The Pink Panther Strikes A First In HSCC 70's Roadsports Debut

Sarah Bennett-Baggs picked up a class win in her Adrian Fluxsponsored Porsche 911 SC at the weekend in her debut in the HSCC 70'sRoadsports championship on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit.In Saturday mornings qualifying the 70's Roadsports joined another grid toqualify amongst 60 classic cars. Qualifying was red flagged due to anincident involving the coming together of two Lotus Elans but Sarah hadsecured enough laps to qualify 3rd in her class and 4th on the gridoverall. Some controversy post qualifying over the flat wing on Sarah'sPorsche SC being legal, caused her to be moved to the invitation class.The race kicked off in dry conditions, on the rolling start the two frontrunners father and son duo Julian and Charles Barter took off from Luffieldleaving the rest of the grid playing catch-up. Sarah chased the leader packfighting off challenges from the Porsche 968, Lotus Elan and the Ford Capriof Nic Strong. At the chequered flag the Pink Panther crossed the linethree hundredth of a second ahead of fellow class contender Strong in theFord Capri to finish 1st in class, and 5th overall in the race. RichardPlant won the race outright in his Morgan Plus 8.Sarah commented "That was a hard fought class win on Saturday, Niccertainly made me work for it, but the circuit suits the car and I wasn'tgoing to let that Capri past at any cost! It is very easy to over drive andlose it with a 911, so I had to stay calm under the increasing pressure ofNic breathing down my neck. I was very pleased to see the chequeredflag. The HSCC have been very friendly and welcoming today, I am sure wewill be back."Sarah will be back out in the Pink Panther in the 70's Roadsports at theOulton Park Gold Cup.


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