The Royal Automobile Club\u2019s Woodcote Trophy race at the Spa Six Hours meeting organized by Motor Racing Legends drew a remarkable entry of 40 pre-1956 sports cars. It then proceeded to produce a surprise winner in Maserati 250SI driver Marc Devis when polewinner and early leader Ben Eastick\u2019s<\/p>\n
D-Type Jaguar was delayed by a lengthy pit stop. That stop erased the Jag\u2019s comfortable lead and threw Eastick into a frantic charge back through the field that fell just short at the checkered flag. Third place was taken by Carlos Monteverde and Gary Pearson in their ex\u2013Jim Clark D-Type, ahead of the Lotus X of Adrian Hall and Nick Adams.<\/p>\n
Sir Stirling Moss and Roger Earl overcame the chronic gearbox trouble that had plagued Moss\u2019s Osca FS372 all year by devising a successful strategy to drive around the problem that let them finish 2nd in class, though only 29th overall.<\/p>\n
In the BRDC Classic Sportscars part of the program, Ewan McIntyre survived a next-to-last lap spin at the La Source hairpin to take his Lotus X to a narrow victory over Philip Walker\u2019s Lotus 15, with Jamie McIntyre\u2019s Lister Knobbly 3rd.<\/p>\n
In the race for prewar cars, Gareth Burnett and Alex Ames drove John Ruston\u2019s 2-liter Alta Sports to a 26-second victory over Charles Gillett and Justin Maeers in a 1.5-liter Frazer Nash Supersports, with Martin Overington\u2019s supercharged Bugatti Type 35B taking 3rd, even though the Bugatti\u2019s gearbox blew its top on the last lap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Royal Automobile Club\u2019s Woodcote Trophy race at the Spa Six Hours meeting organized by Motor Racing Legends drew a remarkable entry of 40 pre-1956 sports cars. It then proceeded to produce a surprise winner in Maserati 250SI driver Marc Devis when polewinner and early leader Ben Eastick\u2019s D-Type Jaguar was delayed by a lengthy pit stop. That stop erased the Jag\u2019s comfortable lead and threw Eastick into a frantic charge back through the field that fell just short at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":590991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,13063],"tags":[432,15234,770],"class_list":["post-491109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-events","tag-events-vintage-racing","tag-spa-6-hours"],"yoast_head":"\n