Although most of the field are too young to even drive on the roads, the race itself proved to be compelling viewing with Dominic Pettit leading the way from Dino Zamparelli going into the final lap.
Into Clearways for the final time though, Zamparelli saw his chance to go for the win and grabbed it with both hands. Moving to the inside of Pettit, the pair then ran side-by-side all the way to the chequer with Zamparelli taking a literal photo-finish by the narrowest of margins – just 0.025secs ahead.
"I was in sixth place early on and losing pace so I thought to myself I have to try and make up some places," said the round one victor. "I managed to pick people off one by one and when I got into second I thought I had a good chance of winning the race.
"My pit board said there were three laps to go when actually there were only two so on what turned out to be the last lap, I went up the inside of Dominic – he gave me space which was nice – but then I could see he was coming back at me. I just put my foot down and we ran side by side to the line. It was such a good race, I'm so happy to win."
Now can the BTCC brigade provide the same fun later today?
