Motorsport: Racing cut short at wet Knockhil

At an extremely wet track at Knockhill in Scotland,

venue for the latest round of the PowerTour series,

racing finally got underway some two and a half hours

after the original 10. 00 a.m. start.

In the British Formula 3 Championship Scholarship

race, Brazilian ace, Ernani Judice took his first win

of the season - taking a lights to flag victory over

Northern Ireland’s Mathew Gilmore and Robbie Kerr, who

retains his championship lead.

Cork’s Michael Keohane fell victim to the every

slippery conditions, spinning out of the race after

twenty laps. Keohane moved into third after Robert

Doornbos spun soon after the start of the second lap.

The safety car was out for a number of laps when one

of the back markers spun at Clark corner.

When the safety car it peeled away, Keohane closed on

Kerr and on lap 20, he went past the championship

leader. However, all his endeavours came to an end

almost instantly. Just after his overtaking

manoeuvre, the rear wheel of his

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Pudding car edged up on the kerbing and spun across

the track.

The advancing Kerr could not prevent making contact

and Keohane’s car ended up stricken on the grass.

Kerr made an error on the same lap that allowed

Matthew Gilmore through and the order remained

unchanged over the closing laps.

Elsewhere, Takuma Sato won the A Championship race

where Northern Ireland’s, Derek Hayes was fifth.

In the Slick 50 Formula Ford race, Patrick Long is the

new championship leader after taking the chequered

flag ahead of Ronnie Bremer and Portadown’s, Gary

Turkington.

There was a win for Colin Turkington in the Ford

Fiesta Challenge race, another Irish racer, Eoin

Murray finished fourth. A number of races, including

two Formula 3 races were cancelled due to the very wet

conditions.