Classic and Competition Car 109 October 2019

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

Issue 109 October 2019

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9th Birthday edition

Australian Touring Masters Sydney Motorsport Park Coffee & Chrome Chateau Impney BARC Donington

WEC Silverstone 4 Hours

Oulton Park Gold Cup

BARC Mallory Park

British GT Finale, Donington Park

Salon PrivĂŠ

Contents

Page 5

News.

Page 14 BARC Mallory Park

Page 4 Photo of the Month.

Page 28 BARC CTCRC Donington Park

Page 20 Salon Privé

Page 43 Oulton Park Gold Cup

Page 52 Coffee & Chrome Chateau Impney

Page 35 Webbs Motor Show

Page 65 British F3 Donington Park

Page 60 British GT Donington Park

Page 68 VSCC Loton Park

Page 59 Archive Photo of the month.

Our Team Simon Wright - Editor.

Janet Wright - Staff Photographer.

Independent Freelance contributors in this issue.

Pete Austin. Peter McFadyen.

Syd Wall.

Plus David Goose & Stuart Yates of Motorsport-Imagery.

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Front Cover: Local heros Oliver Jarvis, Michael Simpson and Guy Smith Ginetta G60-LT-P1 in the WEC Silverstone 4 hours © Simon Wright.

Australian Touring Masters - Aaron Seton en route to 4th in Sunday morning’s race © Syd Wall.

Oulton Park Gold Cup - 2019 Gold Cup winner Australian Marty Bullock in the Williams FW06 © Peter McFadyen.

British GT Donington Park - Shaun Balfe and Rob Bell in the Balfe Motorsport McLaren 720S GT3 © David Goose Motorsport Imagery

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Page 74 WEC Silverstone 4 Hours.

Page 93 Muscle Car Masters Australia

Page 83 ELMS 4 Hours of Silverstone

Page 89 Alpine A110 Rally Page 110 GT Cup Open Europe Silverstone.

Page 100 Wheels on Wednesday, Spetchley Park Page 112 Euroformula Open Silverstone

Page 106 GT International Open Silverstone Page 114 750 MC Donington Park

Page 120 Closing Shot

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Photo of the month.

British GT at Donington park saw Rob Bell and Shaun Balfe driving the McLaren 720S GT3.

They might have been in the lead, but they continued to push hard throughout the race to take a well deserved victory.

By David Goose of Motorsport Imagery

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It’s Black and White, No 3 out till Spa 2020.

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Rebellion Racing ran two cars at Silverstone for the opening round of the 2019-2020 World Endurance Championship. Following the race, Rebellion Racing announced that the #3 car would not contest the remaining flyaway WEC races, and would probably only return at the 2020 6 Hours of Spa Francorchamps in Belgium.

Rebellion CEO Calim Bouhadra said that budget and logistical reasons had caused the withdrawal. He also stated that the last minute decision to run the second car at Silverstone had resulted in the drastic measure of having to stop its Japan-bound sea freight, which was in Greece, in order to retrieve sufficient parts to run both cars for the season opening race. At Silverstone the #3 car was driven by Nathanaël Berthon from France, Pipo Derani from Brazil and Loīc Duval from France. The car finished 3rd, one lap behind the winning Toyota pair.

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Reborn 1929 Bentley Blower.

Formula 1 winner of Oulton park Gold Cup. Martin Bullock in the Williams FW06 was a worthy winner of the Oulton Park Gold Cup, reminiscent of the days when current Formula 1 teams used to compete in nonchampionship races.

Spectacular design for new Audi e-tron FE06

The new Audi Formula E racer will debut in Ad Diriyah, Saudi Arabia on November 22nd, driven by Daniel Abt and Lucas di Grassi. This will be their sixth season working together.

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In a World first for Bentley, its most revered pre-war car is being given a new lease of life in a stunning recreation. The new car will be created from Sir Tim Birkin’s famous 4 ½ litre Team Blower with specialist Mulliner team expertise.

Only 12 new cars will be built, one for each race the original Team Blower entered. These new cars will form the World’s first pre-war race car continuation series.

Only four original ‘Team Blower’ cars were built by Birkin in the late 1920s. They all saw action across the racetracks of Europe and the most famous was the No.2 car, registration UU 5872 which raced at Le Mans and played a significant role in the factory Bentley Speed Six victory in 1930.

Bentley’s own Team Blower car will be completely disassembled to its individual components, each of which will be scanned in 3D to create a complete digital model of the entire car. Then using original 1920s moulds and tooling jigs and traditional hand tools, 12 sets of parts will be created to assemle the new cars. It will take Mulliner approximately two years to complete the 12 car series.

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Anders Hildebrand of Anglo American Oil Co Ltd presents Johnathan Hoggard with his prize for winning the Sunoco Whelan Challenge 2019

Sunoco Whelen Challenge - 2019 Champion After a thrilling season-long battle, Johnathan Hoggard has secured the Sunoco Whelen Challenge and with it a dream drive in the 2020 Rolex 24 At Daytona, courtesy of Whelen Engineering Inc and the Anglo American Oil Company Ltd. Consistently quick throughout the year in the competitive BRDC British Formula 3 Championship, Johnathan not only took seven victories – more than anyone else – but also seven pole positions and eight fastest laps, all of which propelled him to Sunoco Whelen Challenge success. Despite finishing 2nd in this years F3 Championship, Hoggard had a better overall score than 2019 F3 Champion Clement Novalak, not a bad prize for this years runner up.

The 18-year old becomes the 11th winner and not only follows Linus Lundqvist, who won the Sunoco Whelen Challenge in 2018 after racing in the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship, but also joins names such as Jonny Adam, Felipe Nasr, Seb Morris, and Phil Keen in a funded seat at the prestigious race. It will be Johnathan’s first drive in endurance racing, but he will no

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doubt prove himself quick around the 5.73km sports car configuration of the famous Daytona International Speedway, as this years Sunoco Whelen Challenge champion he wins a fully funded race seat at the 2020 Rolex 24 At Daytona, the value of the prize, $250,000.

The prize drive is courtesy of the generosity of Sonny Whelen, who has helped a number of European racers make a name for themselves in the Rolex 24 At Daytona. The Anglo American Oil Company donates the entry fee from all Challenge hopefuls, as well as donations from members of the public, to Team Fox for Parkinson's disease Research.

After the results were announced Johnathan Hoggard, 2019 Sunoco Whelen Challenge winner commented “I’ve watched the Rolex 24 for many years with drivers like Fernando Alonso and Felipe Nasr racing, so to be in it is a great opportunity and I am really thankful for it. I wasn’t expecting to win the Challenge to be honest. Halfway through the season I was fourth or fifth, so those pole positions and fastest laps really can change the whole challenge around.

Anders Hildebrand of Anglo American Oil Company Ltd praised this years challenge winner, “What has been impressive about Johnathan this year is that he is always quick. When he is on song, he gets fastest laps, pole positions, and wins, and that is how the Challenge points system is built; You have to be consistent to win, but you get a boost for the fastest laps and poles.

The Sunoco Challenges provide an accurate assessment and comparison of performances across multiple championships during any given season. Points are awarded for qualifying and race results, including fastest lap, which are then converted into an individual average score for each competing driver over the course of a full campaign. In the UK, drivers from the British F3 and British GT Championships can take part in the annual Sunoco Whelen Challenge.

Basically the challenge is awarded based on performances not just results and rewards drivers for consistency over the season, it’s like a fantasy drivers league but in real life.

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Front row: Nato, Menezes, Senna, Loic, Pipo (Rebellion), Conway, Kobayashi, Lopez, Nakajima, Hartley, Buemi (Toyota), Robertson, Orudzhev (Ginetta) 2nd Row: Thiim, Sorensen (AMR), Rigon, Molina, Calado, Guidi (AF Corse Ferrari), Estre, Christensen, Bruni, Lietz (Porsche GT Team), Smith, Simpson, Jarvis 3rd row: Lynn, Martin (AMR),Ragues, Negrao, Laurent (Signtech Alpine ELF), Stevens, Tung, Aubry (Jackie Chan DC Racing), Van Uitert, Van Der Garde, Van Eerd (Racing Team Nederland).

4th row: Coigny, Borga, Lapierre (Cool Racing), Di Resta, Hanson, Albuquerque (United Autosports), Gonzalez, Da Costa, Davidson (Jota Sport), Sernagiotto, Lacorte, Belicchi (Cetilar Racing) 5th row: Yoluc, Adam, Eastwood (TF Sport), Campbell, Pera, Ried (Dempsey-Proton Racing), Perfetti, Cairoli, Kolkmann (Team Project 1), Yamashita, Fjordbach, Patterson (High Class Racing).

6th row: Gunn, Dalla Lana, Turner (AMR), Preining, Gianluca Giraudi, Ricardo Sanchez (Dempsey Proton Racing), Keating, Bleekemolen, Fraga (Team Project 1), Castellacci, Flohr, Fisichella (AF Corse) 7th row: Ishikawa, Beretta, Cozzolino (MR Racing), Mowlam, Grimes, Hollings (Red River Sport), Wainwright, Barker, Watson (Gulf Racing), Perrodo, Collard, Nielsen (AF Corse).

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Ken Smith (Lola T332 #11) leads Michael Collins (McRae GM1 #94) at Hampton Downs in January this year.

they also need the occasional major strip down and rebuild, something which can be accomplished between summer seasons but not when they have to be packed up and shipped overseas during the traditional winter ‘off-season’.

As it is the demand from race meeting organisers here is stronger than ever, with five rounds between November this year and March already sorted -and a sixth – in April next year – a distinct possibility.

The 2019/20 starts with the category’s biennial return to the MG Classic meeting at Circuit Chris Amon – Manfeild on November this year, then after a break over the Christmas New Year period, heads north to Taupo’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park for the now annual Historic Grand Prix meeting in late January then south to Mike Pero Motorsport Park in Christchurch for the always popular Skope Classic meeting in early February. A fortnight after that the category and series makes a long-awaited return to Invercargill’s Teretonga Park for an appearance at the revamped Classic Speedfest at Teretonga Park, before returning to the North Island for one – or at the most – two more meetings.

“With no big classic meeting planned at Hampton Down in January,” says Richards. “we’ve again accepted an invite to run at the HRC’s big Legends of Speed meeting there in March. That makes five meetings which will be enough to make an interesting series, though we are still negotiating for a sixth round at another circuit in April, but I probably won’t be able to confirm that either way until the New Year.”

CARS REMAIN THE STARS AS LOCAL F5000 SERIES NEARS 20 YEAR MILESTONE With the honourable exception of current – and now 5-time – title holder, 78-year-old super-veteran Ken Smith, it’s the cars that remain the stars of New Zealand’s world-leading SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series, which returns to local motor racing tracks this summer for the 17th time.

After trips in successive years to Australia – then last year – to the United States for the official US celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the category at the Laguna Seca circuit in Northern California, the coming summer season is the second in which the management committee has decided to keep dates and venues a little closer to home.

One of the main reasons is cost – because the majority of the series regulars pay all their own car, maintenance and travel bills and as Richards says, ‘it all adds up, particularly of you are away from your home base and/business for more than a week or two at a time.’

Another reason is that because they are now all over 40 years old, the cars not only require regular maintenance, October 2019 Classic and Competition Car

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Glenn Richards (blue and yellow car) leading a group in his ex Eppie Wietzes Lola T400)

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RAC Rally of the Tests Classic Motor Show debut.

For the very first time, the classic rallying specialists HERO Events are bringing the 2019 RAC Rally of the Tests to the NEC. On Saturday 9th November, cars and crew competing in the RAC Rally of the Tests will tackle an indoor course in one of the seven show halls.

The action will last around 2 hours and will take place in Hall 6. Competitors will tackle a thrilling speed and agility test inside the Hall. This will mark the half way point in the rally.

On hand to provide commentary and interviews will be former TV Presenter, motorsport expert Tony Jardine, HERO Communications Director. It has taken 2 tears of negotiations and planning to bring this iconic event right into the heart of the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery.

Ferrari 812 GTS - The return of the V12 Spider.

Exactly 50 years since the debut of the last front engined V12 Ferrari Spider (the 365 GTS4 Daytona), they have launched the 812 GTS, a spider version of the 812 Superfast. The 6.5 litre V12 engine produces 800 CV (788 BHP) and will propel the car from 0-100 km/h in under 3 seconds and from 0-200 km/h in just 8.3 seconds, with a top speed of 340 km/h (211 mph).

In Ferrari tradition it delivers impressive handling and has the following high performance driver assistance features Ferrari Peak Performance (FPP) - When cornering, the steering wheel torque will provide the driver with an indication that the car is nearing the limit of grip.

Ferrari Power Oversteer (FPO) - In the case of oversteer, the steering wheel torque will give the driver feedback to give steering wheel inputs that are coherent with realigning the car correctly.

This years RAC Rally of the tests tales place between the 7th and the 10th of November and runs from Torquay to Chester over a 750 mile route going through Bristol and in to Wales. More than 60 crews are taking part in the event, with entries ranging from a 1936 Derby Bentley to MGs, Porsches, Minis, Volvos and plenty more.

For more information on the Classic Motor Show go to www.necclassicmotorshow.com

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Rover-BRM painting unveiling.

British Motor Museum, 29th September 2019.

By Simon & Janet Wright with additional photos by Peter McFadyen.

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Sir Jackie Stewart unvieled a new Michael Turner painting at the British Motor Museum on Sunday 29th September 2019. The new painting was of Jackie Stewart driving the Rover-BRM at the 1965 Le Mans 24 Hours race. After the unveiling, there was a question and answer session with Sir Jackie Stewart, Michael Turner, the artist, David Owen OBE and Steve Cropley, Editor in Chief of Autocar magazine, who chaired the Q&A session.

The actual car was also present, as it is one of the most prestigious cars in the museums collection.

The Rover-BRM gas turbine racing car was created following a chance conversation between Sir

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Alfred Owen and Rover boss William Martin-Hurst. It first competed at the 1963 Le Mans 24 Hours race, driven by Formula 1 drivers Graham Hill and Richie Ginther, where it secured a prize as the first gas turbine powered car to complete the Le Mans 24 Hours race. The team returned in 1965 with a much updated car and Graham Hill was joined by his new BRM team mate Jackie Stewart. Sir Jackie was asked at the unveiling what the car was like to drive - “Bloody awful” when you took your foot off the accelerator, the engine and car speeded up, as the turbine was not under load it increased its speed. This made the car unusual to drive.

Also the disc brakes were not really big enough. When the engineers were asked about the brakes, they suggested putting his foot outside the car and dragging it along the ground! Also when you hit the accelerator, it took ages to increase the speed as the turbine sped up to 65,000 rpm. The drivers tossed a coin to see who would start, with them deciding who lost the © Simon Wright toss would start! The plan

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was whoever started would put the car into the sand bank at the end of the mulsane straight. Graham Hill did just that, but as Jackie Stewart said he didn’t put it in enough, it only blunted the nose and they got the car out again. They got the car to the end of the race in 10th place, the first allBritish car to finish. Jackie Stewart also said that the other two problems with the car were that he was passed down the mulsane straight by a Triumph Herald and also that his great friend Jochen Rindt won the race in a Ferrari 250 LM and he was lapping Jackie every three laps and gave Jackie a suitable signal each time he passed! Sir Jackie then gave more insight in to the early part of his career.

Michael Turner had previously painted the Rover BRM in action at Le Mans in 1963 with Graham Hill at the wheel.

The new painting features Jackie Stewart at the wheel and includes the race winning Ferrari 250 LM of Rindt and Gregory following closely, along with the Jack Sears and Dick Thompson AC Cobra Daytona coupé and the Thuner

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and Lampinen Triumph Spitfire. Also he added himself in the painting, as he was present in 1965 taking photographs.

Stephen Laing, the Curator of the British Motor Museum said “We are delighted to have been able to commission this wonderful painting, made possible by Sir Alfred’s son David Owen OBE, who is a keen supporter of the museum. It was a great privilege that Sir Jackie Stewart was able to unveil the painting, which will be hung next to the car in the museum.”

At the time of publication, Museum entry is £14.50 for adults, £12.50 for concessions and £9 for children aged 5 to 16 years. Under 5s are free. To find out © Peter McFadyen more visit www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk or telephone 01926 641188.

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BARC Race meeting, Mallory Park, 26th August 2019.

By Simon & Janet Wright.

Dean Tompkins 8th and Roger Dormer (7) 13th side by side round Gerrards with Lee Rogers 11th close behind in the first pickup Truck race.

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MG Owners in the lunch time parade.

position by just over two tenths of a second from Alex Jay in both races. The first race saw the field stream round the circuit as far as the esses, when Ruben Hage went off and the race was red flagged. He did not take the restart. The second start saw Alex Jay run off in the lead, which was maintained until the chequered flag. For the first half of the race, the pursuit was led by Charlie Hand, but he was passed by Kyle Nisbet who finished a distant 2nd, nearly ten seconds behind Jay at the finish. Hand finished 3rd, while Double Junior race winner Alex Jay Citroen Saxo VTR © Janet Wright

The August Bank Holiday Monday saw plenty of action at Mallory Park in Leicestershire with a BARC Race meeting giving a high speed oval for pickup truck racing, as a replacement for the Rockingham circuit which closed at the end of last season. With the MGCC having a race and the Pickup truck series, there were a couple of parades in the lunch break, one for MG Owners and the other for trucks.

After morning practice and qualifying, racing started after the lunch break with the first of two fifteen minute plus 1 lap races for the Junior Saloon Car Championship. The young drivers race identical Citroen Saxo VTR 1600 cars to learn their craft, and give a sub one minute lap round the full Mallory Park circuit. Scott McIntyre claimed a very close Pole

8th placed Olivia Martin leads a mid-field bunch in the Junior Saloon Car Championship.

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Pole man McIntyre was a distant 5th. They were out again as Race 5 and Jay again led from start to finish. Harry Ashley led the chase for the first few laps before being passed by Nisbet. He stayed at the front of the chasing pack until two thirds distance, when McIntyre got through to 2nd after dropping to 6th after his pole position start. He was almost five seconds behind Jay at the finish, with Hand taking 3rd.

The Pickup Truck Racing Championship had its first race of the day next, twenty five laps just using the one mile oval circuit, missing out the loop up to the famous Mallory Park hairpin. They were always popular at Rockingham, but with

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Collins, just 0.119 of a second ahead of Petters in 3rd. In second qualifying it was Mel Collins who was fastest by just Lee Rogers (69) 11th and side by side with Allen Cooper (72) 10th in the first Pick up Truck race

Paul Tompkins retired from the first Pickup Truck race

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0.162 of a second from Turiccki. Paul Jones led the first lap of the second race, before Reece Jones had his moment at the closure of the banked oval circuit near Corby, Mallory the front on the second lap. By lap three Turiccki had got to Park offers a suitable alternative to this close, exciting the front and led for the rest of the race, beating Jones by series. In the first qualifying session George Turiccki was just 0.259 of a second at the flag. fastest in the Pickup Truck 2000, Petters was over seven seconds used by all the competitors. The first further back in 3rd. The closest ten competitors were all less than a battle was between Dale Gent who second apart. At the start of the finished 5th just 0.001 of a second race, it was 6th placed qualifier Dale Battle for the lead of the first Pickup truck ahead of Paul Jones in 6th and Gent that led at the end of the first =race with 3rd placed Daniel Petters and Dean Tompkins who was only lap, while pole man Turiccki had winner George Turiccki another 0.127 of a second behind in dropped to 4th. After a couple of 7th. laps, the lead then went to Daniel Petters, with Turiccki right on his The first of two Lancaster Insurance boot lid. By lap six Turiccki had got MGOC Championship races came though in to the lead, where he next. A mixed field of MG opened up a nine second gap by the hatchbacks and sports cars made chequered flag. In 2nd was Mel © Simon Wright

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nose to tail. Mellor did manage to lead one lap before retiring on lap eighteen. At the finish, Sharpe won by just 0.343 of a second from McDermid, with Martin Wills in an MG F taking 3rd place over five seconds behind, and also winning his class. The other two class winners were Jim Baynam in an MG B Roadster in 7th and Matt Gozalvez in an MG ZR in 10th, despite receiving a ten second penalty for gaining an unfair advantage.

They were out for their second race as Race 7, and McDermid made sure of this second race, leading from start to finish, winning by over five seconds. First race winner Sharpe took 2nd and Mellor managed to get to the flag this time to take 3rd place. Wills, Baynam and Gozalvez all took second class wins, repeating their first race results.

Steve McDermid MG ZR 1800 won the second MG race

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Jim Baynam MG B Roadster won his class in both MG races

up the eighteen car field and saw Steve McDermid claim pole position in his MG ZR 1800 for both races. He managed to lead from the start but by the second lap he was passed by William Sharpe in another MG ZR take the lead. They were joined in the battle for the lead by David Mellor in another MG ZR, with the first three all running F Class winner Martin Wills MG F finished 3rd in the first MG race

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The BARC Super Silhouette Championship was the final category racing at the meeting, with their second race of the day bringing the meeting to a close. This championship features spaceframe coupe and saloon cars © Simon Wright

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Jason Hunn Volkswagen Corrado retired from the first Super Silhouette

built to strict regulations to encourage close racing while keeping costs under control. The championship is overseen by Pickup Truck Racing Championship boss Sonny Howard and forms part of the British Truck Racing Association Championship race package. The race had cars resembling in Silhouette the Vauxhall Tigra, Mazda RX8, Ginetta G40, Vauxhall Corrado, Peugeot 205 BMW Z4 and Mercedes SLK. Malcolm Blackman dominated qualifying in his Vauxhall Tigra, claiming Pole position for both races. But it was Steve Burrows in another Vauxhall Tigra who led the first couple of laps before Ian Hales John Steward Mercedes SLK finished in another Vauxhall 11th in the first Super Silhouette race.

Tigra had his turn in the © Janet Wright

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lead for four laps before Blackman, who was 5th at the end of the first lap, got his nose in front, where he stayed till the end of the race.

His winning margin was 1.832 of a second from Hales.

Keith White took 3rd Steve Burrows Vauxhall Tigra retired place in his BMW Z4 from the first Super Silhouette race who was right behind the Vauxhall Tigra. The second race closed the meeting and saw Blackman take a second win, after Michael Thurley in a Ginetta G40 managed to lead the first couple of laps. The race was cut short with a red flag and only completed ten laps. Chris Brockhurst was 2nd in another Vauxhall Tigra, while Thurley finished 3rd.

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Malcolm Blackman Vauxhall Tigra won both Super Silhouette races

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Harvey Caton Citroen Saxo VTR finished 17th in the second Junior Saloon Car Championship

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Part of the MG Owners lunch time parade

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Philip Young Mitsubishi Colt finished 14th in the first Super Silhouette race.

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Reece Jones finished 2nd in the second Pickup Truck Race.

Lunchtime Truck parade. © Simon Wright

Lea Wood Peugeot 205 finished 10th in the first Super Silhouette race

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Philip Blackford Peugeot 206cc finished 12th in the first Super Silhouette race

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Raymond Lovell MG B GT finished 4th in class in the MGOC Race.

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The 1935 Voisin C-25 Aerodyne entered by Peter Mullin won the Pre-War Touring (Closed) category

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The 1903 Darracq 24HP Model JJ, the oldest car in the concours competition, makes its way from the presentation podium

Salon Privé This year’s Salon Privé, the 14 in the series, expanded to four days with the addition of a new Classic & Supercar event on Sunday for which the North Lawn of Blenheim Palace was opened to accommodate not only a much wider audience but also a world record gathering of 1,321 Bentleys in a celebration of the marque’s centenary. Also new was the Friday evening Salon © Peter McFadyen Privé LIVE parade of cars through the streets of nearby Woodstock. th

The serious business, the concours d’elegance, took place on Thursday, 5 September with 57 th

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Some of the judges and the silverware they were handing out

Overall winner of Best in Show, the 1948 Talbot Lago T26 GS Fastback Coupé entered

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cars, 16 of them from outside the UK, and 18 motorcycles competing for the trophies and prestige of winning one of the 16 classes to qualify them to be judged for the ultimate accolade, the title of Best in Show which was announced and presented during Friday’s ‘Ladies’ Day’. That honour fell to a stunning 1948 Talbot Lago T26 GS Fastback Coupé which was commissioned by a M. Fayolle, famously known as the ‘Zipper King’ which apparently explains the row of chrome chevrons above the car’s central headlight. The runner-up was a Barker-bodied 1912 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost with a unique Aprile-bodied 1931 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport Spider placed third.

This 1937 Delahaye 145 won the million franc prize offered by the French government that year for the fastest car over 200km at Montlhery and, this year, was chosen by the host for the Duke of Marlborough’s award

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Zonda 760 Oliver Edition (2016), an exclusive one-off edition of the Pagani Zonda, built in 2016 for one of Pagani’s biggest collectors and based on the 760 RS model © Peter McFadyen

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1957 Ferrari 250GT LWB California Spyder Prototype with body by Scaglietti, winner in the Post-War Touring Cars (Open) class

Runner-up to the ‘Million Franc’ Delahaye in the Competition Cars class was the Barnato Hassan Bentley

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As well as the concours cars, several supercar manufacturers presented their latest designs among the commercial exhibitors around Blenheim’s South Lawn.

The Bentley EXP 100 GT concept car made its European debut having only previously been shown at the prestigious Pebble Beach event in California

This Monaco-registered Rolls Royce Drophead Coupé was lent by its forst owner for use at the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier

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Bentley 8-litre Drophead Coupé in the class for Pre-War Touring Cars (Open) © Peter McFadyen 1935 Hispano Suiza K6 Cabriolet bodied by Brandone which won the (Jury) Chairman’s Award © Peter McFadyen

This 1990 Lamborghini Countach Anniversary was selected as winner of the Classics of the Future (Pre-2000) class

Runner-up in the Classics of the Future (Post-2000) was this F12TDF-based Ferrari SP3JC designed by Ferrari’s Special Projects team with input from its owner, John Collins

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First shown at this year’s Geneva motor show, the Pinifarina Battista boasts 1,900bhp and 1,696 lb-ft torque from its four electric motors designed to get it from 0 to 62mph in 2 seconds and take it 300miles on a single charge. Only 150 will be built for a price tag of $2M each.

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Pagani’s 20 anniversary was marked by this line-up of five cars from different years.

Only 150 have been built in two decades and nearest the camera is the C12 from 2000, the car that launched the company and Horacio Pagani’s first production supercar. th

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Derek Bell (right) was Chief Honorary Judge this year and posed for a picture with this Jaguar XK120, its body shape modified to its owner’s preference

After spending most of its life in America, this Ferrari 250GT SWB Berlinetta is now part of a collection in Ireland © Peter McFadyen © Peter McFadyen

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1923 Alfa Romeo RL Sports entered in the Competition Cars class

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Judges confer over the entries in the two classes for Ferrari 250GT SWB models which celebrate the 60 anniversary of their introduction. Car number 5 was driven by its owner the French driver Jo Schlesser and André Simon to third place in the 1961 Paris 1000km race at Montlhery th

David Brabham (in cap) was on hand to promote the Brabham BT62 in competition spec for track use for ‘those who want to challenge themselves and discover the thrill of driving’

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BARC Race meeting.

Donington Park. 24th August 2019.

By Simon & Janet Wright.

Jonathan Corker Datsun 510 retired from both Pre ‘83 CTCRC races along with Stuart Caie in his Ford Capri.

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Double Pre ‘93, Pre ‘03 and Pre ‘05 race winner Ray West in his Pre ‘93 BMW M3

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after a few laps he was passed by Ray West in his Pre 93 class BMW M3 who went on to win the race by over three seconds. Owen won the Pre ’03 class in 2nd, while Graham Myers was a distant 3rd in a BMW M3 E36. The other 03 class winner was 4th Ross Craig in a Honda Civic Type R. The other 93 class winners were 9th David Nixon in a Rover Tomcat and 11th Samuel Goodwin in a Vauxhall Astra. The 05 class winner was 15th Josh Barber in a Renault Clio 182. The second race saw the same result for first and second with West winning from Owen, but with a larger official margin as Owen was given a fifteen second penalty for exceeding tack limits. Craig took another class win and improved to finish 3rd overall. Nixon in the Rover Tomcat also took another class win in 10th and the other ’03 class winner was 13th Steve Barber in a Honda Civic Type R. There © Simon Wright

The British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) organised a race meeting at Donington Park on Saturday 24th August 2019 featuring the Classic Touring Car Racing Club.

Following morning qualifying, the racing started after the lunch break with the first of two Classic Touring Car Racing Club (CTCRC) Pre ’93 Touring Cars, Pre ’03 Touring Cars, and Pre ’05 Production Touring Cars races. In qualifying, seven cars, including Double Pre ‘03 Class winner AJ Pole man AJ Owen in the Honda Civic Type R finished 2nd overall in both races Owen in the Honda Civic Type R, all lost a lap time due to exceeding track limits.

Owen lead from the start, but

The only Pre ‘05 class winner was Josh Barber in a Renault Clio 182 in the first race. He didn’t start the second race.

were no ’05 runners in the second race.

The Kumho BMW Championship took to the track next with their first of two twenty minute races. In Qualifying

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Garrie Whittaker in his BMW E36 M3 won both Kumho BMW Championship races.

Jason Hollyhead BMW E46 M3, 11th Trevor Ford in a BMW M3 E46 and 15th James Ford BMW E36 318i. The second race was a repeat of the first with Whittaker taking a second victory from Khera but this time was closer, with only just over three seconds between then at the end.

Sapra not only took a second class win but also finished 3rd overall. The other class winners in the second race were 5th James Mumbray in a BMW M3, 10th Russell Dack in a BMW E46 Compact and 13th James Ford BMW E36 318i took his second class win of the meeting.

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Back to the CTCRC next with the first of two Classic Thunder Saloons and Blue Oval Saloon Series (BOSS) races. The two ‘Big Bangers’ headed the grid with Andy Robinson fastest in Qualifying in the 5 litre Ford Falcon, just 0.175 of a second ahead of Andrew Wilson in the 7 © Simon Wright

Garrie Whittaker was fastest in his BMW E36 M3 and he led the first race from start to finish. He finished over seventeen seconds ahead of 2nd placed Lucky Khera in a BMW M3, while James Card was 3rd in a BMW M3 E46. The other class winners were 5th Jasver Sapra in a BMW E46, 8th © Janet Wright

Double Class winner James Ford BMW E36 318i (69) chasing Peter Miller BMW M3 E36 who retired from the Kumho BMW Championship race

Andy Robinson Ford Falcon led from the start with race 1 winner Andrew Wilson Holden Monaro on the outside and Mathew Evans BMW 1M just behind in the Thunder & Boss race.

litre Holden Monaro. Robinson led from the start with Wilson and a pair of BMW’s, the Matthew Evans BMW 1M and Colin Wells BMW E46 M3 CSL, also in the battle for the race win. Robinson led until he went off and retired on lap 6, leaving Wells in the lead in the BMW. He maintained his lead over Wilson to the chequered flag, but lost the

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2.3 litre Ford Escort Mk1. The BOSS class was won by 6th placed Martin Reynolds in a 2.2 litre Ford Escort Mk1, with the other BOSS class winners being 7th placed Neil Argrave in a 2 litre Ford Escort Mk2 and 12th placed Chris Dancer in a 2.1 litre Ford Escort Mk1.

The second race saw Evans in the BMW grab the lead from the start from Pole starter Andrew Wilson. He managed to stay in front for the first five laps, with Evans making it a BMW 1-2 at the front of the race. Evans lead a couple of laps before Evans retook the lead and maintained his advantage until the finish, winning by over

BOSS winner Martin Reynolds (27) Ford Escort Mk1 finished 6th chasing BOSS class winner Neil Argrave Ford Escort Mk2 7th in first Thunder & BOSS race

Race 2 BOSS winner Piers Grange Ford Escort Mk2 finished 3rd overall.

victory after receiving a ten second penalty, which dropped Wells to 3rd. This gave the win to Wilson in the Monaro, with Evans 2nd in his BMW 1M. Winning his class in 4th place was Simon Light in his Thundersaloon 5 litre Ford Capri S. The other Thundersaloon class winners were 5th placed Ian Craig in a BMW M3 CSL and 9th placed Colin Voyce in a

seventeen seconds. Meanwhile Robinson had worked his way through the field after starting from 9th on the grid after his first race retirement, to finish 2nd in the fabulous Ford Falcon. Wilson had held 3rd for most of the race before retiring in to the pits on lap eight. Coming in 3rd and winning the BOSS race was Piers Grange in a 2.5 litre Ford Escort Mk2. Voyce took a second class win in 5th, while the other Thundersaloon class winner was Tony Palmer in 6th driving a 4.4 litre Ford Escort Mk1.

Dancer took a second BOSS class win in 9th.

BOSS & Thunder race 2 winner Mathew Evans BMW 1M

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Ronan Pearson Renault Clio won both Michelin Clio Series races

opportunity for close racing, but the drivers did seem over exuberant in qualifying with the first three all loosing lap times for exceeding track limits. The small eight car Stephen Primett Ford Escort Mk1 won the first Pre ‘66 & Pre ‘83 field had Ronan Pearson on CTCRC races.

Pole position for both races.

He led the first race from start to finish with Simon Freeman finishing 2nd, over six seconds behind. James Colburn was over twenty seconds further back in 3rd after Luke Pinder was given a five second penalty for exceeding track limits in the race. The second race was a repeat of the first, with the same finishing order.

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The final CTCRC race series of the meeting was for the first of two fifteen minute Paul Inch Classic and Historic Touring Cars and Shell Group 1 Touring Cars Pre ’66 and Pre ’83 races. Pole Second CTCRC Pre ‘66 & Pre ‘83 race position was taken winner Mike Luck BMW E21 320

by Stephen Primett in a Ford Escort Mk1 by just 0.304 of a second from Steve Cripps in a Ford Escort RS2000. Primett led from start to finish and after an early challenge from Mark Lucock in his Ford Escort RS2000 Mk1, but it was Mike Luck who finished 2nd in his BMW E21 320, only 0.342 of a second behind Primett at the flag. Lucock took 3rd, ahead of Simon Jeffs in a Volkswagen Golf GTi Mk1 in 4th and Cripps in 5th.

There were several other class winners in the Pre ’83 category, including 7th David Howard in a Jaguar XJ12, 9th Alan Wiltshire in a Ford Capri 2800, 17th Alexander Jupe in an Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV and 20th Tim Hayes in an Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint. The Pre ’66 class was won by © Janet Wright

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Alan Greenhalgh Ford Falcon won the Pre ‘66 class in the first CTCRC race.

Pre ‘66 winner in the second CTCRC race was James Burrows in the BMC Mini Cooper S.

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16th placed Alan Greenhalgh in a Ford Falcon, while the other Pre ‘66 class winners were 21st James Burrows in a BMC Mini Cooper S, 27th Freddie Brown in a Hillman Imp and 28th Keith Wright in a Morris Minor.

Their second outing of the day was the final race of the meeting and saw David Howard in the 5 litre Jaguar XJ12 power in to the lead on the first lap, but then Luck took the lead and slowly pulled away to win the second race in his BMW E21 320. He reversed the first race results with Primett finishing 2nd in his Ford Escort, over three seconds behind at the finish. In 3rd place was Mark Cholerton in another Ford Escort, an RS2000 Mk2.

Wilshire in the Ford Capri, Howard in the Jaguar, Hayes in the Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint and Jupe in the Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV all took second class wins.

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Alan Wilshire Ford Capri won his Pre ‘83 class in both CTCRC races

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David Howard Jaguar XJ12 won his Pre ‘83 class in the second CTCRC race.

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Keith Wright Morris Minor won his Pre ‘66 class in both CTCRC races

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Alexander Jupe Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV won his Pre ‘83 class in both CTCRC races.

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Mostyn Rutter Vauxhall Firenza Droopsnoot finished 8th in the first CTCRC race.

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Tim Hayes Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint won his pre ‘83 class in both CTCRC races

Freddie Brown Hillman Imp won his Pre ‘66 class in the first CTCRC race.

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24th Webbs Annual Motor Show

25th August 2019, Webbs Garden Centre, Wychbold, near Droitwich.

By Simon & Janet Wright.

Austin Ten and Austin Six lineup

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On the Sunday of the August Bank Holiday weekend, Webbs Garden Centre held their annual Motor Show. Located just off junction 5 of the M5 motorway and with a very large car park, the Garden Centre is an ideal location for a motor show, with free access and still have plenty of parking space for visitors. With over 250 classic, vintage and modern vehicles on display in the summer sunshine, there was something for every motoring enthusiast.

Most of the display cars were parked on the grass round the car park, with a large section of tarmac ca park also allocated for the Motor show. One area of the grass was a display for light commercial Leyland vehicles, mainly © Janet Wright consisting of

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the popular Morris Minor 1000 in van and pickup form. This had been the workhorse of businesses in the 1960s and 70s for local deliveries. There was s stunning red example from the Co-operative Society Ltd used for their TV and Radio services in the local Dudley area. The green pickup featured the original contrasting brown canvas roof cover for the rear of the truck and looked like it had just rolled off the assembly line.

The one that most people © Simon Wright would recognise was the scarlet Royal Mail delivery van.

Next to the light commercial display was a display of vintage Austin cars, including several nice examples of the Austin Six and Ten from the 1930s. The Austin Ten was the best selling Austin car in the 1930s and production continued until 1947, during which time over 290,000 were built. It was powered by a 1125cc 4 cylinder side valve engine, producing 21 bhp, running through a four speed manual gearbox with constant mesh gears driving the rear wheels. Steering was worm and wheel and the suspension was half-elliptic springs all round.

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achieve 34 mpg.

Also alongside the vintage Austin saloons was a 1926 Chevrolet Superior V. The original Superior was launched in 1923 and built in various Chevrolet plants across America over a four year period. The Series V was the 1926 model and was powered by a 2.8 © Janet Wright litre four cylinder engine which produced 26 hp and was connected to a 3 speed manual gearbox. Being part of General Motors, the chassis was shard with Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Oakland and GMC.

replacement MG ZT. The Rover 75 was launched at the Motor show in 1998 and deliveries started in 1999. They were built at Cowley for a year by the Rover Group before BMW sold off Rover. Production switched to the new MG Rover Group at Longbridge and the model was rebadged as the MG ZT in 2001. Production continued until 2005, when the MG Rover Group entered administration. This executive four door saloon or estate car had a transverse front engine, front wheel drive layout, with a range of petrol or diesel engines ranging from the 4 cylinder K Series1.8

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It wasn’t just vintage cars on display, more modern classics included a nice comparison of a Rover 75 and its

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litre engine through to the 2.5 litre V6. At the other end of the car park was the Great Grandfather to these models with an original Rover 75 from the late 1940s. The Rover 75 had a straight six cylinder 2103cc engine matched to a 4 speed manual transmission using the traditional Rover freewheel which was retained from the previous model.

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style to the previous Rover 12 and 16 models. It had independent front suspension, a first for Rover, but retained a hydraulic/mechanical hybrid brake system, also from earlier models. The cars were expensive, £1106, and with early post war production problems and material shortages, only 7837 were built.

was also improved, increasing power to 109 bhp and a new four speed synchromesh gearbox with column change. The car was also fitted with servo assisted brakes, disc on the front and drum on the rear.

The Wolseley Car Club had an interesting display of older models, with the Wolseley Eight and Ten showing perfect examples of the luxury saloon that the model represented back in the late 1940s. Slightly more up to date was the Wolseley 1500 from the late 1950s. The Wolseley 1500 was almost identical to the Riley 1.5, both powered by the 1489cc B-Series engine, but the Riley was the sporty model, fitted with twin SU carburettors and produced 20 bhp more than the more luxurious Wolseley 1500. This offered customers the option of the sporty Riley or the luxurious Wolseley. Production ran from 1957 to 1965, with more than twice as many Wolseley’s produced compared to the Riley, at 39,586 Riley to 103,394 Wolseley.

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Another pair of interesting cars parked together were a Ford Zodiac and Ford Zephyr. The Ford Zephyr was manufactured by Ford of Britain from 1950 to 1972.

Originally the four cylinder car was named the Ford Consul, but from 1962 both the four and six cylinder versions were renamed Zephyr. The luxury version was named the Zodiac and they were the largest passenger cars in the British Ford range until they were replaced in 1972 by the Consul and Granada. The two cars on display were the Ford Zephyr 6 Mark III and the Ford Zodiac Mark III. The Zodiac differed from the Zephyr with limousine type rear doors, sharper roofline, narrower C-pillar and tail, different front grill with four headlights instead of two, exclusive bumper bars, better seats and up-market upholstery, dashboard and interior fittings. There was also the option of a front bench seat instead of two individual seats, in either cloth or leather. The six cylinder engine

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With this year being the 60th anniversary of the Mini, there were several fine examples on show, with a nice lineup of an original Mini saloon, the Mini Countryman and the replacement for the Mini, the Austin Mini Metro, this one being a later MG Metro.

An unusual car was a modified blue 1966 Skoda 1000 MB fitted with an 1800cc engine. Additional air scoops had been fitted to the sides to feed more cooling air to the rear mounted engine, along with flared wheel arches to cover

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the alloy wheels and a front spoiler painted in a contrasting orange colour. The original Skoda 1000 MB was a rear engined, rear wheel drive small family car built in Czechoslovakia by AZNP between 1964 and 1969. The original cars were fitted with a 1 litre or 1.1 litre engine and a 4 speed manual gearbox. Over 440,000 were produced.

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litre straight six cylinder engine.

Italian cars have always been popular in the UK and are often stylish machines. There were several Italian cars on show. A nice pair parked next to each other contrasted differing styles. The Alfa Romeo GTV has a curvy flowing body style, while the Lancia Delta Intergrale has a much more muscular square jawed design, and both are highly desirable in their own way. © Simon Wright

Standing out in a bright yellow colour was a Commer Imp AA patrol van. The Commer van first appeared in November 1965 with production continuing until July 1970.

In that period a total of 18,194 were built by Commer Cars Ltd in Luton. Due to a loophole in British Tax laws, the market for small vans was very large and the Commer Imp started at just £408 including Taxes.

A rare Japanese 1977 Datsun 260C saloon was in perfect condition. This was a fourth generation model of the 330 series, also known as Gloria in Japan that was produced between 1975 and 1979. This car is powered by the 2.6

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Local built Healy Engima

The 1982 Lancia Montecarlo is a Pininfarina designed mid engined sports car which was produced by Lancia between 1975 and 1981. This was a second series model, the original was know as the Lancia Beta Montecarlo. Only 1,123 second series coupés were manufactured, powered by a 4 cylinder 2 litre transverse mounted mid engine driving the rear wheels through a 5 speed manual transmission.

Finally there were several modern supercars present, with Ferrari, Aston Martin, Lotus and Morgan all representing © Simon Wright examples of todays desirable sports cars.

This annual show is very popular and well worth a visit.

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Pontiac Trans Am

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MG Old and new? - MG3 and 1973 Pilgrim MG kit car

1937 Austin Convertible © Janet Wright

Alvis TE21 © Simon Wright

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HSCC Oulton Park Gold Cup,

Oulton Park

By Peter McFadyen with additional photos by David Goose of Motorsport Imagery

Charles Allison (Chevron-BMW B8) leads the Guards Trophy field into Old Hall

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HSCC Oulton Park Gold Cup When it was first run in 1954, the Oulton Park Gold Cup was a non-championship Formula 1 race, a grand prix in all but name, and it remained so until 1972 with a couple of excursions into Formula 2 or sports cars along the way.

During that time, Stirling Moss won it five times and other winners included Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Denny Hulme and Jackie Stewart, all of them World Champions in their day. After a period of decline, it was revived in 2016 as the main event of the Historic Sports Car Club’s annual race meeting held over three days of the August bank holiday weekend with qualifying on Saturday and races on Sunday and Monday. Fittingly, this year’s Gold Cup winner was a Formula 1 car, a 1978 Williams FW06 driven in period by 1980 World Champion Alan Jones and at Oulton Park by another Australian, Marty Bullock.

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clashed at the first corner of the second race and retired on the spot leaving the Williams driver to fend off James Murray’s ex-Peter Gethin F5000 Chevron B25 to win by less than a third of a second.

The five car battle for the lead of the FF1600 race with Pierre Livingstone leading Callum Grant, Clive Richards, Ben Tusting and Daniel Stanzl at Old Hall.

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An Osella SA1 F1 car raced by Piercarlo Ghinzani and Jean-Pierre Jarier was demonstrated by Terry Sayles during Monday’s lunch break

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1992 Footwork Arrows FA13 © Peter McFadyen

Lunchtime demonstrations by Formula 1 cars featured this Brabham BT20 which won two Grands Prix in the hands of Jack Brabham

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Andy Smith (March 783) won both Classic F3 races

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Ben Simms leads Andy Park in their tussle for the lead of the FF2000 race but Park was to retire with clutch failure on the penultimate lap while Simms went on to win

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With 21 races on the programme there was action all the way with single seaters ranging from Formula Ford 1600 and 2000 through classic and historic F3 to historic Formula Junior all having two races each. Sports cars included roadgoing cars from the 70s and earlier and, in the longest race of the weekend, the one or two-driver Guards Trophy race for 1960s sports and © Peter McFadyen

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Adrian Langridge (March 803) leads the Classic Formula 3 field at the start of their second race followed by race winner AndySmith in car 78

Anthony Taylor’s McLaren M1B in the Guards Trophy race.

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Keith Norris’s Lola T300 F5000 car in the XL Aurora race for the Gold Cup Chris Lillington-rice spins his Chevron B8 at the exit of Old Hall as Peter Thompson (TVR Griffith) and the E-Type of Ben Short and Simon Orange brake in avoidance.

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Daniel Stanzl (Elden Mk8) finished fifth in a close-fought FF1600 race.

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One lap to go and Benn Tilley checks his Lotus 23’s mirrors with Charlie Allison’s Chevron ready to pounce and take victory.

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GT cars which was won on the very last lap by Charles Allison (Chevron-BMW B8) who passed Ben Tilley’s Lotus 23 after several laps behind the safety car. The two Historic Touring Car races were won by Pete Hallford’s Ford Mustang while the more recent touring cars of the 1980s and 90s saw their two races won by Stewart Whyte’s Honda Accord. © Motorsport-Imagery

Peter Hallford in the Mighty Ford Mustang dominated in both Historic Touring Car races.

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The Dunlop Saloon Car Cup field approach Lodge Corner led by Stewart Whyte (Honda Accord) and Mark Wright (Ford Sierra RS500)

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Stewart Whyte (Honda Accord) and Mark Wright (Ford Sierra RS500) battle for the lead of the Dunlop Saloon Car Cup race.

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Mixing it with the much bigger and more powerful saloon cars, Neil Kavanagh's BL Mini 1275 GT

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Simon Goodliff in the Wolsey Hornet finished a very creditable 3rd in the first race

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The Lotus Cortina's of Richard Belcher and Roger Stanford lead race winner Pete Hallford’s Ford Mustang into Old 50 Hall at the start of the first Historic Touring Cars race

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Clive Wood Chevron B34 in the Aurora XL race

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A deserved 3rd place in race two for Jonathan Bailey's Nissan Skyline. In the Dunlop Saloon race

This Lola T142, now driven by Adam Simmonds, finished sixth in the very first F5000 race held at the same circuit 50 years ago in April 1969

Nigel Cox leads from Michael Sheraton in a battle of the Ford's in the Historic Touring Cars

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The race for the lead of the first FF1600 race with winner of both races Callum Grant leading Pierre Livingstone and Clive Richards

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Footman James Coffee and Chrome.

Chateau Impney 15th September 2019.

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The final Footman James Coffee & Chrome breakfast meeting of the year at Chateau Impney took place in the middle of September. These meetings have proved so popular, that this event was ‘Sold-Out’ with owners preregistering with Footman James to attend. Around five hundred owners turned out on a lovely late summers day to display their treasured ‘pride and joy’ in the grounds of the impressive Chateau Impney hotel, in Droitwich, just off the M5 motorway, the home of the Chateau Impney Hill Climb.

The turnout of vehicles was impressive, with everything from vintage and classic cars right through to modern supercars. Due to the large number of

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vehicles, there were two parking areas, one outside the hotel, and the other large area outside the Regent Centre, right next to the main car park. There was a large contingent of TVR Cerbera TVR’s outside the Regent Centre, including Cerbera, Chimera, Sagaris and T350 models.

The Cerbera was named after Cerberus, the three headed beast from Greek legends that guarded the entrance to Hades. It was built between 1996 and 2003 and was the first TVR model powered by a TVR built engine. The car at Chateau Impney was powered by a 4.5 litre V8 engine with a 5 speed manual transmission.

The Chimaera was manufactured between 1992 and 2003. The name was derived from the Greek mythological creature Cimera, © Janet Wright made from the parts of multiple animals.

The car had the same chassis as the Griffith and used the same 4 litre Rover V8 engine.

There were various variations on the engine ranging from 3950cc right up to 4988cc. These gave the car a top speed of between 152 mph (4 litre) through to 175 mph (5 litre) with

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acceleration ranging from 5.1 seconds to 4.1 seconds for 060 mph.

The T350 was manufactured between 2002 and 2006 and was based on the TVR Tamora. It is powered by the 3.6 litre TVR Speed 6 six cylinder engine, producing 350 hp. With a total weight of only 2,616 lbs it has a power to weight ratio of 304 bhp/ton. This gives the T350 a top speed of 175 mph with a 0-62 mph time of 4.4 seconds.

The Sagaris went into production in 2005, based on the T350, and was designed with Endurance racing in mind.

This model is named after the greek name for a lightweight battle axe used by the Scythians which was feared for its ability to penetrate the armour of their enemies. The engine is a 4 litre Speed Six engine producing 406 bhp fitted to a 5 speed manual gearbox. The suspension is independent double wishbones front and rear with ventilated disc brakes all round. This gives the car a top speed of 185 mph with a 0-60 mph time of 3.7 seconds. © Simon Wright

A lot of the cars on display were individual owners and this provided a great variety of interesting vehicles. One stunning vehicle was a 1950 2.6 litre Ford Hotrod. This was particularly eye catching as all four wheels were exposed and it had a lowered roof. Parked next to it was a © Simon Wright

Facing off opposite to the TVR line up was the Jaguar Enthusiasts Club collection of classic Jaguars. Sports cars were the most popular with a convertible Jaguar XJS, Jaguar XK150 convertible, Jaguar XK120 sports car, an EType jaguar and a Jaguar S saloon on display.

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Austin Healey Frog Eyed Sprite was parked next to a 2003 MG TF sports car, showing how sports car design has changed over a forty four year period. Adding to the MG lineup was an MG A and an MG B roadster. The Saloons in the line up also allowed a comparison over time, with a 1974 Rover 3500 luxury saloon parked next to a 2002 Jaguar X Type saloon. Whilst the Rover has a stylish design, the more modern Jaguar definitely has a more streamlined shape, showing how design has been influenced by improved performance and economy through better aerodynamics. Š Janet Wright

very unusual 1965 Volvo Duett. The Duett was branded as a car that could be used as a delivery vehicle during the week and as a comfortable sedan away from work. This was the estate car, or station wagon that was produced between 1953 and 1969, based on the Volvo PV544 saloon.

However, it differed significantly from the PV544 saloon, as the Duett had a ladder frame chassis, where as the saloon had a unibody design. The other main difference was that the saloon had rear coil spring suspension and the Duett had leaf spring rear suspension. But the separate ladder chassis also allowed other Swedish coach builders to build Duett based pickup trucks and other specialised commercial vehicles. It was powered by a 1.8 litre straight 4 cylinder engine linked to a 4 speed manual transmission.

Moving back in to the main hotel car park, there was a nice line up of classic British cars heading up towards the impressive Chateau Impney hotel building. A 1959 yellow

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A 1965 Citroen DS19 showed how cars were all different in design in the past, where as today most cars seem like clones of each other. The Citroen DS19 was noted for its aerodynamic futuristic body design and its hydropneumatic self-levelling suspension, plus it was the first mass produced car equipped with disc brakes. With nearly one and a half million built between 1955 and 1975, the Citroen DS19 came 3rd in the 1999 Car of the Century poll by Classic and Sports Car magazine.

A stark contrast were a pair of scarlet Ferrari 559 GTB Fiorano supercars. This 2 door Grand Tourer is a front midengine rear wheel driver car powered by a 6 litre V12

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BMW line-up

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1981 Toyota Corolla

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2003 Maserati Coupe

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engine producing 612 hp transmitted through a 6 speed F1 electohydraulic manual transmission. Thirty were built with a manual transmission, of which twenty went to America and the other ten remained in Europe. At the time it was the most powerful road going Ferrari in production. It had a top speed of 205 mph and could do 0-62 mph in just 3.2 seconds.

The 1996 Dodge Viper is the epitome of the modern

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American muscle car, built between 1991 and 2017. This was a second generation model. The V10 8 litre engine evolved to 8.4 litre over the years with power output increasing from 400 hp through to 645 hp by the end of production. It retained the conventional front engine, rear wheel drive configuration, using brute power to deliver performance, giving a top speed of over 200 mph and a 0-60 mph acceleration time of 3.5 seconds. This was the Dodge attempt to replace the Chevrolet Corvette as the top American muscle sports car. There was an earlier Corvette at the meeting, a 1974 5.7 litre Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. This was a C3 third generation model, built between 1968 and 1982. The 5.7 litre V8 engine © Janet Wright

produced around 270 bhp. In 1974 over thirty seven and a half thousand were manufactured.

This was the last Footman James Coffee and Chrome meeting of the year at Chateau Impney, though with how popular these meetings have been, I’m sure they will return next year.

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Archive Photo of the Month.

By Pete Austin.

Women in motor sport have received a higher profile this year with the introduction of the W Series. This months photo shows the late Lella Lombardi during practice for the 1974 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch driving a Brabham BT42 where she failed to qualify. However, she remains the only woman driver to finish a Grand Prix in the points when she came in sixth in the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix driving a March. Half points were awarded as the race was shortened following a serious accident involving Rolf Stommelen in which 5 spectators were killed.

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British GT Championship Finale Donington Park. 14th-15th September 2019

By David Goose of Motorsport Imagery.

Race winners Balfe Motorsport McLaren 720S GT3 Shaun Balfe / Rob Bell.

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The race started with a pole position for the second race in a row for the Balfe Motorsport McLaren of Shaun Balfe and Rob Bell, expertly converted by them into a race win following on from their second place in the previous round at Brands Hatch. Second place on the grid was taken by Adam Balon and Phil Keen in the Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan.

The warm up lap saw several GT4 cars leave the circuit, with the first few laps being run behind the safety car.

At the end of the first stint, Balfe handed over the car to Bell with an almost 30 second lead, almost twice the amount needed to offset the 15 second pit stop success penalty from the Brands Hatch round. At the time of the pit stops, Balfe also held the fastest lap by a second over the other drivers GT4 race winners, Stellar Performance Audi R8 LMS GT4

2019 British GT Championship Finale - Donington Park.

Front damage to the WPI Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan as a result of the incident with Jonny Adam's Astons Martin on the previous lap.

Jonny Adam left Donington Park 2019 British GT Champion for the fourth time, each time with a different team mate.

This time was however decided after a dramatic final race which saw the new champion involved in a major incident which left the championship outcome in doubt for several hours after the chequered flag.

TF Sport Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT3 of Mark Farmer and Nicki Thiim

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on track at the time. During the first half of the race, Graham Davidson in the TF Sport Aston Martin showed controlled aggression to ensure they were well placed when he handed over to Jonny Adam after the pit stops. Long time point leaders Phil Keen and Adam Balon struggled with car

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damage after early race contact with the KTM entry, running repairs during a long pit stop left the Lamborghini pair several laps off the lead effectively ending their title hopes.

An incident involving several of the GT4 cars brought out the safety car with just over 20 minutes to go in the race and season. Jonny Adam was at that stage looking likely to win the championship but had the Lamborghini’s of Johnny Cocker (Barwell) and Dennis Lind (WPI)gehind him on the circuit. Lind was the quickest of the three and at the restart overtook Cocker into fifth place, trailing Adam for a few laps before contact was made with only four minutes of the race remaining. Lind hit the back of

Century Motorsport - BMW M6 GT3 Dominic Paul and Ben Green

was enough for Davidson and Adam in the TF Sport Aston Martin to win the Championship by two and a half points.

Sam De Haan and Jonny Cocker in the Barwell Lamborghini second with team mates Phil Keen and Adam Balon eventually finishing in fourth place. Third place in the championship went to the McLaren duo of Shaun Balfe and Rob Bell. The Team title for the year went to Barwell © Motorsport-Imagery

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Adam’s Aston Martin hard, this allowed both Cocker and Lind to overtake the impaired Adam. As it stood with Cocker in fourth and Adam in sixth, Sam de Haan and Johnny Cocker would be crowned champions ahead of Davidson and Adam by half a point.

At the end of the race, the race officials deliberated for a long period before handing Dennis Lind a five second penalty for gaining an unfair advantage as a result of the contact, this gave Adam a fifth place in the race and this

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TF Sport - Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT3 Graham Davidson and Jonny Adam

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GT4 honours were taken by the TF Sport Aston Martin of Ashley Hand and Tom Canning, making it a clean sweep of the drivers titles for the TF Sport garage. The GT4 race itself was won by Steller Performance Audi team of Richard Williams and Senna Fielding, who converted the pole Position into the © Motorsport-Imagery Audi’s second win of the season.

At the start of the race, six teams were in contention for the GT4 title, but at the end of the two hour race a handful of seconds was all that separated the eventual winners from the runner up spot. An accident involving one of the Ford Mustangs G-Cat Racing's Porsche 911 GT3R heads and an Aston towards the Melbourne hairpin

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Martin at the Old Hairpin brought out the safety car. At the restart, a very hard charging Seb Priaulx in the Mustang overtook Ashley Hands Aston Martin and set off after the race leading Audi. It was close, Priaulx created a gap of almost 15 seconds to the Aston, and at the chequered flag was only one and a half seconds behind the Audi. If he had caught and passed the Audi, the Ford Mustang crew would have been crowned champions for the GT4 class in the cars debut season. TF sport completed a hat-trick of titles by taking the GT4 team championship.

2019 was another year of tremendous success for the British GT Championship, with high quality and full entries at all races, competitive and relatively clean racing and importantly for all fans, both GT3 and GT4 classes continue to go down to the wire . The teams now have a six month race break with the series starting again at its traditional Easter weekend meeting at Oulton Park.

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Tolman Motorsport - McLaren 570S GT4 Jordan Collard and Lewis Proctor

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British F3 Championship

Donington Park, 15th-16th September 2019.

By David Goose of Motorsport Imagery.

2019 British Formula 3 Champion, Clement Novalak

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Winner of race two, Nazim Azman in the Chris Dittman Racing car

in race oner ensured he maintained a healthy championship lead. At the end of race one, Novalak’s lead over Hoggard had been cut from 52 points to 38, the title now down to just two contenders. With a total of a maximum of 66 points on offer in the last two races, it was clear what the top two needed to achieve.

Race two was a more dramatic affair. The two contenders, Novalak and Hoggard started in 12th and 15th place and on the Schwantz Curve on lap one, the two came together and went onto the grass. Both rejoined at the back of the field but Hoggard had sustained more damage and needed to stop for repairs.

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British F3 Championship Donington Park Finale

Douglas Motorsport's Kiern Jewiss.

The F3 Championship arrived at Donington Park with the title still to be decided. With three races over the weekend a solid series was required by Championship leader Clement Novalak to ensure he became 2019 Champion.

Race one saw Johnathan Hoggard claim his sixth win of the season leading from start to finish and in the process taking his third victory in F3 at Donington Park this season. Kiern Jewiss who started alongside Hoggard on the front row pushed him hard in the latter stages of the race but was unable to take top step on the podium, having to settle for a well deserved 2nd place with Hoggard’s team mate Manuel Maldonardo taking third place. Damage limitation was the main objective for championship leader Clement Novalak and a fourth place

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British F3 2019 runner up, Johnathan Hoggard.

finish ahead of Novalak, unfortunately after the first lap incident he could not recover and eventually finished at the back of the field, thereby handing the title to Clement Novalak. At the end of the race there was a lengthy period whilst the Stewards reviewed the first lap incident, but after review the result was made official and the 18 year British driver was announced as the 2019 Champion.

Race three saw Johnathan Hoggard lead from start to finish to take his seventh victory of the season, with Kiern Jewiss once again finishing second in a repeat of the weekend races one result. Third place was taken by Neil Verhagen whilst newly crowned Clement Novalak finished sixth and won the championship in the end by 23 points from Hoggard.

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Hoggard went home with a one off bigger prize, securing the valuable $250,000 Sunoco Whelen Challenge title of a supported drive in the 2020 Rolex 24 hour race at Daytona.

Another great series in 2019 for the British F3 Championship, very competitive cars and drivers resulting in good close racing throughout the season. Fingers crossed for a similar season in 2020.

Brother of ex Formula 1 racer Pastor Maldonardo, Manuel Maldonardo in the Fortec car

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Double R Racings 18 year old American Neil Verhagen had a good first sesason in F3

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VSCC Speed Championship Loton Park. 7th-8th September 2019.

By Peter McFadyen

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Douglas Martin takes the Hillegass Special Sprint Car on a very tight line through Keepers

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separate events with practice and timed runs all in the same day. This year’s took place on 7 and 8 of September with fine weather prevailing throughout. With all the usual contenders for FTD saving their cars for the big Goodwood th

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Tiziana Mutschler was second overall in her class on Saturday and took her Austin Sports Ulster to second in class on handicap on Sunday

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VSCC Loton Park Hill Climb.

The Vintage Sports Car Club’s (VSCC) annual hill climb meeting at Loton Park in Shropshire used to be a single event held over two days with practice on Saturday and the competition itself on Sunday. Now it is held as two

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Revival race meeting just a week later, it was a chance for their understudies to shine and David Pryke grabbed that opportunity with both hands, taking his Frazer Nash Shelsley single seater to victory on both days.

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Pryke’s nearest competitor on Saturday was Tom Hardman in the MG Bellevue Special who, despite a spin on his first attempt, put in a second run time of 66.92sec, just 0.9sec off FTD. This nevertheless put him first in his class. With Hardman and the MG not entered on Sunday, it fell to Eddie Williams, driving Charles Gillett’s Frazer 69

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Andy Lloyd’s 1913 5-litre Chalmers 17 was one of only two Edwardian cars competing

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William Hargreaves displays an interesting steering technique in his Riley 9

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Alistair Rew’s 1220cc Morgan Aero was second in the class for 1101-1500cc Racing Cars on Saturday and won the class on Sunday despite a slower time

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67.74sec.

To encourage new blood, the VSCC always offer an award for the best performance by a driver under 30 years of age and on both days this prize went to lady drivers. Joanne Collins, sharing the family Riley Brooklands with her father John, was the fastest young driver on Saturday while, on Sunday, that honour fell to Miss Inge van Wortel who drove an Austin 7 Special.

Fastest time on both days went to David Pryke and his 1936 Frazer Nash Shelsley single seater.

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As cars line up in the paddock for their next run, overall winner David Pryke stops for a chat with one of the drivers © Peter McFadyen

Nash Super Sports, to become Pryke’s nearest challenger. Eddie’s time of 67.19sec gave him another class win but was actually slightly slower than the class record of 67.03sec which he had established the previous day. The previous record for the class – Standard & Modified Sports Cars 1101-1500cc – had stood for 22 years. Another driver to win his class both days was Greg Lerigo (1496cc Riley Special) whose best time of the weekend was set on Saturday with a climb in

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Chris Williams performs his party trick with the 24-litre Napier Bentley as he heads for the finish line.

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Joe Tisdall (Austin 7 Ulster) on his first morning practice run

Rupert Baller won his class with the 1932 Hotchkiss AM80 on Saturday

Eddie Williams (Frazer Nash Super Sports) set the only new class record of the weekend

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Tiziana Mutschler was 2nd overall in her class on Saturday and took her Austin Sports Ulster to 2nd in class on handicap on Sunday.

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Speeding toward the finish line is Ian Patton driving Terry McGrath’s Amilcar CGSs October 2019

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Ian Standing scored a class win and a second place with his Riley Brooklands.

John Guyatt heads for the summit in his Talbot Lago T150C. © Peter McFadyen

The sun glints off David Hubble’s Austin 7 Ulster Replica as he exits Keepers Bend

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Tim Sharp’s very smart 1936 MG PB

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WEC Silverstone 4 Hours.

Silverstone GP Circuit.

30th August - 1st September 2019.

By Simon Wright.

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Buemi/Nakajima/Hartley Toyota TS050 Hybrid chased by Senna/Menezes/Nato Rebellion R13 as they pass Aston Martin and Ferrari GTE cars

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Aston Martin Vantage AMR GTE of Marco Sørensen and Nicki Thiim came 5th in LMGTE Pro.

Aston Martin, Ferrari and Porsche were all represented in the GTE classes, while British specialist manufacturer Ginetta had cars in LMP1.

There was a thirty car entry for Silverstone and favourites Toyota Gazoo Racing locked out the front row in qualifying, with the No 7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez on pole position and the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid next to it, driven

by Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley. From the rolling start the #7 Toyota took the lead from the other Toyota, while the United Autosport #22 Oreca 07-Gibson driven by Philip Hanson, Filipe Albuquerque and Paul Di Resta was the first retirement after just three laps when it stopped on the main start straight, which brought out the safety car. More drama for the local teams when the #6 Ginetta G60-LT-P1-AER of © Simon Wright

The winning Toyota TS050 Hybrid of Conway/Kobayashi/Lopez © Simon Wright

The start of the 2019-2020 World Endurance Championship took place at Silverstone at the beginning of September with the running of the WEC Silverstone 4 Hours race. This is the eighth season and will start at Silverstone and end with the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans in June 2020, after visiting five continents. Starting with the 4 hours of Silverstone, the teams will travel to Japan for the 6 hours of Fuji at the beginning of October, then on to China for the 4 hours of Shanghai. This will be followed by the 8 hours of Bahrain in the middle east. The Championship then leaps across the Atlantic for the 6 hours of Sao Paulo in Brazil and the 1000 miles of Sebring in the USA. Back to Europe for the 6 hours of Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium before the grand finale the the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France.

The only major motor vehicle manufacturer remaining in the LMP1 class was Toyota, defending current champions.

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Michael Simpson, Christopher Dyson and Guy Smith lost a wheel going into Woodcote and had to limp back half a lap to the pits. This brought out a full course yellow, and lots of people took advantage for a pitstop, including the leading

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Ferrari 488 GTE EVO of Motoaki Ishikawa, Oliver Beretta and Kei Cozzolini, causing it to spin.

Rain arrived around 1:30pm and most of the field pitted immediately to change to wet wether tyres but Toyota tried to stay out on slicks, but even with four wheel drive, they were soon in to change to wet weather tyres as well.

Ginetta had another problem when the #5 Team LNT Ginetta G60-LT-P1 of Charlie Robertson, Ben Hanley and © Simon Wright

The Rebellion R13 - Gibson of Senna/Menezes/Nato finished 10th and 5th in LMP1

Toyotas. This gave the lead to #1 Rebellion Racing Rebellion R13-Gibson of Bruno Senna, Gustavo Menezes and Norman Nato as they stayed out, but Toyota soon retook the lead.

There was a little drama in the GT class when the #54 AF © Simon Wright

Despite a spin the Ferrari 488 GTE EVO of Beretta/Cozzolino/Ishikawa still finished 20th and 3rd in LMGTE Am The Ferrari 488 GTE EVO of Rigon/Molina crashed out after a collision with an LMP1 Ginetta

Corse Ferrari 488 GTE EVO of Thomas Flohr, Francesco Castellacci and Giancarlo Fisichella bounced over the kerb on the entrance to Club and collided with the #70 MR Racing

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Egor Orudzhev collided with the #71 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE EVO of Davide Rigon and Miguel Molina on the entrance to Becketts, which caused the Ferrari to hit the barrier hard and was out of the race. This caused another Safety car period and everybody headed to the pits to change to dry tyres. Toyota soon passed Rebellion to restore their 1-2 positions at the head of the field.

In LMP 2 Cool racing were in front of Signatech Alpine Elf, while the #51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE EVO of James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi was leading the LM GTE Pro class, but a penalty dropped the Ferrari out of the lead, handing that honour back to Porsche. In LMP1 the #1

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Antonio Felix da Costa/Roberto Gonzalez Jota Sport Oreca 07 - Gibson finished 5th in LMP2

Giancarlo Fisichella/Francesco Castellacci/Thomas Flohr AF Corsa Ferrari 488 GTE EVO finished 9th in LMGTE Am

Jonathan Adam/Charlie Eastwood/Salih Yoluc Aston Martin Vantage AMR GTE finished 7th in LMGTE Am

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Alex Lynn/Maxime Martin Aston Martin Vantage AMR GTE finished 3rd in LMGTE Pro

James Calado/Alessandro Pier Guidi AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE EVO finished 4th in LMGTE Pro

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Team 1 Project Porsche 911 RSR of Jeroen Bleekemolen/Felipe Fraga/Ben Keating finished 10th in LMGTE Am

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Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR of Matt Campbell/Riccardo Pera/Christian Ried finished 5th in LMGTE Am

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Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca 07 Gibson of Ho-Pin Tung/Gabriel Aubry/Will Stevens finished 4th in LMP2.

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Bonamy Grimes/Charles Hollings/Johnny Mowlem Red River Sport Ferrari 488 GTE EVO finished 8th in LMGTE Am.

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Rebellion was dragged back in to the garage with only ten minutes remaining of the race After four hours of racing it was a Toyota 1-2 finish, with the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid of Conway, Kobayashi and Lopez winning by just 1.901 seconds from the #8 Toyota of Buemi, Nakajima and Hartley. The pair had lapped the entire field at least once, with the Rebellion Racing #3 Rebellion R13 Gibson of Nathanaël Berthon, Pipo Derani and Loïc Duval one lap behind in 3rd. The local Team LNT #5 Ginetta G60

LT-P1 AER of Charlie Robertson, Ben Hanley and Egor Orudzhev taking 4th place, five laps behind the winner.

Taking the LMP2 victory was 5th place Cool Racing #42 Oreca 07 - Gibson of Nicolas Lapierre, Antonin Borga and Alexandre Coigny, 5 laps down, who finished just over 49 seconds ahead of the #36 Signatech Alpine Elf Alpine A470 Gibson of Thomas Laurent, André Negrão and

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The LMGTE Pro class winning Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Gianmaria Bruni and Richard Lietz

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LMP2 winning Cool Racing Oreca 07 Gibson of Nicolas Lapierre and Antonin Borga finished 5th overall.

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Pierre Ragues. In 7th overall was the Racing Team Nederland #29 Oreca 07 - Gibson of Frits Van Eerd, Giedo Van Der Garde and Job Van Uitert who took 3rd in LMP2.

The LM GTE Pro class was a close fought affair, with the Porsche GT Team taking a 1-2 finish, 14 laps down in 13th and 14th position. Taking the class victory was Gianmaria Bruni and Richard Lietz in the #91 Porsche 911 RSR by just over 3 seconds from the #92 car of Michael Christensen and Kevin Estre. Only 2 seconds further back was the Aston Martin Racing #97 Aston Martin Vantage AMR of Alexander Lynn and Maxime Martin who took 3rd in class.

In the LM GTE Am class the AF Corse Ferrari #83 Ferrari

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Team LNT Ginetta G60-LT-P1 of Charlie Robertson/Ben Hanley/Egor Orudzhev finished 4th.

LMGTE Am class winning AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE EVO of Emmanuel Collard/Nicklas Nielsen/Francois Perrodo.

F488 GTE EVO took a clear class victory driven by François Perrodo, Emmanuel Collard and Nicklas Nielsen, 16 laps down, but a whole lap ahead of the Aston Martin Racing #98 Aston Marin Vantage AMR of Paul Dalla Lana, Darren Turner and Ross Gunn who took 2nd in class. Mr Racing #70 Ferrari F488 GTE took 3rd in the LM GTE Am class driven by Motoaki Ishikawa, Oliver Beretta and Kei Cozzolino.

After the race, both Ferrari and Aston Martin expressed

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their displeasure with Race Control due to drive through penalties, which were later rescinded midrace, after they had already been served. Ferrari Competizioni GT Technical Director Ferdinando Cannizzo reckoned the drive through penalty had effectively ended Ferrari’s chance of victory.

High Class Racing Oreca 07 Gibson of Anders Fjordbach/Mark Patterson/Kenta Yamashita finished 7th in LMP2 ahead of the © Simon Wright Signatech Alpine Elf Alpine A470 of Thomas Laurent/Andre Negrao/Pierre Ragues which finished 2nd in LMP2

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LMP2 Dallara P217 of Andrea Belicchi/Roberto Lacorte/Giorgio Sernagiotto finished 6th in LMP2 for Cetilar Racing

The United Autosports Oreca 07 Gibson of Filipe Albuquerque/Philip Hanson/Paul di Resta were the first retirement

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The iconic gulf colur scheme on the Gulf Racing Porsche 911 RSR of Ben Barker/Michael Wainwright/Andrew Watson finished 4th in LMGTE Am © Simon Wright

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Racing Team Nederland Oreca 07 Gibson of Giedo van der80 Garde/Frits van Eerd/Job van Uitert finished 3rd in LMP2

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Porsche Carrera Cup GB. Silverstone.

Supporting the WEC and ELMS races at Silverstone were two rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB Championship.

This is the fastest one make series currently in the UK, and uses identical 485 hp, second generation Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars, Type 991.

The first thirty five minute race was on Saturday, before the ELMS 4 Hours. Round 11 of the championship saw 18 year old Porsche 2018/2019 Junior Dan Harper win, as he has done repeatedly in every none reversed grid race at the start of this season. Josh Webster was 2nd and Lewis Plato took 3rd. Sam Brabham was the first Pro-Am in 7th and John Ferguson was first Am in 13th.

Dan Harper won the race on Saturday.

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Sam Brabham won the Pro-Am class on Saturday.

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Peter Kyle-Henney (Am) finished 3rd in class on Sunday.

Josh Webster won the Sunday race.

The second thirty five minute race was on Sunday, before the WEC 4 hour of Silverstone race and saw Josh Webster take the win from George Gamble and Dan Vaughan. In 8th place, Jack McCarthy took the Pro-Am class just in front of Sam Brabham. The Am class was won by 12th placed Justin Sherwood

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Seb Perez finished 6th on Satiurday despite having an off in practice at Club.

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Justin Sherwood won the Am class on Sunday

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ELMS - 4 Hours of Silverstone 2019.

Silverstone Grand Prix circuit.

30th August - 31st August 2019.

By Simon Wright

The Oregon Team Norma M30 - Nissan LMP3 of D Fioravanti, G Grinbergas and L Bontempell retired after 32

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Gibson LMP2 of Ben Hanley, Henrik Hedman and James Allen with a time of 1 minute 47.798 of a second. The fastest LMP3 was the #19 M Racing Norma M30 - Nissan of Yann Ehrlacher, Laurent Millara and Lucas Légeret

The winning IDEC Sport Oreca 07 - Gibson LMP2 of Lafargue, Chatin and Rojas.

M Racing Norma M30 Nissan LMP3 of L Millara, L Legeret and Y Ehrlacher finished 8th in LMP3

The European Le Mans Series made its annual return to the home of British Motor Sport for the twelfth LMS or ELMS race to be held at the circuit since 2004. This was Round 4 of the 2019 European Le Mans Series and after a total of three and a half hours free practice on Friday, qualifying on Saturday was held as three 10 minute sessions split into LMGTE, LMP3 and LMP2.

Based in the National (original) pits, there was a great entry of thirty nine cars, with eighteen LMP2 cars, fourteen LMP3 cars and seven LMGTE cars taking to the grid. On Pole position was the #21 Dragon Speed Oreca 07The DragonSpeed Oreca 07 - Gibson LMP2 of Hedman, Hanley and Allen took Pole position and ended up 4th

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with a time of 1 minute 53.468 seconds in 19th position on the grid. The best of the LMGTE GT cars was the #88 Porsche 911 RSR of Thomas Preining, Gian Luca Giraudi and Ricardo Sanchez with a time of 1 minute 55.322 seconds, in 30th position, ahead of several LMP3 cars.

The #21 Oreca of Hedman/Hanley/Allen led away from the rolling start, chased hard by the #22 United Autosports Oreca 07 - Gibson of Philip Hanson and Filipe Albuquerque, with some action in the first corner as several cars ran wide and one car having half a spin in the middle of the field. After just five minutes of the race, the rain arrived and while the leading pair stayed out on slicks, the second half of the field dived in to the pits to change tyres. Allen at the wheel of the leading car spun off at Copse but managed to retain the lead. At the end of the lap Allen headed for the pits, giving the lead to #43 RLR MSport Oreca 07 - Gibson of Matthieu Vaxiviere, John Farano and Arjun Maini who was over fourteen seconds ahead of the #23 Panis Barthez Competition Oreca 07 - Gibson of William Stevens, René Binder and

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advantage to pit and change back to slicks. The #21 Oreca of Allen was working through the field and with just over one and a half hours in to the race, he retook the lead from the #43 Oreca of Farano/Maini/Vaxivere. By Half distance it was the #23 Oreca of Binder, Stevens and Canal in the lead at 60 laps, nearly ten seconds ahead of the #30 Duqueine Engineering Oreca 07 - Gibson of Nicolas Jamin, Pierre Ragues and Richard Bradley and the #37 Cool Racing Oreca 07 - Gibson of Nicolas Lapierre, Antonin Borga and Alexandre Coigny, with the #21 Oreca having pitted and changed driver to Hanley now back in 6th. The first two dived in to the pits at half distance giving the lead to the #37 Oreca of

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Julien Canal. The #66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari F488 GTE EVO of Jeffery Segal, Matteo Cressoni and Wei Lu spun at Luffield, requiring a full course yellow while the snatch truck moved the stranded car off the edge of the track. The #22 Oreca of Hanson/Albuquerque used the full course yellow to dive into the pits and change back to slick tyres. By the time early leader Allen in #21 reached the pits, the track was back to green and racing. The track was still wet although the rain had stopped and when the #22 Oreca of Hanson/Albuquerque reached Luffield it slid wide off the track on to the wet grass and although it United Autosports Oreca 07 - Gibson of Hanson and Alburquerque spun off managed to avoid the on the wet track and retired barrier, it slipped backwards in to the gravel to retire and caused another full course yellow. Most of the field took © Simon Wright

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Lapierre/Borga/Coigny. A few minutes later the #3 United Autosports Ligier JS P3 - Nissan of Michael Guasch and Christian England went hard in to the barriers at high

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JMW Motorsport Ferrari F488 GTE EVO of Segal, Cressoni and Lu finished 6th in LMGTE.

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Realteam Racing Norma M 30 - Nissan LMP3 of E Garcia and D Droux finished 11th in LMP3.

Inter Europol Competition Ligier JSP217 - Gibson LMP2 of J Smiechowski, Tambay and Dunner finished 12th.

Spirit of Race Ferrari F488 GTE EVO LMGTE of D Cameron, M Griffin and A Scott finished 5th in LMGTE. BHK Motorsport Oreca 07 - Gibson of F Draone, S Campana and G Findlay finished 10th

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Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P3 - Nissan LMP3 of Hippe and Moore finished 2nd in LMP3 ahead of Duqueine Engineering Oreca 07 - Gibson LMP2 of Jamin, Ragues and Bradley which retired.

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speed at Becketts, badly damaging the nose of the car, after being clipped by the #24 Panis Brothers Competition Ligier JSP217 - Gibson of Timothé Buret and Konstantin Tereschenko. The safety car was deployed for around twenty minutes while the barriers were repaired, while the Mike Guasch was removed. It was later reported he had a cracked rib. Just after the restart there was another big accident at Brooklands with the #30 Oreca of Jamin/Ragues/Bradley stuck in the middle of the circuit with the front half of the car destroyed. The #37 Oreca of Lapierre/Borga/Coigny had been clipped in to a half spin

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and was then hit hard by the #30 Oreca of Jarmin/Tagues/Bradley, pushing #37 off the track. This caused another full course yellow. The race was restarted with just over an hour to go, with the #39 Graff Oreca 07 Gibson of Tristan Gommendy, Alexandre Cougnaud and Jonathan Hirschi in the lead. With forty minutes to go the #26 Aurus 01 - Gibson of Rusinov/Vergne/Van Uitert was leading. Then the #21 Oreca of Hedman/Hanley/Allen led until a last minute splash and go pit stop with just eighteen

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The LMGTE Class winning Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR of Preining, Giraudi and Sanchez ahead of the Kessel Racing Ferrari F488 GTE EVO of Pianezzola, Cadei and Piccini who finished 3rd in the LMGTE class.

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Roman Rusinov, Jean-Eric Vergne and Job Van Uitert.

Not far behind in 3rd was the #39 Graff Oreca 07 - Gibson of Gommendy, Cougnauld and Hirschi.

The first LMP3 car to cross the line was in 14th place and was the #11 Eurointernational Ligier JS P3 - Nissan of Mikkel Jensen and Jens Petersen, but they were given a penalty for ignoring an black and orange flag, giving LMP3 victory to the #13 Inter Europol Competition Ligier JS P3 of Martin Hippe and Nigel Moore in 15th. But they were then given a penalty for ignoring the driving time of their driver and went back to 2nd and restoring victory to LMP3 class winners Eurointernational Ligier JS P3 - Nissan of Jensen and Petersen 360 Racing Ligier JS P3 - Nissan LMP3 of T Woodward, J Dayson and R Kaiser finished 4th in LMP3

minutes to go, giving the lead back to the #26 Aurus of Rusinov/Vergne/Van Uitert. With just five minutes to go #26 had to pit with a puncture, giving the lead to the #28 IDEC Sport Oreca 07 Gibson of Paul Lafargue, Paul Loup Chatin and Memo Rojas At the end of the 4 Hour race it was the #28 IDEC Sport Oreca 07-Gibson of Lafargue, Chatin and Rojas that took victory by just under ten seconds, after 4 hours of racing, ahead of the #26 G-Drive Racing Aurus 01 - Gibson of G-Drive Racing Aurus 01 - Gibson LMP2 of Rusinov, J Vergne and Van Uitert finished 2nd

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the #11. Making it a Ligier clean sweep in LMP3 was 16th placed #2 United Autosports Ligier JS P3 of Wayne Boyd, Garett Grist and Tommy Erdos who were 3rd in class.

The LMGTE class winners were the 20th placed #88 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR driven by Thomas Preinning, Gian Luca Giraudi and Ricardo Sanchez who were only nine laps behind the winner. They were almost thirty seconds ahead of the all women crew in 22nd place, #83 Kessel Racing Ferrari F488 GTE EVO of Manuela Gostner, Rachel Frey and Michelle Gatting. Their sister car the #60 Kessel Racing Ferrari F488 GTE EVO of Sergio Pianezzola, Nicola Cadei and Giacomo Piccini were 3rd in class, back in 25th position.

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Alpine A110 Rally ready for action.

an FIA homologated roll cage and Sabelt bucket seats with a six point safety harness system.

The two wheel drive car is powered by a 1.8 litre four cylinder turbocharged engine, producing more than 300 hp. It is matched to a sequential six speed gearbox (plus reverse) and a limited slip differential.

Designed and developed by Signatech from the Alpine’s general framework, the rally version of the Alpine A110 incorporates the lightweight and agile aluminium chassis from the Alpine A110 GT4 and Cup which was derived from the production model.It also received additional modifications to meet rallying requirements. These include three-way hydraulic suspension, new Brembo brakes and safety elements specific to the sport. This are

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with multiple two wheel drive French Rally Champion Emmanuel Guigou and 2015 French Junior Champion Laurent Pellier. They will do the majority of testing to test reliability and achieve the basic setup. Other drivers will add their contributions to make the Alpine A110 Rally as versatile

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as possible.Signatech and Alpine are currently working to get the car an FIA R-GT homologation and delivery of the first Alpine A110 Rally cars are expected in early 2020. The car is expected to sell from â‚Ź150,000 ex VAT subject to homologation.

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Muscle Cars Masters Weekend.

Sydney Motorsport Park, Australia,

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Ryal Harris takes victory in the Touring Masters, leading Ryan Hansford, Steve Johnson and John Bowe.

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clear, the race was red flagged, but this only happened Dragged kicking and screaming to Australia for a holiday, twice and with all the first thing I did was find a circuit races being 6 or 8 and race meeting to attend. Sydney lap sprints, everyone Motorsport Park, otherwise known had most of their as Eastern Creek, fitted the bill and allotted 4 or 5 races. it threw up the perfect meeting, the The headline races Muscle Cars Masters weekend, were for the Touring packed full of Aussie and American Car Masters series V8s from the 60s, 70s and 80s. The for touring cars from action didn’t stop - 18 races going the classic period of into the night on Saturday and 16 muscle car on Sunday with brutal but competition between impressive timekeeping. Races 1964 and 1981. started at times such as 11.03 and If it hasn’t got a big 15.27, with the 34th race starting V8, forget it. There's within 5 minutes of the scheduled Australian Ford time! Brutal, because if an incident Falcons and Holden took more than 5 or 10 minutes to John Bowe’s menacing looking 1974 Holden © Syd Wall Torana SL/R in the Touring Masters Toranas and

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Touring Car Masters wasn’t all Mustangs, Camaros and Toranas - Allen Boughen’s 1963 Mercury Comet.

Monaros of course, but also classic US Mustangs and Camaros, Chryslers and Mercurys. It’s not just classic cars though. Bathurst legend John Bowe pedals a 1974 Torana and the sons of famous drivers are at the front of the

championship too. Ryan Hansford has another ’74 Torana and Aaron Seton and Steve Johnson drive '69 Boss Mustangs.

The series supports the Supercars series but this was the one meeting where they were the highlights. The action was loud and spectacular. The noise as the field accelerated away from the rolling start was stunning and we had this five times across the weekend, plus a few restarts from safety car periods. The night race was something else, taking place over the short version of the circuit. I watched at the off camber left/right kink where the long lap is cut and the action was breathtaking as cars battled heading into the kink and then drifted sideways over the camber at the exit, scrambling for grip down the straight.

A consistent weekend in Sydney for Steve Johnson saw him finish fourth overall to take a 60-point – exactly one race victory - lead over John Bowe into Bathurst next month.

Bowe had his best weekend of the season but the fivetime champion lost ground to Johnson after a broken rocker in the Torana’s V8 put him out of the exciting night Ryal Harris, Steve Johnson on the dirt and Ryan Hansford in the Touring Car Masters.

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Andrew Fisher’s Ford Falcon was the weekend’s major casualty. The damage is serious and the Ford stalwart has had to hire a Holden Torana for the Bathurst races

Steve Johnson was quick in the dark in the Touring Car Masters night race.

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race.

Overall winner of the weekend was Ryal Harris in his 1969 Camaro, now sitting just seven points behind Bowe, and 67 from the lead.

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the table.

Ryan Hansford and Aaron Seton were among the most successful drivers of the weekend and lie 6th and 8th overall.

400 points are up for grabs across Bathurst and Sandown so the title is far from settled. I’ll be at Bathurst for the penultimate round.

Tony Ricciadello’s Alfa-Chevrolet GTV was dominant over the weekend, as it has been for 11 years in Sports Sedans.

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Raucous field of 'almost anything goes’ Sports Sedans.

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Group C Heritage Touring Cars featured the ex Denny Hulme © Syd Wall JPS BMW 635CSi.

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Group A Heritage Touring Cars, headed by the Glenn Seton, Dick Johnson and Alan Bond Ford Sierra RS500s.

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Another famous Group A BMW E30 M3, that of Jonny Cecotto & Tony Longhurst, 4th at Bathurst in 1992.

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Group C Holden Commodre and Group A BMW E30 M3

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Ryal Harris takes victory leading Ryan Hansford, Steve Johnson and John Bowe.

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Wheels on Wednesday.

19th September 2019, Spetchley Park.

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Film buffs, perhaps – Jurassic Park Explorer alongside a Lotus Esprit with James Bond overtones © Peter McFadyen Unusual 1971 Austin 3 litre.

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Wheels on Wednesday.

We first reported on Wheels on Wednesday’s 3 June gathering when the fledgling fortnightly car and bike gathering had just moved, thanks to its immediate growth in popularity from its original car park location to the much more spacious grounds of Spetchley Gardens close to Junction 7 of the M5 motorway. Since then, wretched luck with the weather which uncannily seemed to target Wednesdays for its wettest conditions led to understandable cancellations and, on one occasion, to a 24 hour postponement. It seemed almost that WoW should stand for Wet on Wednesday. rd

Happily, Wednesday 18 September saw WoW back on track and fine weather throughout the day and early evening, albeit with an autumnal nip already in the air by sunset, brought out a good selection of enthusiasts and their vehicles for another sociable evening . Two more WoWs remain this year, scheduled, as normal, for the first

and third Wednesdays of October with gates opening at 5pm. Admission is just £3 per car and there is plenty of food and drink on sale to complete the experience.

Spetchley Gardens is on the A422 and the entrance is well signposted.

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Reliant Super Robin 850 and Ford Popular De Luxe both looking as good as new © Peter McFadyen

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Looking immaculate as it arrived, this MGA’s bonnet opened to reveal an equally immaculate 3½ litre V8 engine and the slogan ‘Built not bought, Driven not trailered

Not so many bikes this time but this Aprilia was surely the best looking of those October attending

A very desirable Daimler 250 V8 with manual transmission was being offered for sale after 20 years with its present owner for an asking price of around £14,750 © Peter McFadyen

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The spectators don’t look too sure about the 427 Cobra © Peter McFadyen

Rolls Royce owner puts his feet up in the evening sunshine © Peter McFadyen

No sign of the NYPD car which is usually seen at WoW but in its place was this Ford in Palm Beach County Sheriff livery and appropriate UK registration

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Fine example of a 1946 5.7 litre Ford Super Deluxe

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According to its New Mexico number plate, this is a 1941 model of the Buick Eight or ‘Super’. It was produced in a variety of body configurations both 2- and 4-door including this desirable 2-door convertible style. Engine capacity was 248 cu in (4.1 litres) and the transmission was 3-speed manual. Just above the front plate on this car is a metal badge with the legend ‘Eddie Meyer Hollywood Equipped’. Eddie Meyer was a successful racing driver in the 1920s whose eponymous Engineering Company produced high quality speed / performance equipment for flathead (side valve) engines throughout the 1940s and early 50s. © Peter McFadyen

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Typical of the majority of cars at this WoW meeting was this Mitsubishi with interesting registration © Peter McFadyen

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Daimler 250 V8

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GT International Open

Silverstone 7th-8th September 2019.

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Siedler by 0.656 seconds. Another local driver, Tom OnslowCole and partner Valentin Pierburg put their SPS Mercedes on row 3.

At the start of Race one, Giacomo Altoè was able to keep

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International GT Open Silverstone 7-8th Sept The summer break came to an end for the Series when it descended on the fast and flowing Silverstone circuit. The first of the faster tracks the series will visit in the second half of the season along with Barcelona and Monza. As always there were be several “local” drivers taking part including John Hartshorne and Oliver Hancock, driving a Ferrari 488 GT3 entered by the Swiss Kessel Racing team.

Autumn temperatures had arrived at Silverstone by the time qualifying started on Saturday but this did not slow down the pair of Lamborghini Huracan EVO of Emil Frey Racing who between them locked down the front row of the grid for Race 1. Giacomo Altoè and Albert Costa were fastest, ahead of their team mates Mikaël Grenier-Norbert

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his advantage, while Saravia from row 2 managed to take second from Siedler, then Kodrić, Ramos, Spinelli and Gonda. Before the first lap was even completed Hahn spun and hit the wall at Maggotts, a few seconds later at Stowe, Schandorff spun and was collected by Razak and Wilkinson.

The Ombra Lamborghini ended its race against the wall, while the Aston was able to rejoin and pit, while the safety-car was deployed.

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Race 2 start with Albert Costa & Giacomo Altoe

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restart, Altoè was leading ahead of Saravia, Siedler, Kodric, Ramos, Spinelli and Gonda, but after only one lap, Altoè, Saravia and Kodric were in for driver change, leaving Sidler in the lead. In the meantime, after long repairs, the Optimum Aston rejoined the race, nine laps behind.

At the completion of driver changes, Costa led with less than a second over Grenier, then another 8 seconds behind, Chaves was ahead of a group with Crestani,

Rueda, Visser and Zampieri. The calm did not last long though, as on lap 18 there was yet another safety-car period to rescue Roda’s Mercedes, which stopped along the track in a huge cloud of smoke.

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Miguel Ramos & Fabrizio Crestani SPS Auotomotive Performance Mercedes AMG.

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At the restart, Costa led from Grenier, with Chaves and Crestani fighting fiercely for third (with the Mercedes going through on lap 21), then Rueda, Visser, Giammaria and Tujula, while Turner and Zampieri went in to the pits.

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completion of driver changes it was very close. Saravia leading but Altoè close behind. Kodric third, 3 seconds behind, together with Siedler, followed a couple of seconds back by Wilkinson, Ramos and Cameron.

Complicating things even further, with just 10 minutes remaining Sarvia was given a 1 second penalty (to be added to his race time) for not serving his full handicap.

At the flag Sarvia crossed the line first but with Altoè only 0.3s behind it was him that was victorious due to the 1s penalty added to Sarvia’s race time. Last lap drama unfolded behind the leaders as Kodrić, in third, slowed down and got sandwiched by Siedler and Wilkinson, as they tried to pass him. At the complex, Ramos joined the trio but hits the McLaren, which spins and collected the Aston Martin. Siedler took third ahead of Visser, Ramos (who received a 10-second penalty), Kodrić and Wilkinson.

Race 2 finish with the order reversed after a 1 sec penalty applied to Fran Rueda & Andres Saravia

Sardinha taking the Am lead, also because of a drivethrough inflicted to Cipriani for excessive speed in the pit lane.

At the flag it was Albert Costa and Giacomo Altoè who took their third win of the season, putting them 7 points clear of the Teo Martín McLaren of Henrique ChavesMartin Kodrić, who finished fourth. It was again a 1-2 for the Emil Frey Racing Lamborghinis, as Mikael Grenier & Norbert Siedler took second, with Miguel Ramos & Fabrizio Crestani (SPS Mercedes) completing the overall podium.

For Race 2, Albert Costa and Giacomo Altoè were again on pole, with Norbert Siedler and Mikael Grenier along side them in second place. An orderly start for race 2 with Albert Costa keeping his pole advantage ahead of Grenier, Crestani, Chaves, Rueda, Onslow-Cole, Turner, Visser and Tujula, while Ward was in the pits at the end of lap 1. Tom Onslow-Cole was to drop down to P14 after a spin. By the end of lap seven the top six were covered by 10 seconds. The pit window opened after lap 11 and at the

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Winners Albert Costa & Giacomo Altoe

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GT Cup Open Europe race.

Silverstone

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Hans-Peter Koller & Edoardo Liberati on their way to another win

In the GT Cup Open Europe races Hans-Peter Koller and Edoardo Liberati for Vincenzo Sospiri Racing had a perfect weekend with a clean sweep, winning both Race 1 & Race 2.

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Euroformula Open

Silverstone. 7th - 8th September 2019

By Stuart Yates and David Goose of Motorsport Imagery.

Two fourth place finishes for Billy Monger

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Billy Monger about to go out for qualifying

A perfect weekend with two wins for Toshiko Oyu

The Euroformula Open races saw a dominant win for Honda Junior driver Toshiki Oyu in his first ever Euroformula race at Silverstone. Crowd favourite and local hero Billy Monger came home in fourth place. Toshiki Oyu completed a stunning weekend with a win in Race 2, finishing 6.017s ahead of Enaam Ahmed. Again, Billy Monger was to finish just off the podium with a repeat of his first race position in fourth. © Motorsport-Imagery

Second place in race two for Enaam Ahmed

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750 Motor Club 80th Anniversary Donington Park, 7th September 2019.

By Simon & Janet Wright.

Dan Clowes leads Dan Gore in their Jedi Mk 6/7 single seaters in the F1000 race in the battle for 3rd place.

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Ben Williams in a Renault Clio Cup in 11th and Inglis taking his 2nd class win of the meeting in 20th.

Winner Neil Fowler and 2nd Robert Spencer were this close for most of the MGCC BCV8 Challenge race in their MGB GT V8 sports cars

The MG Car Club ran two rounds of the MGCC BCV8 Championship which saw a close battle between Neil Fowler and Robert Spencer in their MGB GT V8 sports cars in the first race. At the flag it was Fowler just 0.21 of a second ahead of Spencer, while Ian Prior in another MGB GT V8 was a distant 3rd over thirty four seconds further back. In 4th place was class winner James Wheeler in his MGB GT V8. The other class winners were 9th placed Russell McCarthy in his MGB Roadster, James Darby in an MGB GT in 12th and 14th placed Luke Spencer in his MGB GT V8. Shaun Holmes in his MGC GT had a spectacular retirement at Coppice on lap 6 when he spun backwards across the track with the rear hatch flown open. In the process he collected Steve McKie in his MGB GT V8, pushing both into the gravel trap. McKie managed to drive through the gravel and despite damage to his front wing, he managed to finish

The weekend of the 7th and 8th of September saw the 750 Motor Club celebrate both its 80th anniversary as the home of affordable motorsport, and also 70 years of 750 Formula, the worlds oldest continually running race formula.

Opening up the days racing was the first of two Armed Forces Race Challenge races. Victory in both races went to Mark Inman in a Vauxhall VX220 ahead of Robert Taylor in a BMW E36 Compact who took 2nd place in both races.

Taking a class win in 3rd place also in both races was Mark Jones in a Seat Leon. The other class winners in the first race were 4th placed Jamie McHugh in his Porsche 944, 6th placed Chris Slator in a Peugeot 306 and finally 23rd placed Douglas Inglis in a Mazda MX5. In the second race the other class winners were 4th placed Darren Howe in a VW Golf, Š Simon Wright

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15th, only one lap behind the winner. Holmes also managed to move the car out of the gravel, but he just pulled it off the track and in to a place of safety.

Fowler made in two in a row with the second race, this time beating Ian Prior in his MGB GT V8 by over nine seconds.

Jordan Spencer took 3rd in another MGB GT V8, winning his class. McCarthy took a second class win in 5th, along with Darby in 9th and Luke Spencer in 15th.

F1000 race 1 winner Morgan leads Race 2 winner Booth in their Jedi Mk 6/7

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Wheals had a high speed spin in his Jedi Mk 6/7 in the F1000 first race.

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Morgan who was shadowed the entire distance by Matthew Booth and finished only 0.93 of a second behind in 2nd. A short way behind in 3rd was Dan Clowes. Again there was plenty of action at Coppice with Andrew Wheals had a quick spin on to the grass, exiting Coppice but managed to avoid hitting the barriers and so was able to continue to finish 14th a lap down. Then at half distance, Edward Falkingham went straight on at the top of the hill into the gravel trap. The left front suspension was damaged and it required the snatch truck to lift the car out of the way. The car was repaired by the Sunday race, where Falkingham finished a very creditable 6th.

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Falkingham had a suspension problem in the first F1000 race.

The K-Tec Racing Clio 182 Championship allowed some close racing in identical cars. The early leader was Ryan Polley who led until he retired on lap 7, pulling off the track just after Old Hairpin. This gave winner Jack Kingsbury the opportunity to jump from 3rd to 1st and he

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RGB Sports 1000 winner Wesemael Mittell MC-53

The ZAMP Helmets RGB Sports 1000 Championship was a relatively straight forward victory for Christopher Wesemael in the Mittell MC-53 who won by over eight seconds from Richard Morris in a Spire GT3S at the end of this twenty minute race. Back in 3rd was Ryan Yarrow in another Spire GT3S. Wesemael took a second victory on Sunday ahead of James Walker in a Spire GT3 and Jonathan McGill in another Spire GT3.

Scott Edgar (4th) battles with Kevin Condon (7th) in the first Clio 182 race round Mcleans.

remained in front until the chequered flag, winning by 1.5 seconds. James Bark had remained 2nd all through the race. In 3rd was Don De Graaff. Polley made amends in the second race on Sunday, winning by 0.17 of a second from Kingsbury, with Bark taking 3rd.

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Clio race 1 winner Kingsbury leads Bark round Old Hairpin.

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Carl Austen Spire GT35 ahead of Danny Andrew Mittell MC-53 and James Fowley Spire GT3 at Old Hairpin RGB Sports 1000 race

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Roadsports winner Warren Allen Porsche Cayman

The TEGIWA Roadsports Series had a large field for its forty five minute race, with a nice mix of saloon and sports cars.

Warren Allen in a Porsche Cayman took the initial lead.

David Gardner and Christopher Mills BMW M3 took the lead for one lap before the BMW 328i of Jeff & Lee Piercey had their spell at the front of the field. After the pitstops it was Allen back in front, where he stayed to win by over nine seconds from Paul Cook in a BMW E46 M3. In 3rd place, and winning his class, was Peter Erceg in a Porsche Caymen S. The other class winners were Chris Morton 9th in a Vauxhall Corsa and Adam Read BMW Compact 20th. Š Simon Wright

Andy Ebdon/Paul Wells Caterham Seven 310R (8th) ahead of Andy Baylie VW Golf Gti (7th) and Mark Jones SEAT Leon (5th) in the Roadsports race

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Returning to single seater racing cars saw the Heritage Parts Centre Formula Vee Championship take to the track.

The winner was Tim Probert in a Storm Formula Vee just over a second ahead of Ben Miloudi in a Storm GKBM 2015. Also in the pack was 3rd placed John Hughes in a Scarab Mk5. The other class winner was Jack Wilkinson in a Sheane Mk3 in 6th place. The second race on Sunday saw Daniel Hands win in a GAC Vee by just 0.40 of a second from Hughes in the Scarab, while Probert finished a very close 3rd.

The Demon Tweeks/Yokohama Classic Stock Hatch championship saw Matt Rozier grab the early advantage in his Peugeot 205 GTi, leading the first half of the race, before dropping back to finish 7th. Stewart Place who ran 2nd behind Rozier, swept through in to the lead and stayed in front to the chequered flag, winning by just over a second from Andrew Thorpe in a Citroen AX GTi. However Thorpe was given a 5 second penalty for gaining an advantage, which dropped him back to 4th. This promoted Matthew Stubington in another Peugeot 205 GTi into 2nd place. In to 3rd place came Lee Scott in a Ford Fiesta XR2i. The second race on Sunday saw place retire, and Stubington took the win by just 0.61 of a second from Scott, with Thorpe in 3rd place.

Sunday also saw additional races for 5Club MX5 Cup, with Michael Comber and Ben Short taking a win each, Raceparts 750 Formula Championship with Peter Bove in a Darvi 88 P taking two wins, Gala Performance Toyota MR2 Championship with Shaun Traynor winning both races, Raceparts Historic 750 Formula Series with Martin Depper in a Centaur Mk 14 and Simon Boulter in a Time 3B taking a win each, and finally the Royal Purple Hot Hatch Championship with Ben Rushworth driving a Honda Integra DC2 winning the first race and Gary Prebble in a Honda Civic winning the second.

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Closing Shot.

Aaron Seton debating whether to use tarmac or head for the grass in the Australian Touring Masters race at Eastern Creek

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