The battle for the Formula Ford class C championship title was fought between two local drivers living within a mile or so of each other at the Castle Combe Circuit's MG Raceday on Saturday.

Kington St Michael's Jim Hamilton and Chippenham's Adam Higgins had a straight fight to determine who was champion, Higgins taking the class pole, Hamilton some way back but still third fastest in class.

Both drivers were initially mugged by Nick Lay, running strongly in the lead, but in the second half of the race, Hamilton made it through, duly taking the class title and the race, with Lay in second and Higgins third and runner-up in the class standings, a brilliant result in this, his rookie year.

Bradford on Avon's Ed Moore took his second Melton Concrete Products Formula Ford 1600 Championship title.

Moore only needed to finish better than 16th, but should he have succumbed to race gremlins, then his rival Steven Jensen would have taken the title.

In the event however, it was Jensen who retired, having just snatched second place from Rob Hall.

Moore knew that fifth or better would be enough to secure his title regardless of Jensen's performance, so qualifying third fastest in his Van Diemen RF00 put him in a good position without putting too much on the line, Jensen one place behind.

At the start, Moore was cautious enough to allow Jensen to move ahead, with pole man Josh Fisher looking confident at the front and Hall, in the Castle Combe based Swift Cooper, second.

Lap four saw renewed pressure on the title protagonists with a race stoppage, after Oliver Roberts went off at unabated speed at Camp, hitting the tyres with some force.

The race restart saw Fisher, Hall and Jensen back in the first three positions, Moore having been taken by Castle Combe's Andy Jones in the Ray GRS07, but still comfortable in 4th place.

With Jensen's retirement with clutch failure, Moore merely needed to get his car to the finish, which he duly did, taking his second championship title.

Fisher was slightly disappointed not to take the lap record, having circulated well within it in qualifying. Fastest lap went to Jensen, Hall took second, Jones third and Bratton's Ben Norton fifth with Bathampton's Matt McKillop 6th overall and second in class.

The savesometax.co.uk Special GT Championship race was a walkover for Westbury's Shane Marshall, leading from pole position in his Mallock P21, extending his lead to almost 16 seconds by the flag from Cirencester's Rob Clarke in the Radical Clubsport and Simon Tilling after a spin in his Radical Prosport.

Nigel Mustill and his awesome Opel Omega V8 star effectively ended the overall championship title aspirations of Bristol's Tony Michael, who needed to win class C and take fastest lap to keep his hopes alive.

Michael's pace was as hot as ever, claiming an impressive sixth overall, but Mustill's win and fourth overall gave the championship to class D winner and former Moneysupermarket.com owner, Duncan Cameron, in his Ferrari 360, despite rear chassis damage.

Trowbridge's Mark Funnell was one of the victims of a start line shunt which most of the Ferraris seemed to be involved with, causing the race to be stopped, almost before it had started.

Calne's Tony Hutchings did everything possible to further his chances of retaining his National Mobile Windscreens Saloon Car Championship title.

Class C pole position, a relatively easy win and fastest lap with his MG ZR, further extended his class points lead.

But in the overall standings Hutchings remains two points adrift of Russell Poynter-Brown, who won his class.

Hutchings will need to repeat the feat at the last meeting on October 6, but has to rely on his Turnpike Racing teammate William Di Claudio to beat Poynter-Brown if the title is to remain local.

Chippenham's Di Claudio has to win class D after his second place at this event.

His Peugeot 106 was down on power, despite a new engine, so Di Claudio will be hoping for rain at the next meeting as this is his main hope of closing the five point gap.

Right at the front, Gary Prebble gave his newly acquired ex Rob Ballard Mitsubishi Evo RS Sprint a debut victory after a hard fought race with Melksham's Simon Norris, having his first ever race in another Evo Sprint.

Both drivers fought hard throughout, taking it in turns to lower the lap record which finally fell to Prebble with a stunning time of 1:15.380.

Norris was super close at the finish, Prebble putting a wheel on the grass as they exited Camp and winning by just sixteen hundredths of a second. Russ Humphrey was the third Evo home some 6 seconds adrift.

Holt's Tim Hanlon took class B in only his second outing of the year in his SEAT Ibiza Cupra R after losing 5th gear in qualifying, replacing it at after a quick dash home. Bristol's Mark Wyatt took second in the class and the fastest lap.

The Lenham Cars MG Midget race was interrupted with several accidents, but pole man Richard Perry survived to win in his modified Midget, with Weston Super Mare's Adrian Moore winning class B and 5th overall.

Swindon's Dan Ludlow was second fastest in qualifying for the combined Peter Best Challenge/Drayton Manor Park race in his Metro Gti, finishing in that position and taking a strong class win too. The race was won by Andrew Young's MGC GT.