Westbury's Shane Marshall took a dominant pole, win and fastest lap in the Special GT Championship race at Castle Combe on Monday.

Marshall's Jade was again phenomenal in qualifying, despite being a little loose on the back end.

I need some new tyres,'' he said after the race.

They certainly lacked nothing in traction this time, Marshall making his first clean getaway this year, establishing a lead that would not be challenged, despite a four lap safety car period early in the race.

It was pretty good really, though it wouldn't change gear very well,'' he said.

Bath's Guy Woodward slotted into second place from the second row at race start, his similar Jade to that of Marshall having more grunt than the two litre Mantis of class B sensation Josh Fisher.

Woodward was less than happy though, having stiffened the car after a similar strategy worked at the last meeting when he was right on Marshall's pace.

It seemed the stiffening had gone too far though, Woodward feeling physically sick from the buffeting the car was giving him. Reverting to the status quofor the race, the Jade was improved, but not to his total satisfaction.

The safety car allowed young Fisher to get close enough to pass and the pair swopped places between Quarry and the Esses.

Woodward was unable to respond thereafter and had to settle for third.

Various incidents throughout the race benefited Trowbridge's Andrew Shanley who brought his Radical Prosport home fourth overall and second in class B.

A furious battle for class C ended in tears when Trowbridge's Mark Funnell became the victim of an accident at the exit of Camp corner, when his class rival Nick Williamson lost the back end of his Escort Cosworth.

Luckily, Funnel was later able to repair his car and drive it home, as he always does.

His championship title chances deteriorated significantly though, with Marshall scoring maximum points and Funnell having to make do with one for fastest lap.

Wayne Poole Racing pulled off another clean sweep of three class victories, fastest laps and the outright win in the Melton Concrete Products Formula Ford 1600 race, courtesy of brothers Felix and Josh Fisher, who reversed their usual roles this time.

Other driver, Cirences-ter's Tom Margetson, took his first class C win in his Reynard FF89.

Nelson Rowe from Wotton under Edge had a fairly lonely race to third after the first couple of laps, the third fastest qualifier gradually adapting to his class A Van Diemen RF99.

Initially headed by Castle Combe's Andy Jones and chased by Bratton's Ben Norton, life became simpler for Rowe after Norton's demise at Camp corner at the end of the second lap.

Finding a way past Jones, Rowe pulled clear to finish some four seconds ahead, while Jones fell into a superb race-long battle with Bath's Steven Jensen in the new Swift SC08. The pair providing the closest battle of the race, Jensen ahead in the middle part, but Jones in front when it counted.

Class B runner up, David Vivian from Bradford on Avon in his Swift SC92, survived a first lap coming together with Chippenham's Adam Higgins at Quarry to take sixth overall, the latter not so lucky, his Van Diemen RF01 ending its race firmly stuck in the tyre wall.

Melksham's Simon Norris played down his first victory in the circuit's National Mobile Windscreens Saloon Car Championship race, despite claiming pole position, surviving a safety car period and defending from a lap record challenging Laurence Kilby.

Norris qualified his Evo 9 RS well clear of fellow front row man, Gary Prebble in the Evo 7, helped by a huge amount of horsepower.

Barry Squibb was third fastest, but some 1.7 seconds slower.

Kilby, in his Evo 8, was forced to start from the pitlane after an oil leak from the centre differential was discovered on the grid.

As the leaders entered Quarry for the third time Prebble collided with Squibb.

The steering on both cars was damaged and Norris was left to his own devices.

A charging Kilby had not given up though, setting a new lap record and closing to within .169 seconds of Norris by the flag.

After the race, Norris said: I had a slight engine problem, so it didn't end a moment too soon. I tried to stay calm, but it wasn't the best race I've ever done.'' Kevin Bird from Ditcheat took his first class B victory, well ahead of his rivals in his SEAT Leon Cupra R, but crowd pleaser was fifth placed Jonathan Wills.

His elderly MG Maestro Turbo rocketed from tenth on the grid to head a train of four class B cars consisting of Mark Wyatt, Tony Dolley and reigning champion Tony Hutchings from Calne in the unique Audi TT.

Yate's Nick Charles took an immediate class C lead in his 106, while the ongoing battle between Chipp-enham's William Di Claudio and Yatton Keynell's Jason Cooper for class D, carried on as before with Cooper faster in qualifying and leading the pair for the first eight laps.

Di Claudio's more powerful 106 eventually sailed past into Quarry, further consolidating his overall championship lead.

Ferrari, Porsche and Aston Martin races delighted the large crowd throughout the afternoon. Somerset's Gary Culver took his 328 GTB Ferrari from pole to victory in the Pirelli Ferrari Formula Classic race.