Thruxton is a fantastic place to watch motorsport – last weekend’s British Touring Car meeting at the Hampshire speedbowl was yet another reminder of that. And the addition of the viewing area at the high-speed Noble corner, offering a panoramic overview of much of the circuit, from the Complex all the way up Woodham Hill and towards the Club chicane, means there is now yet another excellent vantage point for spectators to observe the slipstreaming action.
Yet, sadly, one of the categories making a guest appearance last weekend was down on numbers and – aside from Charles Clark’s recovery from the back to a podium in race two – there was not all that much action for fans to view in the Porsche Sprint Challenge GB contests. Qualifying was the perfect demonstration of this, with the majority of the nine cars spending much of the half-hour session in the pits in order to preserve tyres, with just one actually taking the chequered flag.
