YOUNG AMERICAN IS SILVERSTONE STAR MAN
A new talent emerged in United Formula Ford on Saturday. American Jason Prybil, driving a 2020 Ray, had never driven a Formula Ford before nor been to the UK. Prybil won a curtailed and scrappy race one, which was shortened due to oil on the track and the accidents it precipitated.
He then spent race two sparring with Alex Ames’s Van Diemen RF90 in a fascinating contest between old and new, before being demoted to third for exceeding track limits, behind Andrew Rackstraw’s Spectrum and Ames.
The front of the Clubmans grid was the stage for some top lead battles, with Steve Dickens taking race one in his Mallock Mk29 and Clive Wood the other two wins in his earlier Mk23. Dickens in race one did well to hold off Steve Collier’s Vision as well as a charging Ben Mallock’s Mk30 and Wood, who recovered from a spin early on to finish third. Wood and Mallock were the chief protagonists in the next two races, swapping the lead, although the more experienced Wood was the winner both times. Collier and Dickens were left to scrap for third.
Sports 2000 had a recordbreaking grid and Class B driver Colin Peach was the first winner in his Van Diemen RFS02. Erstwhile leader Michael Gibbins had to deal with a broken gear linkage on his MCR, but Peach still had to work had to hold off Steve Ough’s MCR. Gibbins, the defending champion, won the second and third races, chased hard by Joshua Law, who had driven home to Essex to fetch a second MCR after qualifying when his car expired. Sadly it expired again during race three.
The first Miata Trophy race was won by Nicholas Stott, whose measured approach meant that he did not incur the same track-limits penalties as on-track leader Daniel Parrans-Smith. Parrans-Smith won the second race from Declan Lee, the 2023 champion who also picked up penalties in race one.
Penalties also decided the EnduroKa five-hour race, with Pro-Am Racing taking the victory after the more dominant MilnAir trio had two laps disallowed for a refuelling infringement. Pro-Am had been taking two seconds per lap out of MilnAir for the final half hour, until the last two laps when MilnAir pulled away, only to be pulled back by the penalty.
Amid snarling American machinery, it was Stewart
Robb’s British-built TVR Tuscan that was the undisputed winner of both Bernies V8s races.