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After several disappointing outings in his F2 Marches due mainly to teething troubles with engine installations, Peter Meyrick driving his Race Engine Design Hart powered March 782 at the SPA circuit in Belgium, managed P1 in European F2 qualifying. In the race proper after a bad start, he dropped down to fifth place but after some hard driving managed to overtake Steve Maxted’s Lola T360 and Bo Warmenius March 772 but even though he had lost too much ground to be in touch with the leaders, managed to get on the podium in third place. In Race two Peter started from pole but was beaten into second place by Christian Million in his Ralt RT1, after 3 laps with Peter on his rear wing Million spun at the Bustop Chicane and Peter went on to lead the race, closely followed by Martin Stretton in his March 712M and Bob Juggins in his Lola T240 these three remained locked together in tight formation up to the end of the race, Meyrick staying on top until the finish just 0.713 seconds ahead of Stretton with Juggins 8.1 secs in third.

Picture shows Meyrick leading the pack on the warm up lap before the first race.

Donnington Park

On Sunday April 22nd our two Hart 420R 2ltr engines in March782 F2 cars sat on the grid at Donginton Park, Andy Meyrick 2nd and His dad Peter Meyrick 5th.

Off the start into Redgate Andy went on the inside of pole sitter Simon Hadfield in his Formula 5000 car and into the lead, on the 5th lap Andy had a 100yd lead when he lost 4th gear, he carried on in the lead, fighting off Simon Hadfield until the 11th lap when Hadfield became frustrated and punted Andy off going through the chicane, unfortunately after all 4 wheels leaving the floor, 8 X 360 spins and missing the outer wall by centimeters Andy regained control of the car only to have the engine die as he tried to regain the circuit, his race was over, Peter Meyrick had by this time moved up to 3rd place (now second after Andy’s off) overtaking one F2 car and one F5000 car, he battled for ten laps with a frustrated F5000 driver unable to catch him but following closely behind, until spinning off on the inside of the exit of the chicane, leaving Peter to have a comfortable remaining few laps home to finish second in his first outing in his March 782. Andy set fastest lap and won Driver of the Day Award, a good finish to the day.