TOYO TIRES XJS CHAMPIONSHIP
Welcome everyone to rounds 6 and 7 here at the beautiful Anglesey circuit in North Wales. This circuit has a bit of everything for all the drivers, like the banked hairpin and the lovely straight climbing to the top of this 1.5 mile track. This was a double header weekend with each championship racing on both days and with a bonus of double points on offer.

Once again Stuart Lyddall was the victor in both the XJS races with an exhilarating display only matched by Derek Pearce who in race 2 was an early leader on the first lap. Also in that race Chris Palmer led for a while, showing how the 4.0 litre cars can keep up with V12's on this type of circuit.

The Saturday race was 'red flagged' after the 17 cats went into the first bend and Alex Harrison, Gail Hill and Roger Webster were involved in a racing incident. The race had to be restarted and the Northern Ireland man Mark Russell had misfiring problems as he was in the top 7 places then on lap 3 disappeared after the engine cut-out. Mark managed to restart and clawed his way from the back of the field up to 7th then two laps from home spun on the grass.

Elsewhere there were some titanic battles like Class E winner Chris Palmer and Class D winner Andrew Harrison, Paul Merrett, Lawrence Coppock, Gary Hastings and Blake Humphrey in race 1 with only 2.5 seconds separating them as they crossed the finish line, in race 2 they were joined by three more in the form of Ian Drage, Gail Hill and Roger Webster. Absolutely stunning racing, the only casualty was Coppock who spun on lap 6. Again they crossed the line with 6 seconds the gap.

Sam Clarke's v12 had a great race on Saturday finishing 3rd and was hoping to improve on Sunday but on lap one at the top of Rocket he was T-boned by Andrew Harrison who caved in his passenger door. Andrew's race was over but Sam managed to make up a few places and finish 3rd again.

Chris Palmer checks tyres - DE

Coppock, Humphrey, Clarke - DE

Derek Pearce, Sam Clarke - RG

Gail Hill, Paul Merrett - RG

Gary Hastings, Ian Drage - RG

Hastings, Merrett, Humphrey, Ball - RG

Hastings, Webster, Humphrey - RG

Ian Drage, Lawrence Ball - RG

Lawrence Ball, Ian Drage - RG

Leader ahead of Pearce and Palmer - RG

Lydall leads Pearce in Corkscrew - RG

Lydall, Pearce - DE

Mark Russell, Roger Webster - RG

Merrett, Russell, Coppock, Hastings - DE

Ray Ingman, down and dirty - DE

Sam Clarke with the scars of battle - RG

Stuart Lydall, Derek Pearce - RG

Stuart Lydall - RG

Stuart Lydall, Sam Clarke - RG

JAGUAR CLASSIC PARTS JAGUAR SALOON CHAMPIONSHIP
The 19 saloons in their races were just as exciting as the XJS's, with Richard Dorlin, Simon Lewis and Chris Boon running the show. There was nothing between these three and the crowd loved every minute.

Once again though, it was Richard who, like Lyddall in the XJS's, won both races and Class B. Simon was second and Chris third in the first race, then these positions were reversed in race 2 on Sunday.

Elsewhere, double Class A winner Ken Angell in his XJ40 really enjoyed his weekend with 2 fourth place finishes from Class E winner Nick Gwinnutt's X-300, who twice finished fifth, and to top this they were both caught up in a 5-way tussle on Saturday and a 7-way stampede on Sunday with the likes of Dave Bye, Rick Walker, Phil Woods and Neil Taylor in a modern S-type. Six different models among the seven cars.

There were also some great spins, Dave Bye in race1 and John Slater in race 2 and also Peter Dorlin, the Class D winner in his MK II, running bigger wheels and new ratio diff for the first time, had a spins in both races, then went on to entertain as he moved back into contention and take 10th and 7th places.

Seventeen year old Patrick Doyle is improving his technique with every race, 2 seconds faster on Sunday

Guy Connew in his XJ6 had a miserable weekend. When on lap 8 of race 1 his carburettors broke, he drove all the way to Wrexham for a spare part to fix it, but sadly to no avail and his racing was over.

Feat of the weekend involves Tim Morrant, who blew his gearbox in Saturday's qualifying. Big Phil Bradford and Carl Gannon then somehow located a MK 2 gearbox that a local farmer had stored in a barn for 30 years, (how do you do that?) and then striped both boxes down to make one good one. It was incredible to watch as they worked with limited tools late into the night, swapping gears and shafts, then up early the next morning to re-install the hybrid gearbox. Tim was then able to race on Sunday and it worked perfectly. Well done Carl and Phil, they showed the 'Spirit of Jaguar' at its best. Tim finished 11th.

Baines & Boon - KB

Colin McKay - RG

Dave Bye - RG

Dorlin&Lewis KB

Gwinnutt, Dorlin, Taylor - RG

IMG_1538 - KB

John Slater, Trevor Baines - DE

Ken Angell - KB

Ken Angell - RG

Ken Angell, Nick Gwinnutt - DE

Lewis - KB

log-jam! - KB

McKay - KB

Neil Taylor - RG

Patrick Doyle - DE

Phil Woods, Neil Taylor - RG

Sewell - KB

Tim Morrant's gearbox 2 - DE

TM's gearbox between races - DE

Brian George, Patrick Doyle - RG

Chris Boon, Simon Lewis - RG

Colin McKay, Robert Drewery - RG

Dave Bye - RG

Ken Angell, Nick Gwinnutt - RG

Leaders into corkscrew - RG

Neil Taylor - RG

Nick Gwinnutt - RG

Peter Dorlin - RG

Phil Woods, Peter Dorlin - RG

Rick Walker - RG

Tim Morrant goes grass cutting - RG

Trevor Baines - RG

POWERED BY JAGUAR

Jerry Knight - KB

Jerry Knight - D type - RG

Pictures by Pete Bell, Dean Edwards, Roger and Nick Gage

Report by Roger Gage

Terry Dye - JEC Racing Co-ordinator