WARRINGTON drivers were busy at Oulton Park over the weekend, with four of six drivers from the town stepping on the podium at the Cheshire track.

Abraham de Groot and Steve Johansen raced their Nimbus Data sponsored VW Beetle in a four-hour endurance race called the Fun Cup Championship, with the pair looking to go one further than the second place they achieved in the same race last year.

They carefully picked their way through the field of 23 cars to hit the front twice during the race, only to be pipped in the final four circuits by last year’s defending champions to finish second.

Brothers David and Tom McArthur enjoyed mixed fortunes when racing in the Avon Tyres Formula Ford 1600 Northern Championship for post 1989 cars. David had an outstanding day’s racing, finishing second overall and first in class out of 19 cars in both races, as well as getting both fastest laps for his class to earn him the title of Formula Ford ‘Driver of the Day’ from the race organisers.

Tom did not enjoy such a successful day, finishing ninth overall and eighth in class in the first race before a crash forced him to retire with bent suspension in the second.

Andrew Lennie was the next man on the podium, recording first in class and third overall in his Ford Escort XR3i during the Advantage Motorsport Ford XR Challenge for both Fiesta XR2 and Escort XR3i cars.

Lymm’s Adam Burgess, who was racing for the first time in his XR3i, finished in a reasonable twelfth place.