With one driver called off to the US on business and one driver (Paul Fenton) who had not driven there before the team approached Thruxton with some apprehension. Thruxton has a fierce reputation as the fastest circuit in the UK so the team was very pleased to place 13th out of 31 cars tucked up behind a new M3 CSL and Anthony Reid's Judd powered MG.

The start was uneventful, holding station and then over the first few laps dropping the E46 M3 of Andy Allen over the first 50 minutes. As a solo driver we planned to leave Paul out until well after the "mid race" pit chaos, but with increasing understeer and dropping pace the team pulled the car in from 6th place overall after 70 minutes. After a slick tyre change the car was sent back out in 8th overall and 4th in class. With a 35 seconds gap to 7th overall and 3rd in class Paul gave chase, closing the gap at 1-2 seconds a lap.

With the gap down to 17 seconds with 20 minutes to go a wayward Class 1 car rub against the bumper into Noble corner at just over 120 mph. The bumper damaged the right rear tyre which made the car handling "interesting". With 20 minutes to go Paul decided to continue although the tyre damage meant the car was a bit of a handful in the left handers. The chase for 3rd in class was abandoned and the team was relieved to finish 4th in class and just beaten into 10th overall by the Class 1 Falken Motorsport Skyline in a sprint to the line.