SNETTERTON
RACE ONE
Matt Hammond enjoyed the perfect start to his MINI CHALLENGE Trophy campaign with a lights-to-flag victory in an action-packed opening race of the season at Snetterton.
The former series champion had earlier qualified his EXCELR8 Motorsport-run car on pole position and was able to make his advantage count in the opening race, which would be brought to a premature end as a result of a clash in the chasing pack.
Aware of the need to break the tow from the cars behind if he wanted to convert pole into a race win, Hammond played a tactical game through the opening lap to try and get the pack behind embroiled in a battle and it worked to perfection. “I knew I needed to try and break away from the pack behind, so on the opening lap I tried to back them up
