360 Racing’s Jason Rishover had probably his best weekends racing ever, with two podium finishes in the Radical Challenge at Donington Park.
The Silverstone based team had three SR3 RSX’s on the grid with Martin Verity and Peter Tyler joining Rishover.
In qualifying for the first race Rishover was third and only 0.046 secs off second man Shane Stoney. “I got held up on my best lap, or could have been second,” he said.
Tyler was ninth quickest, “I had some new set-up and it seemed to work well. The car really handled well,” he said, while Verity was a couple of rows further back in 12th.
A first corner incident brought the safety car out straight way in the first race, with Rishover holding station in third, while Tyler was already sixth and Verity 11th.
After four laps the green flag was waved and Rishover joined an immediate split with Marcus Clutton and Stoney.
He consolidated his hold on third, but couldn’t make a further impression on the lead pair, making his stop on lap 14 from third still. “I had a battery problem and lost some power, then it just cleared,” he explained.
Tyler lost a place in the pits, rejoining seventh, but spent the rest of the race in a terrific duel with team mate Verity.
Rishover had gained a place during his stop and came out a strong second. Chris Short had started to close, “I knew he was coming but I was told on the radio that he had a stop go penalty, so I eased my pace to conserve tyres and manage the gap to bring it home safe in second,” he explained.
“We had a right old ding dong, I defended everywhere to stop him getting me, but struggled a bit of the Esses,” Tyler added, after he successfully held off Verity’s challenge for seventh.
Verity was later given a post-race penalty of 30 seconds, dropping him to 11th.