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JACK GODDEN: 116 TROPHY’S TOP PERFORMER

The Gaz Shocks 116 Trophy season that’s just finished has a remarkable accolade. In its eight races, it had eight different winners. Even allowing for the BMW 116i one-make endurance series’ use of success penalties for the previous race’s podium finishers, it’s testimony to the category’s calling cards of accessible racing and close competition.

Yet among the series’ many drivers who got success in 2022, one stood above them. And perhaps an unlikely one. Twenty-year-old Jack Godden, who usually competes with father Chris, bagged an overdue first race win and

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