Oink Oink.

Molesey’s Group 5 king has for some time been Julian, but this week he elevated his dominance to an entirely different level. Driving his “Pink Pig” Porsche 935/78 which had already won a Molesey GT round, he chopped a whopping 1.3 tenths off his previous best Group 5 race lap of 7.913 seconds to record a mighty 7.777. And as if that wasn’t impressive enough, he lowered his best Group 5 total race time by a colossal 13.57 seconds, leaving the rest of the field floundering in his wake and scratching their heads, wondering what they needed to do to become even slightly competitive. For now, Julian and his pink pig have everyone else utterly crushed.

Behind Julian the racing was a little closer, Josh initially in second place before appearing to lose interest and dropping to third behind Simon, giving David a sniff at a podium finish, a sniff he ultimately wasted by crashing in his final heat.

Alex, driving a Toyota Celica LB Turbo which had prodigious straight-line speed, was head and shoulders above the rest of his group, easily winning the point for fastest group lap and biting at the heels of David for fourth place overall. Behind him, Graham and Neil again enjoyed an epic battle, their gap never greater than 3.1 seconds. For most of the race it looked as though Neil would take sixth spot, but in the last few laps of the final heat he crashed twice, gifting the place to Graham.

At the back of the race it was a tale of woe for Ed and the Tomster. Ed, who’d returned after a couple of months away, struggled to find any consistency and instead hit the barriers far too often. For the first couple of heats Ed’s pain did at least benefit Tom, who lined up for Heat 3 a second clear of Ed, but then mechanical gremlins struck Tom again, a loose guide wire ruining his race and any chance he had of beating Ed.

Whether it was Ed and the Tomster dispirited at the back, or Simon and Josh clueless as to how to take the fight to Julian, this was a race dominated by a flying pink pig. Oink oink.