Beautiful weather greeted the competitors for a round of the Super 1 Championship at Rowrah in Cumbria over the weekend. After five wet meetings from the last six, race day on Sunday made it two dry races in a row. Cumbrian weather will have to be careful - I might need sun-cream..!

Superb racing, spoiled only by the odd pedantic protest, came from all four classes, with Mark Litchfield reigning supreme in Formula SKF. The PF International entered former British Champion was untouchable - fastest in timed qualifying, winner of both heats, and winner of both finals. A boring day at the office for Mark.

Jacob Nortoft in KF2 continued his winning ways from his race win at Genk in Belgium a few weeks ago, when he took control of his class for a well-deserved victory. The junior KF3 category meanwhile fell to the Racing Steps Foundation supported youngster, Jake Dennis, whose international experience in 2010 is clearly being put to good use on home turf.

And finally in Cadets it was Tom Harvey who showed he could sustain serious pressure from his rivals, when he kept all and sundry at bay on his way to the chequered flag, to maintain his Series points lead.

The drive of the race though came from Dylon Phibbs in KF3, where after a disaster in timed qualifying, and two similar 'disasters' in his heats, meant he was confined to a low grid slot. To then be able to care his way up the running order, reaching 6th place by the flag in the main final, as he put pressure on the driver immediately ahead of him, was quite impressive stuff. Another lap or two and 5th place was on the cards. The young racer just needs to start from the front now...

Le Mans 24 hours

Anthony Davidson, together with his team-mates Alexander Wurz and Marc Gene, drove a stunning race yesterday in France, when they came close to a podium finish in the Peugeot 908 HDi LMP1 car.

Anthony had led the race at one stage, but a night incident with a Ferrari, and then an electrical problem that took some time to fix, delayed them for awahile, until Anthony, in the sole surviving trio of team Peugeot's, was told to "push"... and "push" he did! Sadly what appeared to be a turbo failure with just 2-hours remaining, when Wurz had Audi under pressure for second place, ended their day.

Naturally there was controversy, when a back-marker GT2 car decided to visit the barriers in the Porsche Curves, and since Anthony was blitzing the Corvette driven by Emanuel Collard at the time, the commentators and forums provided some unjust commentary and statements.

Scruting of the TV footage clearly shows Anthony was not only very quick and setting fastest race laps, but he was also on the racing line, and on the inside of the Corvette as they went into the left-hander. As a journalist, I would have reported how the Corvette driver should have been aware of his position, and the fact he was being lapped again, but instead lost control on the 'marbles' and hit the barrier.

Anthony receved plaudits from his team for a superb effort, whilst others berated him for his supremacy on the track. "I'm a racing driver," Anthony said, "and I had to take a few risks." And racing drivers are paid to win, if necessary by taking risks, and are not paid to acquiesce with an 'after you...' mentality.

Well done Ant..!

The pleasure of photography comes from having a good subject (or subjects), and delivering a result that makes a client happy.

I had the pleasure of doing such a job this week, where the two sons of a proud mum wanted both indoor and outdoor (a glorious sunny day in the beautiful contryside outside Bradford in West Yorkshire) photographs taking.

Having to handle a camera for a living can be such a hard life..!