Sturges snares Super Saturday treble at Thruxton

MARCUS PYE

THRUXTON CSCC 1-2 MAY Emulating local Jaguar E-type ace John Burbidge’s Modsports 1970s feats, three more Classic Sports Car Club victories for Kimpton’s Jamie Sturges on Saturday took the SEAT Leon and VW Golf TCR racer’s Thruxton tally to seven in three seasons. Second in the Spanish machine, behind poleman Jack Layton’s BMW E46 M3 in the first Open Series thrash, whetted Sturges’s appetite. Thereafter it was golds all the way in the 300bhp turbocharged tourers. The opener was red-flagged within seconds when the M3s of Dominic Malone (ex-Andy Priaulx E46 WTCC) and faststarting Adam Howarth (E36) collided as the field squeezed into Allard corner. Howarth was launched into Andrew Rath’s Lotus Europa. Layton stormed ahead, leaving Sturges to repel David Gardner (E36 M3). Max Petch (Ginetta G50) battled back to the head of a…

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