Rick led through the first corner, passing the Chevrolet was massive in giving him a chance to get away, whilst Bradders and Posh Rob were side by side on the run down to turn two, before the Subaru was through.  Bradders rueing that both cars had got through so quickly.  Down the long middle straight the Chevrolet flexed its muscles and was back in front, but this was a short stay in second, as it wasn’t long before the SWR car was back leading the chase of the Integra.  This gave Rick a bit of a breathing space, but it wasn’t enough and he was soon under attack and Posh Rob was through on the run down to the back straight.  The Subaru was planted through these corners, but Rick wasn’t giving up, the little Acura quick in a straight-line.  They crossed the line for the first time with Rob in front, chased closely by Rick, third Bradderstig who was under a lot of pressure from the second GRT Acura of JRush and the Cerberus Escort of Devil Lord.  Sixth was CelticFox, who was having a lively dice with the breathless on the straight Mazda of Nikemike, the top 10 being rounded out by AtomStew, Basslinejunkio and BMR Sutton.

Posh Rob continued to lead out front; Rick wasn’t giving up the chase and was trying all he had to hang on.  For the first 5 laps he managed to keep the Subaru a couple of seconds ahead, but the Overall Class Champion soon realised this was a fight he could not win and set about making sure he looked after his tyres and kept pulling away from those behind.  Bradderstig was holding on to third and was keeping himself safe from those battling around him.  Devil Lord had started well, but soon found his brakes rather unpredictable, in fact they were locking up well in advance of the corner and losing him time, this started dropping him back.  AtomStew was another showing some early promise, but he also was having problems, a couple of offs through the fast kink on the back straight finally caused some damage and needed an extra stop.  Any hopes of all this leaving Bradders in peace were quickly extinguished, as BMR Sutton and Kinkycowboys were moving up through the field, and bringing Basslinejunkio with them.  The first two were able to get past the dice between Celtic and Mike, but Bass was jammed up behind the Mazda.  The KRR Nissan’s looked a real handful, Sutton is very much use to the handling quirks of the 370Z and was lapping as fast as all but the top 2, but his team mate, ABigPieKey was finding his a terrible version a real handful and maybe wishing that he had run the ex AWD version of RangersRick.  Piekey was involved in his own fantastic dice but stuck down in 12th.  He was with Robraceruk and Major Raver, these three swapping places for fun, the Nissan and Honda quicker on the straights, the little Alfa in the corners and braking.  Many times they were three abreast, and it became a four car battle as Devil lord fell in to the clutches of the three, this battle taking them up to their pit stops around half distance.

Out front and Posh Rob was in control, Rick deciding to pit on lap 11, Bradderstig next, and in fact most of the top 10 pitted around this time.  The only one not to was Nikemike, the wiley old fox knowing how important each point is, was hoping to grab a few bonus points for leading a lap, but such was the pace of the leader that when he stopped on lap 13, he was able to rejoin in front of the Mazda.  Rob’s lead once all had settled was at 10seconds, and except for one lap being slowed by a spinning backmarker in front, it was plain sailing for him, he extended his lead to over 22 seconds at the flag taking his first ever win.  It was pure delight in the SWR pit, and Rob had set himself up to be a real player in this season’s championship.  Rick was equally delighted with second, and a comfortable second at that.  He had built up enough of a lead in the first half of the race over the chasing pack to know second was his.  The battle for third could have gone about 4 different ways.  BMR Sutton and JRush battled, Bradderstig was always in and around it, and teammate Kinkycowboys was quick as well.  BMR Sutton though got in front and stayed there, but as was mentioned earlier, he was too far from Rick and unable to mount a challenge for second.  It was a good result and drive for KRR after a disappointing race at Silverstone.  Bradderstig managed to hold on to 4th, rueing the lost horsepower form the Pi ballast, but vital bonus points.  He managed to hold off JRush for 5th, who was slightly disappointed with the result.  What it does give us, is a fantastic battle shaping up between the two GRT cars in the Class Championship, with both joint top.  Kinkycowboys took 6th, and his third fastest lap puts him finally up the sharp end of the grid.  Both the first two rounds have left the Norfolk driver playing catch up, so he will be glad of being at the sharp end of the grid for a change.