Wigton Motor Club got their season off to a flying start with round one of the HPE Construction Autotest Championship when Peter Wright was the runaway winner of the Early Spring Autosolo.
Wright took his Mini to win by 90 seconds over Peter Masters, who travelled over from Durham in his Suzuki for the event held at Maryport on Sunday.
However, Peter, who won the FWD class, was only a second up on the very smooth John Holliday in his Mazda MX5, who won the RWD class.
The day started in extremely wet conditions and the surface was very slippery but there was a very high standard of driving and only a couple of wrong directions during the days.
It was a tribute to David Wiggins and his organising team from the organising club that it ran so smoothly.
Aaron Pattinson was fifth, and winner of class FWD2, in his Corsa after a clean run through all of the tests.
Eighteen tests were run during the day, with the final one being the longest at more than three minutes.
Drew McLean and Angus Cowan were next up in the Mazda MX5 and Escort RS respectively.
They ended up tied on time but were separated on who was fastest on the first test, which in this case happened to be Cowan.
David Agnew, in his 1969 Mini, was seventh ahead of Dan Grierson’s Clio and John Sloan’s Escort, which was the first historic.
Fourteen-year-old Jack Long was 10th on only his second event in a VW Fox after an error-free run.
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