SMRC Round 1, Knockhill

26th April - Scottish Championship
Round One
Knockhill

Steve McCall's report from the opening round of the Grattan and Hynds Scottish Legends Cars Championship. Several cars were running with us at the weekend - here's how they went. Ross Marshall had a great weekend winning the first race and taking second in the next. In the final Ross had a great dice with multi champion Ben Mason and the pair of them raced hard and fair to the flag with Ben just getting the verdict (by eight hundredths of a second).

Well done to Frank Hynds on winning race two. Frank drove brilliantly with Ross second in that one.

All in all it was a great weekend's racing and has to be one of the best meetings ever. All the drivers showed a high very standard in this the first round of the season - certainly no cobwebs to blow away.

Back to Burnett Motorsport matters - Nick Brace was having his first meeting at Knockhill and as a rookie had to start at the back of all the races. He'd had an off in testing on Saturday but then that's the best time to have such luck and he was really on top form on Sunday taking 12th in the first race, 9th in the second and then a very good 7th in the final. As I said this was all from the back of the grid and he earned the recognition of his colleagues winning Driver of the Day.

Alasdair Gauld had his new car out and was running with us getting help and advice from three times National Champion John Jon Higgins. Of course JJ was helping all our drivers. Lance Gauld was driving the ex Daren Hills car which we have prepared for him. The car has been out of action for some time although Lance had raced it when he picked up the car at Brands Hatch a few weeks back.

The Scottish Champinship also welcomed Simon Belcher who is planning to do some rounds north o' the border this year and he did extremely well too taking third overall.

The race action was all filmed and will be shown on Motors TV in a few weeks time.

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