Wainwright victorious in Peterson March

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11-12 JUNE

Fifty years after European Formula 2 champion Ronnie Peterson won the British Automobile Racing Club’s Easter Monday round here in March 722-17, Rob Wainwright drove the Nick Pancisi-owned car to a fairytale victory in the Jochen Rindt Trophy double-header, star turn at the annual Thruxton Historic event. But it was Saturday’s opening leg, won brilliantly by Benn Tilley (Formula Atlantic Modus M1), with Wainwright breathing down his neck, that spectators will remember among the Hampshire venue’s finest races.

Tilley, 22, who