The Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Trophy race at the Spa Six Hours meeting organized by Motor Racing Legends drew a remarkable entry of 40 pre-1956 sports cars. It then proceeded to produce a surprise winner in Maserati 250SI driver Marc Devis when polewinner and early leader Ben Eastick’s
D-Type Jaguar was delayed by a lengthy pit stop. That stop erased the Jag’s comfortable lead and threw Eastick into a frantic charge back through the field that fell just short at the checkered flag. Third place was taken by Carlos Monteverde and Gary Pearson in their ex–Jim Clark D-Type, ahead of the Lotus X of Adrian Hall and Nick Adams.
Sir Stirling Moss and Roger Earl overcame the chronic gearbox trouble that had plagued Moss’s Osca FS372 all year by devising a successful strategy to drive around the problem that let them finish 2nd in class, though only 29th overall.
In the BRDC Classic Sportscars part of the program, Ewan McIntyre survived a next-to-last lap spin at the La Source hairpin to take his Lotus X to a narrow victory over Philip Walker’s Lotus 15, with Jamie McIntyre’s Lister Knobbly 3rd.
In the race for prewar cars, Gareth Burnett and Alex Ames drove John Ruston’s 2-liter Alta Sports to a 26-second victory over Charles Gillett and Justin Maeers in a 1.5-liter Frazer Nash Supersports, with Martin Overington’s supercharged Bugatti Type 35B taking 3rd, even though the Bugatti’s gearbox blew its top on the last lap.
