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Loton Park, Shropshire, 11th-12th September 2021. By Peter McFadyen
Paul Richardson set FTD on Saturday in Roland Duce’s ERA
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The Vintage Sports Car Club organised two rounds of it 2021 Speed Championship at Loton Park in Shropshire over the weekend of 11th and 12th September with a full entry for both days. Despite many of the entries being the same on both days, there were different winners of the main awards each time.
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Autumn colours beginning to appear as Mark Rosten-Edwards (GN 11.9 ‘Annie’) speeds past on his way to recording the fastest time in his class by a standard vintage car
David Pryke (Frazer Nash Shelsley) was second overall in class to the winning ERA on Sunday having won the class on handicap on the previous day. James Baxter shared the driving of this 4 litre 1929 Chrysler 75 with Ian Balmforth in Sunday’s hill climb
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On Saturday, Paul Richardson gave Roland Duce’s ‘new’ 2-litre supercharged ERA a superb victory on its very first competition outing recording a time of 65.59 seconds over the 1475 yard course in Sir Michael Leighton’s attractive
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Jon Giles (Morgan GN Salome) heads onto Cedar ‘Straight
Dick Wilkinson (Alvis Silver Eagle Sports) set a personal best time at Loton and was fastest standard vintage in his class
deer park setting. The following day he squeezed another 0.15 sec off this time but not before Patrick BlakeneyEdwards, driving his modified sports car, a 1496cc Frazer Nash Super Sports, had climbed a fraction faster to snatch FTD in a time of 65.38 seconds.
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Among the cars dating from the Vintage period, i.e. before 1931, there were also different winners each day, Dougal Cawley’s Ford-engined GN nicknamed ‘Piglet’ being the fastest on Saturday and John Giles’s Morgan/GN ‘Salome’ taking the honours on Sunday. The young drivers’ award went to Harry Painter (MG PA) on the first day and Jack Bond (Alvis Silver Eagle Special) on Sunday. One of the strangest awards and one which can only really be won by chance is the Tidd and Ingham Award which goes to the driver putting in the fastest of the ten slowest times recorded and it went to Allen Clear driving his Riley Brooklands.
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Geoff Smith won the Edwardian Cars class on both days with his 1918 Piccard-Pictet Special which is powered by a 9 litre
Sturtevant aero engine Greg Lerigo and his Riley Special again proved unbeatable in the class for Special Sports Cars, 1101-1500cc
Duncan Cartwright (Riley Ulster Imp) winner of the Standard & Modified Sports Car 751-1500cc class on Sunday
John Guyatt (Talbot Lago T150C) was a class winner both days
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Spectators point their cameras at James Collins (Hudson Super Six) as he rounds Museum bend near the finish
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William Irving (1930 Alvis 12/50) was second overall and first vintage in the class for 1501-3000cc Special Sports Cars
William Lowe (Vale Special), a class winner on handicap
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Wheels on Wednesday Photo Gallery Spetchley Park Gardens, 18th August 2021. By Simon & Janet Wright.
Italian Stallions - 1937 Fiat Topolino, 1961 Lancia Flaminia GT convertible by Touring, 1972 Lancia Fulvia
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Ford Model A Hot Rod
A pair of Renault 5 Turbo Group B spec hatchbacks
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1966 Ford Galaxie Ranch Wagon Triumph TR6
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Berkeley T60 Roadster 3-wheeler
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2001 Garry McCoy Red Bull Yamaha WCMYZR500 replica.
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1936 Ford V8 1991 Marcos Mantula
1961 Lancia Flaminia GT Convertible by Touring In V12 Vantage
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Lamborghini Aventador SVJ
1941 Buick Eight
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MAC Sprint, Curborough, 12th September 2021 By Simon & Janet Wright.
Fastest time of Day (FTD) went to Steven Potter in an OMS 2000M
The Midland Automobile Club (MAC) held their final sprint of the year at Curborough in the middle of September. The bright weather attracted a good crowd of spectators. Using the figure of eight layout lap format, the competitors had two timed runs in the afternoon, following the lunch break. The fastest time of day went to Steven Potter in his OMS 2000M, with a time of 54.50 seconds and a terminal speed of 103 mph. This also made him fastest in Class I Racing Cars over 600cc and up to 1100 cc. His winning margin was quite substantial at over three-seconds faster than Clive Austin in his Empire Wraith, whose time was 58.09 seconds.
An impressive 3rd overall for John Bradshaw in the Westfield SEiW saw him take the fastest time in Class D Production Cars up to 1700cc was Simon Radnor. His best time in his Westfield SE was 61.68 seconds, placing him in equal 5th overall. Also equal 5th overall was Christopher Guy, who set the fastest time in Class H - Racing Cars up to 600cc, driving a Jedi Mk IV with a best time of 61.68 seconds.
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- Modified Cars Specialist Production Cars with a time of 59.70 seconds. Not far behind him in 4th overall and
second fastest in Class D was Oliver Wright in a Fisher Fury, who set a time of 60.13 seconds. The fastest driver in Class B1 - Road Cars Specialist
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Showing how close the competition is round the twisty Curborough track was David Bickley who was also equal
5th overall on 61.68 seconds in his Radical SR1, fastest in
Class F - Sports Libre Cars up to 2000cc.
The next class ‘winner’ was Sarah Bosworth in a Formula
Ford Van Diemen RF85. Her time of 64.28 seconds was
enough to place her 12th overall and fastest in Class J1 -
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Also running in the event was the Morgan Sports Car Club Techniques Speed Championship. Taking 1st in this class was Simon Baines in a Morgan Roadster, with a time of 64.90 seconds, fastest enough for 14th overall. He beat Christopher Baines, in the same shared Morgan
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Formula Ford Racing Cars up to 1600cc pre 1994.
Only 0.4 of a second slower was Geraint Meek in a
Subaru Impreza, 13th overall, with a time of 64.68 seconds, fastest in Class A4 - Road Cars Series Classic and Competition Car Classic and Competition Car Classic and Competition Car Classic and Competition Car
Roadster, by just 0.04 of a second. In 3rd fastest time for the Morgan class was Mike Meredith in a Morgan Plus 8, who was 17th overall with a time of 65.43 seconds.
Just ahead of him, in overall placings, was 16th placed James Hunt in a BMW E30. His time of 65.13 seconds,
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even with a penalty, was enough to give him fastest time in Class A3a - Road Cars Series Production Saloon
Cars over 2000cc.
Elen Worthington in a Lotus Elise S1 was the fastest drive in Class C2 - Modified Cars Series Production Cars over 1400cc up to 2000cc with a time of 65.63 seconds, good enough for 18th overall.
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The class ‘winners’ were coming thick and fast now. In 19th overall was Peter Taylor in a Mazda MX5. He was fastest in Class A2b - Road Cars Series Production Sports Cars over 1400cc up to 2000cc, with a time of 65.98 seconds. In 20th overall was Class C1 - Modified Cars Series Production cars up to 1400cc fastest driver, Paul Talbot in a Rover Mini with a time of 66.03
seconds.
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In 21st overall was Class B2 - Road Cars Specialist Production Cars over 1700cc winner Simon Green in a
Westfield SEiW with a time of 66.07 seconds. Dropping a bit further down the results sheet, we find Phil James in a
Porsche Cayman 3.4 S fastest in Class A3b - Road Cars Series Production Sports Cars over 2000cc, with a time of 66.52 seconds.
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over 1400cc up to 2000cc saw the Peugeot 106GTi fastest, driven by David West to a time of 67.0 seconds. There was just a single entry in Class M2 - Classic Sports Libra and Racing Cars pre 1975, so Nick Stephens time of 67.38 seconds in his Mallock Mk 11b was fastest in class.
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The superb Audi TT of Anthony Brown was fastest in Class G - Sports libre Cars over 2000cc with a time of 68.73 seconds, 34th overall.
The penultimate winner was Class AA - Standard Cars, Lyndon Evans in a Fiat Punto, whose best time was 78.48
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The final class was Class M1 - Classic Saloons and Sports Cars pre 1975, which saw Chris Wright in a Lotus Elan 2S fastest with an 80.58 second run.
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David Peters Toyota MR2
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