Donington Historic Festival 2021

DONINGTON

HISTORIC FESTIVAL

1–2 May 2021

The HGPCA had two races at Donington’s Historic Festival, with a healthy 29 cars on the grid for the first race. It was no great surprise to see Will Nuthall put his Cooper T53 on pole, but the gap of 2 seconds to Miles Griffiths’s Cooper T56 was.

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1: #40 Stephan Jöbstl, Lotus 24, #39 Cliff Gray, Cooper T43, #60 Elliott Hann, Cooper T41, #33

Chris Phillips, Cooper Bristol, #20

Teifion Salisbury, Lotus 18 2: #248 Klaus Lehr, Maserati 250F, #40 Stephan Jöbstl, Lotus 24, #30

Tom Dark, Cooper T51 3: A very impressive grid of wellprepared cars 4: #10 Will Nuthall, Cooper T53

Nuthall took the lead at the start and immediately opened a gap to second-placed Griffiths, taking full advantage of Donington being his local circuit. Griffiths had retired by the end of the race.

A safety car after 10 minutes allowed the field to bunch up – apart from leader Nuthall, who had a lapped car between him and Mark’s Shaw’s second-placed Lotus 21. The mix-up at the restart allowed Jon Fairley in a Brabham BT11A to come through to second – a position he held until the end.

Andrew Beaumont was another driver to gain as a result of the safety car, and he came home a good third in his Lotus 18. 5

Race 2

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Nuthall started well, but not as well as fellow front-row starter Fairley, who took the lead. However, Fairley’s glory lasted just half a lap before Nuthall resumed his place at the head of the field.

Fairley continued in second place, finishing some 23 seconds behind Nuthall. Barry Cannell made it a Brabham 2–3 with his BT11/19 version.

5: #59 Cliff Gray, Cooper T43, #42 James Willis, Cooper T45, #3 Barry Cannell, Brabham BT11A 6: #99 Mark Shaw, Lotus 21 7, #3 Barry Cannell, Brabham BT11A, #11 Jon Fairley, Brabham BT11/19 7: #55 Nick Taylor, Lotus 18, #43 Eddie Williams Cooper T43

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