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Race report: 77MM – Tony Gaze Trophy

07th April 2019
Richard Heseltine

Former Formula One star David Coulthard emerged victorious in the Tony Gaze Trophy race for road-going sports and GT cars that competed between 1954 and ’59.

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The 13-time Grand Prix victor, who started from the middle of the front row, arrived at Madgwick for the first time ahead of pole-sitter Richard Woolmer’s Austin-Healey 100M Coupé. Coulthard briefly lost the lead to the youngster on the second lap as Woolmer lunged inside the Scot’s IWC-prepared Mercedes-Benz 300SL ‘Gullwing’ on the second apex at Lavant, only for Coulthard to reclaim the position almost immediately.

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Woolmer was only 0.38 seconds in arrears at the end of the third lap, but sadly he was forced to retire his car shortly before half-distance. Coulthard’s lead over new second place man, Austin-Healey racer Mike Thorne, was a whisker over eight seconds at the start of the penultimate lap, with Jaguar XK150 driver Andrew Keith-Lucas and Austin-Healey ace Jonathan Abecassis squabbling over third place to the flag, with the former just getting the nod.

Photography by Tom Shaxson and Drew Gibson.

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