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Littlejohn and Evans win the battle of Elans

DONINGTON PARK

MSVR DONINGTON HISTORIC FESTIVAL

29-30 APRIL

Four seconds separated the Lotus Elans of James Littlejohn (Simon Evans’s) and Andy Jordan (bookending for John Tordoff) after three hours in Saturday’s Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall Cup contest, the 12th Donington Historic Festival’s racing highlight. Only the fourth-placed TVR Griffith of Ollie Reuben and Harry Barton prevented an all-Lotus top six.

Julian Thomas, in Robin Ellis’s Elan Shapecraft coupe, and Evans chased Jordan and Reuben from the off. Reuben led when AJ relayed Tordoff, then Thomas moved in front when Barton saddled the big V8 and

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