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Evans entertains as Harrison claims four from four

CROFT

HSCC

3-4 SEPTEMBER

The spectacle of Richard Evans in the ex-Eddie Cheever March-BMW 782 and Rory Smith’s ground-effect Atlantic Ralt RT4/85 howling round together in the Aurora/Geoff Lees Trophy races wowed a large audience as the Historic Sports Car Club’s Croft Nostalgia event returned after a two-year absence. But Riponian Samuel Harrison, 18, stole the show, winning all four 1000cc Formula 3 and Historic FF1600 races and the latter’s championship before heading to study aerospace engineering at Loughborough University.

Harrison started racing cars in 2020 but, having not driven Croft, 20 miles from home,

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