Liberation Day event turns back the clock

THE clocks were turned back more than 40 years to sandracing's glory days for the third meeting of the season.

Emulating the days when more or less everyone worked five-and-a-half-day weeks and Thursday afternoons was taken as time off, racing returned to a Thursday to take advantage of the Liberation Day holiday.

There was a slight increase in the number of car drivers on show and the largest class was for four-wheel drive production saloons with regulars Simon Carre, Darren De Carteret and Shaun Leigh being joined by Paul De Jersey in the ex John Le Page Audi Quattro and Craig Addlesee in the largest engined car, a Subaru 3300cc.

Though Carre ruled the roost he was chased hard by de Jersey, while Leigh and Addlesee were both having engine problems.