Mittell celebrates birthday in style with Bikesports win

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7-8 AUGUST

Scott Mittell celebrated his birthday in style on Saturday, overturning Bikesports rival Joe Stables’s morning advantage to win race two in his eponymous Suzuki Hayabusapowered car. The icing on his cake was Dan Gore’s first F1000 victory since 2019 in his Mittell Racing-run Jedi.

Double champion Stables (Radical PR6) had the handling advantage to resist Mittell in the Bikesports opener, but a heavy shower provided a tyre quandary in race two. Those who opted for slicks, including Stables, had to start from the pitlane but he still finished second, half a lap adrift of Mittell, whose tweaks between the races dialled in