The Starting Grid for the Yokohama Trophy for FIA Masters Historic Sports Cars, at the 2019 Silverstone Classic
The McLaren M6B of Andrew & Max Banks took a dominant lights-to-flag victory in the Yokohama Trophy for FIA Masters Historic Sports Cars race at Silverstone, defeating Gary Pearson’s Lola T70 Mk3B by 42 seconds. It was vindication for their lost Silverstone Classic win of 2018. In the first half of the race, Pearson charged his way up to second place and slowly moved out of Martin Stretton’s sight, Stretton in the McLaren M6 GT in the end having to defend from Diogo Ferrгo’s Lola T292 while on the final lap Andy Wolfe in the T70 Mk3B started by Jason Wright blasted through the middle of both, three wide on the Wellington Straight, to take an unexpected third place as he overcame a drivethrough penalty. However, Wolfe failing to serve a second drivethrough penalty meant that he was hit with a time penalty enough to lose third place to Ferrгo. Michael Gans also featured heavily up front but his Lola T290 failed on him on the final lap. A storming set of opening laps saw Andrew Banks pull out a lead of ten seconds over Martin Stretton, who on lap 2 got past both T70 Mk3Bs of David Hart and Jason Wright, with Michael Gans and Gary Pearson also making their way past the Dutchman. In fact, Pearson couldn’t be stopped as 15 minutes into the race he pushed down Gans back into fifth place, and then also snapped up Wright’s Lola to grab third. Meanwhile, Hart’s Lola was languishing as it was past by Oldershaw, Ferrгo, Fletcher and Mike Wrigley in short succession. Oldershaw was the man on the move, the open-top Lola flying past another Lola coupй dropping back, Jason Wright following David Hart’s way down the order. In the Siffert class, John Sheldon and Ross Hyett were nose-to-tail in their Chevron B16s, with the Bonnier-class Chevron B8s of Julian Thomas and Mark Owen getting ahead of both of them halfway into their stints. In the pre-66 Hulme class, Chris Jolly led Billy Bellinger by 11 seconds, with 20 minutes of the race gone.
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Location: Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 8TN
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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