The field for this Forward Trust event was boosted by a couple of extra cars from the Italian series who were heading to a race in Scandinavia. Practice saw Mike Tyrrell (March 733) get his hat trick of pole positions setting a time 0.2 seconds quicker than Danny Sullivan in his similar car. Pre-race favourite Brian Henton was relegated to the back row after only a few practice laps due to a troublesome engine that needed changing.

Tyrrell lead away from pole position but once again it all went wrong for the Antiguan on the opening lap, as the field entered Cobb there was chaos with seven cars involved in an incident. The perpetrator wasn’t clear, some thought it was Moraes, others Tyrrell himself, either way Tyrrell was out on the spot as was the March-Lancia 733 of visiting Italian Marcello Rosei. At the end of the first lap it was Ribiero closely followed by Danny Sullivan with Henton who had taken to the grass at Cobb to avoid the kerfuffle up to third. Lap 3 saw Henton get within striking distance of Ribeiro and Sullivan, this lap also seeing the demise of Moraes with a puncture sustained in the opening lap incident.