Smith brings a halt to Webb’s remarkable run in Sports 1000
DONINGTON PARK
750MC
6-7 AUGUST
Quadruple Formula Vee champion Paul Smith broke Sports 1000 champion-elect Richard Webb’s seven-race unbeaten run at Donington Park on Saturday, as track temperatures soared to 37 degrees, torturing the category’s treaded Yokohama control tyres. Piloting father Steve’s evolution of a Mittell MC-53, Smith prevailed as a slipping clutch hobbled his rival.
Webb’s sub-record 1m11.04s lap – a landmark average of 100.34mph – seized pole in the works Spire, powered by a Suzuki GSXR engine, his RLM preparation concern’s speciality. Smith was also inside Tim Gray’s 1m11.33s target, set in 2012. Onlookers gasped as the duo pulled almost 130mph three times
