Autosport – 18 April 2019

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NATIONAL REPORTS CLUB AUTOSPORT

McIntyre rode

his luck to take

a pair of wins

Donkin (green car) won

the Focus Cup opener

Burnett was a double

winner in Racing Saloons

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of the one ahead being compromised by
oil on the circuit from an earlier blow-up.
Thompson came within two laps of a
double victory, but Dom Burger passed him
on the outside of Tower for his first win.
Samuel Wilson made it four wins from
four in Caterham Graduates this year by
taking the Sigmax class in both Croft races.
Both were comfortable victories. In race
one he moved clear after an early battle
with reigning champion Jamie Ellwood.

a late safety car. White challenged Smith
into the final corner on the last lap and,
when both drivers braked too late and
skipped across the gravel at the chicane,
White emerged in the lead to seize the win.
Paul Donkin drew Ford Focus number
64 and propelled it to victory from pole
in the arrive-and-drive Focus Cup opener.
David Rowe claimed victory in the reversed-
grid race. Trade Price Cars Racing BTCC
team principal Andy Wilmot had led in
the opening stages, but slipped back while
grappling with power dropouts. Donkin

was running third when a turbo failure

curtailed his progress.

Mechanical unreliability also intervened

in Production BMWs, when Matthew

Swaffer suffered a fuel-pump issue while

leading race one, handing victory to David

Graves, who swept the weekend’s races.

Jason Timms would also secure a clean

sweep of victories from pole in Monoposto

1400, overcoming wheelspin off the line

and dropping to fourth in race one before

battling back in his bike-engined Dallara.

KYRAN GIBBONS

Chamberlain’s

Porsche, leading,

narrowly missed out

on quadruple win

In race two Wilson led all the way,

while Ellwood passed Stephen Clark

for a distant second on the last lap.

Paul Brydon (BMW M3) was another

double victor in the Northern Saloon and

Sports Car Championship. The only close

challenge was from poleman Matty Cobb,

but his Lotus Elise pulled off seconds

after a red-flag restart in race one and

didn’t take part in the second race.

GRAHAM KEILLOH

WEEKEND WINNERS

DONINGTON PARK

GT CUP

RACE 1, 2 & 3 Richard Chamberlain

(Porsche 935)

RACE 4 John Seale/Jamie Stanley

(Lamborghini Huracan GT3)

CHAMPION OF BRANDS FF1600

RACE 1 Rory Smith (Medina Sport JL18)

RACE 2 Oliver White (Medina Sport JL17)

HERITAGE FORMULA FORD

RACE 1 & 2 Oliver White

(Van Diemen RF89)

FOCUS CUP

RACE 1 Paul Donkin

RACE 2 David Rowe

PRODUCTION BMWs

RACE 1 & 2 David Graves (BMW 320i)

MONOPOSTO MOTO 1000/CLASSIC/1400

RACE 1 & 2 Jason Timms (Dallara F301)

MONOPOSTO MONO F3/2000/1800/1600

RACE 1 Kevan McLurg (Dallara F399)

RACE 2 Mark Harrison (Dallara F397)

RACING SALOONS

RACE 1 & 2 Marcos Burnett (BMW E36 M3)

Z CARS

RACE 1 & 2 Edd Giddings

CROFT

JUNIOR SALOON CARS

RACE 1 & 2 Scott McIntyre

MINI MIGLIA

RACE 1 Lee Deegan

RACE 2 Aaron Smith

MINI SE7EN

RACE 1 Joe Thompson

RACE 2 Dom Burger

CATERHAM GRADUATES

RACE 1 & 2 Samuel Wilson (Sigmax, below)

NORTHERN SALOON AND SPORTS CAR

CHAMPIONSHIP

RACE 1 & 2 Paul Brydon (BMW M3)

MAX5 CHAMPIONSHIP

RACE 1, 2 & 3 Paul Roddison (Mk4)

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