Nigel Moore, the sixteen year racer from Tockwith, near York and the current Ginetta Junior Champion took two race wins in the Ginetta G50 Championship at Oulton Park last Easter weekend.

The conditions for the opening race were less than ideal with the Cheshire circuit being covered in hailstones at times and very cold. Despite the Formula 3 cars developing a vague dry line, it was decided the race should be run on wet tyres for safety reasons.

Two pole positions converted into the top step of the podium for the talented young driver in the first race of the new Championship which had a grid of 18 of the identical cars. This is despite the fact that no more moisture fell on the circuit and it being like “driving on jelly” shod with wet tyres on a dry track.

Second place man Ben Elliott kept the pressure on Moore and the pair broke away from the pack. Rod Carman came home third, thirty seconds down the track.

Guest racer Paul O’Neill in the Motorsport News/  IDL-run car retired on the first lap with a suspected failure on the front of the car. “I hit a kerb and the front just dived down and spat me into the gravel” said O’Neill.

Elliott was not so fortunate in race two when he was involved in a first corner accident that span him across into the tyre wall at Old Hall. Apparent early braking by Elliott to get a run on Moore on the exit of the corner surprised a following O’Neill and the yellow car of Elliott’s got nudged at the rear.

On slick tyres, great racing down the field had a number of people in contention for podium positions but Christian Dick held off O’Neill in the closing stages for the pair to clinch second and third.