Throughout the day Ross managed to find more and more speed as he got more comfortable with the car and after being lapped in the first race he was showing enough speed to finish comfortably on the lead lap in the final and in sight of the 3rd place squabble so it’s fair to say everyone was pretty pleased and delighted with how well things were progressing. Not least Brian who was expecting to have to fix the car after the meeting!

With this being a double header we found ourselves back at Bristol the next day and Ross was instantly looking happier with the car in first practice as he ran at the same pace as some of the other cars. For race 1 #26 would start 2nd but soon slip down to 6th and last in the early stages before re-catching the fight for 3rd place in the latter stages of the race and actually managing to make a pass to take 5th place…although even that didn’t quite prepare for what was going to happen in race 2….

Starting on pole for the first time Ross left the line with a much racier start than the previous attempts and led the pack round for the first lap before something quite surprising happened, (well Ross was surprised anyway) …he pulled away from the chasing cars! And once the #775 car of Phil Parkhouse had to begin defending his 2nd position #26 could quickly open up a massive lead although would it be enough of a gap once Colins rapid Tigra moved into 2nd place?