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The final Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy race for 2007 took place at the glorious Spa-Francorchamps circuit on 6th October, with a thrilling battle for overall honours. After one hour of racing, the chequered flag saw just 0.013 seconds separate the winning Jaguar D-Type of Lukas Huni and Gary Pearson from the Maserati 300S of Burkhard Von Schenk and Gregor Fisken.
Starting from pole, Fisken and Von Schenk gradually pulled out a lead of some 30 seconds. However, a stunning stint from Pearson in the Jaguar saw the Maserati’s lead whittled down to almost nothing in the final 20 minutes, with the D-type snatching victory at the line by the tiniest of margins. In third place was the Maserati 250SI of Marc Devis.
The one-hour, two-driver race, organised by Motor Racing Legends, is for genuine post-War sports-racers of the pre-1956 era, with the huge grid split into several classes. Other class winners included the HWM Jaguar of Michael Steele and Barrie Williams, the Austin-Healey 100M of Neil Hardy and Barry Sidery-Smith, the Cooper Bristol Sports T20 of Adrian van der Kroft and Andrew Cameron, and the Lotus Mark IX of Richard Ashmead and Peter Colborne Baber.
Gregor Fisken, Managing Director of Fiskens, which sponsors the Woodcote Trophy, admitted that the race was a fitting end to a spectacular season for the Woodcote Trophy. “It was a shame to lose but it was an absolutely brilliant race and the weekend was one we’ll always remember. The weather was fantastic, the grid was world-class and the racing superb. It was a fitting end to the season and I’m certain that the Woodcote Trophy will continue to go from strength to strength in 2008.”
Photographs by Tim Scott of Fluid Images
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