Classic and Competition Car 105 June 2019

The 21st Century magazine about cars and motorsport of the past and present.

June 2019

Issue 105

Classic and Competition Car British GT Oulton Park

Donington Historic Festival VSCC Curborough Speed Trials

BRM Association Track Day

Our Team.

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What’s on.

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Photo of the month.

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News.

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Drive It Day.

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VSCC Speed Championship Rd 1 Curborough.

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British GT Championship Rd 1 Oulton Park.

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RX2 Spain.

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Race from the Past - FIA GT Championship, Silverstone 2005.

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BTCC Championship, Donington Park.

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Archive Photo of the Month.

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Lotus 7 Speed Championship, Curborough.

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BRM Association Track Day.

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Greasy American car meeting.

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Donington Historic Festival.

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Manx National Rally.

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Whittington Street Meet.

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VSCC Formula Vintage Rd 2 Oulton Park.

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British Hill Climb Championship, Prescott.

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Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup, Silverstone.

Page 112 Closing Shot.

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Simon Wright - Editor.

Janet Wright - Staff Photographer.

Independant Freelance contributors in this issue.

Pete Austin.

Peter McFadyen.

Syd Wall.

David Goose & Stuart Yates of MotorsportImagery

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Editorial.

WHAT’S ON

The summer is now upon us, and motoring events are coming thick and fast in the UK. if anything, we are spoilt for choice, with so many events to choose from.

Unfortunately, this often leads to date clashes, with major events having the same date. This can have an effect of the events because as well as spectators having to decide which event to visit, often the vehicle owners will have to decide which event to attend, which can dilute the quality of all events. Add in the unpredictable weather in the UK and events can end up disappearing from the calendar in future years.

So make the most of the events you attend this year, and don’t wait, or they may be gone.

June 1st-2nd Jun BARC race meeting, Thruxton.

1st-2nd Jun BARC race meeting Donington Park.

1st-2nd Jun Best of British, Shelsley Walsh.

1st Jun BRSCC Race meeting, Oulton Park.

2nd Jun Classic Ford Car Show, Mallory Park.

8th-9th Jun Masters Race meeting, Donington Park.

8th-9th Jun British Gt Championship, Silverstone.

15th-16th Jun HSCC Historic Wolds Trophy, Cadwell Park.

15th-16th Jun Classic Nostalgia, Shelsley Walsh.

15th Jun MSVR Race meeting Oulton Park.

22nd-23rd Jun British GT Championship, Donington Park.

22nd Jun BARC race meeting, Oulton Park.

22nd Jun Sunrise Sprint Championship, Prescott.

29th-30th Jun Legends of Brands Hatch, Brands Hatch.

29th-30th Jun BTCC Oulton Park.

29th Jun VSCC Formula Vintage, Donington Park.

For more events we suggest The motoring Diary web site

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British GT Oulton Park © Motorsport-Imagery.

VSCC Curborough Speed Trials James Baxter - Riley ERA © Motorsport-Imagery.

Donington Historic Festival © Peter McFadyen.

BRM Association Track Day © Pete Austin.

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We do not organise any events which are mentioned and we are not responsible if the event does not take place or is cancelled. Please contact the event organiser before making a long trip.

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Photo of the Month

By Motorsport-Imagery

In the Blancpain Endurance GT Series race at Silverstone, the red ‘Ford - Barrie Mills’ entry doesn’t seem as aerodynamic as the other cars!

The Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3 of Dries Vanthoor, Ezequiel Perez Companc and Alex Riberas under safety car after first lap crash

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News

Vauxhall Heritage Centre Open Day. A brace of high profile transport events will come together on June 9th, as Vauxhall’s Heritage Centre Open Day joins with the Luton Festival of transport to create a motor vehicle spectacular, with an audience expected of well over 5,000 people. Both events open their doors to the public between 10am and 4pm, with an exclusive transfer service linking the two via a free five minute classic coach ride.

This is the only day of the year that Vauxhall’s 75 vehicle heritage collection is open to the public. It is the largest of it’s kind in the World and features

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5HP - the World’s second oldest Vauxhall.

The earliest Prince Henry model, known as the World’s first sports car.

One of only two surviving WW1 D-Type Staff Cars.

The most original 30-98 model - Britain’s first 100 mph production car.

A 1930 2-Ton, one of the first Bedford trucks to be built.

Three stunning concept cars, from the sixties to the noughties Rare and fully restored examples of the Firenza HP Droopsnoot and Viva GT

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Admission to the Heritage centre is free, admission to the Luton Festival of Transport is £5 for adults and £1 for children, with family tickets at £10.

Vauxhall Heritage Centre, Park Street, Luton LU1 3HG Page 5

Coates, Young and Lidsey

Youngest winner ever in Clio Cup The appropriately named Jack Young, from Belfast, has become the youngest winner in the history of the Renault UK Clio Cup after taking two victories at Donington Park. Aged just 17 years, 6 months and 17 days old, he led home his MRM team-mate Brett Lidsey to his Jack Young best finish to date in the first dominated at Donington Park to and second race at take over the Clio Donington. Ben Colburn took Cup points lead. his first podium in 3rd in the first race. In the second race Max Coates took the 3rd step on the podium after starting from the pit lane. This has moved Young to the top of the championship, with Lidsey behind him.

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VW ID.R first test on Nordschleife Volkswagen prepares for the attempt to set a new lap record for electric vehicles round the World famous Nurburgring Nordschleife with the first test laps of the new ID.R , the day after the new car made its’s world debut. Romain Dumas drove two different cars round the 20.832 kilometre circuit as part of an extensive test program, to ensure the ID. R is optimally adapted to this unique track with regard to the chassis. “Having already run extensive computer simulations, the energy management is already functioning very well” said Sven Smeets, Volkswagen Motorsport Director. They were also comparing various racing tyres from Bridgestone. “The cornering speeds in the ID. R are much higher then I am used to in GT race cars. But I feel good in the cockpit and that is really important here. The Nürburgring-Nordschleife has larger and more numerous bumps than the race tracks we have tested so far. So, we have concentrated on adapting the shock absorbers and the ride height to suit the unique characteristics of this track” said Romain Dumas. The actual record attempt is planned for the summer of 2019.

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Return of Esseesse for Abarth 595.

Pricing and specifications have beem announced for the 70th Anniversary 595 range which includes the return of the well known Esseesse. As part of the celebrations of Abarth’s 70th anniversary, they have launched a 70th Annivesary version of the Abarth 595 in a Competizione specification, which is engineered for performance with its 180 HP. Alongside the commemorative model, all Abarth 595’s will be fitted with the 70th Anniversary badge.

The 595 esseesse includes Akrapovic exhaust system, “Sabelt 70” sports seats and a mechanical limited slip differential as standard. It also comes with the Uconnect with touchscreen 7” HD screen with Abarth Telemetry, Apple CarPlay ready and Android AutoTM compatible, as standard. Other special equipment includes a high performance Brembo front braking system with perforated, ventilated

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front discs, and Record Monza exhaust with an active valve controlled by a “Sport” button.

Pressing the “Sport” button opens the exhaust valve and the engine note becomes deeper and bolder. The esseesse is identified by 17” Supersport alloy wheels with a new Racing Whoite finish.

It also has Koni FSD (Frequency Selective Damping) front and rear suspension.

The Turismo spec also includes the Uconnect 7” HD screen and is enhanced with the urban pack which comprises of parking sensors, rain sensor and dusk sensor.

The basic Abarth £595 1.4 T-Jet 145hp model starts at £16,495 OTR. The 595 Turismo starts at £19,695 OTR, the 595 Competizione starts at £21,795 OTR and the 595 Esseesse starts at £25,295 OTR.

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London Concours to spotlight Automotive Americana.

The London Concours, presented by Montres Breguet have announced the Collector Feature, which will display cars from one individual’s collection. This year it will have cars from London based collector Julian Balme, showcasing his selection of legendary Automotive Americana.

These will include a 1932 Ford Model B Roadster Ford Model B Roadster

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converted into a hot rod in the late 60s. This is not a replica, but an original Model B that was built by Ford 87 years ago.

Ford Del Rio Ranch Gasser

The Ford Del Rio Ranch Wagon ‘Gasser’ was originally a family station wagon until it was turned into a competition drag racer. The 7 litre V8 engine produces 540 bhp and it does the quater mile in 13 seconds flat.

The Rarest car in his collection is a 1940 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet, one of only 350 built in 1940, and the only one in the UK. The 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 has a 6.3 litre V8 and has been driven in the VSCC Pomeroy Trophy.

Another competition car is a 4.7 litre V8 Falcon Sprint, which has twice finished the Spa Six Hours.

Finally there is a Lincoln Cosmopolitan “Wooly Bully’ which has completed in the re-running of the legendary Carrera Panamericana.

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Junior drivers reward test Hyundai.

The top two junior drivers in the British Rally Championship (BRC) 2018 had their reward of a test in the Hyundai Customer Racing Team Hyundai i20 R5 as driven by Tom Cave and Dale Bowen to victory in the Pirelli International Rally just a few hours before. 2018 Junior British Rally Champion Steve Røkland for Norway and runner up James Williams from Wales got to experience the 4 wheel drive, turbo-charged Hyundai i20 R5 during a day long test in Kielder Forest in Cumbria. They got to sample the Korean machine on the challenging, fast and flowing five mile stage. They also got to work with Hyundai engineers on car set-up and with PCRS Rallysport who provided further knowledge on event preparation.

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Manual performance for Aston Martin Vantage AMR. Adding a third pedal to the Aston Martin Vantage will deliver the ultimate driving experience for customers. A seven speed manual transmission, developed by Graziano and featuring a ‘dog-leg’ first gear, is matched to the 4 litre twin-turbo V8 engine, which produces 510PS and 625 Nm of torque. It has a maximum speed of 195 mph with a 0-60 mph time of 3.9 seconds. The manual version is 95 kg lighter than the standard version, thanks in part to the fitting of carbon ceramic brakes as standard. It has a limited production run of 200 Worldwide, with 59 cars dedicated to ‘Vantage 59’ specification. It will be available in five specifications including the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans celebration ‘Vantage 59’ livery. 142 cars will be available in Sabiro Blue, Onyx Black, China Grey or White Stone. The Final ‘Vantage 59’ cars will be in Sterling Green and Lime exterior. The car is priced at £164,995 on a firstcome-firstserve basis.

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30th Birthday for Middlebridge Scimitar at Classic.

The Silverstone Classic (26-28 July) will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the born-again Middlebridge Scimitar. The company enjoys Royal patronage from HRH The Princess Royal, who originally was given an original Scimitar GTE Shooting Brake for her 20th birthday by Her Majesty The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. She went on to own a further eight Scimitars all retiaining her numberplate 1420 H in honour of her position as Colonal-in-Chief of the 14th/20th Kings Hussars.

When Middlebridge Scimitar Ltd, funded by Jpanese businessman and car enthusiast Kohji Nakauchi, resurrected the GTE after Reliant ceased production in the mid-eighties, The Princess Royal was quick to support the new company.

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She opened the new factory in Beeston in Nottinghamshire, and the following year took delivery of the fifth Middlebridge Scimitar (MB5) off the production line. While waiting delivery she was loaned the prototype (MB1). Both MB1 and MB5 will be on display at the Silverstone Classic. Only 78 cars were hand-built before the new company went into recievership, and 28 of these cars should be on display at Silverstone, along with Kohji Nakauchi. The cars will take to the circuit for a track parade on Friday lunch time, led by the Formula 3000 Cadbury backed 1989 Reynard 89D from Middlebridge racing which was raced by Mark Blundell.

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Straight Six refinement for Range Rover.

The flagship Range Rover SUV is now available with the latest 3 litre in-line 400HP six cylinder Ingenium petrol engine, which delivers quicker responses and enhanched performance along with improved fuel economy. The engine is also cleaner with improved efficiency and more immediate power delivery thanks to its mild Hybrid Electric vehicle (MHEV) powertrain.

The car also features the latest personalisation options, comfort features and smarter technology inluding Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to improve smartphone connectivity.

The latest 400HP Ingenium engine delivers 550Nm of torque and with the introduction of an electric supercharger that delivers immediate boost by spooling in 0.5 of a second up to 65000 rpm and twin-scroll turbocharger, which virtually eliminates turbo lag, the smooth and responsive six cylinder engine will take the Range Rover from 0-60 mph in just 5.9 seconds, with a top speed of 140 mph.

The Mild Hybrid Electric Vehicle powertrain brings enhanced efficiency with fuel economy of 30.4 mpg (9/3L/ 100km) and CO2 emissions of 212g/ km (NEDC equivalent combined). This is based around a new start-stop system, the latest 3 litre engine is paired with an electric motor that can

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harvest energy through deceleration and store it in a 48V battery. The energy can then be re-deployed through torqueassist, reducing CO2 emissions and the work load on the engine. There are two new colours available, Eiger Grey replaces Corris Grey and Portofino Blue replaces Loire Blue.

There is also the option to choose 22 inch Gloss Black wheels in addition to the existing 21 inch and 22 inch options.

Other new technology includes updated headlights, with two new features as standard. Available on both Matrix and Pixel LED systems, Sign Post Dimming identifies road signs and turns off the individual LEDs that could reflect back and cause glare for the driver. Tourist mode has also been added to the Pixel system, allowing the driver to select whether they are driving on the left or right hand side of the road and adjusting the beam pattern accordingly. Other safety technology includes optional Adaptive Cruise Control - featuring Stp & Go and also Steering Assist along with high speed Emercgency braking. It also benefits from traditional capability features such as Terrain Response 2.

The new Range Rover is now available to order, priced from ÂŁ83,655 OTR in the UK. See www.landrover.co.uk

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Master Maserati Driving Courses celebrate 20th anniversary.

The beginning of May saw the start of the 20th season of Master Maserati Driving Courses, with eleven events scheduled at the Varano de’Melegari circuit, approximately 20 kms from the city of Parma. The courses are run in partnership with Scuderia de Adamich and will conclude on the 7th of November for this year.

The Master Maserati project started in the spring of 1999 with the first 2 dy Master GT course ws held at the Autodromo Riccardo Paletti at Varano de’ Melegari and was attended by 12 customers. Under the supervision of former Formula 1 driver Andrea de Adamich and his staff, participants took to the wheel of powerful Maserati 3200 GT coupé cars for a series of activities combined with specific ontrack exercises,

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with state of the art data acquisition systems to analyse their performance on track and provide invaluable feedback to help correct driving errors. Since then, more than 500 Master Maserati Driving courses have been held, and over 7,000 customers and enthusiasts from more than 50 countries have taken part. In the twenty years of the course, almost 30 different Maserati models have been used. Participants have always had the opportunity to drive the Quattroporte flagship, and since 2014, the Ghibli sport sedan. The 3200 GT Coupé represented the brands sporting personality until it was replaced in 2008 by the new GranTurismo. Now also included in the fleet are the crs featured in the Trofeo Maserati, the Coupé Cambiocorsa and subsequently the GanSport and GranSport MC are included on courses focused on perfecting on-circuit racing techniques.

Fron 2016, the Levante, the first SUV in Maserati’s history, also took to the track with an innovative new format combining circuit driving sessions with off-road experiences.

To accomodate this, a new 11 km off-road track was created near the circuit, located in a nature reserve.

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Drive It Day 28th April 2019.

Bicester Heritage photos

by Nick Chivers/Classic Series. Other photos as credited.

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Drive It Day First started in 2005, The Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs Drive it Day has become an annual event where more and more venues are staging events all round the country.

This year there were major events at Brooklands and Bicester Heritage, plus loads of other events for people to drive out in their classic, vintage or just favourite vehicle.

This year, Drive It Day was 28th April, the Federation sets the date each year, as close as possible to the

anniversary of the 1,000 Mile Trial.

One of the big events was the ‘Drive it Day’ Sunday Scramble which saw a spectacular selection of historic motoring arrive at Bicester Heritage, for a sell out show. With twenty eight car clubs and 1,500 classic cars on display, there were many favourites including a legendary Group C Jaguar XJR-12, a © Nick Chivers/Classic Series: genuine Group 4 Lancia Stratos rally car, one of 25 Jaguar Classic continuation D-Types and a unique 1930 Aston Martin ‘Headlam’ coupé. Held amongst the wartime buildings of the historic former RAF Technical site where 40 specialist businesses, including various race car specialists who also open their doors and put on displays during the Sunday Scramble meetings. Hidden, in public view, was a camouflaged Aston Martin DBX prototype by the paddock and test circuit, while Bicester Heritage’s Timing partner Bremont had one of the twenty five Jaguar Classic D© Nick Chivers/Classic Series:

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Hagerty UK completed their Drive It Day rally at Bicester Heritage, crossing the finish line in the vast exhibition hall of Hanger 113, and outside they were doing valuations on vehicles which had all been booked well in advance of the event. © Nick Chivers/Classic Series:

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Type continuations, supplied by Jaguar Heritage, on the main drive outside their marquee. The Heritage Skills Academy had three Ford GT40s on the lawn outside their apprentice training workshops. © Nick Chivers/Classic Series:

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The other type of Drive It Day event is a tour or ‘Drive It’ event.

E-Type UK and DM Historics hosted such an event through the Kent countryside this year. Starting from their workshops on North Firth Farm in Hadlow, Kent, over twenty five cars embarked on the Kentish tour. DM Historics joined in with a newly restored 1960 Rolls Royce © Virgiliu Andone (Instagram: quicklizzard)

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Silver Cloud II DHC by H J Mulliner, while E-Type UK rolled out two pristine E-Types for the trip. They joined other classic vehicles like a couple of Ford Mustangs, Triumph TR4, MG B, a TVR 350i and a lovely 1939 Aston Martin.

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VSCC Speed Championship Round 1 Curborough Speed Trials. 19th April 2019.

By Pete Austin with additional photos by Stuart Yates of Motorsport-Imagery

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Tony Lees AC-GN Cognac Fastest Vintage and 2nd overall.

VSCC Curborough Speed Trials – Curborough Sprint Course – 19th April 2019.

Round 1 of the VSCC Speed Championship at the delightful Curborough Sprint Course took place on Good Friday this year which was a good choice as it turned out. Hot, sunny conditions greeted the Patrick Blakeney-Edwards competitors and a large Frazer Nash Super Sports crowd at this relaxed event.

In the process of winning the Curborough Trophy for the Fastest time of the Day (FTD), James Baxter set a red hot pace and broke the course record with a time of 35.21 in his 1934/5 2 litre Riley © Pete Austin

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ERA, over one and a half seconds faster than anyone else on the day.

By comparison, the Fastest Vintage time, and second fastest time of the day, was set by Tony Lees in his 1925 AC/GN Cognac with a time of 36.99 seconds.

In addition Patrick Blakeney-Edwards broke the Class 3

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Stephen Hughes in his RILEY NINE Gromits Revenge

(Standard & Modified Sports-Cars 1101cc-1500cc unsupercharged and 751cc-1100cc supercharged) vintage record in his 1930 Frazer Nash Super Sports with a time of 38.70. Yet another vintage record broken was in class 13 (Pre-1941 Racing Cars up to 1100cc) set by Winston Teague in his 1922/30 Wasp Single Seater with a time of 39.39.

Other class winners were Peter Howat (1931 Austin 7 Ulster), Jeremy Flann (1928 Austin 7 Supersports), Nigel Hall (1935 Lagonda LG45), Alasdair Shotton (1929 Morgan Super Aero), Page 22

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Christopher Williams - Ford Model A

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David Leigh in the GN Spider

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Dr Charles Pither Frazer Nash Ulster

Andrew Howe-Davies SCAT RACER

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Andy Lloyd 1913 CHALMERS 17

(1933 Vale Special), Timothy Sharp (1936 MG PB), Anthony Fenwick-Wilson (1935/37 Railton LS Tourer), John Gallie (1930 Austin 7 Blackburne), Colin Wolstenholme (1935 Riley Racing MPH), Maurice Gleeson (1933 MG L Type Magna) and Miss Harriet Collings (1924 Bentley 3/4.5 litre). The Edwardican handicap winner was Ian Balmforth in his 1917 Hudson Super Six Racer. The final handicap winners were George Scholey (1931 Austin Ulster), Rod Stansfield (1935 Lagona Rapier Special) and finally Dr David Pryke (1936 Frazer Nash Shelsley).

The last overall award went to Charlie Martin in the 1930/28 Morgan RIP Special who set the Fastest Young driver time with a 37.88 second lap.

Greg Lerigo (1932/35 Riley Special), Dr. Charles Pither (1931 Frazer Nash Ulster) and Dougal Cawley (1929 GN/ Ford Piglet). Fastest Edwardian was Andrew Howe-Davies in his 9,500cc 1911 SCAT Racer.

Each class also had a handicap winner and these included Stephen Jones (1934 Austin Ulster Sports), Raymond Knight

Alasdair Shotton Morgan Super Aero

Rod Stansfield - Lagonda Rapier Special

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Alasdair Shotton Morgan Super Aero

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Dougal Cawley GN-Ford Piglet

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Miss Rachael Williams HARDY SPECIAL MK III

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Douglas Martin HILLEGASS SPRINT CAR

Jeremy Flann Austin 7 Supersports

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As if it wasn’t hot enough the irrepressible Chris Williams must have had the fire on in his Ford Model A with smoke pouring from the chimney! The ice cream van was also doing a roaring trade. Full results can be found on www.vscc.co.uk © Motorsport-imagery

Greg Lerigo - Riley Special

Alexander Hewitson laying some rubber in the RILEY 124 SPECIAL

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Andrew Howe-Davies Scat Racer

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Paul Weston FRAZER NASH TT REPLICA

Charlie Martin - Morgan RIP Special fastest Young driver.

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Nigel Hall - Lagonda LG45

Mrs Jo Blakeney-Edwards during the morning practice runs

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Winston Teague - Wasp Single Seater

14 Iain Muir RILEY BROOKLANDS REPLICA

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Rick Pearmain AUSTIN SEVEN

Peter Howatt Austin 7 Ulster

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British GT Championship Oulton Park.

19th-22nd April 2019

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years Ginetta’s will not be competing in the GT races.

RAM Racing’s Ian Loggie in the AMG Mercedes GT3 took his maiden pole position for the first race whilst three times Oulton Park GT race winner Phil Keen put the new 2019 Lamborghini Huracan on pole for the second race, with Loggie ending up in second place on the grid. Despite the new 2019 cars having a speed advantage on paper, it was the older 2018 Mercedes that had most success during Victorious in GT4 race 2, Seb Priaulx and Scott Maxwells Multimatic Ford Mustang GT4

Barwell Motorsports Lamborghini Huracan driven by Sam de Haan and Jonny Cocker, victorious in race two

Easter weekend saw the British GT Championship return to its traditional appointment at the picturesque Oulton Park circuit in Cheshire.

With many new cars this year in all classes, the GT Championship in 2019 should be as competitive as ever.

Mercedes were the only manufacturer to arrive with fundamentally last years car and for the first time in many Andrew Howard and Marco Sorensen scored a podium place in race two in the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT3

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qualifying.

Qualifying for GT4 was dominated by the new Ford Mustang GT4, race one saw a front row lock out for the Multimatic Ford team with Scott Maxwell securing pole ahead of team-mate Jade Burford. Race two pole sitter, Set Priaulx again in the Multimatics Mustang set a new lap record for the GT4 class in securing pole by over a second © Motorsport-imagery

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from second placed Mercedes driver Scott Malvern Race one saw Rick Parfitt Jnr and Sea Morris give their new team, JRM racing and the new 2019 Bentley Continental GT3 its maiden victory in its first race. Lap two saw the Team Parker Racing Bentley of Ryan Ratcliffe hit Ian Loggie’s Mercedes and both leading cars were out of the race. This handed the lead to Rick Parfitt in the JRM Bentley and he and Seb Morris after the pit stops were never in danger of losing the lead to a hard charging but ultimately beaten into second place, Adam Balon and Phil Keen in the new Barwell Lamborghini Huracan.

HHC Motorsport took GT4 victory with Dean Macdonald and Callum Pointon in the McLaren 570S.The GT4 podium was an all McLaren affair with the 570S’s of Tolman Motorsport ( James Dorlin and Josh Smith) in second and the second Century Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 of Dominic Paul and Ben Green

Balfe Motorsport - McLaren 570S GT4, Graham Johnson and Michael O'Brien

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HHC 570S of Tom Jackson and Luke Williams taking third place. After the success in qualifying, the Ford Mustangs must have hoped for a better race but their wait for success wasn’t going to be long.

The second GT Race was won by Sam de Haan and Jonny Cocker in the second Barwell Lamborghini, second place © Motorsport-imagery

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Seb Morris and Rick Parfitt Jnr took the went to Adam with Sam de Haan new JRM Bentley to a debut victory Christodoulou and a close second.

Richard Neary Before the pit claiming Abba stops the top nine Racings first cars were in podium in the GT3 contention for the class. Third place race lead, on the grid went to however later in Andrew Howard the race, Neary and Marco was unable to Sorensen in the defend against the new AMR Aston Lamborghini and Martin Vantage, a Sam de Haan maiden podium for went on to win his the Aston Martin first GT victory, team. Phil Keen whilst team mate © Motorsport-imagery led the race Jonny Cocker won before the pit stops but couldn’t establish a large enough his first race since Thruxton in 2007. lead to negate the race one seven second pit stop success GT4 race two gave the Multimatics Ford Mustang team their penalty, handing the lead to Richard Neary in the Mercedes, maiden victory with Seb Priaulx and Scott Maxwell winning from the Balfe © Motorsport-imagery Motorsports Ian Loggie and Callum McLaren of MacLeod, AMG Mercedes Graham Johnson and Michael O’Brien. The Invictus Games Jaguar of Steve McCulley and Matt George completed the © Motorsport-imagery Phil Keen and Adam Balon in the Lamborghini podium.

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Connor O'Brien and Jack Butel in the Aston Martin

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The new JCW Mini Challenge has attracted a bumper entry for the 2019 season, with over 30 cars potentially on the grid ahead of the first round at Oulton Park.

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Harrison in second, Dan Zelos was third across the finish line but had a ten second penalty due to a jumped start.

Race two saw Jac Maybin proved his championship potential with a stunning display of overtaking to score his first Mini JCW Challenge victory in the second race. After a race long seven car dice for the lead, Maybin showed class in moving from fourth on the grid to take victory.

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success in the three races. The series now moves to Snetterton for the weekend of the 18th and 19th May where battle for all the championships will recommence.

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The British F3 Championship also started at the meeting with three separate races. In what should be a very open championship, highlighted by the result of each race where at least the top five places were occupied by five different teams.

The results were also well distributed, with three different winners in the three races. Clement Novalak ( Carlin), Kaylen Frederick (Carlin) and Johnathan Hoggard (Fortec) achieving

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RX2's 'Class of 2019'

Kallio impressed on RX2 debut

Eriksson leads clean sweep in Spainish RX2.

Reigning RX2 International Series Champion Oliver Eriksson made an impressive start to defend his championship in Spain at the end of April. At the Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya, Eriksson lead home a commanding Olsbergs MSE team 1-2-3, with Fraser McConnell 2nd and Jesse Kallio in 3rd. He made short work of the Qualifying races, winning three of the four races. In Q3 Eriksson was squeezed out by in the first corner by Gundersen, in the JC Raceteknik’s car, and ended up in the tyre barriers. Eriksson’s team mate, new boy Jesse Kallio, was out

of the race due to damage received in the same incident.

Norwegian Ben-Philip Gundersen, who had been a preseason favourite for the title in only his second season, was disqualified for his part in the incident, meaning he didn’t make it through to the semi-finals.

Eriksson had to draw on all his experience to keep his two rapid team-mates behind him. The other new boy, his team-mate Fraser McConnell from Jamaca, had recovered from a spin into the barriers in Q1 to fight his way back to 2nd in the intermediate classification. he also turned heads with the fastest time in Q3 and © 2019 MPA Creative

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second best time in Q4 on his European racing debut. Kallio was only just behind in 3rd after rivalling Eriksson for pace throughout the qualifying stages.

Behind the OMSE trio it was SET Promotion young gun Sami-Matti Trogen who finished 4th, having fought back from a spectacular roll in Q1. He finished just ahead of Sports Racing Technologies Flying Finn Vasiliy Gryazin in 5th and French series debutant Damien Meunier in 6th for Team Färén, who had only completed a single test day in Supercar Lites machinery.

The other drivers who made it through to the Semi-finals were Swedish trio Anders Michalak, Simon Olofsson and William Nilsson. Reigning EuroRX TouringCar Champion Steve Volders rounded out the top ten, on his series debut.

The final pair were Jimmie Walfridson and local hero Albert Llovera, who had the support of the partisan crowds filling

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the grandstands.

Eriksson won the first semi-final ahead of team-mate Kallio, the Trogan a safe 3rd, to qualify for the final. The second semi-final saw McConnell take the win, chased by Gryazin.

The battle for 3rd, and the final place in the final was fierce.

On the first lap Olofsson and Meunier made contact a couple of times, and on the second occasion Meunier went wide and Volders got airborne, while Olofsson finished 3rd on the road. He was then penalised for the collision which promoted Meunier to 3rd place and the final.

Eriksson ran away with the final while his team mates McConnell and Kallio had a drag race for 2nd, with McConnell driving round the outside of Kallio which brought the crowd to their feet. Gryazin tried the same move on Trogen for 4th place, but failed to pull it off and produced a spectacular save to keep his 5th place ahead of Meunier.

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Eriksson stole the early championship lead

No quarter given into Barcelona's tight first corner Finnish teenager Sami-Matti Trogen – the youngest driver in the field – recovered from a Q1 roll to finish fourth for SET Promotion

Below/: Olsbergs MSE team-mates Fraser McConnell [left], Oliver Eriksson [centre] and Jesse Kallio [right] spray the podium champagne

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JMB Racings pair of Maserati MC12 GT1 of Andrea Bertolini/Karl Wendlinger, who finished 4th and Philipp Peter/Chris Buncombe/Roman Rusinov who finished 8th

Race from the Past 2005 FIA GT Championship, Silverstone. 15th May 2005.

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Taking maximum points was the Maserati MC12 GT1 of Fabio Babini and Thomas Biagi in 3rd place overall.

MC12 GT1, while GT2 saw Gruppe M Racing win again, but this time it was Tim Sugden and Emmanuel Collard in the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR which claimed the top step on the podium.

So they arrived in England for the third round of the championship, round the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit. This was the old Grand Prix circuit, where they turned left at © Simon Wright

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The British round of the 2005 FIA GT Championship was held round Silverstone as the RAC Tourist Trophy race, which had not been run for the previous six years. This was the ninth season of the FIA GT Championship and now featured GT1 Grand Touring and GT2 Series Grand Touring classes. The former class was for the more powerful and highly developed cars, while GT2 was for cars nearer to the production based vehicle. In each class there was a Drivers championship, a team championship and a manufacturers championship.

The season had started at Monza in Italy where Pedro Lamy and Gabriele Gardel had won in the Labre Compétition Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello, while GT2 was won by Marc Lieb and Mike Rockenfeller in the Gruppe M Racing Porsche 911 GT3-RSR. From Monza the teams moved to magnyCours in France for the second round of the championship.

This time it was the turn of the JMB Racing crew of Andrea Bertolini and Karl Wendlinger to take victory in the Maserati

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Tourist Trophy race winners Peter Kox and Pedro Lamy in the works Aston Martin DBR9

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The Lister Storm GT of Justin Keen and Liz Hallidy was not classified at the finish, ahead of the Chevrolet Corvette C5-R and the Porsche 911 GT3-RS of Jan Vonka and Mauro Casadei

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Abbey and went under the Bridge before sweeping round to distance was the Vitaphone Racing Team Maserati MC12 Brooklands, in front of the BRDC headquarters.

GT1 of Fabio Babini and Thomas Biagi, who also scored Pedro Lamy had switched from the winning Ferrari in maximum points in the championship. They were followed Monza, to the works 6 litre Aston Martin DBR9 which he home, a lap down, by the JMB Racing Maserati MC12 GT1 shared with Peter Kox. The car was making its debut in the of Andrea Bertolini and Karl Wendlinger and the other FIA GT Championship at this race, but Lawrence Tomlinson and Jonny Vitaphone Racing Kane TVR Tuscan T400R 3rd in the two cars were entered by the Team Maserati MC12 GT2 factory and therefore were ineligible to GT1 of Michael score points. This didn’t stop them Bartels and Timo from making a perfect debut, finishing Scheider. The only first and second with Pedro lamy and other car on the Peter Kox winning from team mates same lap was the 6th David Brabham and Darren Turner. placed Labre The only other car that completed the Compétition Ferrari © Janet Wright

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The Mosler MT900R of Bqrrie Whight, Paul Whight and Gavan Kershaw 3rd in G2 class.

550 GTS Maranello of Gabriele Gardel and Fabrizio Gollin.

Returning to the top step for GT2 was the Gruppe M Racing Porsche 911 GT3-RSR of Marc Lieb and Mike Rockenfeller who were only six laps down on the race winner in 9th place overall.

Local teams could enter the race, and the Group 2 winner was the Balfe Motorsport Mosler MT900R of Shaun Balfe and Jamie Derbyshire. Powered by a 5.7 litre Chevrolet V8 engine, the team were running Dunlop tyres as opposed to the Michelin or Pirelli tyres of the other major competitors but still managed to finish in 11th position overall, only eight laps behind the winning Aston Martin.

Another Dunlop runner was the Embassy Racing Porsche 911 GT3-RSR driven by Ben Collins and Neil Cunningham, who finished 2nd in GT2 in 13th position. Another local team who took 3rd in GT2 were Team LNT with a TVR Tuscan T400R

Proton Competition Porsche 911 GT3-RSR of Christian and Gerold Ried who finished 18th

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driven by Lawrence Tomlinson and Jonny Kane. They were 14th overall and ten laps down on the winner.

After Silverstone there were another eight races before the season end, held at Imola, Brno, Spa, Oschersleben, Istanbul, Zhuhai in China, Dubai and Bahrain. Pedro Lamy took another two race wins, but tht was only good enough for 5th in the © Simon Wright

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Ferrari 575-GTC Maranello of Jean-Denis Deletraz and Andrea Piccini finished 7th.

championship. The Champion at the end of the season was Gabriele Gardel in the Labre Compétition Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello, who also scored another two wins after Silverstone, but had more consistent results in the other races to score 75 points, just 1 point head of Michael Bartels and Timo Cirtek Motorsport Ferrari 360 Modena GTC of Scheider in Stefan Eriksson and Joe Macari finished 21st the Vitaphone Racing Team Maserati MC12 GT1 who took maximum points at the Spa 24 hours race, as well as victory in © Janet Wright Istanbul. The

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GT2 class winners Marc Lieb and Mike Rockenfeller in the GruppeM Racing Porsche 911 GT3-RSR

team award in GT1 went to Vitaphone Racing Team. Maserati took the Manufacturers award in GT1 The GT2 Championship was dominated by Marc Lieb and Mike Rockenfeller in their Gruppe M Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RSR who won six of the races and took maximum points at the Spa 24 hours to score 102 points, with Gruppe M Racing taking the team award with maximum points. This also gave Porsche the GT2 Manufacturers award with 324 points compared to the 41 points Ferrari scored for 2nd place. © Simon Wright

Paolo Ruberti and Joël Camathias Saleen S7-R finished 15th

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Brake lock-up for the Jan Vonka/Mauro Casadei Porsche 911 GT3-RS

GPC Sport Ferrari 360 Modena GTC of Gabrio Rosa and Luca Drudi finished 17th © Janet Wright

Eclipse Motorsport Mosler MT900R of Phil Keen and Nigel Taylor finished 16th

The Russian Age Racing Ferrari 550GTS Maranello of Christophe Bouchut, Nikolai Fomenko and Alexey Vasilyev finished 12th © Simon Wright

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Balfe Motorsport Mosler MT900R of Shaun Balfe and Jamie Derbyshire won the G2 Class.

GLPK-Carsport Chevrolet Corvette C5-R of Bert Longin, Anthony Kumpen and Mike Hezemans failed to finish.

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British Touring Car Championship, Donington Park Photos by Jacob Ebrey Photography unless otherwise credited.

Reigning champion Colin Turkington sealed a win-double for the BMW 330i M Sport at Donington Park Š BTCC Jacob Ebrey Photography

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Tom Ingram's race three win was the first since Toyota returned as a manufacturer, and the first for the new Corolla

Turkington takes Double Donington Domination.

Reigning BTCC Champion Colin Turkington driving the new BMW 330i M Sport doubled his 2018 race winning tally in one afternoon at Donington. Starting from pole position, his first in two years, Turkington took light to flag victories in the first two races of the afternoon. Behind him in the first race, all hell broke loose at the Old Hairpin as Andrew Jordan’s BMW 330i M Sports slid sideways following contact at the exit of the Old Hairpin. The Mercedes A Class of Adam Morgan had nowhere to go and hit the BMW, while Ollie Jackson (Ford Focus), Matt Simpson (Honda Civic R-Type) and Jake Hill (Audi S3) also crashed out. Jordan was taken to Hospital as a precaution, but his car was so badly damaged, it would take no further part in the day.

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home, while Tom Oliphant in the other Team BMW West Surrey Racing BMW 330i M Sports took his first ever BTCC podium in 3rd place. Tom Chilton in the Shredded Wheat Racing with Gallagher Ford Focus finished 8th, the top independent finisher.

The second race saw another couple of safety car periods, but nothing got in front of Turkington, who took his second victory of the day. Local Midlands driver Matt Neal in the Halfords Yuasa Racing Honda Civic Type R made a move for 2nd with just two laps to go, moving Sutton down to 3rd place in the second race. Chilton was again the top independent, this time in 4th overall.

With Toyota’s UK factory just a few miles up the road in Derbyshire, they had over 4,500 Toyota workers and their families at the circuit to watch their team in action. Tom Ingram gave them something to cheer when he scored an emotional

Tom Chilton is just five points off the standings summit after another strong weekend.

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It was a first BTCC podium for Team BMWs Tom Oliphant in Round 5

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Vauxhalls Rob Collard was back in the silverware.

Andrew Jordan’s Pirtek BMW 330i M Sports before the accident. © BMW UK

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first victory for the all-new Team Toyota GB with Ginsters Corolla in the third race. He had started from pole position in the reverse grid race and was not troubled throughout the 19 lap race. Rob Collard in the Sterling Insurance with Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra moved up to finish 2nd and Josh Cook took 3rd place in the BTC Racing Honda Civic Type R. Rory Butcher in another Honda Civic Type R took 4th place with the Subaru of Ash Sutton took 5th while Jake Hill in the TradePricecars.com Audi S3 had dropped down through the field on the harder compound tyres to finish in 6th place.

Jake Hill fought back to a top six finish after race one drama

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Honda's Matt Neal notched a race two podium

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Reigning champion Colin Turkington sealed a windouble for the BMW 330i M Sport at Donington Park Tom Oliphant and Colin Turkington celebrate on the podium after the first race of weekend for Team BMW West Surrey Racing.

Halfords Yuasa Racing Honda Civic Type R

Ash Sutton leads the Drivers standings

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Archive Photo of the month.

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By Pete Austin.

Sadly we lost one of motor sports heroes and icons recently, Niki Lauda. In this issue you can read about the BRM Association Track Day which took place at Blyton Park. This months archive image shows Niki in a BRM P160D during the 1973 Race of Champions at Brands Hatch. He drove for the BRM team in 1973 before joining Ferrari the following year.

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Northampton Motorsport Lotus Seven Club Speed Championship Round 2, Curborough.

Sunday 12th May 2019.

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Oliver Whitlow applies opposite lock on his way to 11 in Class 2

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Class 1 winner Paul Boston

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The second round of the Northampton Motorsport Speed Championship took place at Curborough, near Lichfield, on a sunny Sunday in the middle of May. There was a good turn out of Lous/Caterham 7s entered for the one day event, with three timed runs during the afternoon, following morning practice.

The event was run as a two lap sprint following the traditional course layout. The field was split into seven classes, and the overall fastest time of the day (FTD) went to Tom Price in Class 4 with a best time of 57.10 seconds, who just beat Simon Rogers (Class 6) and Steve Holland (Class 7) who both achieved a best time of 57.15 seconds. Tom and Simon both only did two out of the three timed runs offered, while Steve managed to knock another 0.3 of a second off his time in the third run. All three took maximum points in their respective classes.

The class battles proved interesting with Paul Boston, in a

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Caterham 7 Academy with a Rover engine, taking Class 1 for cars up to 1600cc with an up to 5 speed gearbox and a power output of up to 125 bhp, with a best time of 63.99 seconds. Richard Abraham driving an S3 with a K3 engine was over a second behind on 64.66 seconds while John Clarke, in a Seven with a K series engine, took third in class, setting a new personal best time of 65.88 seconds.

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Class 2 was for cars up to 1800cc and up to a 6 speed gearbox and maximum power of up to 150 bhp. It had the largest entry with 15 runners. Clive Marsden in a Rover K series powered 7 was fastest by over a second, with a best time of 61.68 seconds on his third run. Matthew Bramall, in a Page 52

Aled Gamer pressing on and completely off track!

Geoff Corker was having too much fun, so he had a spin on his 2nd run coming out of Molehill

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Justin Dobson takes a VERY wide line at the Fradley hairpin

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Dave Gemzoe 2nd in Class 6 driving his Gemzoe Ecoboost

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Ford Zetec powered Super 7, set a 63.04 second time on his second run to claim 2nd in class, ahead of Jonathan Heyes, driving his K Series Superlight, in 3rd with a run of 63.96 seconds. All three set new personal best times.

Overall Fastest Time of Day and Class 4 winner Tom Price

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Class 3 was the same as Class 2, up to 1800cc , 6 speed maximum gearbox and maximunm power output of 150 bhp, but could run MSA list 1B radial tyres, where Class 2 could only run 1A Radial tyres. It also had a large entry, with Richard Price in his Rover powered Roadsport Caterham setting his best time of 60.65 seconds on his first run. He was another class winner who was over a second clear of his nearest challenger, Robert Jacobs, driving his Sigma powered Academy car, who set his fastest time of 61.80 seconds also on his first timed run. He was half of a second ahead of 3rd in class Philip Matchwick in this Rover K series powered Roadsport 140 Caterham, who also set his fastest time of 62,32 seconds on his first run.

The overall fastest time came from Class 4 winner Tom Price in his Heyabusa powered Caterham 7. Class 4 was open to any capacity engine without forced induction and up to a 6 speed Non Car Sequential gearbox, and a maximum of 150 bhp. Tom beat Mike Cocker, driving a Duratec powered 420R,

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by over four seconds, with Mike managing a 61.44 on his third time run of the day. Jon Davies, in a K-Series powered Roadsport was 3rd, a further three seconds back with a time of 64.57 seconds. © Simon Wright

Class 5 winner Jeremy Davies

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with a time of 59.45 seconds on his third run, beating Michael Sankey in a Rover powered Superlight, by just 0.05 of a second, with his third run at 59.50 seconds. Chris Alston, at the wheel of a Zetec powered Supersprint bought up the rear in the class with 3rd in a time of 60.29 seconds. © Simon Wright

Class 6 winner Simon Rogers

There was another small entry in Class 6 with just four entries. The car specification was open engine and gearbox, with forced induction if required, the only main restriction was MSA List 1C tyres. Simon Rogers in a Hyabusa powered Superlight was 2nd quickest overall, and took the class win with a time of 57.15 seconds. He was only 0.65 of a second in front of Dave Gemzoe, at the wheel of a Ford Ecoboost powered Gemzoe, who set his best time of 57.80 seconds on his first timed run. In 3rd place in the class was Shaun Elwell in his Duratec powered Superlight, who set his fastest time of 58.34 seconds on his third run.

Class 7 was basically anything goes, with no restriction on engine, gearbox or tyres and had only one runner, Steve Holland in a Hyabusa powered 1600 who won his class and was equal 2nd fastest overall.

On his third run of the day he managed to chop a further 0.3 of a second off his time to leave it at 57.15 seconds.

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Matthew Bramall 2nd in Class 2

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Class 7 winner and joint 2nd overall Steve Holland

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Les Golding 4th in Class 6 in his Supersprint

Charlie Coode finished 9th in Class 3

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Jonathan Jones was 6th in Class 4

Phillip Matchwick finished 3rd in Class 3

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John Clarke was 3rd in Class 1

Chris Alston finished 3rd in Class 5

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BRM Association Track Day, Blyton Park – 24th April 2019.

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BRM lineup

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BRM V16

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Despite a mixed weather forecast, spring sunshine greeted members of the BRM Association attending the fifth running of the annual track day at Blyton Park near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. On entering the paddock we were confronted by one of the best © Pete Austin turnouts of BRMs and BRM powered cars we have had at this event. To coin a phrase relating to London buses, you wait a long time for one to come along and then two come together! This could be applied to the

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Dick Skipworth two BRM V16s making a rare appearance together. One had come all the way from The National Motor Museum at Beaulieu and the other was the example formerly owned by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and now in © Pete Austin the ownership of Bernie Ecclestone. In addition we had a P48, two P25s, a P261 together with P153, P160, P160E and P201 cars.

Powered by BRM engines were the BRP, Brabham BT8 sports car and the F2 Cooper of Paul Busby.

To add to this mouth watering collection we must add a precursor of the BRM marque, the Dick Skipworth owned ERA R3A driven BRM P160E in the afternoon by Dick himself. Non BRMs in attendance were a Hesketh 308E, Lotus MK 8, Lotus 18, Lotus 20 and a couple of touring cars including a very energetically driven rally

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Dick Salmon BRM P25

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Rover 200 BRM parade

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BRM P153

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Hillman Avenger. In addition to Paul Busby in his Cooper T82 BRM a collection of other 1 litre F2 made an appearance including a Brabham and two Lola T60 examples. These F2 cars circulated Howden Ganley together for a & Rick Hall photoshoot during the lunch break.

Taking a particular in interest in the Tiga sports car present was former BRM driver Howden Ganley who was the ‘ga’ in that marque

when he owned it together with ‘Ti’m Schenken. Other personalities present included former BRM mechanics Dick Salmon, John Sismey and Rick Hall (whose company Hall and Hall look after a number of the cars present). We must not forget David Owen OBE (son of Sir Alfred Owen) who regularly attends Association events, usually in his own Rover 200 BRM. There was

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BRM P48

BRM P201 - Callum Grant & Brabham BT8 BRM - Paul Alexander

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also the usual parade of some of the members in their own Rover 200 BRMs during the lunch break.

Once again, Eric Biggadike and his team had organised a very enjoyable and I think unique event at this pleasant, rural venue.

ERA R3A Dick Skipworth

BRM P160

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Greasy May meeting, Wednesday 8th may 2019.

Stourbridge, West Midlands.

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The monthly Greasy meeting for American cars and motorcycles are usually held one Wednesday Evening each month, during the summer, just off the Stourbridge Ring Road, on the River Rooms car park . The May meeting didn’t have the usual large turnout as the day had been very wet, though the evening was dry. But what the meeting lost out in quantity, it made up for in quality. There were some interesting vehicles attending, including a 1949 Chevrolet Fleetline Deluxe Fastback. The original Fleetline was © Simon Wright produced by Chevrolet between 1941 and 1952.

Between 1946 to 1948 it was a sub-series of the Chevrolet Fleetmaster rather than a series in its own

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right, and then from 1949 to 1951 it was a sub-series of both the Chevrolet Special and the Cevrolet Deluxe.

For its final year of production, 1952, it was only offered as a sub-series of the Chevrolet Deluxe. In 1947, the Fleetline made up over 71% of Chevrolet sales. The original model ran from 1941 until there was a redesign in 1949 when the Fastback was the only model available. The sleek design had a sloping rear roof line which was 1 inch lower than the sedan model at the windscreen. The model was powered by the small block Chevrolet 3.5 litre V8 engine. The 1949 Fleetline Deluxe four door had a total production of 130,323 cars built during the year.

Coming more up to date was a 1977 6.6 litre Pontiac Trans Am. This is the type of car that was made famous in the film © Simon Wright

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Smokey and the Bandit. The model had a nose job in 1977, with the distinctive slant nose and four square headlights. The T/A 400 cubic inch, 6.6 litre was also offered with a single 4 barrel Rochester Quadrajet carburettor which produced 200 bhp and a maximum torque of 325 ib/ft, as compared to the regular 6.6 litre engine which was only rated at 180 bhp. The T/A engine can be identified by chrome valve covers while the base engine had a painted cover.

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Pickup trucks are very popular in American culture and there were several on display. The oldest was an immaculate black 1956 Ford F100 V8 pickup truck. The original F Series truck was built in 1948, but the truck here was a second generation truck that was first introduced in 1953. It had increased dimensions, improved engines and an updated chassis. The numbering of the model was increased to 3 digits, going from the F1 to the F100 (supposedly influenced by

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the North American F-100 Super Sabre jet aircraft, though this has not been confirmed). The F100 was the 1/2 ton pickup truck. The 1956 model underwent some major changes to the drivers cab, with the introduction of a wraparound windscreen, new doors, a redesigned dashboard and an optional panoramic rear window. It also offered seat belts as an option.

Moving forward forty seven years to the most eye catching pickup truck of the evening, a 2003 Ford F150. This was a special Supercharged F150 with an amazing custom paint job, celebrating 100 years of Harley-Davidson motor cycles (1903-2003). The front © Simon Wright and sides had flame effects over the original black paintwork, while the rear tailgate featured the Ghost Rider on his flame motorcycle and the rear cover had a Harley Davidson motorcycle and the special logo celebrating the 100th anniversary, which also featured as badges on the sides and rear of the vehicle. This was powered by a 5.4 litre V8 engine, which was the first overhead-camshaft engine ever installed in a full size pickup truck in 1997.

Splitting the difference was a 1972 5 litre Ford pickup truck, that had surface rust over all the cab roof and bonnet. This was a fifth generation of the F-Series pickup truck, which was introduced in 1967 and ran until 1972. To offer an

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alternative, the final pickup truck was a white 2002 5.9 litre V8 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck with some nice red white and blue stars and stripes decals on the sides and bonnet. The first generation Ram pickup truck was introduced in 1981 and featured a Ram hood ornament which was first used on Dodge vehicles from 1932 to 1954. This was a third generation model which was a major upgrade over the © Simon Wright

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previous version with a Quad Cab that had conventional opening rear doors. The redesigned truck bolstered sales with nearly 450,000 sold during 2002-2003 but during the same period Ford and GM Truck sales had moved into the 900,000 range.

Another luxury car to arrive was the 1976 Lincoln Continental Mk IV. Powered by a Ford 7.5 litre V8 engine, exclusive to the Lincoln, matched to the Ford C6 3 speed automatic transmission. To improve emission standards it was also fitted with a catalytic converter. The fifth generation of Lincoln Continental built on the success of the Mk III. With the introduction of the 5 mph safety bumpers, this was the longest automobile ever produced by the Ford Motor Company. This vehicle used a stretched version of the Mercury Marquis chassis, increased in length by 3 inches, which gave the car a 127.2 inch wheelbase. It had coil spring suspension on each corner, with front disc and rear drum brakes, but with an option of having disc brakes on all four wheels.

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event of a failure.

It became the largest mass-market automobile produced worldwide in 1977 after General Motors and Chrysler downsized their full size product lines. It was only beaten by purpose built limousines such as the long wheelbase Mercedes Benz 600, the Rolls Royce Phantom VI and the long wheelbase version of the ZIL-4104.

Not all the cars attending were American, as custom cars are also welcomed. One example was a 1969 Ford Corsair. The Ford Corsair V4 was built between 1965 and 1970 by Ford UK. The model was originally introduced in 1963 and Š Simon Wright replaced the Consul Classic as a long wheelbase, re-skinned Cortina. It was similar in styling to the early 1960s Ford Thunderbird, with even a hint of rear fins. After fitting the 1.5 litre Kent engine originally, the Ford Essex V4 1663cc engine was fitted from 1965, with the larger 2 litre L engine offered as an option from 1966. The 2 litre version could achieve a top speed of 110 miles per hour thanks to the twin-choke Weber downdraught carburettor. In total over 170,000 were built between 1966 and 1970, when it was replaced by the Mk 3 Ford Cortina.

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9th Donington Historic Festival.

Donington Park 3rd-5th May 2019.

By Peter McFadyen.

The first non-E-Type to finish in the Jaguar Classic Challenge race was the D-Type of Chris and Nick Ball

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Versatile Irish driver Niall Murray, a champion in FF1600 and Ginetta sports cars and ‘drifting’ enthusiast, led the first F Junior race until forced to retire

Ewan Sergison’s 1936 Maserati 6CM was a class winner in the Nuvolari Trophy race

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It hardly seems possible but we are already up to the ninth running of the very successful series of Donington Historic Festival race meetings. Qualifying for all the races was held on a rainy Friday leaving Saturday and Sunday uninterrupted for the eighteen races on what turned out to be the coldest Early Spring Bank Holiday on record although thankfully with only a light shower or two on Saturday. Four of the races were for Formula Junior single seaters from the late 1950s to early ‘60s divided into front-engined and rear-engined classes each with two races. The both front engined races were won

by Peter de la Roche in a Lola Mk2 after first race early leader Niall Murray retired with just 3 laps to go. Both of the rear engined races were won by Cameron Jackson in a Brabham BT2, leading from start to finish in both races.

Also racing on each day were the Pre-War and Pre-1961 Grand Prix cars competing for the Nuvolari and Ascari

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Trophies respectively with Nick Topliss and the ERA R4A winning the former on both days and more pre-war interest coming in the form of the sports car race for the ‘Mad Jack’ trophy named after pioneer racer Richard Shuttleworth. Miles Griffiths driving a Lotus 16, not shown in the programme Nick Topliss (ERA) duelled with Tom Dark’s Bugatti Type 73 in both races for the Nuvolari Trophy

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The unlucky Olly Bryant leading the Stirling Moss Trophy race race in his Lotus 15

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Young Charlie Martin, driving the GN Parker for the first time, got third place despite having only 3rd and 4th gears for part of the time

headed the Ascari class both days. In fact, the entry list in the programme bore little resemblance to the actual field on the day with four of the five ERAs listed particularly conspicuous by their absence. The Mad Jack race was won by Patrick Blakeney Edwards and Fred Wakeman (Frazer Nash) from early leaders Justin Maeers and Charlie Martin in the fearsome GN Parker and Gareth Burnett’s Alta Sports.

The longest race was the 2-hour GT & Sports Car Trophy race in which Blakeney-Edwards and Wakeman again triumphed, scoring their first win in the unique Lister Jaguar coupé which they have campaigned at Donington for several years.

The unluckiest driver of the weekend must surely have been Olly Bryant who was looking a certain winner of the Stirling Moss Trophy race with just three more laps to go in the 45 minute race when, exactly as in last year’s race, the

suspension of his Lotus 15 collapsed, forcing his retirement and handing victory to a Lister Jaguar, this time the one driven by Richard Kent.

Julian Thomas and Calum Lockie won the Historic Touring Car race, defeating the massed ranks of BMW M3s and The BMW 3.0 CSL of Daniel and Dominique Reinhardt leaves the pits during Friday’s wet practice.

Unfortunately it was to retire from the Historic Touring Car race on Sunday after just 11 laps

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Start of the ‘Mad Jack’ race for pre-war sports cars with Justin Maeers (GN Parker0, far right, leading from Gareth Burnett’s blue Alta Sports and Fred Wakeman’s Frazer Nash Super Sports

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TV ‘Salvage Hunter’ Drew Pritchard was 13th fastest in qualifying for the HRDC Touring Greats race in his number 13 VW Beetle but was a non-starter for the race

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Capris with their Sierra Cosworth RS500. The same pair had earlier won the Jaguar Challenge race in their E-Type and The winning E-Type of Julian Thomas and Calum Lockie in the Jaguar Challenge race

their Shelby Cobra Coupe by over a lap.

Another HRDC race over the weekend was the ‘Coys’ Trophy featuring touring Cars from 1958 to 1966 which was won by Perfetti and Rovelli in a Ford Lotus Cortina Mk1.

The final HRDC race at the meeting was for ’Touring Greats’ for pre-60 Touring cars with invited ’TC63”. It seems apt that the winner should be a former British Touring Car Mike and Andrew Jordan’s Austin GT40 won the HRDC ‘Touring Greats’ race, pursued early on by Grant Williams in the Jaguar Mk1

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later drove a Ford Falcon to second place in the HRDC race for sports, GT and touring cars. They were beaten in the HRDC ‘Allstars’ race by Leo Voyazides and Simon Hadfield in © Peter McFadyen

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The HRDC Allstars race was won by the Shelby Cobra Coupé of Leo Voyazides and Simon Hadfield which lapped the entire field in the 45 minute race

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Championship (BTCC) winner and saw the father and son team of Mike and Andrew Jordan take an easy win in their Austin GT40. Andrew was BTCC Champion in 2013 driving a Honda Civic Type R and is currently still winning races in a BMW 330i M-Sport, taking two back to back victories at the latest round of the 2019 championship at Thruxton.

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As last year, the Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA of Andrew and Max Banks won the U2TC race for Under 2-Litre Touring Cars Aston Martin DB2, Austin Healey, AC Ace, Frazer Nash and Lister Bristol head towards the Donington exhibition hall during the Woodcote Trophy race

chequered flag first infront of a hoard of Ford Lotus Cortinas, headed by Shaun Balfe in 2nd.

The Pre ’63 GT race saw Jon and Jason Minshaw take victory in a Jaguar E-Type after an hours racing. The Pre-56 sportscars competed for the RAC Woodcote Trophy and saw © Peter McFadyen

John and Gary Pearson won the Woodcote Trophy race for pre-’56 sports cars in their Jaguar D-Type, here leading the Maserati 250S of Wilson and Stretton which held second place for much of the race before retiring

a victory for the Jaguar D-Type of John and Gary Person ahead of the Aston Martin DB3S of Friedrichs and Hadfield.

With lunchtime demonstrations by recent F1 cars, displays by the British Historic Karting Club and dozens of classic car clubs present, it was certainly a busy weekend for all.

In Bentley’s centenary year, the marque was well represented in the pre-war sports car race.

Car 15 is the 3-4½ Litre of Alex Bell and Jeremy Welch

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Masterpixel Media Manx National Rally.

Isle of Man.

By Syd Wall.

Hugh Hunter overcame many problems to finish jump two places to 4th on the last stage

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Manxmeister Jason Pritchard now has 5 wins on the island

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rest of a trouble free night, already 55.2 seconds behind Pritchard at the end of the first loop and 1m 42s at the end of the second. Manxman Andrew Dudgeon, making his competition comeback from spinal surgery after a Macau Motorbike GP accident, stormed to a strong third place in his Mitsubishi Lancer Evo6. Dan Harper’s blown turbo exit was copied by both John Stone (Fiesta WRC - he also hit a sheep) and John Indri (Mirage R5). Indri’s problems were a repeat of the Epynt troubles and prevented his restarting on Saturday.

An early fourth was Hugh Hunter in his ex Francois Duval Focus WRC but a catalogue of problems cost him 4 minutes, dropping him to 6th, allowing Aaron McLaughlin through to take the place in his Hyundai i20 R5, impressive from a seeding of 68 on his Manx debut. Alan Kirkaldy was the top R5 registered for the championship, finishing 5th in his Fiesta R5. The big name missing from the table so far was Damian

Jason Pritchard was dominant all weekend at the Masterpixel Media Manx National Rally in his Ford Focus WRC05.

Already leading the championship after a round one win on the Tour of Epynt, he triumphed on the double point scoring event, winning on both Friday night and Saturday. He now stands equal with Kenny McKinstry’s five Manx victories.

Friday morning’s rain gave way to dry and sunny stages aside from stage 2, The Cronk, which was full wet, giving the crews a tyre conundrum. Pritchard chose wet tyres for the first loop of 4 stages but was still fastest on the dry Druidale before narrowly losing out to Dan Harper’s Mini WRC whose intermediates worked well for him at the Cronk. That was the only stage Pritchard missed out on, winning the next 6 Friday night stages. Jamie Jukes in the Mitsubishi Mirage R5 had chosen slicks and was third after the Cronk but a blown turbo for Dan Harper put him back to second which he held for the © Syd Wall

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Dan Harper had little luck, retiring his Mini WRC on both days

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Cole, lying 12th at service after launch control issues. A clutch change on his Focus WRC05 improved matters and he pulled up to 7th by the end of the night. It was a privilege to see the commitment of the crews at the Baldwins stage over the jumps and through the cattle grid by Brandywell Cottage, flat out and uninhibited by chicanes. Catching the eye were Darren Atkinson and Mark Jasper in the Mark 2 Escorts mixing it with the WRCs and R5s, Rory McCann’s Honda Civic, an incredible 4th on the second Baldwins stage in the dark and a stunning Martyn Jones, giving an over the limit display in his Vauxhall Nova.

Sunday brought the hoped for sunshine but the expected whitewash from Pritchard didn’t last because his run to the win was interrupted by launch control problems on stage 11, along with an overshoot and a stall. Although like the

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Jamie Jukes took the Mirage to a strong 2nd place

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sunshine, his lead was unbroken, stages 11, 12 & 14 were won by Hugh Hunter who had more brake trouble and a stall on the first stage of the day. He flew after that and finished fourth, behind the consistently quick Jamie Jukes and Andrew Dudgeon. In fact, Jukes was able to do some set-up testing with large gaps in front and behind! Hunter snatched the place from Alan Kirkaldy with Aaron McLaughlin dropping to 6th after the last stage. Having set top 3 stage times for 6 stages, Dan Harper withdrew the Mini WRC at final service and Damien Cole suffered a blown turbo on the final stage but continued to the end without losing 7th place. Darren Atkinson was leading 2WD car again in 8th place, overhauling Wayne Sisson’s Lancer Evo10 on the last stage.

Stu Bainborough was classified 10th in another Lancer, an Evo6 this time.

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Rory McCann’s Honda engine didn’t make it to the end, but thrilled here on stage 4

Martyn Jones was great entertainment on the way to second in class

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Darren Atkinson’s Mk2 Escort took 10th place

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A very sad post-script: Gary Le Coadou withdrew his Hyundai i20WRC entry out of respect for his long-time friend and co-driver Carl Sorensen, who died in a motorbike accident the previous weekend. Carl started his motorsport career in his early teens and was well known as a professional and likeable co-driver in the UK and internationally.

Round 4 of the Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championship is the Woodstoxx – Motul Rally van Wervick in Belgium on 15 June.

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Every Manx rally has to have a Porsche and a Kermode - Adrian’s 911SC only made it to stage 10

Jody Bowcott’s rally ended with a big roll on the penultimate stage

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Aaron McLaughlin’s rapid Hyundai i20 R5 came 6th

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Andrew Dudgeon brave comeback after his Macau crash earned 4th place Malcolm Davey was overjoyed at finishing 3rd in class

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Richard Hill’s Fiesta R200 speeds through the wet section above Brandywell Cottage

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Street Meet hosted by Whittington Street Meet.

The Manor House of Whittington. 22nd May 2019

By Simon Wright. Š Simon Wright

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Big Three American Muscle cars - Ford Mustang, Dodger Challenger R/T and Pontiac Trans Am

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Jago Hot Rod pick-up truck

A lovely sunny Wednesday evening saw a great gathering of American and Classic cars on display at the Manor House of Whittington, near Kinver in the West Midlands. The meeting was for American classic and muscle cars, hotrods and retro cars and had a turnout of around forty cars. One of the most eye catching was a Jago Hot Rod pickup truck kit based on a 1930s Ford Model A open top pick-up with the most enormous 5.7 litre engine sticking out the front. A more conventional Ford Model A © Simon Wright

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hot rod with a full enclosed engine, had the most eye catching paint job in purple with yellow painted flames fanning back from the radiator grill and was substantially larger than the Jago kit. Moving up in size there was a 1941 5 litre Ford COE (Cab Over Engine) flatbed truck which © Simon Wright 1941 Ford COE Truck looked immaculate in its black and white paint job and split windscreen.

There was a really nice line up of classic American muscle cars parked together. The popular Ford Pony car, a 1968 5 litre Ford Mustang was parked next to a 1970 7.2 litre Dodge Challenger R/T and an aggressive looking Pontiac © Simon Wright

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TransAm complete with double air scoops on the bonnet along with a very unusual feature, a rev counter mounted outside the car, built into the top of the bonnet.

on the seats, all across the top of the doors and all around the dashboard, even including the steering wheel. Equally conservative looking was a bright red 1953 3.9 litre V8 Ford F100 pickup truck, which while parked appeared to have less than 1 inch ground clearance. The pick-up truck is a 1953 3.9 litre Ford F-100 V8 pick-up truck.

1961 Ford Thunderbird

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Another popular option with custom car owners is lowering their vehicle, and there were a couple of examples on the car park.

Looking fairly conventional on the outside was a 1961 6.3 litre Ford Thunderbird apart from having a ground clearance of between 1-2 inches when parked.

Looking at the interior showed a highly stylised approach with a bright blue and white crushed velvet appearance © Simon Wright

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major part of American popular culture but most are the other extreme, with high ground clearance to allow go anywhere travel, especially popular for the large wilderness regions of America. This could be seen with a late 1970s Chevrolet K5 Blazer truck.

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2016 Typhoon Mojo

1966 6.4 litre Pontiac Catalina Station wagon

1967 Plymouth Belvedere II

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2002 5.4 litre Ford SVT F-150 Pickup and 2003 3.7 litre Dodge RAM 1500 pickup. © Simon Wright

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There were other vehicles not American by origin, and the most futuristic looking were a Supercharged Ariel Atom, with the number plate AT03, and a three wheeled T-Rex GSX 1300 R. © Simon Wright

1978 Chevrolet Camaro Z28

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Another iconic American car is the Chevrolet Camaro and this was quite clearly stated in Black and White at the Whittington. The Black was a second generation 1978 5 litre Chevrolet Camaro Z28. The original Camaro was first introduced in 1967 and the second generation ran from 1970 to 1981. The White was a fourth generation 1996 3.8 litre Chevrolet Camaro which was first introduced in 1993 and ran until 2002. The car was now powered by a 3.8 litre V6 engine which was introduced in 1995.

1996 Chevrolet Camaro

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T-Rex GSX 1300R and Ariel Atom

The 2005 2 litre Ariel Atom looked to be the ultimate track day car with aerofoils on the front and a large rear wing, a racing car for the road. The Atom 3.5R uses a supercharged 1998cc Honda engine producing 350 bhp.

With a weight of just 550 kg, the car can go from 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) in just 2.6 seconds and has a top speed of © Simon Wright 155 mph.

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Ford Capri 1600 Mk 1

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1256cc engine. The original Vauxhall Viva made its debut in 1963. The car here was the third generation Viva, the HC, which was produced between 1970 until 1979. Parked next two it was an iconic car from the 1970’s , the 1974 Ford Capri Mk 1 fitted with the 1600cc Kent engine.

The Mk1 was built between November 1968 and 1974 at both Halewood and Cologne in West Germany. Ford hoped to make the Capri the Pony Car of Europe, to emulate the success of the Ford Mustang in America. The Sports coupe was based on the

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same running gear as the very popular Ford Cortina.

By 1973, the 1,000,000 Capri had been built, the car proving very popular and also successful in motorsport. Added a little European glamour, a beautiful Porsche speedster replica, an Apal Speedster 1600cc. The Apal Speedster was © Simon Wright produced in BlegnyTrembleur, Belgium by glass-fibre specialist Edmund Perry who started in 1961. The fibre-glass speedster bodies were all propelled by VW or Porsche air cooled engines, making them a very close copy of the original Porsche Speedster.

The large car park at the Manor House of Whittington makes it an ideal venue for this type of car meeting, and various other meetings for American classic cars are planned for the rest of the summer months.

Check the groups Facebook page for further details.

Apal ‘Porsche’ Speedster

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1956 4.8 litre Ford F100 V8 Pickup truck Pontiac Trans Am

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Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham d’Elegance

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1950 Ford hot-rod

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Campagna T-Rex GSX 1300 R.

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The T-Rex GSX 1300 R looked even more futuristic and hails originally from Campagna Motors in Quebec, Canada.

Powered by a 197 bhp Suzuki Hayabusa 1300 engine and a 6 speed sequential gearbox which feeds through the single large rear wheel, the T-Rex can achieve 140 mph and can do 0-60 mph in 4.1 seconds.

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VSCC Formula Vintage Round 2. Oulton Park.

18th May 2019.

By Peter McFadyen.

Christopher Mann’s Alfa Romeo Monza scored another victory in the race for standard and modified pre-war sports cars

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Philip Goddard leads Keith Ahlers into Cascades on the opening lap of the first Morgan Challenge race

Vintage Sports Car Club at Oulton Park Following their season opening 2-day race meeting at Silverstone in April, the VSCC moved to Oulton Park in Cheshire for another day’s racing, shared with competitors in the AR Morgan Challenge who had two 20-minute races, the 1950s/60s sports cars of Equipe GTS and Equipe Pre-63 who had one 40-minute race each and the 500cc F3 cars of the 500 Owners Association who raced once for 15 minutes. The host club had six races, mostly over 15 minutes.

Racing began after qualifying and before the lunch break with the first of the Morgan races which was won by Keith Ahlers in his Plus 8 who has now won well over 100 times in this series. Philip Goddard and Roger Whiteside, also driving Plus 8s, were second and third and this result was repeated in the second race. A good

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Tom Hardman’s MG Bellevue Special with its twin rear wheels

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Matt Ricketts (Cooper Type 41) finished 3rd in the main race, James Baxter’s Riley ERA broke its prop shaft on the opening lap and retired while Rod Longdon’s Lola Mk2 finished in 2nd place

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Duncan Ricketts (ERA Parnell Challenger)

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Equipe GTS race winner Mark Ashworth’s TVR Grantura

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Justin Maeers (GN Parker) and Tony Lees

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Ian Standing (Riley Brooklands) was the Bill Phillips Trophy winner, here leading Simon Blakeney-Edwards (Invicta Sports Tourer)

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John Yea (car 5) and Richard Lawson both run wide at Old Hall in their MGBs

Phil Thomas leads a trio of Morgans in his Plus 4 model

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stops leaving Rob Cull in second place ahead of five of the MGs. The Equipe Pre-63 race was won by Jack and Bill Rawles in their Austin Healey 3000 MkII from Marc Gordon’s Lotus Elite. © Peter McFadyen © Peter McFadyen

with the first of the Morgan races which was won by Keith Ahlers in his Plus 8 who has now won well over 100 times in this series. Philip Goddard and Roger Whiteside, also driving Plus 8s, were second and third and this result was repeated in the second race. A good field of vintage racing cars contested the Boulogne Trophy with Justin Maeers 6.1 litre 1926 GN Parker Special winning from Tony Lees 2-lite AC/ GN Cognac Special and Oliver Llewellyn’s 8-litre Bentley.

MGBs dominate the Equipe GTS field at Old Hall Corner, the leaders already out of the picture

The field for the Equipe GTS race was dominated by MGBs but it was a trio of TVR Granturas which led the race, Mark Ashworth holding the lead throughout. Rod Begbie’s TVR was close behind but retired shortly after the compulsory pit

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Hughie Walker presses on with the GN Special

The grid for one of the handicap races with Malcolm Underwood’s Delahaye 135, car 50, and John Reeve’s Riley Brooklands nearest to the camera

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Joh Moss (Austin Seven Sports) acknowledges the chequered flag as he wins the handicap race Start of the Boulogne Trophy race with Oliver Llewellyn’s Bentley holding a slender lead into Cascades

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The 500cc F3 field sets off from its rolling start with the Coopers of Mike Fowler and Chris Wilson leading

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Mike Fowler and Chris Wilson both in Coopers had a great scrap for victory in the 500’s race which featured no less than eleven different makes of car.

They finished in that order with Simon Dedman’s Waye F3 third.

Richard Kelly’s Whitfill Special, unusually a front-engined 500cc car, was built in the USA by one of Dan Gurney’s race engineers

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The race for standard and modified pre-war sports cars was fought out between Christopher Mann’s superb Alfa Romeo Monza and Tim Kneller’s Riley TT Sprite with victory going to the Alfa. Jo Blakeney-Edwards was third in her Frazer Nash Super Sports, the first vintage car to finish, and Ian Standing (Riley Brooklands) won the Bill Phillips Trophy as his was the first standard car to finish. Fred Harper’s mighty 1957 Kurtis Indy Roadster won the 15-minute race for pre- and post-war racing cars and Duncan Ricketts Page 93

Another ‘David and Goliath’ battle, this time between Richard Reay-Smith’s Lagonda LG45 and Mark Elder’s Austin 7

Chequered flag for secondplaced Chris Wilson’s Cooper Mk IX/X

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won the pre-war class, finishing fourth overall in the ERAengined Parnell Challenger. The final race of the day went to Julian Grimwade (Frazer Nash – Alvis Norris Special) with Tony Lees again second in the Cognac Special.

Start of the Bill Phillips Trophy race for standard and modified pre-war sports cars with Christopher Mann’s Alfa Romeo already leading

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Noel Runnels-Moss )Vauxhall Quartermaine) won the second handicap race

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Winston Teague’s colourful Wasp single seater leads the Bugatti of Bruce Stops

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The entertaining battle between Mark Butterworth’s huge Lagonda V12 and Simon Eswards in his diminutive Morgan Aero Supersports went on all race long

Tony Lees (AC/GN Cognac) ahead of Eddie Williams (Frazer Nash) and the 11 litre Amilcar Hispano Special of Tom Walker

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Avon Tyres/Wynn Developments Motorsport UK British Hillclimb Championship, Prescott. 27th April 2019.

By Syd Wall, with additional photos by Peter McFadyen.

4th place for Alex Summers in the first run-off

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MENZIES MAINTAINS MOMENTUM After a win and a second in the first rounds at Loton Park, Wallace Menzies continued his momentum a week later at Prescott, taking third and then another win in round four, plus FTD. Conditions may have changed from a sultry Easter weekend to a bitterly cold wind but the competition was intense with the top six in both runoffs covered by half a second. While Menzies increased his championship lead to a slim three points, current champion Trevor Willis had a day to forget, hitting the barriers at the exit of Pardon in the first run-off.

Damaged front suspension couldn’t be repaired at the track and Trevor went home for the early bath. For this season, he’s got a new Sadev gearbox and one wonders if the oversteer on the hairpin was part of getting used to the new handing.

The man who finished second last year, Will Hall, was © Syd Wall

Scott Moran spins the tyres at the start of practice

A cold spring morning and not many spectators about yet as John Louch rounds Orchard Bend in his Reliant Scimitar GTE Ford © Peter McFadyen

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Despite the downforce produced by the complex front wing, Sean Gould’s Gould 59J running a new 4-litre Judd engine still manages to lift a front wheel at the Esses

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Paul Howell’s class winning run in his Porsche 911 RSR © Peter McFadyen

Robert Kenrick on his way to 6th place in the 2nd run-off

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Steve Morgan gets a little sideways leaving the Esses in his Empire Evo Suzuki

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Jason Tunnicliffe’s potent 2.2 litre Peugeot 205

also slightly off the pace after a disastrous start to the season.

His AER Turbo engine destroyed itself in pre-season testing at Curborough and isn’t expected to be ready for action until June. So for the first four BHC events, Hall is driving Graham Wynn's Gould-HB GR55 while the championship co-sponsor concentrates on his new Gould-Judd GR59. The big V8 engined car is a very different proposition to his usual mount, so Will must be content with an 8th and 5th, leaving him 5th in the championship standings.

Scott Moran won the first run-off by one tenth of a second from Menzies, but only four hundredths behind in third was Richard Spedding, determined to make up for a character building weekend at Loton Park. An incredibly close run-off 2 saw the top three covered by just six hundredths of a second, Spedding bumped Moran to fourth by a couple of tenths as

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Dave Uren, equally determined to make up for missing a run-off at Loton, edged the Raptor down to third place and third FTD - by a hundredth of a second.

In third place overall is Alex Summers, six points adrift of Moran in the table after taking fourth in the opening shootout. Arguably, star of the day was Robert Kenrick, in the devastatingly quick 1-litre Raptor. After running just three hundredths behind Summers in a hard fought opening bout, he edged Summers out of the top six in an equally hard fought closing shoot-out. To cap it all, he broke his own 3 year old class record in second qualifying, by 0.8 of a second. It was the day’s only record and gave him a second successive Prescott Gold Cup award.

Jason Mourant gained a place on the series table with eighth and seventh in the Gould-Judd. He was pursued by Zach Zammit in round four, the former Maltese hillclimb © Peter McFadyen

Bo Williams and his Bugatti T35B competing in the Bugatti Car Handicap class

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Allan McDonald’s amazing 2.4 litre 4-wheeldrive Mini Evo Mitsubishi rounds the Semicircle

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Will Hall is still getting used to his borrowed Gould GR55

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Zach Zammit’s Empire looks great in McLaren orange

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Bluebells were out in force – Matt Clarke’s Austin Mini

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Dave Uren warms his tyres for a cold early morning practice run

Andrew Coley performs essential tyre preparation with a bladed file on his Opel Cosworth powered Gould GR55

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Scott Moran only contested selected events in 2018 due to business pressures, but still finished 10th. He may not be competing in all the 2019 events either, but as it stands, the championship battle is currently between Menzies and Moran.

Putting enormous flat spots on the tyre. He ran wide and hit the barriers leaving the very next corner, the left hander at Pardon.

champion having improved his placing on each of three successive run-off appearances in his new Empire WraithSuzuki, and the 1600cc class winner earned the Moran Motorhomes Man of the Meeting. In the points each time with the only 1-litre car apart from Kenrick's, Eynon Price swapped places with Zammit in his Force TA, edging Matthew Ryder's 1600cc Empire-Suzuki out of the points in the final shoot-out, where Simon Moyse's challenge came to nought when his supercharged Gould-Suzuki slowed dramatically with an electronic glitch that had dogged the car all weekend. Dave Warburton's off at SemiCircle during the opening run-off proved costly. Despite sterling efforts to repair the ex-works Gould-Suzuki, he was unable to make the afternoon runs and dropped four places to tenth on the series table.

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FTD: Wallace Menzies (3.3 Gould-Cosworth XD GR59) 36.86s Championship run-off, round 3: 1 Scott Moran (3.5 Gould-NME GR61X) 37.14s; 2 Richard Spedding (1.3s GWR Raptor-Suzuki) 37.18s; 3 Menzies 37.24s; 4 Alex Summers (2.5 DJ Firestorm-Cosworth/Opel KF) 37.45s; 5 Robert Kenrick (1.0 GWR Raptor-BMW) 37.48s; 6 Dave Uren (3.5 Gould-NME GR55B) 37.57s; 7 Jason Mourant (4.0 Gould-Judd EV GR55) 38.50s; 8 Will Hall (3.5 GouldCosworth HB GR55) 39.16s; 9 Eynon Price (1.0 ForceŠ Syd Wall

Tim Dennis took 2nd in class in his 1380cc Mini Cooper

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Trevor Short’s Reliant Scimitar GT

Wallace Menzies is already doing 90mph at Bridge in first qualifying

Trevor Willis looking wistful afterwards in the paddock

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Ash Mason’s 1340cc Suzukipowered Westfield Sei is reputed to have over 180bhp

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Richard Spedding’s superb 2nd place in the first run-off

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Suzuki TA) 39.20s; 10 Zach Zammit (1.6 Empire WraithSuzuki) 39.53s; David Warburton (1.6 Gould-Suzuki GR59) DNF; Trevor Willis (3.2 OMS-RPE 28) DNF. Championship run-off, round 4: 1 Menzies 36.86s; 2 Uren 36.91s; 3 Spedding 36.92s; 4 Moran 37.13s; 5 Hall 37.23s; 6 Kenrick 37.39s; 7 Summers 37.45s; 8 Mourant 37.86s; 9 Zammit 38.64s; 10 Price 39.48s; 11 Matthew Ryder (1.6 Empire-Suzuki Evo2) 39.91s; 12 Simon Moyse (1.3s GouldSuzuki GR59) 77.90s.

Championship positions after round 4: 1 Menzies 37pts; 2 Moran 34; 3 Summers 28; 4 Spedding 23; 5= Hall and Uren 18; 7 Willis 14; 8 Mourant 12; 9 Kenrick 11; 10 Warburton 7; etc.

A punishing championship schedule took the competitors to Craigantlet for the third successive weekend. Scott Moran didn’t travel and Menzies and Uren each took a win and a second, allowing Menzies to stretch his lead.

Championship positions after round 6: 1 Menzies 56pts; 2 Summers 44; 3 Uren 37; 4 Spedding 36; 5 Scott Moran 34; 6 Hall 28; 7 Mourant 25; 8 Trevor Willis 14; 9 Robert Kenrick 11; 10 Gould 8; etc

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Colin Bullock makes a smoky start in his Bugatti Type 51

Matthew Ryder's 2nd qualifying run took him into the 2nd run-off

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Not many nicer places to be than Prescott on sunny spring day Yvette Stader’s Alfa Romeo Berlina.

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Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup Silverstone, 11th-12th May 2019

By David Goose & Stuart Yates of Motorsport Imagery.

Orange 1 FFF Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan GT3 of Franck Perera, Phil Keen and Giovanni Venturini finished 2nd overall

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Free practice pace setters Jordan Pepper, Jules Gounon and Steven Kane in the Bentley Continental Bentley Team M-Sport.

They finished 12th overall

Strakka Racing Jack Hawksworth on for third place finish in the Mercedes AMG GT3 until a collision took him out and they finished 5th

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One week on from the Sprint Series at Brands Hatch the © Motorsport-imagery Blancpain GT Series moved north to Silverstone for the 3 #55 Attempto Audi R8 LMS, which was among the few hour Endurance Race. Starting the weekend off and it was cars to set a quick lap during the latter part of the session.

Jordan Pepper in the Bentley Team M-Sport making the Dutch ace Steijn Schothorst delivered the lap aboard the perfect start to its home event by topping free practice. #55 machine, placing Driving the #107 Continental GT3, AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 of Niek it fifth overall.

Pepper set a time of 2m00.009s Hommerson ,Louis Machiels and Among the Am Cup Andrea Bertolini were Promoted early in the 90-minute session. to Pro-Am winners by stewards runners, the #33 With virtually an un interrupted post race.

Rinaldi Racing Ferrari session, the Bentley was not to be 488 topped the order beaten. with an impressive The #52 AF Corse Ferrari 488 was 21st overall. second fastest thanks to Andrea Into pre-qualifying, Bertolini, third place went to #97 setting the pace was Oman Racing by TF Sport Aston #63 Grasser Racing Martin Vantage AMR of Charlie Lamborghini Huracan, Eastwood. with the top lap time The top Silver Cup crew was the © Motorsport-imagery lap set by Mirko

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Bortolotti.

The session saw a trio of leading contenders break the two minute barrier around the Northamptonshire circuit. The first was Maro Engel (#4 Black Falcon Mercedes-AMG), who was soon beaten by Davide Rigon (#72 SMP Racing Ferrari 488).

Bortolotti then trumped them both with a time of 1m59.640s, bettering fellow countryman Rigon by a narrow 0.074s.

The session was interrupted by a red flag period, caused by the #107 Bentley Team M-Sport car finding its way into the gravel. It proved to be a tough time for the British squad after setting the pace free practice, as the #108 machine, also spent much of pre-qualifying in the pits with a technical issue.

Grasser Racing secured its second successive Endurance Cup pole position with the #63 Lamborghini crew of Mirko Bortolotti, Christian Engelhart and Rolf Ineichen taking the

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honours at Silverstone. The Austrian outfit led Q1 thanks to a stellar lap from Bortolotti, heading the field by a full halfsecond in the Huracan. After setting the pace the team never came under much pressure, Bortolotti's effort was crucial, as the Italian banked an early time in a session interrupted by red flags. Engelhart extended the gap in Q2 before Ineichen completed the job.

The Pro-Am category was topped by the #97 Oman Racing

by TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage, which achieved the same qualifying result at Monza thanks to the efforts of Ahmad Al Harthy, Salih Yoluc and Charlie Eastwood.

The Am Cup class was once again led by Barwell Motorsport. The British squad has won the previous three Endurance Cup races and now has back-to-back pole positions to celebrate as well. The crew of Leo Machitski, Adrian Amstutz and Miguel Ramos delivered another fine

Oman Racing with TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 of Salih Yoluc, Ahmad Al Harthy and Charlie Eastwood were 2nd in pro Am Cup class

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Attempto Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 of Steijns Schothorst, Pieter Schothorst and Mattia Drudi were 2nd in the Silver Cup class and 9th overall.

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qualifying effort to lead their class, setting them up for a strong run on home turf.

After what can only be described as a dramatic start which saw a multi car crash on the Hanger Straight, the #72 SMP Racing Ferrari 488 gave the Manufacturer their first Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup victory in over 6 years. The crew comprising of Mikhail Aleshin, Miguel Molina and Davide Rigon started the three-hour race from 10th, slipping back one place at the start.

Most of the first stint was led by the pole man Christian Engelhart in the #63 Grasser Racing Lamborghini Huracan, but all hope of victory was lost when the car suffered an illtimed puncture. This was to promote #563 Orange1 FFF Racing Lamborghini into the lead, ahead of its sister #519 car.

At the first set of pit stops the #563 came in first but the advantage was short lived as a safety car period neutralised

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the race whilst a stranded car was recovered. The #519 Lamborghini was able to take the lead ahead of the #2 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT, whilst the #72 Ferrari moved up to third.

Into the final stint and it looked like a straight fight between the #519 Lamborghini – driven by Giovanni Venturini and Rigon in the #72 Ferrari. The latter clearly having the superior pace allowing him to close right up to Venturini who then put up a first class defensive drive.

This went on for half an hour, but with time running out and 17 minutes left Rigon made his move, taking advantage of a small gap and edging ahead as the cars exited Luffield, resulting in a victory by 2.6 seconds.

The drama was still not over though, looking like the #43 Strakka Racing Mercedes-AMG would take the final podium Race winners, the SMP Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 of Miguel Molina, Mikhail Aleshin and Davide Rigon.

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GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan GT3 of Mirko Bortolotti, Christian Engelhart and Rolf Ineiche suffered a puncture during the race, dropping them to 36th position at the finish

hour. This ensured that the local team won its home event for a second successive season, with the #52 AF Corse Ferrari eventually taking second spot.

Following the race, the stewards of the meeting ruled that the #74 car should be subject to a drive-through, which has been converted to a 30-second penalty. The #74 Mercedes-AMG was adjudged to have caused a collision with the #52 Ferrari at The Loop shortly before the two-hour mark, tipping the AF Corse car into a spin and leaving it with damage. Remon Vos was driving the Ram Racing entry when the incident occurred, before Tom Onslow-Cole took over for the final stint.

This promoted the #52 Ferrari of Niek Hommerson, Louis Machiels and Andrea Bertolini up one spot to become the class winner. The #97 Oman Racing by TF Sport Aston

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place after a truly remarkable drive through the field from 41st on the grid.

But a collision with the recovering #563 Lamborghini put Strakka driver Jack Hawksworth off the road, while also leaving the FFF-run car with significant damage. This allowed Dries Vanthoor to bring the #2 WRT Audi through for the final podium place.

The Silver Cup class was won by the narrowest of margins.

The #19 Grasser Lamborghini led much of the event, while also vying for the overall podium, but a late charge saw the #55 Attempto Racing Audi cross the line just 0.013s shy of the winner.

The Pro-Am class was also decided during the final stint.

The #74 Ram Racing Mercedes-AMG prevailed thanks to Tom Onslow-Cole and Remon Vos, the British ace passing the #93 Tempesta Racing Ferrari 488 early in the final

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Ram Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 of Remon Vos and Tom OnslowCole On track winners of Pro-Am but penalised post- race for causing a collision during the race, which dropped them to 3rd in class.

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Silver Cup Winners GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan GT3 of Arno Santamato, Gerhard Tweraser and Lucas Mauron.

Martin also moved up a place into second, while the #74 Mercedes-AMG dropped to third in the revised classification.

The Am Cup category was also won by a British squad as Barwell Motorsport continued its dominant form with a fourth successive class win. The #77 Lamborghini started from Am Cup pole.

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Daiko Lazarus Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 of Kris Richard, Nicholas Pohler and Fabrizio Crestani finished 32nd.

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Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3 of Shae Davies, Paul Petit and Alex MacDowall at the start with a spin in the background

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Super Trofeo Race 2 winners Imperiali Racing Karol Basz / Bartosz Paziewski

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Micanek Motorsport ACCR Kurt Wagner / Tomas Micanek Super Trofeo Race 1 winners Bonaldi Motorsport Jack Bartholomew / Stuart Middleton

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In the supporting Super Trofeo races Bonaldi Motorsport pairing Stuart Middleton and Jack Bartholomew (#32 Huracán Super Trofeo Evo) claimed a dramatic victory in the opening race of the season, following late-race contact between leaders Karol Basz (#8 Imperiale Racing) and Kikko Galbiati (#44 Imperiale Racing).

In race 2 Karol Basz and Bartosz Paziewski made amends for their final lap disappointment in Race 1 to lead a dominant Imperiale Racing one-two in the second Lamborghini Super Trofeo race at Silverstone. The Polish duo started from pole position and led home a charging Vito Postiglione in the #44 Imperiale Racing, with Race 1 winners Stuart Middleton and Jack Bartholomew completing the podium in the #32 Bonaldi Motorsport Huracán.

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Closing Shot

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Waving goodbye to this issue with his front wheel - Scott Moran’s Gould GR61X NME hopping over the kerb at Ettore’s Bend at the British Hill Climb Championship round at Prescott at the end of April.

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