Track length: 4.361 m

Pole position: Pierpoint
Fastest lap: Salmon in 1.46,8

Distance: 15 laps
Average speed: 144,06 kmh
Weather: Dry
Ruleset: Group 2

The tyre battle was hotting up! As the saloon cars lined up for their 15 lap epic it was seen that , of the Ford Mustangs, Roy Pierpoint used Goodyear, Sir Gawaine Baillie used Firestone and Mike Salmon Dunlop tyres; the fourth member of the front row, Alan Hutcheson in Bobby Buchanan-Michaelson's ex-Alan Brown Ford Galaxie, had Goodyears. In the two litre class, the Team Lotus Cortinas used yellow spot Dunlop R7s, while the Willment car was shod with Goodyears. The works Minis, incidentally were fitted with green-spot Dunlop R6s.
It was Salmon who made the best start and, indeed, his Dawnay Racing/F English-entered Mustang was never to be headed. Hutcheson held second place for four laps, but then his engine blew in the biggest possible way past the pits and the Galaxie coasted to a halt at Riches. This is the second time Hutcheson has blown-up the Galaxie, having performed this feat practising for Brands Hatch in March. Pierpoint and Baillie were in third and fourth positions, the former, winner at Brands and Oulton, down on power as standard heads were fitted after a valve had dropped in practice.

For the third time running the works Lotus Cortinas were in trouble: Jim Clark and Jack Sears trailed the American cars for the first lap, but then Sears shunted Clark and had to stop at his pit for the bodywork to be straightened out. Then Clark was overhauled by Frank Gardner in the Willment Lotus Cortina; Gardner took Clark on the seventh lap and thereafter drew away. It seems that the new BRM-Lotus engines are slightly down on power on last year's twin-cam units, for Clark could not equal his old lap times. (The new Dunlop R7s were initially troublesome in F1 and this could also be a contributing factor).

The 1,300 cc and 1,000 cc classes comprised the usual phalanx of Minis, with John Anstead's Fiat Abarth 1000, just arrived from Italy, thrown in for good measure. At the end of the first lap Tony Lanfranchi in the Alexander car headed John Handley and John Rhodes in the Broadspeed and works car respectively, the three being virtually side-by-side. This couldn't last long and it came as no surprise when it was learned that Handley was pushed off involuntarily at the hairpin when the three tried to go through altogether. Lanfranchi spun at Sear, so losing sight of Rhodes, but still finished second to the enterprising Cooper driver. Less fortunate was Richard Cluley, who rolled his Mini into a ball at the hairpin, but escaped unhurt.

Rhode's team-mate Paddy Hopkirk had the job of "towing" Warwick Bank's 970S Mini with his 1275S car, making sure that none of the Banks’ rivals could get near. Gerry Marshall's Newtune Mini took a well deserved second place in the 1-litre class, keeping ahead of John Fitzpatrick's Broadspeed entry.

Source: Autosport

Klasyfikacja generalna.

1. #33. Mike Salmon (GB) - Ford Mustang.  15okr.
2. #34. Roy Pierpoint (GB) - Ford Mustang.
3. #32. Gawaine Baillie (GB) - Ford Mustang.
4. #44. Frank Gardner (AUS) - Ford Lotus Cortina.
5. #41. Jim Clark (GB) - Ford Lotus Cortina.
6. #42. Jack Sears (GB) - Ford Lotus Cortina.
7. #51. John Rhodes (GB) - Morris Mini Cooper S.
8. #46. John Nicholson (GB) - Ford Lotus Cortina.
9. #54. Tony Lanfranchi (GB) - Morris Mini Cooper S.  14okr.
10.  Jacquie Bond Smith (GB) - Ford Lotus Cortina.
11. #52. Paddy Hopkirk (IRL) - Morris Mini Cooper S.
12. #60. Chris Montague (GB) - Austin Mini Cooper S.
13. #71. Warwick Banks (GB) - Austin Mini Cooper S.
14.  Jim Sullivan - BMC Mini Cooper S.
15. #59. Michaelle Burns Grieg (GB) - Austin Mini Cooper S.
16. #72. Gerry Marshall (GB) - Austin Mini Cooper S.
17. #73. John Fitzpatrick (GB) - Austin Mini Cooper S.
18. #80. Ken Costello (GB) - Morris Mini Cooper S.
19. #75. Mike Campbell Cole (GB) - Morris Mini Cooper S.
20. #74. Anita Taylor (GB) - Austin Mini Cooper S.
21. #81. John Anstead (GB) - Abarth 1000 TC.