VICTORY FOR PATRICK FLETCHER in the second Clio 182 race at Thruxton sealed back-to-back championship wins, with two races of the series remaining.
Fletcher, whose usual title rival James Bark is missing from the championship this year, took his fourth win of the season from seventh on the reversed grid, having led by the end of the first lap. Ryan Polley was second after a move on Mark Balmer into the Club chicane, while Matt Digby took the final podium place ahead of Don de Graaff, who had taken a dominant win from pole in race one ahead of Polley and Digby.
Excluded from second in race one after his clutch assembly failed scrutineering, Nick Garner battled from the back of the grid to sixth in race two.
With commanding MX-5 championship leader Ben Short absent, Ali Bray was able to dig into the size able points gap with victory in race one, doing so in a car borrowed from series champion Brian Chandler after Bray suffered an engine failure during testing.
Bray’s poor start dropped him to fifth, but he quickly recovered and was attacking Paul Maguire into Club for the lead by lap three. Maguire held on to second in the non-scoring guest car, running Hankook rather than the regulation Davanti tyres.
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