FIA Pro Modified

The gaps in the pits were particularly evident in Pro Modified, but this should not detract from Bruno Bader’s second event win. Bader’s 6.175 ticket in his semi-final victory over Graham Ellis would stand for class low ET honours and, with the non-appearance of Bert Ove Olofsson thanks to a broken lifter to take the green on the other half of the ladder, the Swiss driver now takes a lead in the points to Sweden and a decent shot at converting his current number 2 plate into 1 at the end of the year.

The first round pairing between the turbo Sublime Superbird of Graham Ellis and Andy Frost’s street-legal Red Victor 3 was probably the eye catching match-up on Monday morning. In fact, it was so good that the timing system (which, not for the first time, threw Ellis a bogus red light) decided it should be re-run which probably suited both drivers as Ellis’s winning 6.262/242.78 delivered the fastest speed for a UK Pro Mod and Frost’s 6.592/220.09mph was the quickest ET for a street legal car in global terms.