Rounds 13 & 14 saw the championship venture nore to visit the Croft circuit just outside Darlington. It was my first visit to the circuit and arriving in the dark on Friday night due to bad traffic didn't help my plan for walking the track and famiiarising myself with the required lines!

Thankfully a good friend and fellow racer Ian Crisp came to the rescue offering to show me his lines during the first few laps of qualifying. This turned out to be invaluable as I was able to slowly build up speed around the fast but technical circuit finally qualifying 5th in class, but a disapointing 4 seconds off the pace of the class B leader.

Race one saw what appears to be turning into a regular battle re-commence! The now familiar sight of myself, Des Thresh and Mark Astall battling amongst ourselves quickly got underway after a great start pushing me up the order in the first couple of corners. Some very close but fair racing followed with our battle allowing the rest of the field to catch up but thankfully not too quickly. A finish of 3rd place was considerably better than expected and determined the grid position for race 2.

A very long wait for race two on the Sunday meant lots of thinking time and I'd already decided to throw as much at the circuit as I dare. As the pack entered the first corner, contact between two or three cars at the front left one car stranded and although I'd managed to drive around it and position myself well up the field, the race was red flagged and a re-start was required. As I waited for the re-start I reminded myself of the need to push hard and as the lights went out, I made possibly one of the best starts this season taking both of the other class B cars by the first corner and again driving around some wayward cars in the first few corners. I now had the entire class B (and some of class A) behind me and had moved from 10th on the grid to 7th overall in a field of 18 cars.

Possibly the longest 15minutes of my life follwed considering all that was left to do was ensure that I didn't make a mistake to take the class win. As I watched the battle for position in my rear view mirror I realised they weren't gaining on me so I tried not to look and just keep focused. The chequered flag came (eventually!) and the first win in the new car was in the bag! A superb result again for the guys at Assimil8 who again sponsored this entry.