Brent’s ‘grab and smash’

Driving the beautiful Lamborghini Huracan Performante 5200, he sped over the quarter-mile finish line at around 100mph to stop the clock at 11.91sec and claim the fastest time of the day.

But in so doing he lost control and the No. 15 car – current book price of £200k-plus new – careered more than 150 metres on the grass verge beyond the finish line and Le Gele Road before colliding with a metal fence and yet-to-be-used large drainage pipes on the coastal common halfway along the stretch of coastal road.

As spectacular as the crash was Meerveld, whose brother Grant was driving his own matching Lamborghini, walked away unhurt.

The incident happened mid-afternoon on a damp and miserable opening to the ‘summer’ motorsport season ahead of today’s first hill climb.

Consequently there was a long delay to racing which, along with the poor conditions, made for a less than ideal start to the campaign for the field.

Conditions being as miserable as they were, it was a major surprise that the record books did not go untouched.

Zef Eisenberg knows all too well about crashing, having experienced a 230mph spill at Elvington Airfield in Yorkshire 18 months ago, but he has recovered well and he clocked 12.97 to take the quads class record by more than a second.

For the established stars on two wheels, such as Adam Girard, one of the few to have ever ducked under 10sec., conditions were too severe to risk machine and limb.

Only one 750cc rider took to the road, Phil Le Ber clocking 14.99.

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