As the top two cars started to pull away from the battling pair of Vipers and the Jones Ascari, sixth placed Paul Drayson in the bio fuel Aston Martin was being challenged by the Tech 9 Porsche of Tom Ferrier, however Drayson had been learning a few tricks from his co driver and was able to keep the nimble Porsche behind him. The Beechdean
Ferrari of Andrew Howard pulled into the pits with a broken alternator which the team started to replace immediately. The Ferrari managed to regain the track but had lost so many laps it wouldn't figure in the finishing order at the end of the race.
Meanwhile back on track, Jones was challenging Mortimer's Viper as the pair exited the Hairpin for the fifth time. Jones managed to get the better run out of the corner and was able to place the Ascari alongside the V10 Viper into Clervaux and moved into 4th place on the way into Hawthorn. He then set about the second Viper, putting Redwood under immense pressure for lap after lap until the grey Ascari was able to make a move stick on lap twelve into the
Jim Clark Esses. A lap later Redwood lost another place to Mortimer, who then proceeded to pull away from his team-mate.
At the front Harrington was still circulating the 2-mile circuit maintaining a one to one point five second gap to Greenhalgh's Ascari. In turn the leading pair was over ten seconds ahead of the Jones Ascari in third and pulling away by two tenths of a second per lap.
Behind them Paul Drayson was heading a four car train of Tom Ferrier, Neil Cunningham in the Team Trimite Viper and the Team RPM Viper of Steve Clark. However as the pitstop window approached Drayson made a costly mistake, running wide on the exit of Tower Bend, allowing the three cars to all pass the Aston by the time the cars got to Barcroft.
