SILVERSTONE
MG AND TRIUMPH 100
10-11 JUNE
The MG Car Club and Equipe Classic Racing brought full line-ups to their mid-year Silverstone showpiece, which this time celebrated the centenaries of MG and Triumph.
Tom Smith surprised himself by winning Equipe’s 55-car GTS race, since he’d assumed that his MGB Roadster’s relative lack of straightline punch would be punished on the vast Grand Prix circuit. But he remained in a net lead throughout the 40-minute pitstop race, although Lee Atkins, returning after nine months away, was always close in his TVR Grantura. They were aided, too, when polesitter Sam Kirkpatrick