Bryant ambushes Hall in Lola vs McLaren thriller
March 19 1960: six-time world motorcycle racing champion John Surtees’s stunning second place to Jim Clark on his car racing debut in Ken Tyrrell’s Formula Junior Cooper at the 39th British Automobile Racing Club Members’ Meeting was a landmark in Goodwood Motor Circuit’s history. Big John was a Formula 1 rising star and added another two-wheeled crown by year’s end, but his 1966 Can-Am title-winning days in a Lola T70 Spyder were pulled into focus at last weekend’s 79th MM, the eighth of its GRRC heyday.
April 10 2022: the mesmerising high-octane battle for Surtees Trophy sports-prototype honours between Rob Hall in Andrew Wareing’s Nickey Chevrolet McLaren M1A and Olly Bryant in Lash McCall’s Dana Chevrolet T70, which had raged through Saturday’s practice, was resolved on the exit of Lavant corner on the final lap of Sunday’s race, when Bryant squeezed ahead to win by 0.443 seconds.
Hall had led from lap two and repelled the tenacious Mark Shaw in another M1A for eight breathless laps before
