MIKE Lee asserted himself on the Manor Farm hillclimb course at Charmouth to take a brace of victories across a weekend and claim the Eric Moxom Memorial and the Anniversary Trophies.

The Suzuki-powered OMS 2000M pilot claimed the fastest time of the day in both of the Woolbridge Motor Club events but was challenged all the way by fellow single-seater driver James Gibson.

The first of the Sports Libre categories saw the win go to Stewart Lillington in his Radical SR4.

The Chard engineer took his Suzuki powered machine to the top of the course in a best of 26.13 seconds to defeat the larger engined DJ Firecat of Tim Pitfield.

It was the Maiden Newton driver who celebrated the following day, despite a contretemps with the barriers on his first run, having nailed his second attempt on 29.22 seconds in damp and slippery conditions.

The over 1800cc capacity split of sports racers saw a brace of wins for Rod Thorne.

The Frampton garage proprietor, back on four wheels following his recent debut with the Shellbourne motorcycle sidecar unit, was determined to keep the pressure on

the single-seater racer car drivers for the honour of fastest time of the

day.

Thorne posted a best climb of 26.42 seconds on the first day of the

meeting in his Rover V8-powered Pilbeam MP43 sports racer to claim his first win with Phil Gale securing third in his circuit racing Darrian T9.

The Winfrith Newburgh driver,

using the meeting as a test session prior to his final outing of the season in the Castle Coombe sports car

series, was using tyres with a compound suitable for racing rather than the very soft rubber employed on many of the cars in speed hill climbing.

Thorne took the honours in the Sunday meeting but had to rely on his first run climb of 27.47 seconds having spun off the track in a

banzai effort on his final run of the weekend.

Others to claim a double over the weekend included brothers in motor sporting arms, Andrew and James Forsyth.

The former from Shillingstone, at the wheel of his Suzuki Megabusa-powered Westfield, took comfortable victories over the similar car of Adrian Lewis and the two-litre

Ford powered variant of Andy Cawsey. Meanwhile, Forsyth secured his wins in only his third event at

the wheel of his late father’s Alfa Dana.

He came home in front of the Cooper Jap of Bridport driver Tim Sage on both occasions.

Bere Regis driver Stephen Wareham finished down the order in

the Downton Engineering Works Social Club class on the first day of the meeting but revelled in the slippery conditions a day later to take the class honours in his Morris Mini with a time of 31.03 seconds to defeat the Vauxhall Nova of Steve Harris on 31.52.