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| Darren Turner from Banbury was a happy man. Having broken the lap record in pracice he was in pole position | All the cars have to go through an official inspection before the race to check car weight and measurements | Darren Turner's car took pole position for the first race with Nicholas Minnasian's green car close behind | |
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| There was clearly a lot of tension as the cars got ready for the start | Minassian quickly took the lead in the first race and for a while looked as if he would stay there | Darren Turner in 69 and John Mickel in 67 were always close behind though | |
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| Nicholas Minassian's pit stop might just have given Darren Turner the edge | The two drivers battled it out until the last few laps when Darren Turner took his chance and was first past the finshing flag | Darren was clearly elated at the first result and everyone wondered if he could keep it up - which he managed to do! | |
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| Most of the cars, like Anthony Swan's No.28 were being worked on until the last moment | Anthony lives in Gretton and was born in Kettering. He's the youngest driver in the series | Reigning champion Colin White was not much in evindence this weekend | |
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| And lovely as they were, lady luck didn't work for Kevin Burt, although he was with the leaders a lot of the time | Darren Manning | CART ace Darrio Francitti was there, eyeing up the track before his big race in September and being interviewed here by Amanda Stretton | |
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| Ready for any emergency - a team of doctors and 15 St.John's Ambulances with crews drawn from all over Northamptonshire | Nanette from Northampton, Manager Becky from Leicester and Lois from Kettering were ready to sell you Rockingham merchandise | Carol and Jenny from Leicester made sure you could get your programme for the afternoon | |
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| Whilst this happy crew made sure people didn't die of thirst | John Griff from Classic Gold Radio did some live feeds from the circuit | Amanda Stretton talking to John Griff - wishing she was still behind the wheel of one of the ASCARs | |
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