There's a feast of sports car racing at the Castle Combe Circuit's A PlantLux Traffic Controls Sportscar Race Day on Bank Holiday Monday 30 August.
Races for Aston Martins, Ferraris and Porsches are amongst the highlights,with a special 'one off' Trimarque challenge which sees all three marquespitted against each other.
Pewsey brothers Graham and Mike Reeder are multiple Ferrari championshipwinners and will feature in both the Trimarque race and the Aston MartinOwner's Club Intermarque race. Last year Graham finished second in thelatter race and his Ferrari 355 Challenge is always a strong contender. Mikehas been absent from Castle Combe for a while but his F355 GTB should stillbe on the pace. Chris Scragg won last year's Intermarque race from the backof the grid in his mighty Aston V8.
Also in V8's are Julian Bailey-Watts from Dilton Marsh and Jerry Bailey fromSalisbury. Malmesbury's Pete Fisk has his Ferrari 328 GTB in the Trimarquerace and also features in the Pirelli Ferrari Classic along with Frome'sRichard and Peter Moseley in a 328 GTB and 308 GTB respectively. Bristol'sRichard Squire has a 328 GTB and Salisbury's Martin Hart a Mondial.
Sports cars also feature in the circuit's own Sports and GT Championshiprace, in association with PSC, which has classes for both modified andrelatively production road going cars. The quickest of the modifieds isTrowbridge's Mark Funnell in his unique Honda powered Lotus Exige, currentlywithin three points of the overall title with just two rounds left to run.His only mathematical opposition in class is the Westfield SE of Bristol'sChris Child.
In the Production class, Chepstow's David Jones has a slender lead overallwith his Caterham, but has two very competitive opponents in similarmachinery. In the same class, Castle Combe's Keith Sprules has the powerwith his Ferrari 360 Challenge, but nobody has more than Bath's Nadine Gearywhose Dodge Viper has 8.3 litres of V10, tuned by Janspeed.
In the outright sports racing car category, Trowbridge's Andrew Shanley inthe Radical Prosport is level pegging with Simon Tilling in second, thelatter suffering from a bout of slow starts. Up front is Bridgwater's JoshFisher, his older Mantis sublime in his hands.
Fisher is also due to appear alongside his younger brother Felix in thecircuit's Formula Ford 1600 Championship race which has seen Felix involvedin a pair of consecutive incidents with 2009 champion, Ben Norton fromBratton.
Along with the now dominant championship leader, Marcus Allen, Fisher andNorton have been the fastest men on the track and would be at the head ofthe points table were it not for two similar accidents with each other atthe last two meetings.
This has put Castle Combe's Andrew Jones and Saltford's Steven Jensen secondand third respectively in the overall championship points.
This time they will have added competition from the 2005 Formula Fordchampion, Tim Reynolds from Chippenham, out in a Spectrum 011, similar tothat of Jensen, also in the Gloucester based Kevin Mills Racing team.
Chippenham's Adam Higgins is becoming a major force in the Pre '96 Class Bwith his Van Diemen RF90, whilst Class C for Pre 1990 cars has already beentied up by Chippenham's Kyle Tilley, with two rounds left to run.
The outcome of the circuit's National Mobile Windscreens supported SaloonCar Championship is likely to be determined by the antics of the threedrivers battling neck and neck for class C honours for up to 1.8 litre cars.
Reigning champion Jason Cooper from Yatton Keynell, Bromham's Will DiClaudio, the 2008 champion and Yate's Nick Charles can measure thedifference in their pace in thousandths of a second. Despite taking valuablepoints from each other Charles is still within a point of the overallchampionship lead, their battle alone worth coming along for.
Bristol's Mark Wyatt still retains the lead of Class B for up to 3 litre 2wheel drive cars, despite being off the pace in the last two races with hisAstra. His opposition includes former champions Tony Dolley in the 206 andHilperton's Tim Hanlon in the SEAT Ibiza Cupra.
Staying with saloons, it's the final round of the Ajec AWD Academy, whereMelksham's Simon Norris has his awesome Mitsubishi 'Bogey' Evo. Gloucester'sLaurence Kilby is the man behind the series and a winner in other categoriesat his closest circuit, whilst Bath's Angus Gorringe has the sole Audi inClass B. The field is combined with a saloon car invitation race which hasIan Crisp from Devizes in his BMW E36.
The day's action starts at 8.40 am with qualifying, racing getting under wayfrom 12.30 pm.
Admission prices are £15 for Adults, £7.50 for OAPs, £2.50 for PaddockTransfer, whilst accompanied children under 16 are admitted free.
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