PADDOCK STORIES

• Ben Orza had a cracking good race, finishing seventh overall and fourth amongst the Challenge cars. His recent races in a Marcos in the Privilege GT series have obviously done him a whole power of good.
  
  
• You would think a Testarossa would be a fairly porky beast but Silverstone was not the first time that the Zest car has been in weight trouble. Last year at Zandvoort it was found to be some 23 kilos below the limit. At least this has been reduced by nearly a half to just 12 kilos. Shame that, because this would have been Nick May's first win in the PMFC.
  
  
• John Swift steered his way through the various troubles and, with his engine sounding a lot better than recently, he came in eighth overall and a strong third in the "S" class. He now lies third in the championship tables, just one point behind the second placed 308 of Peter Lowe.
  
  
• The formation lap caused some chagrin as Nick May's Testarossa shot into a distant lead, leaving the rest of the field far behind him. This caused Ian Hetherington to lodge a protest with the Clerk of the Course because he felt he was not able to adequately warm his tyres prior to the start. The Testarossa's eventual exclusion made the protest irrelevant.
  
  
• Several of the Ferraris also took part in the Intermarque championship race on the same day. Alan Cosby took a great sixth overall and Ian Hetherington finished ninth. John Pogson's F40 was an unfortunate non-starter with clutch problems. It would have been interesting to see him go head-to-head with the F50 and F512M.

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