CALNE’S Tony Hutchings made it two out of two at the Castle Combe circuit’s Motors TV Race Day on Bank Holiday Monday after another tremendous battle with his rival Gary Prebble, from Southampton, in the Saloon Car Championship race.

The qualifying form of Prebble suggested he would be the man to beat, putting his SEAT Leon Cupra Turbo on pole by 1.3 seconds over Hutchings.

But a swift getaway by the local man in his Audi TT meant Prebble immediately had a fight on his hands.

It took less than two laps before the pass came, but nevertheless, Hutchings stayed in touch, so as the pair began to lap the back markers, the latter was well placed to capitalise.

With around six minutes left to run, the pair came upon a wall of slower cars, Prebble, committing to the right hand side of the track, only to find his way blocked.

In an opportunistic move, Hutchings jinked left and threaded his way through on the entry to Quarry corner, establishing a useful gap over the SEAT.

Prebble pushed his car to the limit to get the lead back but despite a late braking move on the last time through Camp, Hutchings had done enough and took his second win of the season.

He said, “There were times when Gary was by the side of me and I thought: 'how did he do that?'. From my point of view, I was very happy with the back markers, it was fine for me.”

In third place was Bath’s Dave Scaramanga, his a lonely race in his VW Scirocco, barely challenged by fourth-placed James Winter in the Renault Megane who was 20 seconds adrift, just ahead of Bill Brockbank, from Stonehouse, in the SEAT.

Taking class B was Bristol’s Mark Wyatt in the Astra in sixth, with Bath’s John Barnard bringing his Astra Turbo home in seventh, ahead of Bridgwater’s Tony Dolley in the Peugeot 206.

Adrian Slade, from Melksham, made up for his non-start last time to take maximum class C points in his Peugeot 106 in ninth overall, just ahead of Kieren Simmons, from Weston Super Mare, in his B class Fiesta.

Russell Poynter-Brown, from Compton Martin, was a dominant class D winner in his Vauxhall Corsa.

The Formula Ford 1600 championship race was a classic.

The lead of pole man Michael Moyers, in the Kevin Mills Racing car, was shortlived as he lost the back end of his Spectrum into Camp on the first lap. This gave Steeple Ashton’s Ben Norton his opportunity in the Wiltshire College car, but he too made a mistake, less than a lap later.

Waiting to pounce was a trio of super-competitive young chargers. Outdriving their machines were Yatton Keynell’s Luke Cooper in the class B Swift and Bridgwater’s Josh Fisher in his elderly class C Reynard, which he had qualified ninth.

Langford’s Roger Orgee felt out of place qualifying sixth in his KMR Van Diemen RF00, but quickly made progress to hold third on lap three.

Cooper seemed to be in control, taking the lead from Fisher and comfortable in his outdated car.

But a safety car on lap five destroyed the small but useful lead which he had established and allowed Orgee to close right up.

On the restart, Fisher initially found a way through, but two laps later a charging Orgee had the Ridgmill Van Diemen past both of his rivals, going on to win from Fisher by just half a second, with Cooper almost joined to his tail.

Moyers recovered from his first lap spin to take fourth with Chippenham’s Adam Higgins, the reigning champion, battling through to fifth.

Fisher’s brother Felix was sixth in his RF02 Van Diemen with Coventry’s Nathan Ward, in another ‘Kevin Mills’ car, seventh.

Melksham’s Ed Moore was ninth in his Van Diemen.

Barry Squibb was an expected winner of the circuit’s Sports & GT championship race, the four-wheel drive of his Mitsubishi Evo easily tackling the drenched circuit. Perry Waddams took his brutal TVR to second with Adam Prebble third in his Rover Turbo.