RACING REPORTS

CASTLE COMBE: CCRC BY PAUL LAWRENCE

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS KICK OFF COMBE’S RACING RETURN

Three months later than planned, Castle Combe’s 70th anniversary season got underway as motorsport started to emerge from the pandemic lockdown. There was no crowd admitted and the weather was grim, but for most people it was just good to be racing again.

Regular Combe frontrunners Luke Cooper and Felix Fisher served notice that the condensed 2020 Castle Combe Formula Ford Championship could be a two-way contest. The first race got the best of the track conditions and the second race got the worst, but in both races Cooper and Fisher quickly escaped from some ferocious battling in their wake.

Though Fisher led into the first corner of the opener, he was soon deposed by Cooper and it was wheel-to-wheel action for much of the race