locked on the grid, and dispite his frantic efforts to get the starters attention, the field left without him, a bitter blow after his best qualifying of the season.  Down to the first corner and Kenty got the launch he was hoping for a held on into the first corner, followed closely from Mad in the first of the two focus’s.  Best of the RWD starters was BMR Sutton, and the KRR Lancia dived inside CQR ROB at the first corner and was already looking in no mood to hang around.  Kenty’s Hyundai was obviously finding cold tyres a struggle and the back of the DMR car looked very lively, Mad took advantage of this to to snatch the lead 5 corners in, but the excitement of being back in front for the first time since Long Beach, got too much and he went wide into the gravel with the worst results possible.  Mad rejoined 7th, but in front of his teammate Norlinracer, and with stones still dropping out the focus the two made contact, giving them both a bit of damage.  This all played out well for Sutton, who managed to pass Kenty for the lead as he avoided Mad going off, and it wasn’t all over yet, as Captain Storer spun a corner later as Norlinracer struggled to get round to the pits, and to top it all off AtomStew fell off watching it all happen.  Phew, still less than half way around the first lap, and we weren’t finished yet.  CQR Rob relieved Kenty of second going up the hill to the fast right hander, the DARE run Lotus was looking fast once again and now Cal fancied pushing the Hyundai further down the order, and got alongside twice in an attempt to get through.  So at the end of lap 1, and BMR Sutton had a 2 second lead over CQR Rob, third was the tail happy Kenty chased closely by Carcrazycal, Kinkycowboys, Major Raver, Badderstig, Robraceruk, ABigPieKey and Nikemikerules.

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Kinky was in no mood to hang around, he had bravely passed Raver and Bradders on lap 1, and then launched the Escort Cosworth inside of Cal at the second corner of lap 2, he then quickly latched on to the Lotus, and managed to take second around the long right hander towards the end of the lap.  Impressive stuff from the Cerbeus driver.  For Kenty it wasn’t getting any better, the car looked a real handful, and he was off again, dropping down to 10th place.  Both RML cars were on the move and Robraceruk was running well just outside the top 6, but a mistake on lap 4 dropped him back, whilst teammate Mike was homing in on a good result and the battles in front after a steady first lap.  Out front and Sutton was in control, Kinky driving superbly behind him was dropping half a second a lap, the Ford quicker on the straight, the Lancia quicker in the faster corner.  CQR Rob was falling away from the pair in third, but he had a train of cars chasing him, led by CarcrazyCal, who in turn was having an almighty scrap with the Ferrari of Major Raver.  Continuously Raver would get a long side the Alfa, but the grunt of the big Saloon on the main straight would put the Road Atalanta winner back in front.  Not once in over half the race, would these two be more than inches apart, it was a fantastic clean close battle.  All this had allowed others to catch up.  Bradderstig at first but an error dropped him back, and the Team Cheetah Honda looked to be struggling badly for pace and traction, then RangersRick who also then fell back, leaving championship leader Nikemikerules to get closer to the pair.