Lyons roars to victory at Brands Hatch Masters Historic Racing

Michael Lyons starred at the Brands Hatch Masters Festival last weekend by guiding his RAM Williams FW07 to two wins in the FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship.  Starting race one from pole position, Michael stormed away from the opposition, only for a safety car period to bunch up the back again. On the restart, Michael broke away once more, pursued by Simon Fish (Ensign N180) and Ian Simmonds (Tyrrell 012). Michael won the second race equally impressively as his Williams built an advantage over Fish, but a superb fight for third place between Simmonds and Mike Wrigley (Williams FW07) was won by Simmonds after a race-long duel.Leo Voyazides and Simon Hadfield triumphed once again in the FIA Masters Historic Sports Car Championship enduro, their dominant Lola T70 chased home by Steve Allen/David Gathercole (Lola T212) and Manfredo Rossi di Montelera (Abarth Osella PA1). Mike Whitaker won the Gentlemen Drivers Pre-66 GT race after the similar TVR Griffith of Sean and Michael McInerney suffered a broken diff and retired with just 13 minutes to go, Ed Morris taking second in his Lotus Elan, while factory BMW GT racer Yelmer Buurman was fourth sharing Shirley van der Lofs AC Cobra.World Touring Car Champion Rob Huff helped Desmond Smail (Mini Cooper S) to a win in Saturdays up to 2-litre Touring Car race after Nick and Keith Padmore (Mini Cooper S) copped a stop-go penalty for a pit stop infringement. Leo Voyazides (Ford Falcon Sprint) won the over two-litre race but couldnt stop Henry Mann/Anthony Reid on the Grand Prix circuit as their Ford Mustang beat a mighty field with Niki Faulkner/Dan Cox (Ford Falcon Sprint) taking second and Voyazides third.Manfredo Rossi di Montelera took honours in the first 70s Celebration race on the Indy circuit, but his Porsche 935 ran dry of fuel in Mondays GP circuit race on the last lap, gifting a win to Jon Finnemore/Chris Beighton (Sunbeam Tiger), while Ben Mitchell (Van Diemen RF87) won the Ronnie Peterson Trophy for FF1600 cars.Masters Historic Racing heads to Dijon for the next round of the championships on June 14th16th.

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