Classic and Competition Car 37 October 2013

Classic and Competition Car October 2013

Issue 37

Sywell Classic Pistons & Props

Contents Page 3 News.

Page 11 Coventry Motoring Festival .

Page 15 Super Stars World Donington Park.

Page 20 GT Sprint International, Donington Park.

Page 22 HRDC/Scottish Legends, Donington Park.

Page 24 Auto GP World Series, Donington Park.

Page 26 Classic Car of the Month - 1921 Calthorpe 10/4 Tourer.

Page 28 Archive Photo of the month.

Page 29 MSVR Silverstone.

Page 33 VSCC Loton Park Hill Climb.

Page 36 Classic cars at the Crick Feast.

Page 39 BRSCC Race weekend, Donington Park.

Page 45 100 years of Aston Martin in Paintings exhibition, Gaydon.

Page 47 The Autumn Speed Finale, Shelsley Walsh.

Page 50 Sywell Classic Pistons and Props.

Page 55 F5000 Australia Cup, Melbourne.

Page 57 750 Motorclub race weekend, Donington Park.

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Our Team.

Simon Wright - Editor.

Simon has been photographing and reporting on motor races for many years. Served an engineering apprenticeship many years ago. Big fan of the Porsche 917 Pete Austin.

Pete is the man for Historic racing, with an extensive archive of black and white images covering the last few decades of motorsport in Britain. Very keen on BRM. Mick Herring Mick's first love is GT racing, including Historic, especially the Lola T70.

Has an extensive knowledge of all things GT.

Janet Wright.

Janet has been taking photographs for many years, and is also very skilled in video. She likes Aston Martins Page

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Editorial Now in our fourth year of production, we continue to bring you the best coverage we can of selected motorsport and motoring events. It is unfortunate that this issue we report that Mallory Park has gone in-to Administration and we hope that this great circuit can be saved.

With over 50 years history as a racing circuit, it is unfortunate that the circuit has got in to a dispute with local residents over noise and lost a recent Court case which means enforcing resticted usage which was felt not to be workable by the circuit management. Let us hope that someone can save the circuit and that we have not seen the last racing on this unique circuit with its special hairpin bend, loved by many.

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Š Simon Wright Mallory Park in Administration.

On the 30th September 2013 Mallory Park Motorsport Limited (MPML) was put in to Administration. After loosing the recent case bought by Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council relating to the 1985 Noise notice, the circuit was obliged to observe the provisions of the 1985 Notice which allows only 40 days racing on a Sunday per annum with a dispensation to allow 4 Saturdays per annum and testing on Wednesdays. MPML has therefore had to cancel all Track Day operations resulting in a significant loss of income.

These restrictions have led to MPML having a financially unstable business plan. A new plan was developed but a fundimental component of the plan was the agreement of the land owner to reduce the annual lease rent which had risen by over 40 % over the last eight years. Unfortunately an agreement could not be reached and the MPML Dirctors had no option but to place the company into Administration. Ian Robert of Kingston Smith & Partners LLP, the Administrator, is hoping that Mallory Park will see Racing again with the support of the BARC. But for now all track activity has ceased.

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Rob Austin wins first BTCC race.

After claiming his first BTCC Pole position at Knockhill last month, Rob Austin continued his impressive form in the British Touring Car Championship by taking his first win in race 2 at Rockingham in the Audi. After 3 years, Austin was delighted with his first BTCC win.

Ghirelli wins first 2013 Auto GP Title.

Italian Vittorio Ghirelli from Rome has clinched the under 21 Auto GP trophy with three races to spare after winning the first Auto GP race at Donington Park on the 1st September 2013. He is also in contention to take the overall title. "I'm very happy to have scored a win here at Donington. Being the first champion of the 2013 Auto GP makes me very proud because it rewards the efforts made by me and the team, Now I have to focus on the future and I want to fight for the overall championship". In the second race at Donington he managed to extend his championship lead by finishing 4th despite a gearbox problem and also going off track while trying to pass Van Buuren.

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Silverstone sold The BRDC have announced that they have sold the existing Industrial estate and development land round the outside of the circuit on a 999 year lease to Property Investment and Development business MEPC PLC. The ÂŁ32 million deal allows the BRDC to pay off existing loans used to redevelop the circuit, including the building of the Silverstone Wing pits complex in 2011.

MEPC are planning to build warehouses and Hotels alongside the circuit which could create many permanent jobs in the area. Events and developments of the actual circuit will remain with the current management of the Silverstone circuit and will have nothing to do with MEPC.

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Karthikeyan wins at Donington Indian Ex-Grand Prix driver Narain Karthikeyan took victory for the Super Nova team in the second Auto GP World Series race at Donington Park on the 1st September 2013. In the first race he had finished 2nd behind team mate Vittorio Ghirelli and therefore started 7th on the reverse grid for race two. Great strategy saw him take an early pit stop, then coming out in clean air, he set fastest lap of the race and caught and passed pole position man Meindert Van Buuren from the Netherlands. "We had a good strategy. At the start I managed to get some positions back, but the early pitstop enabled me to run in clean air and build a comfortable margin which in the end was enough to take victory. Now I'm very close to the top in standings and I will be fighting for the title at Brno".

Karthikeyan had previously raced at Donington in the 2000 BARC/BRDC Green Flag British Formula 3 championship for the Stewart team where he had managed a 2nd place finish at Donington in the 4th Round of the championship. He appears to have lost none of his skills, ending up the best driver of the weekend overall for the Auto GP World Series race. © Simon Wright

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Jordan Heads BTCC. After 2 impressive wins at Rockingham and a solid performance at Silverstone, Andrew Joran leads the BTCC as it heads for the final round at Brands Hatch. Jordan heads four former champions in the fight for this years title, with Neal, Shedden, Turkington and Plato all still in with a chance to take the crown.

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Dunlop extends BTCC deal as 2014 dates are announced.

Dunlop has been re-appointed the Offical Tyre Supplier to the BTCC for the 2014 season as part of a multi year deal. Dunlop have been the BTCC Tyre supplier since 2003.

The dates for 2014 have now been announced and the season will start and end at Brands Hatch.

The first 3 races at Brands Hatch will be over the weekend of the 29th and 30th March 2014. Then the series moves to Donington Park on the 19th and 20th April 2014. The May Day weekend will see the series at Thruxton on the 3rd and 4th of May 2014.

Oulton Park is the setting for the next round on the 7th and 8th of June 2014. From Oulton Park the cars head further north to Croft for the weekend of the 28th and 29th June 2014. After the summer break, the series restarts at Snetterton on the 2nd and 3rd August 2014, followed by the annual trip to Scotland and Knockhill on the 23rd and 24th August 2014. The series then returns to Northamptonshire with races at Rockingham on the 6th and 7th September followed by Silverstone on the 27th and 28th September 2014. The season will end at Brands Hatch on the Grand Prix circuit on the 11th and 12th October 2014

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On the 13th October the Best of British transport's industrial heritage will be celebrated during an event run by the Severn Vally Railway. Classic Car and Bike day will feature displays of classic cars and motorcycles at five of the six stations on the Severn Valley railway which runs between Kidderminster and Bridgenorth.

The display at Kidderminster station will feature manufacturers with significant anniversaries this year, such as Morris Motors Centenary, 110 years of Standard cars and 90 years of Triumph cars. The station at Hampton Loade will feature a range of historic motorcycles and at Highly station there will be a tribute to cars manufactured at Longbridge, especially Austins. There will also be a range of luxury cars from many decades including several vintage Rolls Royce models at various stations along the line. An easy way to view the displays is to hop on and off the various steam trains running during the day. Standard fares apply on this day. For more information and to book tickets, visit the Special Event page at www.svr.co.uk or call 01299 403816.

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FIVE FIGURE SPONSORSHIP FOR BRITISH DRAG RACING HALL OF FAME

image courtesy of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain Harrods participated in the first ever London to Brighton VCR in 1896.

Harrods in London to Brighton Veteran Car run.

The World famous Harrods store in Knightsbridge is to become an offical partner to this years running of the London to Brighton run on Sunday 3rd November 2013. They will also be supplying refreshments to the participants of the 400 vehicles taking part at the offical mid way check point in Crawley, Sussex.

Harrods took part in the original Emancipation run on the 14th Novemver 1896 in one of the very first Harrods delivery vans (photo above), a PanhardLevassor.

This year, Managing Director of Harrods, Michael Ward will participate in the Veteran car run driving an electrically powered 1901 Waverley. "Dating back to the 1900s, our vintage vehicles form part of Harrods' rich heritage and I, being a personal car enthusiast, will take great pride in driving our most prized car from the collection in this iconic motoring event" said Ward.

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The British Drag Racing Hall of Fame (BDRHoF) is pleased to announce a five figure sponsorship deal with Beech Underwriting. The support also covers the use of back-office functions at the company’s head office. This is the biggest BDRHoF sponsorship programme yet negotiated. As well as supporting the efforts of Stu Bradbury and his BDRHoF team so they can continue their celebration of the sport’s history, it is a reflection of the increased interest in the nostalgia drag racing scene as a whole. Suddenly a new energy has entered (or should we say re-entered) the arena and the role of the BDRHoF has been driven to the fore.

Hard on the heels of the announcement of five figure sponsorship of the British Drag Racing Hall of Fame (BDRHoF) by Beech Underwriting, BDRHoF Chairman Stu Bradbury made a further announcement about exciting changes. He said, “Thanks to Beech Underwriting we are now in a position to expand our horizons and an early demonstration of this new approach is the introduction of two new annual BDRHoF Awards that celebrate the role played by Sydney Allard as the Father of British Drag Racing. He built Europe’s first dragster in 1961 and organised the first visits by American racers in 1963, ’64 and ’65. The new awards will follow the existing ‘Bootsie’ crystal tablet format presented to those who have made a real difference to the growth of drag racing in the UK. But they will be of a different design and contain an image of Sydney Allard rather than Allan ‘Bootsie’ Herridge. What else could we call them but Syds?”

The recipients of the new award will not enter the British Drag Racing Hall of Fame as such but their achievements will be honoured and their names entered as BDRHoF Syd award winners. The ‘Syds’ pay tribute to the influence of journalists and photographers in the promotion of drag racing.

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The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, held at Birmingham’s NEC from 15th to 17th November, is the UK’s biggest classic motoring celebration.

Spanning eleven halls, visitors can enjoy an estimated 1,500 cars and 350 motorcycles on display, ranging from the rare and exciting to prewar and retro classics, the sublime to the ridiculous, and many more. Ticket prices start from £18.50 when purchased in advance, with two and three day passes also available. For more information on the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show or Classic Motorbike Show, visit

JAGUAR C-X75 PROTOTYPE MAKES LANCASTER INSURANCE CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW DEBUT WITH JAGUAR CLASSIC PARTS

www.necclassicmotorshow.com.

The Jaguar C-X75, the prototype state-of-art hybrid supercar, will make its Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show debut, as the centrepiece of the Jaguar Classic Parts stand. Held at Birmingham’s NEC from 15th to 17th November, the stand which is collaboration with Jaguar Heritage and will boast an impressive selection of classic and modern Jaguars.

Sini Tries to debut invisible car!

Francesco Sini tried to debut a new light weight invisible car at the Super Stars race at Jaguar unveiled the C-X75 concept, which has been provided by Jaguar Donington after Cars, in 2010 and has marked the beginning of a new chapter in innovation and technological advancement. The C-X75 can achieve 100mph from standstill in less than six seconds and can continue on to a top speed of 220mph.

Considering these impressive performance statistics, the C-X75 is capable of producing less than 89g of CO2/pkm and will even run with zero emissions for up to 60km. Jaguar Classic Parts welcome visitors to come to their stand in Hall 20 to see this “ground-braking” hybrid vehicle.

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crashing his normal Chevrolet Camaro in race 1. Unfortunately the mechanic could not find the wheels to check the tightness on the grid so Sini was withdrawn from the 2nd race.

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Ecurie Ecosse collection to go under the hammer By Pete Austin.

The worlds most comprehensive collection of Ecurie Ecosse team cars is to be auctioned by Bonhams at their new London headquarters on Sunday 1st December 2013. Also included in the sale is the iconic Ecurie Ecosse transporter.

The Dick Skipworth collection of team cars comprises a 1952 Jaguar XK120, 1953 Jaguar C-Type, 1956 Jaguar D-Type, 1959 Tojeiro Jaguar, 1960 Cooper T49 Monaco, 1961 Austin Healey Sebring Sprite and the 1962 Tojeiro Buick. The 1959 Commer transporter was immortalised by Corgi’s classic 1:48 model.

Amongst those who drove for the team in period were Ninian Sanderson, Bruce Halford, Ron Flockhart, Ivor Bueb, Sir Jackie Stewart and his brother Jimmy. In just 10 seasons the team scored 68 victories including two Le Mans wins.

Dick Skipworth who put the collection together was a regular competitor himself in historic races and rallies and an ardent fan of Ecurie Ecosse. The photo shows Dick Skipworth in front of the transporter flanked by driver Barrie Williams and Jaguar expert John Pearson.

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Coventry Motoring Festival

By Simon & Janet Wright.

For the second year running, the Coventry Motoring Festival was held at Stoneleigh, having moved from Memorial Park, allowing the event more space to grow. On Sunday, a large contingent of around 360 cars went out on the run around the West Midlands and Warwickshire countryside including touring round the centre of Coventry before heading in to Warwickshire and passing through places like Leamington Spa and Kenilworth. When the cars returned from the run, they joined the hundreds of other cars that were already displayed in the Stoneleigh Park area.

Around 25,000 people attended the event.

One of the special static displays was vehicles made in Coventry. There are so many vehicles that have been built in the city, that this large display was only a small representation. The Armstrong Siddeley arrives at Stoneleigh after the run cars on display included a whole range of Jaguars including an E-Type, a Mk2 and Mk10 saloon, a couple of XJS sports cars, a © Simon Wright Triumph TR6, GT6 and Spitfire, a Sunbeam Rapier, a Standard Vanguard pickup and a © Simon Wright Hillman saloon.

There was a large area of car club displays ranging from a strong line-

Armstrong Siddeley jet powered sphinx

up of Armstrong Siddeley models right through to a collection of Volkswagen Beetles and Camper vans.

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This Karmann modified Volkswagen Beetle 1303 convertible was the Show & Shine overall winner as well as taking Show & Shine Best Post War Sports/ Convertible 1st place for the second year running.

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An early Rover returns from the run © Simon Wright

Triumph Gloria leads in a Triumph Mayflower © Simon Wright

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Even Toad of Toad hall came © Janet Wright

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight © Janet Wright

Jaguar XK150

Excellent example of a Vauxhall PA

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There was a display of Steam Traction engines this year

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Jaguar D Type and E Type show family resemblance

Rare Ford Zephyr convertible

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BMW Alpina B10 3.5 E28. No 4 of only 25 built between 1985 and 1987

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Standard Car Club had an impressive line up of different models Š Simon Wright

Jaguar and a Humber Super Snipe as part of the Made in Coventry Motoring Association display

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SuperStars World Donington Park 31st August - 1st September August.

By Simon Wright.

The sound of V8 saloons thundering around Donington is like music to the ears of any motor sport enthusiast. The Superstars International Series returned to Donington Park for the third year running, to host the sixth round of this European series. Nine manufacturers are represented in this years series, but unfortunately several teams chose not to make the long trek to Donington, so Start of the 2nd race saw 4 abreast in to Regate corner we were not able to see the Porsche, Jaguar or Cadillac teams in action. As the teams arrived at Donington, Italian Thomas Biagi in a Mercedes AMG C63 was leading the championship by just 3 points from Gianni Morbidelli in an Audi RS5. The Audi has been handicapped due to the incredible performance of the 4 wheel drive 4.2 litre engine, which is 2 litres smaller than the Mercedes it competes against, and the ride height has been increased by another 15mm from 75mm to 90 mm, making it higher than the road car version. The technical weight of the car was also increased by 40kg, making it the heaviest car on the grid.

However it was fellow Italian Luigi Ferrara in the Roma Racing Mercedes AMG C63 Coupe which claimed Pole Position for the Š Simon Wright first race of the weekend from former Grand Prix driver Viantonio Liuzzi in a Mercedes Romeo Ferraris Mercedes AMG C63. Giovanni Berton was 3rd on the grid in his Team BMW Dinamic BMW M3 E92 ahead of Morbidelli who was 4th and Biagi 5th. Local BTCC driver Colin Turkington was guest driver for the weekend in a Scuderia Giudici BMW M3 E92 and managed to qualify in 6th place only 0.749 of a second behind the pole time.

Race day was slightly cooler, but dry with hazy sunshine, so ideal conditions for racing. From the rolling start, Liuzzi tried to inch ahead but Ferrara held the lead in to Redgate and pulled out a good lead by the end of the first lap. Berton was third, Biagi squeezed through in to fourth and Morbidelli was right behind him in fifth place with Turkington sixth.

Ferrara continued to extend his lead, and Liuzzi was also well ahead of the rest of the field in second. The battle was for third place with Berton holding up Biagi and Morbidelli who could not find a way past, to make it a three way battle First race winner Luigi Ferrara Mercedes AMG C63

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Gianni Morbidelli Audi RS5 awaits the start of Race 2

Domenico Schiattarella in the Chevrolet Lumina CR8 through the Craner Curves © Simon Wright

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Francesco Sini in his normal Chevrolet Camaro

BTCC Star Colin Turkington in the BMW M3 E92 © Simon Wright

Vitantonio Luzzi in his Mercedes C63 AMG through the chicane

D Romanini in the Lexus ISF

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for third place. As they came in to the last hairpin before the start straight on the third lap, Biagi dived up the inside of Berton, pushing him wide and over the kerb on the exit giving Biagi third. Morbidelli also took advantage of Berton running wide and slipped through to fourth place. First retirement was the Mercedes of Rapini who pulled off to the side of the track on the fourth lap.

Heading down the start straight, the Camaro of Sini got tagged on the back corner and pushed in to a spin, hitting the wall opposite the pits with the back corner of the Chevrolet. This brought out the safety car which bunched the field back up and took away the advantage that the first two had managed to build up in the first 10 minutes of this 25 minute plus 1 lap race. The race restarted after the Camaro was removed from the side of the track, with ten and a half minutes still to run. Ferrara timed the Liuzzi and Biagi battle in to the restart to perfection and was several car lengths clear of Liuzzi by the Melbourne hairpin time they entered Redgate. Biagi, in third place, was all over the back of Liuzzi, while Morbidelli tried everything he knew to keep the wallowing, handicapped Audi as close as possible to the trio of Mercedes in front of him. Ascani was next driver in Š Simon Wright trouble, pulling his BMW off on lap 8, but was still classified as finishing 12th. Second third and fourth were running nose to tail for several laps, then on the rise up to Coppice corner, Morbidelli dived up the inside of Biagi to take third place as they entered the Dunlop straight. He then latched straight on to the tail of Liuzzi's Mercedes and Biagi dropped back from the pair of them. Romanini pulled off in the Lexus ISF 500 coming out of the Melbourne loop hairpin after an engine blow up with a piston through the bottom of the engine, but not before depositing oil all over the track. Next cars to arrive were the leaders. Ferrara locked his brakes and slid round the Morbidelli spun on the oil while everyone else took avoiding action corner on a wider line, but got away with it. Liuzzi locked up and slid out on to the grass while Morbidelli in the 4 wheel drive Audi dived up the inside of Liuzzi, hit the oil and spun through 90 degrees across the track. Liuzzi managed to drive across the grass and part of the gravel trap before rejoining the circuit, but lost two places to Biagi, who had also run wide on the oil but managed to keep the car on the track and Berton who slipped through the chaos to take second place in his BMW M3 E92 ahead of Biagi. Morbidelli got going again in fifth place. Ferrara had managed to open up a good lead after this incident with Berton in the BMW fending off the Mercedes of Biagi and Liuzzi, all Page 17 October 2013 Classic and Competition car

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together like a train. With less than 2 minutes and 1 lap remaining Biagi ran slightly wide coming out of the old Hairpin, with two wheels over the kerb. Liuzzi dived for the inside line at the Schwantz curve and the two Mercedes were side by side, making contact as they charged up to McLeans, but Biagi held position. The order stayed the same to the flag with Ferrara winning in the Mercedes AMG C63 Coupe for the Roma Racing team by 1.874 seconds from Berton in the BMW M3 E92 and Biagi in the Mercedes AMG C63. Morbidelli finished 4th but took an extra point for setting fastest lap in the heaviest car. Local driver Colin Turkington finished 10th in the Scuderia Giudici BMW M3 E92.

Roberto Papini Mercedes AMG C63 Race Two was held later in the afternoon and some drivers have a great sense of humour. Italian Francesco Sini who was pushed out of the first race in his Chevrolet Camaro was unable to get the car repaired in time for the second race. So he lined up at the Š Simon Wright back of the grid in his 'invisible ' car, sitting on the track in his full race suit and helmet, while one of his mechanics went round 'tightening the wheels'. On a more serious note, race one winner Luigi Ferrara had changed the gearbox between races as during the first race he had problems with third gear! The front row for the second race was headed by Italian Mauro Trentin in a BMW M3 E92 with fellow Italian Andrea Bacci in a Mercedes AMG C63 along side. Max Mugelli in another BMW M3 E92 was behind Trentin with Liuzzi in fourth place in his Mercedes and Morbidelli was 5th Š Simon Wright

Thomas Biagi Mercedes C63 AMG

on the grid in the Audi that handles like a boat due to the increased ride height handicap. Race one winner Ferrara's Mercedes was next to Morbidelli on the third row of the grid. From the rolling start, the cars were four abreast in to Redgate with at least one BMW further back on the grass next to Morbidelli. Liuzzi failed to make the start, pulling in to the pits at the end of the formation lap. As the cars sorted them selves out round Redgate and in to the Craner Curves, it was Thomas Biagi who was in the lead in the Mercedes from Mugelli (BMW), Morbidelli (Audi) and Berton (BMW).

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Mauro Trentin BMW M3 E92 leads Andrea Bacci Mercedes AMG C63

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Morbidelli was through to second place as they went through Coppice and Ferrara slowly started working his way past some of the slower cars while the first four pulled well away at the head of the field. Colin Turkington got involved in a battle with Schiattarella in the 6 litre Chevrolet Lumina, who was judged to have jumped the start and was given a drive through penalty. The Lumina went wide out of the chicane which let Turkington alongside and past in to the Melbourne loop hairpin. Biagi and Morbidelli pulled away as they battled for the lead with Mugelli and Berton together in third and fourth with Ferrara gaining all the time in his Mercedes. After 7 laps Ferrara pulled in to the pits and out of the race.

Turkington and Bacci were having a great scrap, with Turkington closing right up through the corners Morbidelli dives up the inside of Berton in to Roberts during race 1 but then Bacci using the power of the Mercedes to pull ahead again down the straights. Eventually Turkington managed to pass the Mercedes under braking in to the Melbourne hairpin. In an effort to catch the BMW, Bacci went off at Coppice and lost a lot of time driving through the gravel trap. Turkington soon caught and passed the fellow BMW of Trentin down the pit straight.

With 9 minutes to go, Morbidelli took a tight line through the Š Simon Wright Melbourne hairpin and got along side the Mercedes of Biagi but the power of the Mercedes up the hill kept Biagi in the lead. Then in to Redgate, Morbidelli dived through in to the lead and managed to hold the lead through the Craner curves.

Morbidelli then continued to sail ahead to take the win by 8.544 seconds from Biagi even though the Mercedes has an engine 2 litres larger than the Audi. Mugelli took the final podium position in his BMW M3 E92, catching Biagi in the closing stages, but not close enough to challenge for second place. Berton, Trentin and Turkington took the next three places for BMW. Biagi did manage to claim the extra point for fastest lap and this meant that Morbidelli and Biagi are equal on points at the head of the championship with just 2 meetings - 4 races - to go.

Giovanni Berton BMW M3 E92 tries a gravel shortcut at the chicane in race 1

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GT Sprint International Series, Donington

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By Simon Wright.

As part of the Superstars World Series meeting, the International GT Sprint Series was a serious disappointment at Donington Park, with hardly any of the teams making the journey from Europe to compete in the race meeting. The program listed 26 cars but only 8 cars took to the track for the two races, consisting of four Ferrari 458s, an Audi R8, one Porsche 911, one Corvette Z06R and a Ginetta G50. Series leader German Thomas Schoffler (Audi R8 LMS) arrived at Donington with a 3 point Schoffler/Jarvis Audi R8 grabs the lead at the start lead over Glauco Solieri (Porsche 997), with the Roberto Del Castello third in a Corvette Z06. All three had made the trip to Britain and Schoffler had got local driver Oliver Jarvis to share Š Simon Wright the Audi with him at Donington. This pairing got off to a promising start with Jarvis putting the Audi in Pole Position for the first race, sharing the front row with the Ferrari 458 of Raffaele Giammaria/Andrii Kruglyk. From the rolling start the Audi R8 of Pole man Jarvis powered in to the lead through Redgate at the start of the one hour race with the Ferrari 458 of Giammaria right behind him as they completed the first lap. By the start of the third lap, the Ferrari was in front and began to pull out a lead while behind the Audi there was a fierce battle for third between the Ferrari 458 of Brazilian Fernando Croce and the Porsche 911 of Italian Glauco Solieri while the Chevrolet Corvette Z06R of Italian Roberto Del Castello was a little way behind in fifth. The Corvette got in to a battle with Barreta in the second Team Ukraine Ferrari 458. After the pit stops Richard Westbrook took over the No 38 Team Ukraine Ferrari 458 from Rusian Tsyplakov and set off after Schoffler in the Audi, passing him to take second place at the end, behind sister car of Cordoni/Mantovani Ferrari 458 finished 6th in Race 2 winners Giammaria/Kruglyk.

The second race saw Richard Westbrook start the 38 Ferrari and he pulled in to the lead from the start. The Corvette of Necchi/Del Castello developed handling problems and collected the Berretta Ferrari at the Melbourne loop. By the driver change, Westbrook had opened up a lead of over 20 seconds before he handed over to Tsyplakov but it was not enough and the sister car of Giammaria/Kruglyk took the second win of the meeting with Westbrook/Tsyplakov in second place for the second race giving Team Page 20 October 2013 Classic and Competition car

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Roberto del Castello/Hehhhi Chevrolet Corvette Z06

Ukraine a double 1-2 result from Donington. Third place went again to the Audi R8 of Schoffler/Jarvis. In fact the top five were the same in each race with fourth place going to the Porsche 997 of Solieri while fifth place was awarded to the Ferrari 458 of Fernando Croce and Matteo Beretta.

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Glauco Solieri Porsche 997 finished 4th

Tsyplakov/Westbrook Ferrari 458 finished 2nd

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Start of the HRDC Allstars race

There were additional support races for the HRDC Allstars and Justin Murphy locks a wheel on his Ginetta G4 Scottish Legends cars championship on Sunday plus a CNC Heads Sports/Saloon Championship race on Saturday. The HRDC Allstars is an amalgamation of three previous series, Grand Touring Greats for pre-65 sub 1500cc historic GT cars, TC63 for early Touring cars and MGB50 for FIA MGB racers and historic MG's. There was a strong 30 car entry for the 30 minute race which saw a nice mix of classic sports cars and Touring cars on the grid to make the most of this opportunity to race on the full Grand Prix circuit. Mike Whitaker placed his 4.7 litre TVR Griffith on Pole position next to the 4.7 litre AC Cobra of Michael Squire and from the start the pair of them headed off in to a lead battle, well clear of the rest of the field. Coming down the Dunlop straight for the first © Simon Wright lap, the two cars © Simon Wright were side by side, but it was the Cobra that braked the latest to take the lead through the Fogerty Esses as they headed Shaun Rainford Lenham Midget Le Mans and Piers Townsend Daimler Dart round the Melbourne loop for the first lap. In third place was the Marcos 1800GT of Richard Skinner and followed by Justin Murphy in a Ginetta G4. By the third lap Whitaker had taken the lead in his TVR but the Cobra was never far behind. They were both soon lapping traffic but Whitaker maintained his lead of around 3 seconds as they carved their way past the slower cars, and he had extended that lead to only 3.845 seconds by the time winner Mike Whitaker TVR Griffith Page 22 October 2013 Classic and Competition car

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chequered flag was shown. The order was Whitaker (TVR) first, followed home by Squire (AC Cobra), Justin Murphy (Ginetta G4), everyone else had been lapped. Murphy also won the GTGA class. Other Class winners included Brian Arculus (GTG class) driving a Lotus Elite, © Simon Wright Russell Martin (G65B class) MGB Roadster, Matthew Wrigley (TGS class) in an Austin A35, Alistair Dyson (TGB class) in a Ford Zephyr Mk2, Tony Murray (T63A) in an Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint and Tom Shepard (TGC Class) in an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Ti. The Scottish Legend Cars had three short races on Sunday which were fast and furious. The cars are 5/8th scale replicas of 1930s American saloons powered by 1200cc or 1250cc Yamaha engines with sequential gearboxes, powering the rear wheels. The championship rounds are set up as two heats and a final. The grid is drawn from a hat for heat 1 and reversed for heat 2. All Rookies start at the back for their first six races. For the final, the top drivers again © Simon Wright John Patterson & David Newall battle for the lead start at the back of the grid, but in front of the rookies. This ensures that there is plenty of overtaking. Paul O'Brien uses the Ford Coupe design and it proved most effective round the Donington Grand prix circuit, with O'Brien winning heat one and impressively heat two as well. Unfortunately his luck ran out in the final, retiring on lap 4. David Newall took a decisive win in the final in © Simon Wright his Ford Coupe by a massive 1.697 second s from David Paul O'Brien spins at Roberts in front of David Allen Hunter and John Patterson top rookie, finishing in third place overall.

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Auto GP World Series, Donington Park.

Narain Karthikeyan won the second race for Super Nova

Auto GP World series has developed from the Italian Formula 3000 series back in 1999, organised by Pierluigi Corbari and used the old Lola T96/50 chassis with a Zytek engine. The series soon started to race outside of Italy and became European Formula 3000 in 2001. From 2001 to 2003 the Lola B99/50 chassis was used. After problems with sponsors, the series reverted to an Italian national series for 2005, but in 2006 it returned again to Europe as the Euroseries 3000, with the Italian series continuing to run within the European championship using the Lola B02/50. In 2009 the first generation of A1 Grand Prix cars were allowed to run alongside the Lola F3000 chassis and they replaced the old cars completely in 2010. The series was also renamed for 2010 as © Simon Wright Auto GP. The champion in 2010 was Romain Grosjean, who has since gone on to be a Grand Prix driver with Lotus. Arriving at Donington for the penultimate round in this years championship, Kimiya Sato from Japan © Simon Wright was leading the championship by just 13 points from Italian Sergio Campana.

Adding experience to the field is ex Grand Prix driver Narain Karthikeyan from India who claimed Pole Position for the first race by just 0.097 of a second from his Super Nova International team mate Vittorio Ghirelli.

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lap, but unfortunately he managed to spin off in to the gravel on his own on lap 19 and retired from the race. This allowed young Vittorio Ghirelli to cruise to an easy victory ahead of his team mate Karthikeyan, who had been leading before the pit stop, but suffered some tyre graining in the second part of the race. The victory gave Ghirelli the Under 21 title for 2013 and also put him in to the overall lead of the championship by 9 points over his nearest rival. Kevin Giovesi for Ghinzani Motorsport, had been in a fighting position for victory in the first part of the race, but a problem in tightening the left front wheel nut during his pit stop delayed him and cost him any chance of challenging the Super Nova duo and he

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had to settle for third place. His team mate Robert Visoiu from Romania was fourth, with Sergio Campana for Ibiza Racing Team was fifth and Daniel De Jong for Manor MP Motorsport was sixth.

The second race had the top eight from race one reversed on the grid which gave Pole position to Dutch driver Meindert Van Buuren for the Manor MP Motorsport team. After an early pitstop, Super Nova driver Karthikeyan had a clear track and set fastest lap as he closed down Van Buuren and went on to win. Van Buuren Š Simon Wright

Meindert van Buuren Manor MP Motorsport finished 2nd

managed to maintain second place and score his first ever Auto GP podium finish after the disappointment of the Mugello race, where he lost a win due to a penalty. Kevin Giovesi managed to take another podium at Donington with third position like in the first race. Race one winner Ghirelli managed to finish fourth even after some gearbox problems slowed him down, and he went off after a late pitstop put him behind Van Buuren and in his attempts to pass the Dutchman resulted in him going off track and loosing time. Fifth place went to Sato and sixth went to Campana.

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Classic Car of the month - 1921 Calthorpe 10/4 Tourer

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By Simon Wright.

The Calthorpe Motor Company was based in Bordesley Green, Birmingham and manufactured cars, motorcycles and bicycles between 1904 and 1932. They built their first car in 1904 using a White and Poppe 10 hp four cylinder engine. The early models had some success racing in France in the Coupe de l'Auto series. In 1914 they built a small car with the 10 hp Minor engine which had a 3 speed gearbox. After the First World War, they dropped production of the larger models and concentrated on the Minor with a slightly larger 1261cc engine.

By 1920 they had raised production targets to 50 cars a week.

Coachwork was made by Mulliner which they had acquired in 1917. Motorsport continued at Brooklands with Woolf Barnato, who was one of the Bentley Boys in the 1920s and he achieved 3 Le Mans wins in 3 races driving for Bentley. George Hands, the original owner, briefly left the company in 1922 to set up his own Hands make of cars in the old Calthorpe motorcycle factory in Barn Street, Birmingham, © Simon Wright but returned to Calthorpe in 1924.

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the late 1920's and the company went in to receivershi p in 1924 and the Bordesley Green factory was closed.

Production continued for a short © Simon Wright time but the cars were too expensive and sales of remaining stocks had finished by 1928. Post War about 5000 cars were produced. It is thought that fewer © Simon Wright than 10 remain.

Built in 1921 the Calthorpe 10/4 was first produced in 1919 and was powered by a 1261cc side valve four cylinder water cooled engine. It had a wheelbase of 99 inches. © Simon Wright

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Archive Photo of the month.

By Pete Austin September saw the release of the film 'Rush' which featured the battle for the 1976 F1 World Championship between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. This months image takes us back to James Hunt's F3 days. 1971 was the first year of the 1600cc Formula 3 following the 1 litre 'screamer' era. In this image taken at Brands Hatch on 2nd May 1971 James Hunt's March 713S Ford/Holbay is shown sandwiched between the Ensign Ford/Holbay of Steve Thompson (17) and the Lotus 69 Alfa Romeo of Harald Ertl (23). Hunt went on to finish third behind Dave Walker and Bev Bond. Not too many spectators here! Š Pete Austin

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MSVR Race meeting, Silverstone 7th September 2013

By Simon & Janet Wright.

Run on the National circuit at Silverstone, this eight race program was a saloon and sports car treat. Kicking off the event was the Quaife Motorsport News Saloons and Cannons Tin Tops first of two races. With a forty car entry of modern saloons, it was Rick May in his Ford Escort (52) that took Pole position for race one from the Subaru Impreza (83) of Dale Gent. The Subaru led the first lap by just 0.035 from May in the Escort, who soon passed Gent and remained in front for the rest of the race. The two cars lapped as one, only being separated slightly as they lapped back-markers and after 15 laps they were just 0.237 of a second apart at the chequered flag. Alex Winner Rick May Ford Escort leads Dale Gent Subaru Sidwell brought home his Holden Commodore in 3rd place. One of the slightly more unusual cars in the race was a Citroen BX(93) of Gary Cole, who finished 29th and 2 laps behind the winner. © Simon Wright

The New Atom Cup may not have a big entry but with equal cars, the racing is usually close and exciting, allowing driver talent to come to the front. Nick Whitehead claimed Pole position by just over 1/2 a second from James Tucker. The race developed in to a three way battle between Nick Whitehead, James Tucker and Andrew Smith who swopped places for the first few laps before Whitehead managed to maintain his lead in front of the scrapping pair behind. He won by just 0.261 of a second from Smith and Tucker, with Smith setting the fastest lap time on the penultimate lap.

Nick Whitehead leads the field in the Atom Cup

Intermarque is an interesting category for modified versions of series production front engined Kit, Sports, hatchback and saloon cars, front or mid-engined sports cars and front engined Silhouette cars that have body-shells based on and recognisable to those of mass produced production saloon and

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sports cars. They can use a steel tubular chassis and be powered by engines up to 5 litres normally aspirated or 2050cc forced induction for Class A. Class B is for Production Sports and Kit cars from 1601cc to 2000cc and Class C is for Production Sports and Kit cars up to 1600cc or Silhouette cars with dual valve engines with up to 6 cylinders.

There was a variety of vehicles in the 17 car grid with Matt Simpson on Pole in his Vauxhall Tigra from the BMW Z4 of Keith White. The first race saw a lights to flag victory for Simpson, heading a Tigra © Janet Wright 1-2-3 with Chris Brockhurst in 2nd place and Malcolm Blackman 3rd.

Start of the Intermarque race with Matt Simpson Vauxhall Tigra in front

Simon Smith BMW Z4 Intermarque race

After the lunch break, the Track Day Trophy cars took to the circuit. As the title says, this race is for typical Track Day cars that meet racing safety requirements, such as roll cage etc. This field had some of the greatest variety with BMW's sharing the track with various Mini and Renault Clio racing saloons. The Brookes/ Spencer BMW E36 M3 was in Pole position but it was Henry Curtis, driving solo, that took the early lead in his Peugeot © Janet Wright 205 and would have finished 2nd but was given a 5 second penalty for exceeding track limits, which pushed him down to 3rd. Brookes and Spencer led most of the rest of the race, only loosing the lead after their pitstop, and they soon regained that lead to take victory by 31.654 seconds from the

Renault Clio Cup car of Andy Wilkins.

Race 5 saw the return to track for the Quaife Motorsport News Saloons and Cannons Tin Tops for their second race of the day. Race one winner Rick May was starting from Pole position but it was the Subaru Impreza of Dale Gent that grabbed the lead from the start and he disappeared in to the distance to win the 15 minute race by over 41 seconds. May had been in second place on the first lap but came round last on lap 2 Andy Chapman Toyota MR2 Turbo MSVT Trackday

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and started a charge through the field which would see him work his way back up to 7th by the end. Malcolm Wise in another Ford Escort Cosworth held on to 2nd before retiring in to the pits on lap 6. This let Paul Eve in to second place in his Ford Sierra Sapphire Cosworth while Ravi Ramyead finished 3rd in his BMW E36 M3, and win his class. An outstanding drive by Bill Richards saw him finish 4th and win his class in his Rover Mini Clubman, the only other car on the winners lap. © Simon Wright

The Atom Cup competitors returned to Bill Richards Rover Mini Clubman Motorsport News Saloon car championship the track for their second race of the day. Andrew Marler was on Pole position with Stuart Drewell sharing the front row, while race one winner Whitehead was back on the third row, with Smith and Tucker ahead of him on the second row of the grid. The pack seemed more tightly bunched in this second race with a different leader on each lap for the first three laps, Drewell, Marler and Tucker but by lap 4 Andrew Smith had worked his way through to the Malcolm Wise went off at Luffield in his Ford Escort front and just moved a little further ahead each lap, eventually winning by 15.753 seconds from race one winner Whitehead and Tucker taking another 3rd place. © Simon Wright

The seventh race was a return outing for the Quaife Intermarque championship competitors and Ross Loram was on Pole position in his Peugeot 206, but it was Keith White in a BMW Z4 who took the early lead. By lap 3 Matt Simpson (Race one winner) was at the head of the field and led home Brockhurst and Blackman for another Tigra 1-2-3 finish, identical to the first race results.

Final race of the day was a one hour race for the Andrew Smith in the Ariel Atom Cup

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Neil Hewstead BMW E36 M3 and Darren Goes Seat Leon Supercopa

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Team Trophy.

Again variety was the order of the day with an interesting mix of saloons and sports cars.

Paul Hatton Ford Focus and the Smee/Schofield Honda Integra Stephen Brookes was in Pole position in his Seat Leon Supercopa and Darren Goes in another Leon Supercopa made it an all Seat

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lock out at the front of the grid. Brookes led the early stages of the race, then the Newman/Ruxton-Cocker BMW E36 M3 hit the front and led for quite a few laps before slipping back to finish 3rd, only 13 seconds behind winners Smee/Schofield in a Honda Integra. Darren Goes finished 2nd to claim the other podium place in his Seat. © Janet Wright

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VSCC Loton Park

By Mick Herring.

The VSCC's annual visit to Sir Michael Leighton's deer park was greeted by an initially damp, greasy surface on Saturday morning, giving way to beautiful sunshine over the Shropshire venue.

Sunday presented competitor's with the promised rain and the hoped-for sunny interlude before the final rain flurry ensured that the FTD and the majority of fastest times were set around lunchtime.

The five main awards were won by:- Robert Cobden's Riley Falcon Special, taking fastest time of the day in 66.20 seconds and winning him the TT Humber award.

Fastest Pre-war award won by James Baxter in ERA AJM1 with a time of 70.64 seconds. Close behind at 70.85 seconds, Dougal Cawley, sharing © Mick Herring GN/Ford Piglet with wife Liz, won the fastest Vintage Car prize.

The final two awards went to Automobile-engined Edwardian Cars, Andrew Howe-Davies Scat Racer making the climb in 89.12 seconds to take the nonaero engined fastest time and Tony Stephens was awarded the Tidd and Ingram Trophy for 10th slowest of the fastest times Jerome Fack Brough Superior Alpine GS

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Dave Morley Riley 9 Special

John Earlein the overall results.

Of local interest to me was the first and second on handicap in the Special Sports-cars 1101cc unsupercharged and up to 1100cc supercharged with Andrew Oliver beating car owner, David Morley, in their shared shared 1496cc Riley 9 Special.

Andrew took the award for fastest on handicap but Dr Dave would have taken the prize for most lurid or committed slide.

VSCC stalwart, Mark Walker must be mentioned for exhibiting his usual, mostly under complete control driving style in the GN Thunderbug.

He netted 2nd fastest vintage time without taking out too many of the corner markers or grass cutting at Keepers Corner.

Mark's style would certainly be appreciated in the multi-thousand horsepower world of "Drift" but he wouldn't be able to lean over the wheel in the same way. Somehow not quite the same level of entertainment. Š Mick Herring

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Fastest Pre war James Baxter ERA AJM1

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Tony Baller Hotchkiss AM80 two seater sports

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Edwardian winner Andrew Howe-Davies Scat Racer

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Mark Walker GN Thunderbug

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Jonathan Bennett sliding Frazer Nash Ford Special © Mick Herring

Ian Baxter multi wheeled MG Bellevue Special © Mick Herring

Charles Ping Austin 7 Ulster quick trip round the cones at Triangle

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Classic Cars star at the Crick Feast

By Pete Austin An excellent display of classic cars was one of the star attractions at this years Crick Feast held over the weekend of 14th and 15th September.

The medieval term ‘feast’ means festival, holiday or anniversary. Crick Feast is a traditional late summer harvest celebration which has origins back in medieval times.

This festivity took place in this Northamptonshire village over 100 years ago and

was revived in 2011 by Crick Parish Council and Crick History Society as a biennial event.

As part of this years event John Larkin (ex British Auto Test Champion) had organised a selection of interesting vehicles which

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Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante

were on display in Lauds Road which was closed for the event.

Appropriately in Aston Martin’s centenary year an immaculate V8 Vantage Volante model was displayed outside its proud owner’s house complete with a plate stating that the engine was built by Terry Durston at Aston Martin Lagonda.

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Morris 8 1935

The oldest car on display was an Alvis 12-50 hp 2 seater sports model which, when new cost all of £550 although front wheel brakes were advertised © Pete Austin

Alvis 20-50 2 seater sports

as being £20 extra!

John Larkin had his own Morris Mini Cooper on display complete with a bodyshell from a car used by Timo Makinen.

Morris Mini Cooper S Mk1 1965

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BRSCC Race weekend, Donington Park 14th-15th September 2013

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The British Racing and Sports Car Club Midland Centre organised a seventeen race weekend of typical club racing round the Donington Park national circuit with a high-light on Saturday of the Time Attack Championship.

Time Attack originated in Japan and has spread all around the World. The aim is to set the fastest time on a given day. The challenge is to set that lap time while dealing with traffic and the opportunity is that as long as it is a production based car, there is no limit to the modifications that can be applied - the ultimate James Morgan Nissan 300 ZX leads out the field 'special saloon or sports car'. The sport was first introduced to the UK in 2005 and officially recognised by the MSA in 2010, the UK Time Attack Championship is now the largest and most professional in the World. There are classes within the event, Club and Pro, plus divisions by Rear Wheel Drive, Front Wheel Drive and 4 Wheel Drive. The Donington meeting was a Club level event. The teams had three sessions at Donington to get to grips with © Janet Wright the circuit. The first Practice session saw the two 4WD Subaru impreza's of Jason Ogg and Chris Bennett top the time sheet. In the Qualifying session it was a third Subaru of Lee Bullen that went top, 1.452 seconds ahead of Bennett with Ogg third. This set things up superbly for the Final 15 minute championship round with the three Subaru drivers ready to battle for the overall victory. Bullen only did two laps with a 1 minute 17.644 seconds on his lap lap fast enough © Simon Wright for third place. He then got the session red flagged when he put his David Gabriel Subaru Impreza heads in to Redgate Subaru on Darron Wall flame throwing Vauxhall VX220 Page 39 October 2013 Classic and Competition car

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Umar Masood Mazda RX7 finished 4th

Winner Jason Ogg Subaru Impreza

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Danniel Gannon BMW M3 OHW winner © Simon Wright

Ronnie Amis Ford Sierra Cosworth finished 6th © Janet Wright

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Dave Coe Subaru Impreza Sti engine

Chris Bennett Subaru Impreza has time for a quick spin on the way to 2nd

Dave Jackson Lotus 14th 3rd OHW

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its side at the chicane. After setting a 'banker' lap, Bullen missed a gear coming in to the chicane and got the car in to a slide. As he tried to correct it, the car snapped back. rode over the gravel sideways and dug in, tipping © Simon Wright the car on to the drivers side, where it stayed. The Marshalls got Bullen out and after the race © Janet Wright was red flagged, they pushed the car back on to its wheels. It was relatively undamaged as can be seen from our photo sequence, and the car was later driven on to its trailer. Bennett set a fast time on his third lap with a time of 1 minute 16.779 seconds which got him second place, while Jason Ogg set the fastest time of 1 minute 16.292 seconds on lap 6 of his 10 laps to win. Umar Masood in his Mazda RX7 was the fastest RWD car in 4th place in 1 minute 17.655 seconds, just 11/100th of a second off the Subaru of Bullen. Fifth place went to Daniel Gannon in a BMW M3, first in the One Hit Wonder (OHW) class. The first Front Wheel Drive car (FWD) was Marc Donnelly driving a Ford Escort in to 12th place with a time of 1 minute 20.351 seconds. The Club N/A class went to Neil Bamford driving a Vauxhall Corsa with a time of 1 minute 22.282 seconds.

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First race of the meeting was the BIGprofile Sports 2000 Duratec championship for 2 litre sports racing cars. They run three classes - A for cars built after 2006, B for converted Pinto cars and pre 2006 Duratec cars and Class C is the Derek Bell Trophy for drivers over the age of 50. Coming in to Donington, Robert Oldershaw was leading the Championship by just 3 points from Craig Mitchell, but it was Patrick Sherrington in the MCR Sportscar that took pole position for the 30 minute race from Robert Oldershaw in the Gunn TS11. The first 'race' was Red flagged after just one lap as October 2013

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Gwyn Pollard in the Crossle 96 had to be pushed off the grid and on to the grass opposite the pit wall. Once his car was cleared, the race was restarted and Sherrington pulled in to an immediate lead with Oldershaw the only car to stay with him in the early stages. The pair pulled well clear of the rest of the field with Sherrington winning by 7.225 seconds with Craig Mitchell 3rd in a Lola T88/90 nearly 30 seconds behind the winner.

The Sports 2000 Pinto championship which is actually two separate championships in one race. The Historic Championship is for Pinto cars built before1983 and the Pinto championship is for all other Pinto powered cars, split into two categories - Class B is for cars from 1982 to 1986 and Scott Guthrie Van Dieman RFS02 has the inside line for Redgate from Dave Croft Gunn TS11 Class A is for cars built after 1986. Chris Snowdon's Historic class Tiga SC80 took Pole position from the newer Class B car of Mike Fry in his Lola T86/90 while the best modern Class A car was Colin Feyerabend's Lola T90/90 in 4th place. The race was red flagged after 2 laps with Snowdon ahead of Fry and Feyerabend. The race was restarted, and Snowdon led from start to finish. The battle for second place saw Mike Johns in a Royale S2000M hold off a challenging Mike Fry for most of the race but on the penultimate lap, Fry managed to get his Lola in front and took second place, less than 1/2 a second in front of Johns, Fry also taking the Class B win. Feyerabend finished 4th overall to take the Class A honours. Š Janet Wright The OSS (Open Sportscars Series) had class structure changes and a new 3 races per event programme for 2013. As the name 'Open' suggests, these races are run under fairly relaxed regulations to allow as many sports car racers to enter. There are nine classes to cover various engine capacities from up to 1000cc to over 2001cc plus classes for closed top cars over 2 litres with and without motorcycle engines, plus a class for anything else not fitting in the other classes.

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Juno Sportscar that was leading when the first race was red flagged after 5 laps. After the restart, he was again the front runner until he retired giving victory to Doug Hart in a Chiron Hart 2012. Chris Fleming was 2nd in a Juno TR250 with Tony Sinclair in 3rd. The other two races were on Sunday, with Tony Sinclair winning the second race in the Jade 3 V6 from Craig Fleming in the Juno and Doug Hart in the Chiron Hart 2012. The third race saw a third winner, when Fleming in the Juno took the win from Darcy Smith in a Radical SR4 and Graham Cole in the Jade Trackstar.

The remaining races all took place on Sunday. The Ford Fiesta championship had such a large entry that Class C - Fiesta ST had its own races. Nicholas Bowers was on Pole position for the first race even after having lap times disallowed for exceeding track limits, along with 5 Joe Ferguson Ford Fiesta ST tries the inside line at the chicane other cars. Andrew Foley led the first half of the race before retiring which allowed David Grady to the front and claim the win by 4.418 seconds from Daniel Holland and Nicholas Bowers. David Grady led the first 2/3rd of the second race with Daniel Holland shadowing him until lap 11 when Holland took the lead. Grady tried to hold on to second, but he was passed on the last lap by Matthew Foley who got revenge for the first race to beat Grady to 2nd © Simon Wright place.

The remaining Fiesta classes were grouped together with James Appleby putting his Zetec S on Pole. However he was beaten into second place by David Abbott taking the win in another Zetec S. Ian Scrunton in an Si won Class A and Andrew Mollison won Class B in his Fiesta Zetec. In the © Janet Wright second race, Scrunton took the overall win from Appleby who won class D while Mollison took another class win.

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Motorsport News Ford Fiesta Junior championship. There wasn't a large field and Alex Reed was quickest in qualifying, but in the race it was a battle between Robert Cox and James 'JJ' Ross and that was the order for the race but they finished first and second separated by just 0.29 of a second apart. Ben Wilcox was third. The second race continued the battle, but by lap 11 Ross was passed and pulled away while Cox slipped back to third behind Wilcox by the end of the race.

The Popular Mazda MX5 championship drew a large entry and was split in to two groups. Tom Roche claimed Pole for the Group 1 race despite him and nearly half the field having lap times disallowed for exceeding track limits. Roche led the first race from almost start to finish to win by 1.5 seconds from Brett Smith who had challenged him for the entire race.

James Blake-Baldwin was over 10 seconds further back in third. The Mazda racing is often very close second race saw Blake-Baldwin join the fight until he dived in to the pits on lap 6 where he retired. This left Roche with the win and Smith in second again, with Simon Goddard taking third place.

The Group 1B race saw Calum Edwards lead from start to finish in the first race, with Matt Robinson only 0.6 behind. Sam Smith was a distant 3rd. The race for Group 2B was won by Wayne Le Montais from Adam Craig and Gary Hufford.

Alfa Romeo Pre 91 Trophy race saw Ian Stapleton on Pole in an Alfa Romeo GT V6 but Anthony George in a 33 16V lead for most of the race before Stapleton took the win with two laps to go. George finished second and Jon Billingsley was third in a 147. The other Alfa Romeo race on Sunday was a round of the Alfashop Alfa Romeo Championship which had Neil Smith on Pole in an Alfa Romeo 156 World Touring Car. Roger Evans made a great start to lead the first lap in his 147 GTA, then Guy Hale got in front in a 147 GTA for a couple of laps before Ian Stapleton took the lead in his GT V6. But © Simon Wright Neil Smith was working his way through the field from being last but one on the first lap to taking the lead with 5 laps to go. He crossed the line over 13 seconds ahead of Stapleton, but was given © Simon Wright a 30 second penalty for gaining unfair advantage, which dropped him down to 4th and handed the second Alfa Romeo win to Stapleton. Guy Hale in the 147 GTA was second and Edwards gets a bit sideways in the chicane in front ofCollins Graham Seager was third Tolley leads Goddard and Baldwin in Mazda MX5 Mazda MX5 in a GTV. Page 44 October 2013 Classic and Competition car

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100 Years of Aston Martin in paintings.

By Pete Austin.

An exhibition of paintings by acclaimed sporting artist Jeremy Houghton celebrating 100 years of Aston Martin was unveiled at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire on 11th September. The preview was sponsored by McGurk Performace Cars.

Jeremy was one of the official artists for the London 2012 Olympic Games and is currently Artist in Residence for HRH The Prince of Wales at Highgrove.

The exhibition, which continues until 13th October 2013, compliments the ‘Aston Martin – A century of Craftsmanship’ exhibition supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Aston Martin Heritage Trust and Aston Martin Lagonda Limited.

The paintings featured are from the recent Aston Martin Owner’s Club centenary Tour alongside his paintings inspired by archive photographs from the Trust’s Roger Stowers Collection.

Further details can be obtained from www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk © Pete Austin

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The Autumn Speed Finale, Shelsley Walsh

22nd September 2013. By Simon and Janet Wright.

The last hill climb meeting of the year at Shelsley Walsh saw a round of the Service Hydraulics Championship along with the SBD HSA Championship, the Classic Marques Championship and the © Janet Wright Sevenoaks Speed league, plus one make championships for Ferrari, Morgan, TVR and Austin Healey. A pleasant sunny day John Tewson locks up in his Austin Healey 100/6 greeted the large crowd as the competitors tackled the steep hill in quick succession. The action was fast and entertaining as the timed runs commenced in the afternoon sun, with drivers ready to push to the limit as the season draws to a close. Most spectacular driver award must go to Tim Dennis in his 1380cc Morris Mini Cooper, who © Janet Wright took Bottom Tim Dennis 2 wheels his Morris Mini Cooper through Bottom S S on his first timed run on two wheels, obviously trying to reduce rolling friction!

John Jones set the fastest time of the day in his Pilbeam MP88 setting a time of 26.24 seconds beating Terry Graves Gould GR37 by 0.23 seconds.

Mike Tregoning was third fastest in a Pilbeam MP88 in 26.78 seconds.

Class winners included Toby Moody in an Empire DS1000 in 4th with a time of 26,88 seconds, Gary Thomas finished 5th in his Force PC in a time of 26.91 seconds, while Kim Johnson took the Sports Libre Cars and Hillclimb Super Sports Cars class in a time of 30.65 seconds in a Mallock Mk20. One of the surprises was how high up the overall order that Tim Pennington managed to haul up his Westfield SE to claim the Class B1 & B2 Road-going Specialist Production Cars class with a time of 30.67 David Duerden Asston Martin Vantage seconds, to place him 26th overall. Equally impressive was that Geoff Page 47 October 2013 Classic and Competition car

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Twemlow won Class C3 Modified Series Production cars class in his Subaru Impreza with a time of 31.22 seconds to finish 29th overall, while another Subaru Impreza driven by Andrew Cottrill took first place in the A3 Class for Road-going Series Production Cars over 2000 cc in a time of 31.71 seconds. Class D Modified Specialist Production Cars was won by 30th placed Stuart Bickley who achieved a 31.57 second run in his Sylva Phoenix. The Lotus 22 of Geoff Hunt was first in Class M2 for Classic Sports Libre and Racing cars pre 1975 with a time of 31.76 seconds. © Simon Wright The little Jedi Mk IV of Thomas Grantham -Wright Winner FTD John Jones Pilbeam MP88 used the Force to take victory in Class H Racing Cars up to 600cc with a time of 31.87 seconds and 36th overall.

First place in © Janet Wright Class P: TVR cars entered in the TVRCC Speed championship Murray Wakeham Austin Healey Ashley Sprite was Matthew Oakley driving the 6.2 litre TVR Griffith, while Class O for cars entered in the HealeySport championship was won by Richard Mason driving an Austin Healey 3000 Mk11. Class N for Morgan Cars entered in the MSCC Techniques Speed Championship were led home by Clive Glass in a Morgan +8 with a time of 36.61 seconds. Classic saloons and Sports Cars pre-1975 were dominated by the Ginette G4 of Nick Stephens with a time of 39.49 seconds. The Ferrari cars entered in the 2013 Pirelli Hill climb championship was won by Nick Taylor driving a Ferrari 430 Coupe to 50th overall in a time of 33.27 seconds.

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Sywell Classic Pistons and Props 28th-29th September 2013.

By Simon and Janet Wright with additional photos by Pete Austin.

The first Sywell Classic took place at the Sywell aerodrome in Northamptonshire at the end of September, celebrating classic vehicles both on the ground and in the air. Over 13,000 people attended this first show and the weather could not have been better, with blue skies and © Pete Austin pleasantly warm for the time of year.

The event was designed to be a mix of classic cars, bikes and aeroplanes, with air displays and car demonstrations on the taxiway and main runway. There was also a large area where various car clubs mounted a display of members vehicles, along with trade stands and a fun fair. Further musical entertainment was provided by Elle and the Pocket Belles, The Hound Dogs, and the Swinging Blue Jeans.

The static displays from the motoring clubs provided a varied mix of © Simon Wright vehicles, from Modern supercars, through some mighty American muscle cars, family favourites like the original Mini to some unusual classics like a three wheeled BSA Car, not bike! There were also lots of classic bikes on show as well as taking part in the motoring demonstrations on the "Racing Runway".

One of the many high-lights for the fans was the Sprint Strip where vintage dragsters and Custom cars staged demonstration drag 'races' down the 200 metre course, complete with traffic light start lights and tyre smoking warm ups. There were some real heavy metal American cars in the line up, including a 1960s Plymouth Barracuda dragster, a 1970 Richard Petty '43 blue' Plymouth Superbird and various Ford Model A dragsters. But lined up against them were some British classics including a 1960 Hillman Humber, a Ford Zephyr pickup truck and a Ford Anglia.

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The Sprint strip was also used by the rest of the motorsport demonstration runs that then continued out on to the main runway for a high speed blast before turning round at the end and returning back to a finish line near the start of the runway. This did mean that the first runs took some time to complete as the cars had to return to the start before the next vehicle could be released. To speed up the process, changes were made to the procedure before the afternoon runs © Simon Wright took place. The sound and sight of three fairly modern Grand Prix cars tackling the course was enough to take the breath away. First of the Formula 1 cars was the 1990 Leyton House CG901B driven by Gary Ward which completed two runs in very quick succession. This was followed by an ex-Michael Schumacher Benetton Ford B192 driven by Lorina McLaughlin and finally the yellow Lotus Type 101 driven by Steve Griffiths screamed around the course. Other special cars included the Kurtis Offy Indianapolis car driven by Fred Harper and a fantastic © Pete Austin 1951 Ferrari 212 F1 driven by Peter Jerram. All categories were represented, saloons, GT and Sports cars and two small grids of historic racing motorcycles plus a selection of racing Karts.

The action in the sky was just as interesting. There were two displays by Spitfire aircraft and a spectacular performance by the Breitling Wingwalkers, whose Boeing Stearman biplanes are the Worlds only aerobatic wing walking display team.

The show proved to be a hit with everyone, and next years show should be bigger and better. Make a note for your diary, the 27th and 28th September 2014 for the next Sywell Classic.

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2013/14 Formula 5000 Australia Cup Rnd 2 Sandown Melbourne 14-15 Sept 2013

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TWEEDIE EXTENDS F5000 SERIES LEAD The historic Formula 5000 category is appearing on the V8 Supercar programme for the first time, supporting the opening round of the 2013 Pirtek Endurance Cup – the Wilson Security Sandown 500.

Sydney youngster Tom Tweedie annexed pole position for Sunday’s Formula 5000 Australia Cup feature after two commanding wins in Saturday’s qualifying heats. Tweedie’s Chevron, which won the Tasman series in 1974 in the hands of British racer Peter Gethin, was uncatchable, lowering the Formula 5000 (and outright) Sandown lap record twice, to eventually leave it at a scintillating1m 05.76s. The main excitement for the large Sandown crowd Kiwi Andrew Higgins (ex-Mario Andretti Lola T400) led eventual winner Tom Tweedie, Ken Smith and Richard centred around a pair of nose-to-tail Davison out of the opening corner at Sandown, but the youngster was soon past to record his second feature win. dices for second between pole man Image courtesy John Morris/Mpix Richard Davison (Lola T332) and Kiwi Andrew Higgins (Lola T400) in the opening heat, joined in the second by veteran Ken Smith (Lola T332) who had battled through from the back of the grid after missing qualifying. In the end, Higgins took both runner-up spots, with Davison and Smith sharing a podium each.

Tweedie consolidated his lead in the 2013/14 Formula 5000 Australia Cup with an almost all-the-way win in the weekend’s feature event. His Chevron B24 was beaten away from the rolling start by Kiwi Andrew Higgins (Lola T400), but burst through to lead halfway round the opening lap and was never challenged. A potential three-way scrap for second between Higgins, Kiwi legend Ken Smith (Lola T332) and Richard Davison (Lola T332), became a two-way one after two laps when Higgins’ brake pedal went to the

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floor at the end of Sandown’s long start-finish straight and he spun. Fortunately, following cars avoided the stationary car and he was able to rejoin, albeit with reduced braking capacity, and charge back through to an eventual fourth-placed finish. To his delight, Davison – son of the great former AGP-winner Lex Davison and father of V8 Supercar stars Will and Alex – was able to see off the challenge from Smith and earn a well-deserved second place: “I’ve ticked off one of my Bucket List items this weekend – racing on the same track as the great Ken Smith,” he beamed.

Melbournians Bryan Sala (Matich A50) and Andrew Robson (Lola T332) completed the top six.

Formula 5000 Australia Cup points after two rounds: Tweedie 110; Smith 83; Higgins 79; Sala 61; Aaron Lewis 45; Davison 41; John Bryant 31; Tim Rush 30; Darcy Russell 23; Andrew Robson 19; Tony Floriani, Rod Carroll 14; Clark Proctor 12.

The Formula 5000 Australia Cup is supported by Gibson Freight and MSC. Report courtesy Ross MacKay - Fast Company and Chris Lambden - CinchMedia, Secretary F5000 Australia © John Morris/Mpix

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750 Motor Club at Donington Park 21st September 2013

By Simon and Janet Wright.

With the 750 Motor Club now based at Donington Park, this was a home meeting for the club. Home for low cost racing, the 750 Motor Club covers a wide class of racing. Now the 750 Motorclub have joined forces with Monoposto Racing Club to organise a new series to Winner Chris Dittman Dallara F302 chased by Jason Timms Speads RM07 commemorate Frank Tiedeman, who passed away this year. Frank was a key member of the 750 Motorclub who founded the Monoposto Racing Club in 1958 to © Simon Wright enable the ordinary man in the street to be able to race fast single seater racing cars. The two clubs have joined to stage the Monoposto Racing Club Tiedman Trophy at Donington. The race was for any single seater up to 2 litres and drew a strong 20 car entry headed by F3 Cup champion Chris Dittmann driving a F3 based Dallara. Dittmann took Pole position and got in to a race long battle with Jason Timms driving the Speads RM07. For the first few laps, they both took turns in the lead but before half © Simon Wright

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distance Dittmann got in front and slowly pulled away to take a convincing win by 18.81 seconds from Timms. Jim Blockley took 3rd place in his F3 Ralt.

Christian Pedersen in an Austin 7 made a great start from the third row of the grid to lead the 750 Trophy race at the end of the first lap but Peter Chattin got his HSC in front and was followed through by Ben Myall in the Gerrell Mk1 on the second lap and they remained that way to the finish. Pedersen retired on lap 7, so it was Trefor Slatter in the Centaur Mk6 that took 3rd place.

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JM Littman won the 750MC CarTek Roadsports race from Pole position in his Porsche Boxster, but he did not have it easy in the 45 minute race.

From the start he was under continual pressure from the Toyota MR2 of Rob Horsfield as the pair broke away from the rest of the field. Lap after lap the Toyota would try to out brake the Porsche in to Redgate. After a slower pitstop, Horsfield had ground to make up on the leading Porsche, but when © Simon Wright Neil Livesey spun his Lotus Elise S2 backwards in to the gravel trap at the chicane, it brought out the Safety car to allow the Lotus to be removed. This Point of contact between Liiman and Horsfield in Roadsport race allowed Horsfield to make up the lost time and rejoin the battle for the lead. After the Denwood/ Winstanley BMW Compact had a spin at the chicane, Horsfield was right on the tail of the leaders Porsche and as they approached Redgate they Denwood/Winstanley BMW Compact goes for a quick spin at the chicane touched and the Toyota went in to a spin across the track. This ensured the win for Littman in the Porsche and gave 2nd place to the BMW Z3 of Matt Cherrington and Martin Gambling with Horsfield managing to recover to claim 3rd place in his Toyota. © Simon Wright The Demon Tweeks/Yokohama Stock Hatch championship saw the first of two races go to Pole man Shayne Deegan's Citroen Saxo VTR, even after suffering drive shaft failure on the last lap. © Janet Wright The Saxo VTR achieved a 1-2-3 finish in the race with the winners brother Lee Deegan 2nd and Tom Bell third.

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converted sportscars split into three classes F - Front engined cars to 1000cc R - Rear or mid engined cars up to 1000cc or A - any car over 1000cc up to 180 bhp but must have competed in at least one RGB event prior to the end of 2011. Alastair Boulton took a lights to flag victory to head a Sprite GT3 top three finish with Matthew Higginson in 2nd and John Paul Thorpe bounces over the chicane in his Ford Fiesta XR2i Cutmore in third. Paul Rickers took Winner Lee Scott Ford Fiesta XR2i narrowly misses the F class, finishing in 9th overall driving his STM Phoenix. spinning Peugeot 205GTi of John Hill…..

The Demon Tweeks/Yokohama Classic Stock Hatch championship is for retro hatchbacks available for sale in the UK prior to © Simon Wright January 1992 with a maximum of a 1400cc multivalve engine or a 1600cc two valves per cylinder. This was an exciting race with Lee Scott, Paul Thorpe and Daniel Gibson swopping the lead in their Ford Fiesta XR2s. As they started the last lap, there was a four car battle for the lead with Martin Cayzer also in the frame in yet another Fiesta XR2, but he had a spin on the last lap which dropped him to 9th. Thorpe had started the last lap in 4th place, but passed both Gibson and Cayzer through McLean's corner to © Janet Wright grab 2nd place. As they entered the chicane for the last time, they came across But following Paul Thorpe is not so lucky and clips the Peugeot a spinning Peugeot 205 GTi of John Hill and chaos reigned supreme. Scott managed to avoid the spinning car to grab victory, but Thorpe didn't fare as well and hit the Peugeot quite hard. This gave Gibson 2nd place and Andy Philpotts in another Fiesta XR2 came home 3rd.

The Locost championship race for Groups B & C saw Lee Bankhurst take the win from Pole position after an initial challenge from Richard Bradley who finished in 2nd place, over 11 seconds behind at the finish. Danny Andrew took 3rd place.

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the cheapest way to go single seater racing in the UK. Most of the mechanical components from the car are taken from the VW 1300 Beetle, including engine, gearbox, suspension and brakes and the use of a Dunlop control tyre also helps keep costs down. Paul Smith made the early running from Formula Vee winner Martin Farmer in the GAC Pole position in his AHS Dominator but gradually slipped back to finish in 4th place. This allowed Martin Falmer to the front in his GAC where he stayed until the end, winning by 6.99 seconds from Graham Gant in a WEV. Ian Buxton was third in a Daghome/GAC. The class B winner was Ian Jordan driving a Sheane Jordan who finished 9th overall. © Simon Wright The Sports Special/SR & GT Jack Wilkinson in a Sheane tries straight lining the Challenge race was dominated by chicane Clive Hudson in an Eclipse SM1.

He led from Pole position until the race was stopped with the red flag on lap 7 due to Stuart Gibbons spinning at the chicane and the Ginetta G20 was stuck in the middle of the track on the exit. Hudson was just over a second ahead of another Eclipse SM1 driven by Paul Boyd while Paul Collingwood was third in a Sylva J15. The final race on Saturday was the second race for the 750 Trophy Series and from the start Peter Chattin managed to lead after the first lap, but he could not stop Ben Myall 750MS Sports Specials winner Clive Hudson in the Eclipse SM1 © Janet Wright

powering through and although he chased hard, it was Myall in the Gerrell Mk1 who got revenge for the first race and won, while race 1 winner Chattin was second in his HSC and Trefor Slatter was a long way behind in third place at the wheel of his Centaur Mk6.

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