Sunday was another perfect day and it was expected that Roy Dawson would take another victory. However the Scot how took home the winner's sticker was Stewart Robb as Dawson hit trouble. There was a big incident in practice when Stuart Webster outbraked himself into the Hairpin and put Sue Griffiths' Chevron into the tyre wall. The both front sets of wishbones were history but fortunately the tub appears to be undamaged. We also lost Rob Stevens who came into the pits with a misfire and discovered the Suzuki engine in the Force had dropped a valve.
Once practice had been completed it was into the Road Modified classes. Once again David West took the 1400 class in his Mini - I'm sure the car knows its way round better than West! In the 2 litre class Dyrr Ardash continued his winning ways whilst Andrew Meek propelled his Impreza to the over 2000 class win. The Kit Car classes also followed the same pattern as Saturday with John Palmer and Keith Anderson once again victorious. Simon Cole again took the TVR class but with Paul Edwards a heartbeat away in second. Dave Coveney was the only Elise present and was put in a class of his own. He only took the one run as he was having problems with the handling.
Into Mod Prod territory and Martin Depper again took the class win but this time from Peter Hills who got the better of Tara Collinson. Keith Webster took the two litre class in his 205 whilst in the over two litre class David Gray trundled to another class win in the mighty TVR. The Up to 1700 Sports Libre class was reduced to just two runners and Dennis Doyle cruised home ahead of Steve Wilkinson in the pretty Lotus 26R replica. In the Over 1700 class Howard Parkinson just pipped Paul Bond in the Crossle whilst Mark Walton, Parkinson's co-driver in the Nemesis, was not too far behind in third.
With the Lindsay's back from their engine transplant mission it was Hamish who took the opening racing car class for 500s. In the 1100s Dan Pickett was again untouchable but Chris Aspinall and Tom Potter, both in Jedi, were getting closer. Jonathan Toulmin was fourth in the Marengo 2 whilst Henryk Kozlowski in another Jedi was fifth. Frazer Graham suddenly hit form and won the Formula Ford class with Derek Martlew just edging out Stephen Crawley for second. Mark Smith was fourth just ahead of the class winner from Saturday, Martin Webb. The 1600 Racing Car class saw Eynon Price sweeping to victory in his well prepared OMS. Chris Green took second in the car he shares with dad Keith whilst Steve Broughton brought his car into third ahead of Jonathan Varley in the March. Nick Algar was fifth ahead of Keith Green, Jim Yardley and Kim Kingham. In the two litre class Steve Miles was in determined mood and annexed the class on his first run which was a good thing as he spun away his second! David Sims was second whilst Kev Lealan was breathing down his neck in third. Smokin' Terry Holmes was fourth ahead of a troubled Matt Oliver in the Dallara. In the Over two litre class Roy Dawson, who was already suffering gear selection problems, took one run to win the class. Tony Eyles was second and Stewart Robb third with the trio covered by just 0.15 second.
The two classes of Historics saw wins for Martin Bury in the delectable Austin Healey 3000 and Terry Corns in the agile Escort.
TOP TWELVE RUN-OFF With the 12 runners gathered in the pit lane the second run-off of the week-end was ready to go! First to the line was Nick Algar who was anxious to put his spin of yesterday behind him however he was way off his Q-time on both his runs and remained anchored in 12th. Terry Holmes was next and his first run was well over a second better however it all went wrong on run two as he went off at Abbots and had to be towed in. He would end up in 10th. Next was Steve Broughton who was finding the radial tyres a touch unpredictable, mind you his first run sliced nearly two seconds off his Q-time and a further two tenths were sliced off on his second. The reward was sixth place and a boost up the championship standings. Young Tom Potter was next and the Jedi driver was another who failed to improve on his Q-times in both runs. The narrow tyres on this upgraded Jedi (it ran a 600 engine last year) may well be the cause of the trouble, however Tom was pleased to be in the run-off and 11th meant two more points to be added on his Championship debut week-end. Kevin Lealan was next and despite making inroads on his Q-time on both runs he fell back from 8th qualifier to 9th finisher. David Sims really got his head down and carved nearly a second off on his first run then found another half a second on his second. This left the Youngster from Devon on the 82.30 mark. Next was Eynon Price and the Flying Welshman did not disappoint. He flung the little OMS round the circuit carving nearly a second off his Q-time on his first run then finding a further four tenths improvement on his second! This pushed him up to a fine fifth spot and his best finish so far. Then the Mole Racing Van Diemen came to the line in the hands of Steve Miles. The genial IT expert was initially slower than his Q-time then on his second run carved just over three tenths off to record an 82.30 to tie with David Sims (to the thousandth according to the timekeepers!). Miles took 7th on countback demoting Sims to 8th. Then it was Dan Pickett's turn. All the 'mechanics' crowded to the pit wall to watch as the Jedi launched itself onto the track. As he hurtled past the pit lane after his first lap all eyes were on School. Without lifting and with just a swift down-change to fifth he swept through the bend at incredible speed, there was an audible gasp and all eyes looked towards Radar where a blue flash indicated his progress. The clock at the end of the pit lane tick remorselessly stopping at 81.78 secs. On his second run despite finding nearly a second he couldn't improve on an already impressive fourth place. Stewart Robb was next and the Scot put in a superb run charging down the pit straight on full power with the DFR roaring its approval. As he came in the clocks had stopped at a fantastic 79.34 seconds. When it came to his second run Robb was already in the lead and as the temperature started to drop he couldn't quiet match his previous run; had he done enough to remain in the lead? Tony Eyles was really annoyed that he was so far off his 2005 pace. However on his first run he pulled out all the stops and posted his fastest time of the week-end still over two seconds adrift of his personal best. It was good enough for second place. On his second run he knew what had to be done as he set off and he was flying through the Douglas complex and was mighty through School but when the clocks stopped he had failed to beat Stewart Robb's first run time! Roy Dawson was unsure whether the gearbox would hold together for two runs so on his first he was cautious and posted an 80.72 to slot into third. As he came to the line for his second run he was shaking his head. However he gave it everything off the line. The NME V8 was sounding glorious through School, Abbots and up to Radar. Then on the run to the Hairpin it suddenly went quiet. All eyes looked to the Hairpin where Dawson was cruising round. He coasted back into the pits aborting the run with bent selector forks and a fried clutch. Stewart Robb was delighted and when Paul Parker presented the winner's sticker all he could say was 'I never thought I would win a run-off again!' the journey back to Scotland must have been a joyous one!,p>
Results:
1 Stewart Robb (3.5 Pilbeam-Cosworth/Connaught DFR MP58) 79.34s; 2 Tony Eyles (2.5 Force-Opel/Pride PC024) 79.42s; 3 Roy Dawson (3.5 Gould-NME GR55) 80.72s; 4 Daniel Pickett (1.0 Jedi-Yamaha R1 Mk4) 80.45s; 4 82.39s; 5 Eynon Price (1.3 OMS-Suzuki 2000M) 81.45s; 6 Steve Broughton (1.3 OMS-Suzuki/SBD CF04) 82.20s; 7 Steve Miles (2.0 Van Diemen-Ford Zetec RF96) 82.30s; 8 David Sims (2.0 Ralt-Duratec/SRD RT33/4) 82.30s; 9 Kevin Lealan (2.0 Formula Vauxhall Lotus) 82.32s; 10 Terry Holmes (2.0 Reynard-Ford/Tegra SF84) 82.76s; 11 Tom Potter (1.0 Jedi-Suzuki Mk4) 85.37s; 12 Nick Algar (1.3 DJ Firehawk-Suzuki) 87.57s.
Class Winners: David West (1.4 Austin Cooper S) 105.43s; Dyrr Ardash (1.6 Peugeot 106 GTi) 100.35s; Andrew Meek (2.0t Subaru Impreza) 107.57s; John Palmer (1.7 Westfield-Puma SE) 96.49s; Keith Anderson (2.0 Westfield SEiW) 95.7542s; Simon Cole (4.5 TVR 350i) 96.32s; Dave Coveney (1.8 Lotus Elise) 100.99s; Martin Depper (1.4 Rover Mini Cooper) 96.48s; Keith Webster (2.0 Peugeot 205 GTi) 98.98s; David Gray (5.0 TVR 420 SEAC) 97.58s; Dennis Doyle (1.6 Mallock U2 Mk 14B) 101.28s; Howard Parkinson (2.0 Nemesis-Vauxhall) 92.19s; Hamish Lindsay (0.6 Jedi-Krauser Mk4) 87.89s; Daniel Pickett 82.04s; Fraser Graham (1.6 Van Diemen-Ford RF87) 95.83s; Eynon Price 82.85s; Steve Miles 82.60s; Dawson 80.50s.