Tim Sugden

O'Doar's morning had begun badly with a power steering hose failure, but once the Primera was repaired, he put together an impressive afternoon lap and was said to be extremely pleased with the progress being made with the car.

Tim Hardy completed the VLM contingent in seventh, ahead of pro-drives Tim Sugden.

Greg, Odor putting the Nissan 6th amongst the BMWs, Vauxhalls and Toyotas is a pretty decent effort there, isn't it? Was that already a sign that the Primera had the makings of a very good touring car?

Yeah, I think so.

Motorsport's contemporary summary needed only five words to describe what had happened.

Toyota scores a known goal.

With the Toyotas gone, Cleland was left leading Tim Sugden, Bobby Verdon-Rowe, Jeff Allen, Alain Menut and David Leslie.

Harvey had already climbed to 10th from the back of the grid, while Soper was beginning his own recovery and was up to 15th.

I had to go around and ask.

I think I ended up asking Tim Sugden.

Do you remember Tim Sugden? He was trying to tell me how to do a start.

I must have asked Patrick as well.

I probably thought I'd get another opinion in case Patrick told