Thomas Erdos had to dig deep in order to maintain his unbeaten record in qualifying, but found another half-second to better a late charge from Stuart Moseley in the Bruichladdich Radical. With one record intact, race day saw the team set another, with a lap record of 1:22.953 from Erdos en route to a memorable maiden win in the 2006 championship. It was a race in which luck - most of it bad - played as large a role as skill and determination in deciding the result; qualities not lacking in the RML squad.

From the rolling start, Erdos made the most of pole to establish an early class lead as the challenge from Moseley’s Radical faded with a coolant leak. Half an hour into the race, however, and the Brazilian was coming under pressure from a charging Sam Hancock in the Binnie Motorsports Lola B05/42. The Briton made an impossible lunge as the two descended on the Fogarty’s Esses, but Erdos was fortunate to see the late challenge in his mirrors and hang wide. This saved both cars from certain damage, but set the MG skittering across the gravel. Hancock was through, but within three laps it was evident that the RML MG had collected a slow puncture. Pitting for a change of tyres cost Erdos almost a full lap, but over the course of the next two hours he drove at a remarkable pace to regain all the lost ground, including the LMP2 lead.

Erdos ended his mammoth stint and handed over to Mike Newton just seconds before a blow-out, ironically for the Binnie Lola, brought out the safety car. It was cruel timing for Newton, but it gifted the Rollcentre Radical, pitting a lap later, a generous ninety-second lead.