
Relentless sunshine, a blustery headwind on the Brabham Straight and countless dramas on Brands Hatch’s Indy Circuit characterised a 750 Motor Club season-opener that Mark Windley, Ross Boorman, Neil Dudman and Tom Holland will remember as first-time winners.
Windley’s 750 Formula victory on Saturday rewarded the winter rebuild of his Darvi – nine times a championship winner, eight with Peter Bove, once with Robin Gearing – after crashing heavily on their debut at October’s Mallory Park finale. Windley’s imperious outside pass on former champ Bill Cowley’s Cowley MkIV at Paddock Hill Bend, reminiscent of Jacky Ickx’s in 1974’s wet Formula 1 Race of Champions, landed the smartly reliveried warhorse’s 72nd championship round victory!