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6th May, Buxton, Simon Pashley Trophy
Daz Rycroft scored his second feature race
win in three meetings at Buxton on May 6th, writes Paul Jones.
Rycroft, in his first season of midget racing withstood the
challenges of Gary Granger and in the later stages Rob Sayell.
The feature race for the Simon Pashley Memorial Cup had to
be restarted when Mark Hodges stalled on the grid and was
hit from behind by Neil Clarke and both cars were unable to
make the restart after suffering heavy damage. Rycroft led
from the restart with Barry Goldsby in second. Peter Bourn
was making good progress but he had to retire mid race. Granger
and Sayell broke away from the rest of the star grade drivers.
Sayell eventually passed Granger and set about Rycroft applying
pressure in the remaining laps but he couldn't find a way
passed and Rycroft hung on for victory. Granger retired late
on with drive shaft failure enabling Barry Goldsby to continue
his good form and come home third. Fourth went to Andy Smith
with Andrew Bilby fifth and Gordon Pooley sixth. Rob Sayell
won the first heat race from Bourn and Hodges with Rycroft
coming out best in heat two from Sayell and Goldsby.
Heat 1: 1st Rob Sayell, 2nd Peter Bourn, 3rd
Mark Hodges, 4th Neil Clarke, 5th Andy Collins, 6th Gary Granger,
7th Barry Goldsby, 8th Andrew Bilby.
Heat 2: 1st Daz Rycroft, 2nd Goldsby, 3rd
Sayell, 4th Collins, 5th Andrew Smith, 6th Granger, 7th Clarke,
8th Bourn.
Simon Pashley Memorial: 1st Rycroft, 2nd Sayell,
3rd Goldsby, 4th Smith, 5th Bilby, 6th Gordon Pooley, NOF.
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