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Pre-’66 thrills as Sheraton and Ibbotson prevail

BRANDS HATCH

BARC

22-23 APRIL

A Pre-’66 Touring Car thriller was highlight of a Brands Hatch weekend that also featured the British Endurance Championship.

Any one of at least six drivers, in four different types of car, could have won the entertaining Pre-’66 opener on Saturday. Piers Grange’s rumbling Ford Mustang led the most laps before succumbing to a loose coil wire. But he was continually hounded – and regularly demoted – by a swarming pack including the Ford Anglias of early leader Billy Kenneally and Michael Sheraton, Lotus Cortina debutants Tim Abbott and Ian Thompson, and

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