Northern Saloon & Sports Cars

This was probably the hottest day I have raced on in recent years. The little yellow Metro certainly is handling well this year and qualifying saw me set a personal best at 101.2 and 11th on a grid of 23. Steve Ferguson had his oil filter part company about 3 laps in to the session dumping a swathe of oil through Tower and so I gave it another couple of laps and pulled in.

Come the race, the last of the weekend, I made a rubbish start with loads of wheel spin but started to surge forward once I reached third and fourth gear into Clervaux. I don't know where he had been but Mr Botteril was behind me! along with Paul Swift in the Honda, Paul Moss in the Saxo and Mick Starkey's Fiesta. I made Dave work to get the Porsche past and then set about defending my position. I was comfortable with pace (close to my qualifying times)and then it started cutting out. It started with an intermittent misfire and then total loss of electrics. I tried to drive through the problem but was just becoming a danger to other competitors so a retirement into the pits ended my race.

Two weeks to Cadwell should hopefully see the problem resolved and then I might just get my first full race of the season!

Terry Wright