Motor racing: Menu excellent value
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Your support makes all the difference.Alain Menu went one place better than his British Touring Car Championship finishing position by dominating the Tourist Trophy race at Donington Park yesterday.
The Swiss driver qualified his Williams run Renault on pole position for the 80-lap race and, bar the regulation two pit-stops, led the race from start to finish. Even a mid-race safety car period, which bunched up the field, failed to halt Menu's successful pursuit of the pounds 25,000 first prize.
"Everything went to plan. It's a bit unusual to have a race like this because normally we only run for 20 laps so this is a nice change," Menu said. However, he doubted that he would keep the prize fund for Britain's oldest motor race. "I think Frank Williams gets to have this," he added.
Second place went to Kelvin Burt's Volvo, although he crashed early in the race with James Kaye's Honda, the pair half-spinning in the last corner. Burt's car was repaired at the first of the two-minute pit stops. Kaye suffered problems with his rear left wheel and eventually finished sixth. The former British champions John Cleland and Will Hoy were both forced to retire.
Results, Digest, page 19
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