Still out front, Mike carried on before pitting finally on lap 24 and rejoining 15 seconds to the good in the lead from Bradders.  Third though was now ABigPieKey, the little Alfa 33 that hadn’t stopped and what was becoming obvious to all was that  maybe he didn’t need to either, that the Italian car was good on fuel and soft on its Pirelli tyres.  CQR Rob was determined to put both DARE Ferrari’s on the podium and catch the Alfa, but coming through Clearways on lap 25 the Ferrari cried enough and rolled to a halt, the driver distort to suffer a similar failure to the one he had at round 1 of last season.  RangersRick was now leading the charge and was closing on the CK Motorsport Alfa, but although quicker he was living on the hope of the tyres hitting a cliff like they did for PieKey at Suzuka.  He was catching at nearly 2 seconds a lap, the new Nissan was certainly impressive on a circuit not friendly to AWD, but he run out of laps and PieKey didn’t run out of tyres, in fact the delighted podium finisher was beaming of how his race long tyres were in better shape than those that had stopped to change mid race.  It was a very impressive performance from them both.

Out front and Mike was more dominant than anything seen in last season’s Championship and continued to extend his lead, crossing the line to comfortable victory.  He was overjoyed with the TVR and even felt he could have been quicker with more testing.  He wasn’t counting his chickens though on the podium, knowing that although the TVR is a fantastic piece of kit, some of the other cars would be better suited to tracks coming later and of course the dreaded Pi changes.  Bradderstig was happy with his second, it wasn’t going to be the best circuit for the Ferrari, but the car had run well and allowed him to put good points on the board.  So the battle for 5th.  Rick had the pace to leave this behind, but Nitro and Celtic were hard at it.  They had the first of the two RML Lotus’s for company for half the race, but they soon found they had the legs on the British car, and the battle was left between the two, Celtic a bit faster on the straight bits, Nitro looking more poised through the corners.  They swapped positions on two occasions, but the JDR run car came out on top, an impressive drive by the newcomer.  For CelticFox and quicksilver, they were very happy, the Aston more likely to favour the power circuits over the likes of Brands Hatch.  Robraceruk settled for 7th and added to his teammate finishing 9th, it was a fantastic day for the RML Juniors, and left them leading the teams championship as they headed home.  Sandwiching them was the Kia Stinger of Kenty, who in turn took second in Class A.  DMR were delighted with the performance, Kenty no fan of the Kent circuit and the delight for the team was heightened by the performance of Penfold in the sister car, who scored points with 15th and also finished runners up in the AM class.  Winner of that class in 12th was Wambogini.  The new DART Alfa seemed to struggle at Brands Hatch and both Wambogini and team mate Major Raver were very happy with the 12th and 10th place finishes on a circuit they knew would be an issue to the Alfa.  Between them was reigning Class A champion Devil Lord.  Cerberus had switched late to the Audi, and it looks a good car, although not as consistent as the old Escort as of yet.  Devil had an up and down race and was just glad to get points on the board in the defence of his class championship.  Behind these the battle went on for the 13th between Captain Storer and the new Nissan GTR and the recovering BMR Sutton in the Datsun.  Sutton managed to win this 3 laps from home, and showed some promising pace in the chase, whilst for Alert-It it was a promising debut and good points with a car that looked to suffer from rear oversteer and may be better suited to some faster tracks ahead.