RACING REPORTS

THRUXTON:CSCCBYMARCUSPYE APRIL23-24

SHEEHAN TIMES IT TO PURE PERFECTION

Using his daughter’s eventing stopwatch to time his mandatory pit visits to perfection while rivals were penalised for infringements, Brad Sheehan won both the Open Series and New Millennium races in his BMW E46 M3 to emerge top gun in the Classic Sports Car Club’s Thruxton Thriller.

First time out Sheehan took the chequer but three of the next five were reshuffled, promoting Kevin Clarke’s clutchless Intersport M3 CSL to second. Sheehan couldn’t subsequently quite match Jamie Sturges’VW Golf TCR, but Sturges – who cut a 1m20.353s (105.55mph) lap on road tyres – was docked 30 seconds on top of the 0.8s he’d stopped short and fell to third behind Michael Vitulli (E46 M3).

Team-matesAdam Brown (Ford Fiesta ST) and John Hammersley/ Nigel Tongue (VW Scirocco R-Cup) scored in Tin Tops and Turbo Tin Tops respectively. Brown was beaten to the line by Andrew Windmill (Honda Civic Type R) who negated his Snetterton winner’s penalty and a stop-and-go, but Windmill then fell to third with a further