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For release: May 8, 2005 D’Agostino’s off-track moment on the first lap of race one gave second place to Duncan Tappy (West Ewell). But Tappy was soon under pressure from Robert Sunderland, who dived down on the inside at Tower Bend on lap two. But the Yatton Keynell racer carried too much speed into the corner and Tappy was able to retake the place on the exit. As Sunderland quickly pulled clear in second, Tappy – running on older wet-weather tyres – fell into the clutches of Bentley who planted the nose of his Van Diemen down the inside of Tappy’s Mygale at Tower. But, like Sunderland a few laps earlier, Bentley ran wide and his loss of momentum was enough to let D’Agostino through into fourth behind Tappy.
Norway’s Christian Ebbesvik made up for an off-track moment in the pre-race test to claim seventh ahead of Jonny Baker (Farnham Common), who also spun twice in the race. Sarah Playfair (East Lothian) took the chequered flag in ninth despite a spin at the Jim Clark Esses on the final lap.Tappy, who suffered the misery of retiring from the two previous rounds at Oulton Park, was in the wars again when he ran out of road at Tower and ploughed through the damp grass on lap six. He eventually rejoined in last position, his challenge over. Although Bentley dropped back in the closing stages his fourth place was richly deserved, especially as he had to sell his road car to fund his race weekend. His opening lap charge took him from eighth to fourth. Despite two spins Stephen Roberts (Whitchurch) got his challenge for the Scholarship Cup back on track by taking the class win in fifth position overall although a late spin almost gifted the place to Lincolnshire racer Philip Glew, who had been drafted into the Clifford White Racing line-up as a last-minute replacement for Liam Clifford. Behind Donnelly and D’Agostino in the second race, Tappy avenged his earlier misfortune with third place from Sunderland and Bentley, who was unable to repeat the stunning opening lap he produced in race one. Philip Glew was sixth ahead of Christian Ebbesvik, who had fended off Darwin Smith (Ballymena) until Smith retired is ill-handling Spirit, the legacy of contact at the first corner, which caused him to spin. Smith had been out of luck in race one too after running out of road at Tower and piling through the grass. He had to pit to clear mud out of his radiators but elected to return to the pits when his car began to lose performance. Jonny Baker took the Scholarship Cup honours in race two from Roberts and Playfair, who again spun, this time exiting Tower on lap three. The next rounds of the UK Formula Ford Championship are at Knockhill in a fortnight’s time.
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