John Ure and Patrick Blakeney-Edwards dominated the Royal Automobile Woodcote Trophy race with their Cooper T24/25 in the first of two Motor Racing Legends Races on 29 August, during the 2011 Oulton Park Gold Cup meeting.
After John Ure passed Dick Skipworth's D-type in the Cooper he was chased for much of the race by Stephen Bond’s Lister Bristol, which even took the lead at one point.
While, as a solo driver, Bond had to stop for a mandatory 45 seconds the Ure/Blakeney-Edwards pairing did a rapid pit-stop by Blakeney-Edwards pushing Ure out of the car and leaving him on the ground as he roared off down the pit lane. They regained the lead and kept it.
Bobby Verdon-Roe took pole for the Stirling Moss Trophy race in the 1959 Le Mans-winning Aston Martin DBR1, but a misfire meant the car didn’t take the start – robbing spectators of what would have been an epic battle between the DBR1 and the Lister Knobbly of Jon Minshaw and Martin Stretton, which qualified just four hundredths of a second behind.
Minshaw lost the lead and dropped down to third in his Knobbly after a spin on lap 5, giving Ewan McIntyre the opportunity to sweep ahead in his Lotus 15, closely followed by Jason Minshaw in his Maserati T61 Birdcage.
