SEASON OPENER FOR CROFT CARS
Darlington & District Motor Club open the car race season at Croft Circuit this weekend with a two day meeting at the North Yorkshire track.

The event features the Uniroyal Fun Cup, a category for specially built race cars with a VW Beetle body. Running on Uniroyal road tyres and with up to four drivers per car, 32 entries have been accepted for the two, three hour races and with pit stops for fuel and driver changes, there is sure to be plenty of action. Last year the first four finishers were covered by just twenty seconds after three hours of racing in almost torrential rain!

Supporting the Fun Cup will be the North East's most successful racing series, The Northern Saloon & Sports Car Championship. The opening round has brought in some new cars with no less than five TVRs taking on the mighty Marcos Mantis of Colin Simpson. Last year Bernard Hogarth from York raced a Ferrari this year he is out in an ex BTCC Ford Mondeo and expect the Sylva Phoenix of both Tim Evans and Peter Isherwood to continue swapping paint.

The other section of the NSSCC sees the return of Scottish driver Paul Luti in the fearsome five-litre MG ZT520 taking on the Porsche 944T of Ingleby Barwick's Dave Botterill. However, these two will not have it all their own way as both Tony Caig (Ford Focus) and Andrew Morrison (MG ZR) will be in the mix. The smaller engined cars should see a resumption of the season long battle between Darlington' Paul Moss (Citroen Saxo) and Hartlepool's Gavin Lee (Ford Fiesta).

Further support races for Porsche 924 has local interest in Richard Mowbray from York and Martin Hall from Durham whilst in the Drayton Manor Park Metro Cup sees Paul Luti drop 3.4 litres to drive the Chris Hughes MG Metro 1400cc.

With practice on Saturday morning starting at 9.30am and racing on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons, the meeting should be well worth a visit to see club level racing at it's best.

Practice gets underway at 09.30 on Saturday with racing after lunch and the action commences at 12.00 noon on Sunday. Adult admission is just £10.00 on both days with accompanied children aged 15 and under admitted FREE on both days.

For more information please contact Claire Jones at Croft Circuit on 01325 721815.

*** Pleae note the three feature meetings at Croft Circuit this summer ***
2 & 3 June - Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (advance ticket sales closed - call 01325 721815 for details) 10, 11 & 12 August - Bennetts British Superbike Championship (advance tickets available at www.croftcircuit.co.uk and close on June 8th) 8 & 9 September - Lloyds TSB F3 & Avon Tyres GT Championships

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