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John Hewitt retook the lead of the Radical Biduro championship this weekend after two more closely contested races. Qualifying saw Team RPM's young hot shoe Ross Allen take pole position for both races, just ahead of a resurgent John Hewitt who had a glint in his eye all weekend, following a difficult weekend at Thruxton. The ever present Toby Newton from Xero Competition was 3rd although championship leader Nick Adcock struggled down in 11th place.

In the first race, Ross Allen made a good getaway to lead into Redgate closely followed by Newton, but Hewitt struggling with a clutch problem, was swamped by the field away from the line slipping back to 11th by the first corner. Chris Enderby was the biggest winner at the start, jumping from his 9th place grid slot to run 3rd by the end of lap 1! Newton challenged Allen on a couple of occasions for the lead, although not enough to make it stick but as Ross began to edge out a gap by lap 3, he suddenly slowed with driveshaft failure promoting Newton to a lead he was never to relinquish. This left a big gap from Newton to the nearest challenger which consisted of Enderby, Watts and Terrence Woodward. Woodward closed in on Watts & was joined by the flying Jeremy Fergusson and a close by Jonathan White. The trio's attempt to take Craner Curves 3 abreast was unsuccessful with Fergusson spinning across the grass and the unfortunate Jonathan White being caught in the melee & retiring. Nick Adcock gained the most from the chaos inheriting 5th place. Watts fought hard to get back past Woodward but at the chequered flag it was Newton, Enderby, Woodward & Watts from Adcock, Ferguson & Hewitt. Enderby was later excluded for a technical infringement.

"Best race of my life!" beamed winner John Hewitt at the end of the 2nd race. Not many would disagree who saw the Biduro race of the season that any one of 6 drivers could have won.

Nick Adcock was out even before the start - a broken transmission on the green flag lap putting pay to any chance of championship points. The first start was red flagged after Daniel Rowbottom stalled off the line causing the unlucky Ian Simmonds to hit the pit wall in his attempted avoidance. The 2nd start went well - a little too well for Terrence Woodward who jumped from his 4th row grid slot to take a clear lead into Redgate!

Ross Allen took the fight to Woodward & tried on various occasions to take the lead, but Woodward fought hard - a little too hard for Allen's liking - to keep him at bay. Toby Newton looked threatening in 3rd, but soon had his hands full of Jeremy Ferguson who also had the recovering Hewitt right on his tail. By lap 5, a 6 car battle ensued with Watts at the tail - the group covered by just one second! Allen tried round the outside of Woodward at Redgate, only to run wide & have Newton briefly take 2nd place. All manner of passing then took place with the end result of Allen taking the lead with Hewitt moving from 6th to 2nd on one lap...then a brave more into the lead at Macleans the next lap! Newton got demoted by Woodward for 3rd and Ferguson & Watts were next up, still in the mix.

Allen wasn't comfortable in settling for 2nd though and on lap 8 made a move to repass Hewitt. Hewitt wasn't to be beaten though and made last minute dive inside Allen at the esses. The two RPM team mates nearly came to a sliding stop as they both scrambled side by side through the corner with Hewitt just retaining enough momentum to pull ahead. Ross's efforts weren't over, but by then he had massive front end vibrations caused by the numerous contact and he slid wide at Macleans. Although still keeping his position, it allowed Hewitt to pull out a gap he kept to the flag. Allen took fastest lap & new lap record in the process but couldn't get back the lost time. The race for 3rd wasn't over though as Ferguson demoted Woodward for 3rd which he then defended with all of his experience from Woodward, Newton and Watts right to the flag. Woodward's battles were partially in vain as officials penalised him 10 seconds at the end of the race for a jumped start, demoting him from 4th place to 7th.

The delighted Hewitt therefore took his first win since the Snetterton season opener and retook the championship lead.

The SR3 class was a hotly contested event with a big entry.

Qualifying was a close affair with Anthony Dunn setting fastest time on a banzai last lap ahead of Greensall & Bradley Ellis.

In the first race, Dunn made the early running, rigorously defending from a charging Nigel Greensall. Greensall pulled clear as Dunn succumbed to engine problems and was forced to the pits to retire. By mid distance championship leader Bradley Ellis climbed up the order after taking over from Phil Bailey, and looked set to challenge the leaders, but suffered a high speed wheel failure at the old hairpin which put him out of the race.

The ever consistent Harrison took the win - 3 on the trot after his Thruxton double - the youngster having kept his nose clean amongst a race of high attrition. Series returnee Colin Noble finished in second with the top three rounded off by Jean Lou Rihon taking his first Radical podium.

In race 2, Radical Team Bruichladdich Le Mans engineer Paul Thomas showed a clean pair of heels to the rest of SR3 field, opening up a huge lead from the rest of the pack as they rest diced furiously on the opening laps. James Swift, James Harrison, Colin Noble & Helen Ray were all in the mix and title contenders Barry Gates & Phil Bailey paid close attention to each other with Gates eventually getting the upper hand with a clean move into Redgate, only to retire 2 laps later once again with engine problems and the 2nd DNF of the weekend hurting their 2007 championship challenge.

By the halfway stage, the order was Thomas with a big gap back to Harrison who had fought his way through the traffic to 2nd followed by Bradley Ellis. Ellis made a move on Harrison on the lap out of the pits to take 2nd and although Harrison fought back a lap later, Ellis gradually edged away. Thomas then received a stop/go penalty for speeding in the pit lane, but the gap he pulled in the opening stint was big enough to maintain his lead and the order stayed the same over the next 20 minutes with Ellis slightly trimming the gap to Thomas & getting fastest lap in the process. On the final lap, Thomas ran out of luck - and fuel - and Ellis took the win for a jubilant Team RPM. James Harrison took 2nd and Thomas classified 3rd.

Phil Bailey and Bradley Ellis now have a healthy championship lead over Anthony Dunn & Barry Gates with Nick Sinfield in third place.

Moseley & Johnston do the double at Donington...

Stuart Moseley & Derek Johnston took a clean sweep at Donington this weekend in their MSW Radical works SR8.

Moseley showed ominous pace in qualifying, posting an amazing sub lap record time of 1.03.9 - a full 8 tenths of a second faster than the next nearest SR8 of Nick Padmore / Austin Reynolds.

At the start of the first race, terrific opening lap scrap took place between Steve Jones, Tim Greaves, Nick Dove,Richard Ince, Austin Reynolds and Derek Johnston, with positions changing throughout the opening laps. Steve Jones took the early running with Tim Greaves in hot pursuit and Derek Johnston settled into third, pacing himself due to still suffering from injury following his 140mph accident at Thruxton a fortnight ago. Although miraculously, Radical had completely rebuilt the SR8 after its 7.5g impact and it ran faultlessly throughout the weekend.

The No. 2 car of Championship leader Richard Ince / Austin Kinsella was the first major casualty, being forced to pit first for a puncture, then a couple of laps later for a stop/go penalty for speeding in the pit lane. Their woes were compounded later in the race as Kinsella limped into the pits with a broken drive shaft which Tranzpower did an excellent job to replace & send the car back out in time to be classified & still gain valuable championship points.

Once taking over at the halfway stage, Bruichladdich SR9 Le Mans driver Moseley showed his class by scything through the field disposing of Phil Abbott, Jacob Greaves and chased down a big gap to David Leslie smashing the SR8 lap record on the way. He passed Leslie in an opportunistic move as Leslie caught a backmarker at the exit of Coppice & held the line into the chicane to take the lead. The red flag was shown shortly after Moseley took the lead as the SR3 of Helen Ray was left stricken on the racing line on the exit of the chicane.

The start of race 2 was almost identical to race 1 as Nick Dove managed to “hold his own” amongst a melee of pro-drivers.

By mid way through the second race, Austin Kinsella had a decent lead over David Leslie, but Stuart Moseley was once again charging. Once disposing of Leslie, he pushed hard to close the gap through the traffic, lapping up to a full second faster than anyone else. With 3 laps remaining, Moseley made a stunning move around the outside at his favourite overtaking place Macleans with Kinsella giving him just enough space. Once into the lead, he backed his pace off although Kinsella kept him honest to finish less than a second behind.

"That was pretty much a perfect weekend - pole position, two fastest laps & two wins - I don't think we could have asked for much more!" said Moseley.

Richard Ince & Austin Kinsella now hold a good championship margin over Derek Johnston with Austin Reynolds & Nick Padmore in third.