CORNISHMAN Mike Lee asserted himself on his return to the Manor Farm hillclimb course at Charmouth to take a brace of victories across the weekend and repel the challenges of Chard speedster Stuart Browne who took victories 12 months ago.

Lee, at the wheel of his Suzuki powered OMS 2000M single-seater racing car, took both the Eric Moxom Memorial Trophy and the Anniversary Trophy having claimed the fastest time of the day in both events but was challenged all the way by sports racing car pilot Rod Thorne.

The Frampton Garage proprietor was in ‘maximum attack’ mode in both events to the extent he spun his five-litre Rover V8- powered Pilbeam MP43 on two occasions during the Sunday practice runs as he attempted to find time through the testing right and left-hand bends known as Manor.

Despite his spectacular drives, Thorne was obliged to give best to Lee having finished less than three-10ths of a second after the single-seater driver.

However, two victories in the over 1800cc Sports Racing Car class were secured.

Competing at Manor Farm for the first time, Tim Pitfield from Maiden Newton was looking for a similar result in the under 1800cc Sports Racing Car division.

The Suzuki-powered DJ Firecat driver went head-to-head with Stewart Lillington from Chard in his similarly powered Radical SR4, ending with one win each.

Just as Thorne entertained the spectators as did Craig Moore, who contested the Rally Car category in his Ford Cortina.

Always on the limit the Lyme Regis driver won the first event but was defeated the next day by Tim Porter’s Darrian T90.

The double Wiscombe Park champion gave one hundred per cent all the way to the finish line.

The 2015 season has seen close competition in the Road-going Specialist Production car category where cars can be equipped with a conventional car power plant or that from a motorcycle.

The main protagonists all drive Westfield cars but the interest has been how Mike Williams, who employs a two-litre car engine, fares against the Suzuki Megabusa motivated machines of Adrian Lewis and Andrew Forsyth.

At Manor Farm, the competition for Williams was even more foreboding with the addition to the entry list of Stewart Green and his Sylva Riot.

Both Forsyth and Green used their 1300cc motors to the full with Green, from Frampton, keeping Forsyth honest and taking two second places by a mere eight hundredths of a second in the Saturday event and 18 hundredths 24 hours later.