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Waterfield and Wilson top 500cc F3 at Combe’s 500th

CASTLE COMBE

CCRC

1 APRIL

The contrast between junior single-seater formulas at Castle Combe in the 1950s and today are marked, yet both provided scintillating highlights at Easter Monday’s season-opener, the Wiltshire venue’s 500th car race meeting. Like 500cc Formula 3, which embroiled young bucks and veterans contemporarily, and does still in historic guise, rising stars measure themselves against champions in the circuit’s FFord category.

Tom Waterfield and Alex Wilson won

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