Round 1 - Croft

In cold & snowy conditions the first round of the MSA British Sprint Championship saw 2006 champion Roy Dawson on top form.

However he needed a late charge to wrest the top spot from the Robb family. Stewart Senior took the lead only for son Stewart Junior to slip past into what would be second.

Local 'hot-shot' Nick Algar not only took fourth but also easily won the 1600 racing car class. Steve Miles in fifth was the top two-litre whilst Midlander Phil Lynch was sixth in his Ralt.

Simon Bainbridge hustled the awesome Audi TTV8 to seventh and the Sports libre win. The Pillinger's were eighth and ninth with father Dave for once beating son Scott. Tenth spot went to Derek Hodder in the 'sports libre' Westfield. Terry Holmes & Graham Porrett missed the run-off with gearbox problems and the Calders (Colin & daughter Heather) just failed to qualify when they had transmission problems.

RESULTS

1 Roy Dawson (3.5 Gould-NME GR55) 100.20

2 Stewart Robb Junior (4.0 Pilbeam-Judd MP88) 101.16

3 Stewart Robb (4.0 Pilbeam-Judd MP88) 103.32

4 Nick Algar (1.6 DJ Firehawk-Suzuki) 105.90