A much improved showing of twelve hotrods were present although unfortunately only 11 made it to the start of race 1 as Alistair Lowe suffered a split sump on his revamped #55 car. So, the cars lined up on the grid with #26 second from the back. The first few laps were a fairly gentle affair with Ross easing back into it but picking up a few places past #24, #35 and #34.

The race was soon red flagged as #34 Glenn Saunders ploughed himself into the fence but other than his car no damage was done. With the race restarted (and a terrible restart for Ross) he began to look more like he had done last season and slid down the inside of #88 before switching to the outside to sweep round #205, #18 and #35 in a few short laps to move into 4th position at the flag…certainly a good end to the new shape Tigra’s first race!