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As midday on Revival Sunday arrived, the grid assembled for one of the highlights of the schedule. The McLaren-Chevrolet M1B of James Davison sat in pole position, flanked by a pair of formidable Lola-Chevrolet T70 Spyders driven by Stuart Hall and Alex Brundle respectively.

When the flag dropped, Davison’s McLaren launched off the line, with the T70s hot on his heels in a flat-out drag race. Behind them, the rest of the field hurtled forward, though a wild twitch from the Cooper-Ford Monaco King Cobra T61M gave spectators a heart-in-mouth moment before it safely joined the fray. The drama escalated as Steve Seaman spun his Lola-Chevrolet T70 Spyder onto the grass, narrowly missing Keith Ahlers's King Cobra before scrambling back onto the tarmac.

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Moments later, chaos struck the front-runners as Hall sent his T70 Spyder into a frenzied spin, forcing Brundle to dive onto the grass to avoid a massive collision. Further down the order, a breathtaking duel ignited between Graham Moss’s Lola-Chevrolet T70 Mk2 and Harvey Stanley’s Lola-Chevrolet T70 Spyder, with the two cars running side-by-side into the chicane. The action refused to let up as Otto Reedtz-Thott sent his green Ford GT40 into a spectacular 360-degree spin, closely followed by Seaman suffering a second spin of the afternoon in his beleaguered Lola.

Back on the charge and hungry for more action, Hall hounded the Ford GT40 Roadster of Pedro Macedo Silva in his Lola-Chevrolet T70 Spyder, shadowing its every twitch before executing a clean overtake just as the safety car was deployed. The intervention bunched the pack together with under 15 minutes left on the clock, leaving everything to play for.

At the restart, Davison bolted clear of the traffic and opened up a staggering gap of over 23 seconds between himself and second-place Brundle. While Davison checked out at the front, the final few laps delivered a high-speed showdown further down the order, as Stanley and Moss went nose-to-tail right to the chequered flag.

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With screaming V8s echoing across every inch of the motor circuit, late-stage attrition began to strike. Jeremy Cottingham was forced out in his Ford GT40, quickly followed by the retirements of Tom Sykes in the McLaren-Chevrolet M1A and Katsu Kubota, who made a dramatic grid exit in his Lotus-Ford 30. Ultimately, though, the day belonged to Davison. He guided his McLaren across the line ahead of Brundle and Stanley to claim victory with one of the largest gaps of the weekend, officially crowning the M1B the fastest car of the meeting.