Bradford on Avon's Ed Moore put the class A championship title of the Melton Concrete Products Formula Ford 1600 Championship beyond the reach of his rivals despite an off form performance at the Castle Combe Circuit's A Plant Lux Traffic Controls Sportscar Raceday on August Bank Holiday Monday 27.

Moore's engine problems which plagued his Van Diemen RF00 at the last race continued, so despite setting pole, the local man was pessimistic about his race fortunes.

Nevertheless, a fourth overall and 2nd in class was sufficient to put class A out of reach of his rivals. The result came after a close battle with Castle Combe's Andy Jones in the Ray GRS07, who took 3rd overall and the class win.

Right out front, class B rivals, Robert Hall run by the Castle Combe based Swift-Cooper team and Steven Jensen from Saltford, battled throughout, Jensen ahead until the last lap when Hall towed past into Quarry.

Chippenham's Adam Higgins, son of former champion Bob, fought through from third on the grid in his class to win and take the lead of class C in his Van Diemen RF89, having adapted to the car's new suspension set up which was changed for this meeting.

Marlborough's Howard Spooner took an overwhelmingly dominant victory in the first of the two races for the savesometax.co.uk Special GT Championship. His Nissan powered Jade Trackstar was in a class of its own, powering away from the rest to win by 22 seconds.

The gap was larger than it would have been after the less powerful Jade of Bath's Guy Woodward spun on lap 11 whilst being chased for second place by Westbury's Shane Marshall in the Mallock P21, which had initially dropped to 5th after a slow start.

Former champion, Louis Davidson, took third overall, but beaten to class B honours by Marshall, with Swindon's Ed Lovett taking 4th and 3rd in class on the Combe debut of his unusual Norma M20 GTO.

Woodward recovered to take 6th overall and 2nd in class A.

The second of the GT races for classes C and D was initially headed by pole man Nigel Mustill from Salisbury in the awesome Opel Omega V8 star. Lap three saw the beast return to the paddock, leaving Trowbridge's Mark Funnell to take charge, but hotly pursued by Bristol's Tony Michael. The pair fought a tremendous battle, with Funnell's Lotus Exige and Michael's Westfield SE sharing identical fastest laps at one stage. Funnell, just got the better of the backmarkers, heading Michael home by exactly .4 of a second.

Class D was won by Duncan Cameron, bringing his Ferrari 360 through from the back of the grid, after missing qualifying.

Gary Culver won the Pirelli Ferrari Formula Classic race in his 328 GTB, with Pewsey's Graham Reeder second in his similar car, less than 3 seconds adrift. Frome's Richard Moseley was fourth in his 308 GTB, 3rd in class.

Russ Humphrey won the National Mobile Windscreens Saloon Car Championship race in his Evo after his four wheel drive opposition fell by the wayside, Bill Brockbank taking second and class B in his SEAT Ibiza Cupra.

Terry Thorne brought his Focus home third.

The championship aspirations of Calne's Tony Hutchings took a blow after his class C MG ZR suffered major engine problems in qualifying. Nevertheless, the bright yellow machine still qualified 2nd in class and after a some major rebuilding, the MG made the race, initially running 2nd in class before dropping back to 5th.

Chippenham's William Di Claudio returned to form with his 106 Peugeot after an engine problem at the last round, qualifying second in class D and going on to win despite using a standard engine, putting him back in the lead of the championship overall.