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Morgan on his perpetual march as F1000 title battle closes up

ANGLESEY

750MC

10-11 SEPTEMBER

At a crucial moment in the title race, Rob Welham took over the F1000 championship lead from Matthew Booth as fellow title contender Thomas Gadd and Lee Morgan did the winning in three nail-biting races at the penultimate round at Anglesey.

Mittell Cars’ Matthew Higginson had taken a maiden pole position in qualifying and came close to winning for the first time too in the opening encounter. He was under intense pressure from Morgan throughout, the Perpetuum driver drawing alongside through the left-right Rocket sequence of bends on several occasions, but Higginson was able to hold firm – until the final

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