It was a another win for Manuel Cintrano and Javier Morcillo in the 17-year old Mosler in the two-hour race, and this time the pit stop success penalties had less of an effect, though cruel luck robbed several front runners of success, and there were some stirring performances that brought back-row starters to the front of the race.
The grid for the second race was set by the result of the first, and with several significant runners missing or retiring from that earlier encounter, the rear of the grid had a fair share of fast machines that would need to cut their way through the pack. The clutch on the Papageorgiou/Kruger Black Mamba Racing Ginetta G55 had been fixed, as had the gearbox on the similar Team Hard machine of Dudley/Hawkins-Row, though the overheating on the Tockwith G50 of Moore/Hall was borderline, and the fix for the water pipe on the Porsche of Katie Milner and Ollie Willmott was tenuous. Approaching the race with an amount of confidence, though, was Jonny McGregor: after the demise of the Arrinara, the MacG Racing team had dashed to their base nearby and dusted off the Taranis, which was virtually race-ready, and Jonny joined at the back of the grid. |