The car performed fantastically at the final sprint of the 2014 season – I would say this was my best event of my sprint career to date. I hope this is a sign of better results for 2015 and would like to thank of my sponsors, suppliers and supporters who have enabled so much success this year. In particular I would like to thank Redline American Muscle, Steeda UK, Steeda US, KW suspension, Recaro, Toyo Tires, Sky Insurance, Eyesite and Personalised Planet for their support.

The elation of a class win, beating long term rivals !

Picture courtesy of Charlie Lower

Build

Unchanged from the Curborough sprint. Picture courtesy of Chris Berrisford

Performance

With the Steeda and Redline American Muscle modifications to the cars chassis made before the Curborough sprint, the Mustang handled amazingly well. I was able to slide it around the tight bends and cones with fantastic precision.

Picture courtesy of Charlie Lower

Results

I won my class with a very conservative run, using the power of the supercharger on the straights and its ability to slide very controllably around the twisty country lanes sections. For the second timed session the car in front of me tipped a load of oil over the track, as I had such a large margin over the next competitor I decided not to take the run and risk wrecking the car. Needless to say, the human crash test dummy, Kevin Lower did go out using laws of physics normally only seen in warner brothers cartoons, but kept it on the track. I feel that if I had pushed the car harder I could easily have been in the top five fastest of the day.

It gave me a particular satisfaction to beat my great rival over the last two seasons, Paul Braddock. Paul knew the track and was in the very capable and lighter supercharged mini, yet I was still able to beat him over a second. I think is a great indication of how the Mustang and myself have improved from when Paul beat me at Debden by a four second margin.

Receiving the class winners trophy from the clerk, Steve Castle

1st 29 Alex Peters Ford Mustang GT 57.74 secs	2nd 31 Simon Taylor Renault Alpine 58.55 secs
3rd 28 Paul Braddock BMW Mini Cooper S 58.93 secs	4th 27 Marc Hanson MG SV 1:00.67 secs
5th 30 Kevin Lower BMW 328 1:01.14 secs	6th 32 Andy Deeley Nissan 200 SX 1:03.09 secs