The Manbat Pegasus Castle Combe Sprint

It rained, it rained and it rained some more, then too late the sun came out. Rod put up his gazebo thank goodness although it did get a little crowded on occasions.

So it was that the main objective of the Sprint was to keep the car on the black stuff, and not every Triumph succeeded; it was expected of Bob but not necessarily of all the others, but no damage was done except to egos.

Fastest on the day was Rod Warner in his nearly looking shiny TR7 V8 that clearly had some exotic rain tyres fitted, but he didn't collect the maximum points as Dale Huxford put in a great performance despite spinning. Third in the points chase was Tom Purves in his most immaculate TR3A that had its hood up for the first time this year. The results show how the scoring system gives a fair result to all cars regardless of the BHP / Tonne or weather.

The Sprint results were:

Words by: Roger McEwen


All action photos except where indicated courtesy of Steve Cox - Classic Marques.