Enduroka – Snetterton, Penalised for being Innocent ????

Having qualifying fourth best and just 0.465 secs off pole position, Nunn took the first stint, starting from row four of the 30 car grid.

Having settled in fourth on the opening lap, he briefly dropped back, but by lap six it had all closed up again and he was the leader a lap later.

Battling among the top three places changed repeatedly, leading again on lap 11, before making the first mandatory pitstop 16 laps in.

After the first hour they were sixth and pitted again after 27 laps, still in fifth and handing over to Holme.

As the rest of the crews made their stops, Holme had climbed to third again at the two hour mark, before handing back to Nunn after 51 laps to bring the car to the flag, having retained a solid fifth for most of the later stages.

“It felt more like three hours of qualifying than a race at times,” said Holme.

In race two however they were soon on the back foot. Seventh on lap one, they plunged down the order four laps later after Holme was hit. “I made a move at Wilson and then he hit me, spun me out and we dropped to 19^th,” he said.

The safety car was out just before the first stop 17 laps in, but after the first  two hour they were still playing catch up in 15th place.

Nunn had started to make rapid progress and with safety car out for five laps from lap 25, he was sixth as the green flag was waved.” We fuelled and changed driver and no else did,” Holme added.

The progress continued and sixth became fifth, continuing to close on two of the cars ahead.

Pitting almost exactly on the two- hour mark, Holme rejoined in fifth again. But as the other crews made their final stops they were up into third, before going second four laps later and just 6.7 seconds off the lead.

“Then I had contact with a backmarker, otherwise we could have won that race,” said Holme.

Into the final 10 laps Ka Doodle Doo closed in and snatched second, but at the flag Holme was still a solid second, but then received a post-race penalty for failing to provide in car footage. The draconian two lap penalty dropped them back to 19^th place, in but on pace and in spirit it was a hard fought podium finish.

“We seemed to spend the whole day up and down to the Clerk’s office. Track limits, contact and then the penalty which robbed us. Our footage was unavailable after I was hit by the backmarker, but although we were proved to be the innocent party, we were still penalised, just crazy,” he concluded.