third from the back of the grid.