14 cars were entered and all appeared for practice. All took to the grid but we lost Richard Fry, Steve Jones (Cooper-JAP Mk IV) and Paul Hewes (Cooper-Norton Mk 8) on the warm up lap. James Holland (Cooper JAP) clutch went on the grid and Geoff Gartside’s motor gave up the ghost leaving 9 cars to start the race, with Richard Utley (JBS-Norton) having trouble leaving the line.
David Lecoq led chased hard by James Culver (Cooper-Vincent Mk 10) until James dropped out after 7 laps leaving John Turner to take up the chase. At the end of the 13 laps David was the clear winner by 45 seconds from John with Nick Leston just 2 seconds behind. 6 finished.