The weather played its part in two dramatic Radical World Cup races, with DW Racing's Ben Caisley and Valour Racing's Haydn Chance the overall winners
Valour's Chris Preen led race one out of Turn One, having edged out Caisley, while DW's Indy Al Miller and John Harrison settled in third and fourth.
Rain started to fall again on lap six, and having made a decisive break, Caisley made his challenge for Preen's lead. "It was side by side with Ben at the first corner, but I went for the outside and came out ahead, but when it rained maybe I backed off too much, but he got me between Turns One and two," said Preen.
"Maybe I should have short shifted as it was my first SR10 start, but I managed to challenge quite quickly, Caisley added.
Miller and Harrison were running solo for most of the race in third and fourth and briefly closed up.
"I just did my own thing and enjoyed the race," said Miller. "Al didn't make any mistakes, but I pushed too hard trying to catch him and spun, " Harrison added.
His spin briefly brought fourth place under threat from Radical Sweden's Filip Svensson, but with the race concluded behind the safety car, all five held station.
Valour's Haydn Chance dominated the SR3 Class, after an initial skirmish with RSR's Mark Williams. "I led into Turn One, but Mark got alongside through Turns 3, 5 and 7, before I managed to drop him when my tyres came in, " Chance explained after taking sixth overall too.
Radical Sweden's Mikael Bern sealed second in class with Jim Booth's SR10 and 360's Amir Feyzulin rounding off the top 10 and Feyzulin also completed the SR3 podium.
It was a mixture of slick and wets for the second race as the sun shone, but rain started falling again on the green flag lap.
With Feyzulin off at the Hairpin, when his rear suspension broke challenging Williams for the SR3 lead, the safety car was out until lap five.
From the green flag, Svensson led, as DW's Gregg Gorski and Preen duelled for second.
360's Jacek Zielonka, DW's Jon Field and Caisley had settled into the top six, until Caisley pulled off on lap six.
Chance was into sixth overall, but fellow SR3 racers Valour's Luke Hilton and Bern were following.
Svensson managed to retain the lead until lap nine. "I had a bit of a fight with Gregg at the start, then got away and watched him battle with Chris, I lost rear end grip though and overshot at Turn 14, " he said.
Gorski and Preen then battled for the lead, before Chance split them four laps from home. "I stayed on wets and benefited from others on slicks. Svensson and I gave each plenty of room, but I decided to let the SR3's go, " said Gorski.
Chance came through to take overall victory a couple of laps from home, with Hilton following a lap later.
"My tyres had started to overheat at the end, but it was hard passing SR10's as they're so quick on the straights, " said Chance.
Gorski, Preen and Svensson topped the SR10 Class. "It was my first time on top of a podium with the US flag and anthem too," Gorski added.
Bern was third in the SR3's from sixth overall, after Field's SR10 retired, while Zielonka, and the tightly packed SR3's of Williams, RSR's John Macleod and Marbella Motorsport's Erlend Olsen completed the top 10.
Race two is available to watch here… https://www.youtube.com/live/aHLVWj4zm7c?si=XXUIhngEqFWE0__l
