Red Line Racing upheld the football honour of the north east when it won the final of the annual Carrera Cup GB football competition at Snetterton on Saturday evening (28 July). Having trained on a diet of raw meet and Newcastle Brown, the Red Line team won a golden goals finale to the competition with a narrow victory over the shandy drinking southerners from Motorbase Performance. Having been nil-nil at full time, the competition went into a sudden death golden goals period of extra time and this was when the Red Line team struck.Earlier in the competition, teams from Team RPM, Porsche Motorsport and Team Parker Racing had been eliminated, although it took a penalty shoot out before Motorbase won a place in the final at the expense of Team Parker. Some brave goal keeping by team boss Stuart Parker, which could have been mistaken for acts of self-defence, nearly earned his team a place in the final. James Sutton and team boss Simon Leonard were among the players for the winning team, while the Motorbase squad included Steven Kane and race engineer Patrick de Groot, along with Kane’s housemate Paul O’Neill who was drafted in for his reputed skill at the beautiful game. His ability to kick the ball out of the park was certainly well proven.However, it was ultimately the Red Line team that retained the trophy it had won two years earlier. Porsche Motorsport technical guru Paul Robe endeavoured to see fair play as referee, while TV commentator Simon 'Motty' Hill gave a running pitch-side commentary.