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R
Ben
Clucas
PRO
DRIVER
R O A D
T R A C K
R A C E
A N N U A L 2 0 1 6
011
Age:
31
Weight:
62kg
Race wins:
100+
Championships:
7
Experience level:
Pro
Favourite excuse:
Just didn’t
do a good enough job
Favourite track:
Spa
Favourite race car:
Kia Optima
Turbo
Claim to fame:
Competing
against F1 drivers
Billingsley would lead the way,
but before we let him loose we
had a few rules to go through with
Grove & Dean Motorsport, which
kindly insured the car for the day.
Rule 1: don’t smash the car; Rule
2: don’t smash the car; and Rule 3:
all of the above!
Each driver was to be judged
on 3 x 10-minute sessions, with a
break after the first run and the
next 2 x 10-minute sessions run-
ning back-to-back. Praying that
the rules had sunk in, we watched
Billingsley launch the Zenos down
the straight with the rear wheels
spinning. He wasn’t going to give
Clucas an easy ride here and off
he went for his 10-minute ses-
sion as we eagerly watched what
proved to be an impressive start.
Billingsley had done
everything in his power to
record a much coveted victory