Classic and Competition Car 80 May 2017

May 2017

In this issue

Issue 80

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

British GT Oulton Park

Bromyard Speed Festival

BTCC Donington

Classic & Restoration Show

WEC Opener from Silverstone

Our Team.

Contents Page 3

News.

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Silverstone Classic Media launch

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BRM Heritage Trail

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Bromyard Speed Festival

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British GT Media launch, Snetterton.

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Classic Car & Restoration Show, NEC Birmingham.

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CCA Auction at the Classic Car & Restoration Show.

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Shakespeare County Raceway Test & Tune Drag Racing.

Britcar Endurance, Silverstone International circuit.

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Regis Classic Tour.

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BTCC Donington Park.

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Archive Photo of the Month.

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British GT Championship, Oulton Park

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HSCC Season Opener, Donington Park.

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Hankook 24 Hour race, Silverstone.

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Pride of Longbridge.

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Flying Scotsman Rally.

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World Endurance Championship Silverstone 6 Hours

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European Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Silverstone.

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European F3 and World Series V8 3.5

Front Cover. Main photo The winning Toyota TS050 of Buemi/Davidson/Nakajima laps the LM GTE Pro Winning Ford GT of Priaulx/Tincknell/Derani during the Silverstone 6 Hours © Simon Wright.

British GT © Motorsport Imagery.

Bromyard Speed Festival Janet Wright BTCC © Simon Wright.

Classic Car & Restoration Show © Janet Wright, May 2017

Simon Wright Editor Janet Wright.

Staff Photographer.

Independant Freelance contributors in this issue.

Pete Austin.

Syd Wall.

David Goose & Stuart Yates of Motorsport-Imagery All content is copyright classicandcompetitioncar.com unless otherwise stated. All photographs are copyright and cannot be used for commercial purposes unless by prior approval of the original copyright holder.

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Editorial.

The month of April has seen a few nasty accidents but it has also shown how close a community that the motor racing family have become. If one is hurt, we all hurt and rally round to support each other as best we can. Motor Sport is dangerous, we all know this, but everything is done to make it as safe as possible and lessons will always be learned on ways to improve everything, from vehicle technology to operational procedures.

There is plenty in this months edition to enjoy.

News

Amazing support for Billy Monger.

Seventeen year old Billy Monger suffered a terrible accident on Easter Sunday in the Formula 4 race supporting the BTCC at Donington Park. The whole World saw the accident on live TV from the on-board camera as Billy was unsighted by another car and collided with a much slower car at full speed.

Rescue crews took nearly two hours to carefully extract Billy from the wreckage before he was airlifted by helicopter to Nottingham Hospital. Unfortunately they had to amputate both lower legs and Billy was kept in an induced coma for a time. Straight after this happen a JustGiving crowdfunding page was set up by his team JHR Development to try to raise £260,000 to help Billy beat the life changing injuries he had sustained. Within days that target had been easily beaten as the motor racing community and the World at large showed their support for Billy. At the time we went to press the total stood at £777,777 including large personal donations by both Formula 1 stars Jenson Button and Max Verstappen. You can still donate at https://www.justgiving.com/ crowdfunding/billymonger23 Billy is now awake and has thanked everyone for their tremendous support, including his family and friends. He is also determined to return to racing and had been questioning how to use a hand clutch. We wish Billy and his family all the best for his future recovery and hope to see him again soon at the racing circuits.

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New Jaguar F-Type Four Cylinder.

A pure sports car with even greater agility and efficiency.

The new F Type has gained a new four cylinder Ingenium petrol engine. The 2 litre 300 PS engine is the most powerful 4 cylinder engine ever in a production Jaguar. It accelerates from 0-60 mph in just 5.4 seconds and has a maximum speed of 155 mph. Price from £49,900 Page 3

BTCC Starts at Brands Hatch.

The 2017 British Touring Car Championship started at Brands Hatch at the beginning of April. Tom Ingram (Toyota Avensis) won Round 1, reigning Champion Gordon Shedden (Honda Civic) won round 2 and former Champion Andrew Jordan (BMW 125i M Sport) won Round 3

Brewer Vs Anstead charity car build.

Announced at the Lancaster Insurance Stand at the Classic Car and Restoration Show was a charity Build Off initiative. In the blue corner Mike Brewer and his team will restore a 1989 Ford Escort XR3i. In the red corner, Ant Anstead and his team will build from scratch a 1950s inspired Grand Prix race car.

Both cars will be auctioned off at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show through Silverstone Auctions in November.

All the proceeds will go to Charity. Mike Brewer is supporting the Marie Crawford Boyd Foundation, while Ant Anstead is supporting the Harrison’s Fund. Each charity will benefit from the money made selling the supporters car.

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Ellie Goulding drives new Range Rover Velar in New York.

To announce the arrival of the new Range Rover Velar in America, British pop star Ellie Goulding gave an exclusive on-line performance to launch the vehicle via the Internet. The chart topping singers performance preceded a charity auction of the new mid sized SUV at the East Side House Settlement Annual Gala later that week. The Velar sits between the Evoque and the Sport, with a price from ÂŁ44,830. UK Deliveries are expected from late summer

Frank Lyons had a disappointing start to the season at the HSCC Opener at Donington Park. The superb Formula 5000 McRae GM1 had problems during qualifying. Although it set 9th best time, the car stopped out on circuit and did not race.

Peter Smith in the black Porsche 924 had fun in the 3rd Porsche Championship race at Silverstone on Sunday 9th April. First he was rammed from behind

by Philip Waters and forced into a spin and then he pushed Jamie Callender off at Club corner and received a five second penalty

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The WEC Class of 2017 All the drivers contesting this years World Endurance Championship posed together on the stairs of the Silverstone Wing for the annual group photograph, at the start of the first race meeting of the year, the Silverstone 6 Hours.

Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce in exclusive Misano blue paint.

The new Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce is now available to order in the UK. It marks the debut of the exclusive 2 litre turbo petrol engine which produces 280 Hp and 400Nm torque. Prices from ÂŁ37,935.

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Club. 2017 will see the series visit five famous circuits within the UK – Silverstone (22-23 April), Oulton Park (10 June), Cadwell Park (23 July), Mallory Park (12 August) and Snetterton(17September).

VSCC Formula Vintage Season Launch.

Silverstone – 21 April 2017. By Pete Austin.

Before an invited audience of journalists, competitors and other interested parties the VSCC Formula Vintage Season was launched in the Brooklands Suite on the eve of the first event at Silverstone.

Compere (and VSCC commentator) Nick Upton opened the proceedings and introduced VSCC President Geoff Smith who gave a short presentation.

Each meeting will feature the regular six Pre-war races, which highlight the very best of Pre-war racers against like for like machinery, complemented by specially selected invited grids, which add extra historic content to each meeting. Off track activities will include trade villages, vintage fairs, club displays, members lounge, live music and much more.

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Following the presentation Nick Upton then interviewed five VSCC competitors – Nick Topliss, Tony Lees, Jo Blakeney-Edwards, Tom Waterfield and Ian Standing followed by a Q&A session.

Proceedings were then rounded off with an excellent hot and cold buffet. Appropriately enough, one of the bottled beers on offer was ‘Podium Gold’ brewed by the local Towcester Mill Brewery. This set everybody up for the following two days of competition to start the series off.

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ALL-NEW SUBARU XV WINS JNCAP GRAND PRIX AWARD FOR TOP SAFETY SCORE

The All-New Subaru XV has won the Grand Prix Award for achieving the highest score on record in Japan’s New Car Assessment Program (JNCAP) crash safety evaluation tests. In addition; the XV received the Special Award for being fitted with a pedestrian protection airbag as standard. XV is fitted with a suite of active, passive and pre-crash safety technologies, including Subaru’s flagship EyeSight system. EyeSight is Subaru’s optical advanced collision avoidance technology. Systems from other manufacturers use various sensors, such as radar, microwave or camera; EyeSight functions via two camera lenses to the left and right of the rear-view mirror that together create a stereoscopic image.

One core feature of EyeSight is Pre-Collision braking which reliably captures pedestrians in dark clothing in un-lit areas, as commonly found throughout rural areas of the UK, and when needed initiates emergency braking. Up to a speed of 28mph accidents can be completely avoided and the severity significantly reduced at higher speeds.

Subaru’s Rear Vehicle Detection system is also fitted as standard; offering blind spot detection, lane change assistance and reversing assistance to enhance all-round preventative safety.

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The ‘Gaydon Festival of Transport’ returns to the British Motor Museum on Sunday 28 May. Now in its third year, the transport show will feature a range of motorised transport from cars through to Fire Tenders and Tanks along with plenty of family entertainment.

This exciting show aims to bring all classic vehicles together highlighting some of the best classics ever produced. Classic vehicles, from sports cars to emergency service vehicles are expected to take part in what is deemed to be a great family show and will include displays from the Standard Motor Club, Triumph TR Register and the local Military Vehicle Trust. There will be a fire demonstration showing how to put out a car fire and a driver extraction from a crashed car.

In addition there will be a Gunnery display featuring everything from rifle shooting to tank firing. Family activities will include Bouncy Castles, Nerf Shooting, a Bug Show and Face Painting plus there’s the onsite child friendly play area.

As well as entry into the show, the admission fee also includes entry into the Museum and Collections Centre allowing public access to an additional 250 cars from the reserve collections of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust and the Jaguar Heritage Trust.

Tom Caren, Show Manager at the British Motor Museum said, “Back by popular demand the Gaydon Festival of Transport is one of the highlights in the motoring events calendar. As well as appealing to classic car enthusiasts, we hope visitors come along and join in with what promises to be a great day out for all the family”.

Tickets for the show cost £10 in advance or £14 on the day for adults, £6 in advance or £9 on the day for children and £39 on the day for a family. Family activities are included in the admission price except face painting. To find out more visit the website at www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk or call 01926 641188.

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Silverstone Classic media launch.

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

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© Pete Austin

The 2017 Silverstone Classic event was officially launched at the media day for the event, held at Silverstone at the end of March. Held in the Wing, the event organisers gave a presentation with details of many of the special events which will be celebrated and take place during the Silverstone Classic event, held between the 28th and 30th July 2017. The event will host over twenty races, with cars and demonstrations spanning eighty years and will include FIA Masters Historic Formula One, Maserati Trophy for HGPCA Pre 66 Grand Prix cars, Group C Le Mans cars, FIA Masters Historic Sports Cars, Jet Super Touring Car Trophy race, Under 2 litre Touring Cars, Stirling Moss Trophy for Pre ’61 Sports Cars, RAC Woodcote Trophy for Pre ’56 Sports cars, International trophy for Classic GT cars (Pre ’66), RAC Tourist Trophy for Pre ’63 GT cars, the Jaguar Classic Challenge, the Kidston Trophy for Pre-war sports cars, Historic Formula Junior and Historic Formula Ford plus returning this year, the Silverstone Classic Celebrity Challenge Trophy race.

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Various celebrity guests were also present to help announce that this year the celebrity race will return. Using up to fifty race prepared Austin A30 and A35 saloons, there will be up to ten teams, which will be split by their profession i.e. Music, Sport, and TV. Each group will be mentored by a team captain who will be a renowned racing driver. The team captains will be Mark Blundell, Steve Soper, Martin Donnelly, Rob Gravett, Alex

Celebrity race in Austin A30/A35 saloons

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© Pete Austin

Brundle, Darren Turner and David Brabham.

The car owners will race on Sunday and the celebrities will race on Saturday. Points will be awarded for each race © Pete Austin to decide the overall winners. So far the celebrities include Charley Boorman (TV Modern day adventurer, Martin Donnelly travel writer and entertainer),Theo Paphitis (TV Dragons Den), Stan Boardman (Comedian), Neil Primrose (Music Travis © Pete Austin drummer), Wayne Gardner (Sport 500cc Charley Boorman Motorcycle World Champion), Freddie Spencer (Sport, 500cc Motorcycle World Champion), Jason Kenny CBE (Sport Olympic Gold medal winning cyclist), Amy Williams MBE (Sport Olympic Gold medal winner in the Skeleton), Mike Gatting OBE (Sport former England test cricket captain), Greg Searle MBE (Sport Olympic Gold Ant Anstead medal winning rower), Jonny Searle MBE (Sport Olympic Gold

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Ford Sierra RS500

medal winning rower), Mark Hunter MBE (Sport Olympic Gold medal winning rower), Ant Anstead (TV Presenter), Tony Jardine (TV Motorsport pundit) and Tiff Needell (TV Presenter).

The Silverstone Classic will celebrate the 30th birthday of the Ford Sierra RS500 with two double header races. For the first time ever, the Jet Super Touring Car Trophy races will feature two grids racing simultaneously. The first will be filled with high tech Super Tourers, while the second grid will be Group 1 and Group A saloons, including a large number of the legendary RS500s.These races should feature more than 50 iconic cars spanning 25 years of Touring car history.

Another anniversary being celebrated is fifty years of Formula Ford, which has provided the training ground for many future World Champions over its fifty year history.

There will be two races over the weekend, the first time this category Formula Ford 50th

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Tiff Needell

has been included in the Classic. One of its famous drivers will make a return to Silverstone driving his original car, which he won through a competition in Autosport magazine. TV presenter Tiff Needell has raced in various categories, including Formula 1 during his career, and he will take part in his original Lotus at the Silverstone Classic.

Jaguar has become an official partner to the Silverstone Classic event and will expand its presence both on and off track. The Jaguar Classic Challenge will make its debut at the Classic with a special invitation race to produce a grid of GT, sports cars and saloons. The Jaguar XJ220 is twenty five years old in 2017 and there should be the

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Jaguar XJ 220 parade

largest gathering of the model over the weekend when it is hoped to bring a World record breaking fifty cars together for a parade round the Grand Prix circuit on the Saturday.

The Lotus 7 will celebrate its 60th anniversary along with the diminutive Fiat 500, while the Ferrari Owners Club is fifty years old this year.

The anniversaries are still coming thick and fast with the Lotus 7 Williams Grand Prix team turning 40 and for the media launch, the Nigel Mansell 1992 World Championship winning car returned to Silverstone for the first time since it won at Silverstone 25 years ago.

Fiat 500

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Wayne Gardner and Freddie Spencer

The Silverstone Classic also celebrates racing bikes from the past as well as cars. Former World Motorcycle Champions Wayne Gardner and Freddie Spencer were both at the launch to promote the return of the World GP Bike Legends parade in July of two stroke 500cc bikes from the golden age of motorcycle racing.

Ferrari 512 sports car

A pair of Triumph TR3 sports cars

TVR had a small parade round the circuit

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Williams FW07 Grand Prix car

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B.R.M. Heritage Trail leaflet launch – Bourne, Lincolnshire 1st April 2017.

By Pete Austin

© Pete Austin

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BRM P48

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to answer queries while patron David Owen O.B.E. (son of Sir Alfred) was also there with his wife.

Also deep in conversation with the visitors were former John Sismey and Dick Salmon employees John Sismey (engine shop/racing mechanic), Dick Salmon (racing mechanic) and Arthur ‘Snips’ Chambers (mechanic-car build). Frans van de Camp had also come over from Holland with copies of his new book of photographs from his archives ‘BRM in practice’ on sale.

BRM photograph display

The Bourne Darby and Joan Hall was the location for the launch by the B.R.M. Association of the B.R.M. Heritage Trail leaflet which has been funded by the Sharing Heritage Lottery Fund and the Len Pick Trust. Inside there © Pete Austin was a display of photographs illustrating the history of BRM, films including interviews with BRM employees and outside, Hall and Hall had brought along a BRM P48.

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A short walk from the venue is the Baldock’s Mill Heritage Centre where a large number of BRM trophies and other artefacts are on permanent display in the Raymond Mays Room. Nearby is a plaque celebrating the centenary of the birth of Mays himself. The leaflet itself sets out a brief history of BRM together with many period photographs of the workshops and an aerial photograph of the original buildings shows the extent of the BRM works at the

Car Build Shops (left) and Steel Store (right)

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© Pete Austin

© Pete Austin

Engine Test House.

time. A number of these buildings are still in existence and can be seen following a short walk from the town centre. In East ©Gate Pete Austin is the lifetime home of Raymond Mays, Eastgate House (there is a plaque on the wall) and the engine test house can be seen adjacent to the yard at the rear.

Just round the corner the former race car build shops and the steel store are now occupied by the auctioneers Golding Young. Auctioneer and May 2017

BRM V16 parts and scrap

Arthur 'Snip' Chambers

TV antique expert Colin Young, a member of the Association, can often be seen wearing his members badge on programmes such as Bargain © Pete Austin Hunt.

All in all it’s very good to see the heritage of BRM being celebrated in Bourne.

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BRM photograph display with David Owen OBE talking to John Sismey

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Raymond Mays plaque

Eastgate House

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Bromyard Speed Festival 2017

By Simon & Janet Wright Formula Ford Van Diemen and Ray single seaters on the High Street

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Sunday the 2nd of April 2017 saw the second annual Bromyard Speed Festival take place round the normally quiet Herefordshire market town of Bromyard. The towns resident population of around 4,500 was boosted as thousands of people flocked to the town to see cars and motorcycles parade round the closed road circuit in the town centre. The organisers had gone to great efforts to provide an interesting selection of vehicles to entertain the spectators, who had free admission to this popular event.

This year there were three former Land Speed record holding

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cars present, with Babs as a static display in the paddock, while The beast of Turin and Bluebird did some demonstration laps round the town centre circuit. Babs held the Land Speed record in 1926 driven by owner J.G. Parry-Thomas who achieved a speed of 171.02 mph. Due to the tight nature of the course, Babs was only entered as a static display. The other two record holders were The Beast of Turin, a Fiat S76 powered by a 28.5 litre four cylinder engine and a recreation of the 1927 Napier Blue Bird II. The Beast of Turin set the World Speed Record in 1911 at a speed of 116 mph for the one mile land speed record. It was driven at Bromyard by it’s owner Duncan Pittaway. The 1927 Napier Blue Bird II was originally driven by Sir Malcolm Campbell and set a record speed of 174.88 mph in 1927. His Grandson, another World

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Ford Escort Mk II Rally car

Bentley Continental R

Honda NSX

Jumping for Joy

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Bikes parade

Top Hill climb single seater on the roads of Bromyard

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Recreation of Napier Bluebird II

The Beast of Turin shoots flame

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Land Speed record holder, Don Wales rode in Blue Bird round Bromyard, to the delight of the crowd. The town centre echoed to the thundering Thud Thud Thud of these monster engines as they were driven enthusiastically round the course for several laps. Don Wales broke the World Speed record for a Steam Car at Edwards Airforce base in America in 2009 with a speed of 148 mph.

The event was supported by local vehicle manufacturer Morgan Cars, which originally started building cars in Bromyard over one hundred years ago. They provided one of Babs from behind

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Plenty of Morgans, 3 and 4 wheeled.

the course cars and also had a cavalcade, to start proceedings, of Morgan three wheelers and Plus 4 models. There were parades by Rally Cars, Austin Healey sports cars, Hill climb racing cars, Vintage Cars, Classic Cars, Electric cars, motorcycles and Racing cars and the large crowd made the most of the action in bright sunshine. For many of them it was the closest they had ever been to racing and rally cars in action, and they seemed to enjoy it however young or old they were.

This was not a competition event, but the cars were driven briskly and sensibly, so the people could hear the sound of the engines echoing off the buildings in the Darrian T9 Rally car

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narrow roads. The Rally cars are always popular as they sound noisy, are very colourful and look like road cars that people can identify with. This years line up included several of the successful Ford Escort Mk II, a Porsche 911, a classic Mini, plus one of the latest Ford Fiesta WRC cars, which shows how far rally cars have evolved since the start of the Rally World Championship.

At the end of each session of cavalcades, the two stars of the event, the Beast of Turin, and Bluebird II went round the course for several laps. The Beast of Turin often shoots flame out of the exhaust ports on the left side of the car, which makes a spectacular view, while

Vintage Hotchkiss AM80

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the sound of these old record breaking cars is amazing, almost like the thud, thud, thud of a tractor, but much louder. You knew when they were coming long before you could see them.

Local hero Barry Williams and his Mini rally car

to grow in popularity, judging by the number of people lining the course all around the town centre.

Lotus Buick Hill Climb car

There were two paddock areas set up to house all the vehicles that were taking part in the cavalcades, plus displays of vehicles in some of the side streets along with food vendors and traders, where the public could have a close look at some interesting cars and bikes. Morgan also had a display of vehicles in the small market square just behind the start line. The organisers must be congratulated for this special and well organised meeting which seems Clerk of the course Dave Nursey

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Porsche 911 Rally car

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Alfa Romeo Spyder

Porsche Owners club display

Silent parade of Electric cars

Babs engine

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Morgan 3 wheeler

Lancia Monte Carlo Spyder

Ford Fiesta WRC Rally car

Grass track racers

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British GT Championship Media Day 2017

By David Goose & Stuart Yates - Motorsport Imagery.

Lamborghini GT3 and Aston Martin GT4 May 2017

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Formula 3’s with guest series where time permits. This seasons offering was presented to the press and keen spectators at the SRO Media Day at Snetterton near Norwich on March 28th. © Motorsport-imagery

Seb Morris and Rick Parfitt Jnr return in the spectacular Bentley.

Many race fans consider the pinnacle of British National Motorsport to be either British Touring Cars or British Superbikes, yet crowds of serious race fans gather every year for the British GT Championship. Now in its 25th season, the series offers a range of racing classes, close racing, fast cars and large grids, a combination that appeals to enthusiasts.

The 2017 season continues to offer a varied race package with not only GT3 and GT4 cars, the Mini Challenge, Ginetta’s and

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Black Bull Garage McLaren 570S GT4.

2017 sees several new drivers, cars and team entries to the main British GT Championship, with 31 cars (12 GT3’s and 19 GT4’s) registered for the opening round. In the GT3’s six different manufacturers are represented with Aston Martin V12 Vantages, Mercedes AMG, Ferrari 488, Lamborghini Huracans, Ginetta GT55 and Bentley Continentals all competing for top honours.

Although the © Motorsport-imagery top class is Optimum Motorsport Ginetta G55 GT4.

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© Motorsport-imagery

well represented, the GT4 class also has entries from Aston Martin, Nissan, Porsche, McLaren, Ginetta and Toyota. The GT4 class continues to gain in popularity, although ultimately not as quick as their GT3 brothers, they offer more affordable racing in very competitive thoroughbred sports cars. © Motorsport-imagery

David Pattison and Joe Osborne's Tolman Motorsport McLaren 570S GT4.

Clio Cup mentor Jonny Adam, Tordoff hopes to secure a team drive with one of the world top manufacturers, a career path that would involve racing GT’s around the world. © Motorsport-imagery

Sam Tordfoff joins Liam Griffin in the Barwell Motorsport Huracan.

Among several newcomers to GT racing, 2016 BTCC runner up Sam Tordoff joined the Barwell Motorsport team to compete in a Lamborghini Huracan in the GT3 Class. Looking for a driving career for the future, Tordoff saw that the potential for a manufacturer backed professional drive in the BTCC was remote and that the ultra competitive world of GT3 racing was his best option.

Following in the footsteps of his

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Sam Tordoff explains his reasons for joining the British GT's during the media conference.

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Following a spin, the McLaren spends an eternity waiting for passing traffic .

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Toby Sowery's Lanan Racing F3.

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Richard Marsh and Gareth Howell, In2Racing McLaren 570S GT4.

Main support series for the British GT Championship remains the British Formula 3 Championship, with last years third place driver, Toby Sowery returning in his Lanan Racing prepared car.

Undoubtedly the pre-season favourite, Sowery will face serious competition for the title from a range of both home grown and overseas drivers, competing in what is now being regarded as a very important, internationally recognised series for up and coming young drivers.

First round for the series will return to the once regular slot in the timetable, at Oulton Park over the Easter bank holiday weekend. © Motorsport-imagery

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HHC Motorsport Ginetta G55 GT4.

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Team Parker Racing Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR.

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Team Parker Racing Bentley Continental GT. © Motorsport-imagery

Autoaid RCIB Insurance Racing Ginetta G55 GT4.

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McLaren's brand new 540C Coupe safety car.

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The Classic Car and Restoration Show, NEC Birmingham.

By Simon & Janet Wright.

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Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire

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This Classic Car Show differs from most other car shows. Instead of featuring the best prepared classic cars, that are often in better condition than when they originally left the factory, this show also features the rusty wrecks and barn finds before they have been restored. The Classic Car & Restoration Show, held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) near Birmingham, shows the full path of classic vehicle restoration.

Vehicles are displayed in the original conditi on in which they have been found, usually after many years of neglect. Over 25,000 people attended the show over its three day opening, which saw over 1,000 cars on display in six halls, covering 42,000 square metres.

Workshops are held that show how to tackle different aspects of vehicle restoration. Club stands had members actually restoring cars during the show, where the public can watch work being done to restore these vehicles to their original factory specification. There May 2017

was a large trade area and auto jumble where many spare parts and specialist tools could be purchased . Other BMW 700 saloon firms offered services such as producing replacement hoods for convertibles or for machining components that are no longer available ‘off the shelf’. Finally, many stands also had classic cars on display to show what can be achieved by the individual.

Some car club stands were able to show ‘before’ and ‘after’ cars so people could compare the two. One of the key areas of the show was the Barn Find display which featured 25 cars in their original state, as found and before any restoration work had taken place. The public could vote for their favourite car in this display and there were some interesting vehicles in this area. An unusual 1935 BSA Ten saloon, built by the BSA Ten Barn find

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motorcycle company BSA, appeared to be almost complete but in rough condition. The engine still in place, but there was surface rust over most of the body and the exhaust manifold.

Next to it was a 1935 Lanchester LA 10 Woodie, which appeared to be in a much better state of repair, with the wood work around the doors and the rear of the estate vehicle looking to be complete and in fairly good condition. The red MGA sports car had definitely seen better days with lots of rust and holes all over the bodywork.

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Interceptor was a great looking Grand Tourer, built locally at West Bromwich, but the one in the Barn Find section had bad holes in the bonnet, heavy rust on the front bumper and chrome work and looked like it needed plenty of work to restore it to original condition. The winner of the public vote in this area of the show was a 1972 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow which had been found by Chris Pearson from Bolton.

The entire bodywork was covered in moss on the outside, even the windows and the tyres were flat and off the wheel rim in places.

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individual Classic Car owners, you didn’t need to be a member of a car club to take part.

Twenty finalists were chosen to be displayed on the stand at the show, and the public could vote for their favourite car. The winner was Keith Edmund with an immaculate 1972 blue with white stripes Triumph Jowett Club members were well prepared for their restoration project, with the parts laid out like a model kit.

Spitfire. Second place went to the 1969 Ford Cortina 16700E of Classic Car Clubs, many of whose members had made great Ian Mills and third spot belonged to Michael Hawkins’ 1972 efforts to include before and after examples of cars where possible. Lots of club members were also doing real restoration work on their vehicles during the show.

The public were encouraged to watch and learn, as well as ask questions. This gave the show a different, interactive feel, with plenty of activity taking place rather than just static cars to view.

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Pride of Ownership winning Triumph Spitfire

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BMW M1

1908 Hillman Coatalen 12/15 engine below 2300cc 12HP

A barnfind Ford Capri

A restored Ford Capri

Panther DeVille

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Early Renault

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Ford Escort RS2000.

The range of vehicles at the show was quite amazing. Although mainly British cars were on display, there were plenty of European, Japanese and American classic cars to see. Most of the barn find cars were British, but there were a few unusual finds, including a 1931 Peugeot 301C on show. The car had been imported from France, where it had stood for 51 years. Steve Thompson plans to restore the vehicle in original condition and although the seized engine will require a complete rebuild, he hopes to restore the bodywork and retain the original colour.

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interesting tales and quizzes and in between a team were working on doing a full restoration of a vehicle live on stage in the course of the show.

Footman James had an interesting Aston Martin on their stand

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CCA Classic Car Auctions Everyman Classics sale Classic car & Restoration Show NEC

By Simon & Janet Wright May 2017

Very rare 1992 Panther Solo sold for £18,700

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New at this years show were Classic Car Auctions (CCA) which were holding their debut sale at the Classic Car and Restoration Show. They had managed to cram in nearly 200 cars for sale and sold 75%, successfully hammered away for a staggering £2.4 million, its highest ever sales total. The headline car was a low mileage 1985 BMW M635 CSi manual which sold for £100,100 including buyers premium, which was more than double the estimated value. Another BMW also went for double its original estimate, a 1985 BMW 635 (E24) Coupe sold for £31,900. Another high seller was one of the last Austin Healey to roll off the production line in December 1967. The fully restored Austin Healey 3000 Mk III sold for £96,800 including buyers premium, more than £20,000 over its lowest estimate.

A good condition 1961 Vauxhall Velox PA SX in two tone coffee and cream colouring sold for £6,380.

The only single seater racing car in the auction was a 1999 ex Kimi Raikkonen Formula Renault. This was his first single seater racing car and it sold for £29,700 complete with 2 litre Renault racing engine.

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1947 Triumph Roadster Sold £13,750

1988 Gold Motor Company Cirrus.

Powered by a Rover V8 engine and four wheel drive, this British car sold 1969 Ford Capri for £14,300

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1952 Austin A90 Atlantic Saloon was unsold

1967 Hillman Imp Rally Car Sold £6,050

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Shakespeare County Raceway Test & Tune

By Syd Wall.

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Firestorm doing what it does on the way to 227mph

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George McLean’s CBR600 + N2O power makes the kart squirm

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Dan Goodwin’s 4 driven wheels couldn’t beat Mick Desmond’s traditional kart

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Nick Barnet beat a Ford Transit in the Bracket Gambler final!

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Shakespeare County Raceway opened its 2017 schedule with a couple of weekends of Test & Tune. Highlight of the first weekend was Roger Goring’s Firestorm jet engined dragster.

It’s powered by a General Electric J85-5 Turbo-jet with re-heat developing 5,000 lbs of thrust or 10,000 H.P and his final run of the day saw him taking it easy but still producing a 227mph/6.1 second quarter mile. This was the first time I’ve photographed a jet dragster from close up and didn’t know what to expect. I took my position for the photo and when he launched only a small portion of the 5000 lbs of thrust off the line, I was blown backwards and missed the shot. A truly stunning experience.

Roger was out again at the second weekend but fuel system problems meant they were unable to get any runs in.

The UK Drag Karts group were out in force and Mick Desmond took the laurels with a personal best 12.619 second run. All the karts were motorbike engine powered as you would expect but with a bit of extra help from N2O. A superb collection of Escorts, Anglias and Fiestas came from the Old Skool Fords group producing some very fast May 2017

performances. Joe Ashton’s immaculate Mk1 Escort fought off Kieran Jenkins’ supercharged Impreza powered Mk1 Fiesta for the day’s glory. There were many close contests in this class with 130mph/11second runs often seen.

Bracket Gambler racing allows any car to race any other class of car by predicting the elapsed time for their run. The winner is the car which gets nearest to the predicted time without beating it.

The winner was Nick Barnet’s Ford Falcon, winning the final with 11.36/11.386, beating Pete Lane’s near standard Ford Transit Custom Sport. Pete fouled by beating his predicted time, 18.49/18.373.

With the future of the drag strip in doubt due to housing projects, please support Shakey and come along to some of the superb events coming up this year - see https:// www.shakespearecountyraceway.co.uk

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Lee Johnstone’s outrageous Volvo P1800 Gasser

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Mick Desmond's Honda CBR600 Kart took the honours

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Brett Wright’s Anglia does a great squat under fierce acceleration

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11.3s/131.1mph for Darren Scannell’s yellow Cosworth YB Mk1 and 12.2s/109.5 for Steve Jennerway’s blue Pinto Mk2

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Nick Barnet beat a Ford Transit in the Bracket Gambler final!

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Barry Payne’s superb Pinto powered Mk1 Escort

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Dunlop Britcar Endurance Championship Silverstone, Sunday 9th April 2017.

By Simon Wright.

Diversity is the key to the Britcar Endurance Championship. Here the Lucking/Clarke Ferrari 458 Challenge passes Sprint Category Championship leaders Rob Baker/Jonathon Swift in their Smart ForFour.

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Early pacesetter the Cintrano/Morcillo Mosler MT900 2nd in race 1

The Britcar Endurance series is using a two races in one day format for the Dunlop Endurance Championship in 2017. There is both a 50 minute ‘sprint’ and a two hour ‘Endurance’ race for two drivers. The championship has a healthy entry list for 2017 with 29 cars entered for the first race, held on the International South ‘Stowe’ circuit and using the Wing pits. The meeting also had a strong supporting cast with races for the BRSCC Alfa Romeo Championship, Nankang Tyre BMW Compact Cup Sports 2000 championship and the Toyo Tires Porsche championship.

The first Britcar race was the 50 minute sprint that saw the Manuel Cintrano/ Javier Morcillo Mosler MT900 on pole position, just over two tenths of a second faster than May 2017

the Witt Gamski/Ross Wylie Ferrari 458 GTE. The Mosler made a great start and pulled away from the field down the Hangar Straight. It held the lead for the first 26 laps before it made its pit stop. Chasing hard was the David Mason/Calum Lockie Ferrari 458 GT3 with the Nigel Hudson/ Jonny MacGregor finished 9th in race 2 and 3rd in class in the Taranis Adam Wilcox Aston Martin vantage GT3 keeping touch with the leading pair. The first four cars all made their pitstop together on the same lap and the Mason/Lockie Ferrari 458 GT3 made the most of the stop to grab the lead, for just one lap before the Mosler was back in front. The Mosler stayed in front until the Ferrari driven by veteran Mike Wild and former F2 driver Dino Zamparelli hit the front with Zamparelli at the wheel. The class 2 DMS Motorsport with FF Corse Ferrari 458 Challenge car took

Race 1 winners Wild/Zamparelli Ferrari 458 Challenge

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Kevin Riley in the Mosler MT900 defends the corner from eventual winners Wild/Zamparelli Ferrari 458 Challenge as he is lapped

the overall win by over 21 seconds at the end of the 50 minute race, with the Mosler hanging on for 2nd place and a class win just ahead of the Gamski/Wylie Ferrari 458 GTE. There were lots of winners in the race, with 5 classes and a Sprint and Endurance winner in each class. Lockie had registered the

Ferrari for both series, so their 6th overall finish and 4th in class 1 also translated into a Sprint and class victory ahead of Kevin Riley’s Mosler MT900 which was 19th overall and 1st in class. The class 3 battle was won by the Marc Brough/Charlie Hollings Ferrari 458 Challenge, though the real battle in class 3 was between the Mark and Peter Cunningham Porsche 997 and the Team Hard Ginetta G55s that worked as a team to beat the Porsche before Joint Endurance Championship leader Sam Allpass/ indulging in a little Clint Bardwell/Lee Atkins BMW M3 E46 GTR paint swopping on the Ginettas. The Simon Rudd/Tom Barley car finishing 2nd in class and the Darron Lewis/Tom Knight car taking 3rd in class

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ahead of the Cunninghams Porsche.

The second race for the Britcar teams was the last race of the day, the two hour endurance race, which saw the Sprint class flagged off after 50 minutes of the race. This caused a slight problem as just before they were due to come off the track, the Marcus Fothergill/Dave Benett Porsche 997 Cup car had come to a stop on the exit of club corner by the The Rudd/Barley Ginetta G55 GT4 showing battle damage ahead of the Dudley/Hawkins-Row Ginetta G55 GT4

pit wall and the safety car was delayed for a lap before being deployed to allow the sprint cars to finish and come in to parc ferme.It was Eddie Moore in a Ginetta G50 that won the sprint class by over a lap from Paul Calladine in another Ginetta G50 while the Rick and Brad Nevinson/Sean Cooper Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport was third, a further lap down.

The Mosler pulls out a big lead on the first lap of race one

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The Endurance race saw

FF Corse take another victory with the Bonamy Grimes/Johnny Mowlem Ferrari 458 Challenge car taking a lucky victory at the end of the 2 hour race. They had spun the car earlier but had remained in contention during the safety car period and look settled for 2nd place, when the leading Aston Martin of Hudson/Wilcox was called in for a drive through penalty for overtaking under the yellow flags. The team disputed the penalty, claiming to have on-board footage to clear them, but the penalty was issued late in the race and the team Hudson/Wilcox Aston Martin Vantage GT3 nearly won the second race

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At the end of the meeting the Endurance Championship is being led by Simon Rudd and Tom Barley for Team Hard in their Ginetta G55 with 50 points equal with Sam Allpass, Clint Bardwell and Lee Atkins for Atkins Motorsport & Geoff Steel racing in their BMW M3 E46 GTR. Third equal are Bonamy Grimes/Johnny Mowlem and Mike Wilds/Dino Zamparelli both in FF Corse Ferrari 458 Challenge cars on 45 points.

The Sprint category has a clear leader with Rob Baker and Jonathon Swift in the S2Smarts Smart ForFour in front with 47 points ahead of Marcus Fothergill, Dave Bennett and Adam Dawson in the Bespoke Cars Ltd Porsche 997 GT3 Cup car.

The Barry & Arthur McMahon Alfa Romeo 156T only made the morning qualifying

obeyed the instruction and finished just nine and a half seconds behind the winning Ferrari and still took the Class 1 win. The early half of the race had been dominated by the Mason/Lockie Ferrari which had pulled out over a one minute lead by the end of the first hour. After the safety car period and the pitstops, Hudson in the Aston Martin was hunting down Mason in the leading Ferrari, with the other FF Corse Ferrari’s also starting to speed up a couple of laps behind, plus the Mosler of Morcillo. Unfortunately the Mosler ended up in the gravel at abbey and although the marshals managed to extract the car, they could not restart it. Although the Aston Martin did take the lead, it eventually finished 2nd while Ferrari models filled the rest of the top five places with the Brough/Hollings 458 Challenge car in 3rd, Wilds/Zamarelli in 4th, Gamski/Wylie in 5th and Rudd/Barley in a Ginetta G55 GT4 in 6th, to win their class 3 battle ahead of the other Ginetta of Toby Bearne/Daniel Wylie and Lewis/Knight. The Mason/Lockie car finished in 4th place but was excluded due to a technical infrigement.

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Roland Hopkins and Matthew Boyce in their Sprint VW Golf Cup car

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Anthony George took 2 wins in two days in his Alfa Romeo 33 16v

Supporting the Britcar series at Silverstone was the BRSCC Alfa Romeo Championship. Race 1 had been held on Saturday and saw a win for Anthony George in his Alfa Romeo 33 16v who took an easy win from Chris McFie in a Fiat Punto. This put them on the front row for the Sunday race. From the start Chris McFie grabbed an early lead from George with Simon McFie behind in another Fiat Punto. They were trailed by Ian Brookfield in an Alfa Romeo 155 before a gap to the TS (Twin Spark engine) class field which had started slightly behind the front cars. The TS battle was initally led by James Browning in a 147 ahead of the

Gethin Llewellyn Alfa Romeo 156 leads Stacey Dennis Alfa Romeo 147

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main pack that was nose to tail. It only took until the end of the first lap before George got in front where he stayed until the end of the race. Chris McFie was just over two seconds behind at the flag, with Simon in 3rd, a long way back. George won the Modified class and Chris McFie was the winner of the Invitation class. Early TS leader Browning retired with just one lap to go.James Ford was the winner of the TS class in 4th place behind the wheel of his Alfa Romeo 156. The final class winner was Ian Brookfield in his 155 who finished last overall in 15th place.

Taking to the track next was the first race of the weekend for the BMW Race Days Compact Cup. This resulted in a win for James Gornall in his BMW Gornall leads lap1 with Dailly out of sight behind E36 Compact 318Ti from Steven Dailly and Ian Jones. The second Sunday race saw a repeat win for Gornall with a slightly larger margin to Dailly and Jones.

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Nick Bacon Gunn TS11 races round Club corner to 3rd place Race 1 Sports 2000

After the first of the Britcar races, it was time for the Sports 2000 Championship to hit the circuit.

They were also on their second race of the weekend with the Saturday race having been won

by Michael Gibbins in an MCR. Sunday saw another repeat performance with Gibbins winning again in his MCR, even after a 5 second penalty for exceeding track limits, from Tom Stoten in a Gunn TS11. Saturday had seen Nick Bacon 3rd in another Gunn TS11 but he retired on the penultimate lap on Sunday and the last podium place went to Tim Tudor in another MCR. The Toyo Tires Porsche Championship had three races

Porsche 924 battle Peter Smith pushes Jamie Callender out of the way Got a 5 sec penalty

over the weekend. The first race on Saturday saw Ed Hayes win in his Porsche Boxster from Richard Avery and Adam Southgate.

The 924 class was won by Pip Hammond in 9th from Gavin Johnson and Karl Rossin. The second race was early on Sunday morning and gave Ed Hayes was dominant in his Porsche Boxster Hayes his second win of the weekend in his Boxster from Southgate and Nick Hull was 3rd.

Hammond also made it two wins in the 924 class in 7th again with Johnson and Rossin in 2nd and 3rd.

The third race on Sunday afternoon saw the Hayes and Southgate Sunday show continue, this time it was Garry Lawrences turn to take 3rd. Hammond also continued his winning streak in his 924 in 8th overall, this time Rossin grabbed 2nd and Johnson was 3rd.

Sports 2000 double winner Gibbins in the MCR leads double 2nd Stoten in the Gunn TS11 with Tudor 3rd in race 2 in an MCR

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Report on The 20th Regis Classic Tour – “The Ladies Go Dutch II – or perhaps they go Double Dutch” Report supplied by Ali Green. Photos by

Steve Carpenter of EDP Photo News

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The Grand Finale!

The 20th Regis Classic Tour – 31st March, 1st & 2nd April 2017

All good things have to come to an end and the Ladies have decided that the 20th and very final Regis Classic Tour would be held in Rotterdam, Holland as a part repeat of the 10th Tour. The majority of the venues and route had to change after 10 years partly as venues have altered and also due to the increased size of the tour from 38 cars in 2007 to 60 cars in 2017! The fabulous 4* Valk Hotel ARA in Zwijndrecht was booked with an overspill at the Ridderkerk Hotel. All evening meals were served in a private function suite at the Hotel ARA for both Friday buffet and Saturday Gala Dinner.

This was a totally non-competitive very social weekend with the aim of having a great time and raising loads of money for our two chosen charities.

Signing-on and documentation took place on Friday evening at Hotel ARA followed by a group buffet dinner with May 2017

entertainment from Shantykoor de Brulboei at Zwijndrecht.

They entertained us in 2007 and were such a success we had to ask them to come back and do it all again! The repeat visit was again a great success and had crews dancing around the Function Suite! Some complaining that all the shenanigans ruined their street cred!

The tour started on Saturday morning with a visit to Schoonhoven’s Silver Museum plus coffee and apple cake at Hotel Belvedere (where the 10th Tour finished). Kasteel de Haar near Utrecht hosted a visit to their parkland surrounding the Kasteel and lunch in the Koetshuis (Coach house). The afternoon visit was to Leerdam, the glass capital of Holland with coffee & Bossche Bol (which turned out to be a giant round chocolate éclair) at Het Oude Posthuys before returning to the hotels. There was a final Gala Dinner at Hotel ARA with £10 note raffle for some amazing prizes and small but perfectly formed auction of “Experiences”. Both these fundraising actions reached record heights from previous tours! The sun shone on the Sunday morning restart leaving a little later than Saturday and returning © Steve Carpenter Page 52

to the beautiful market town of Gouda. We visited in 2007 and arranged the same parking in the market square and a chance to sample local delicacies before proceeding to the famous Louwman Museum at Den Haag, the host venue for our final buffet lunch was in the Toyoda (Toyota) Room. As the majority of the cars were over 40 years old Louwman invited the cars to park outside the front of the building to be the star attraction

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for other visitors on Sunday afternoon, all shining in brilliant sunshine. Each crew left with a gift of Gouda Cheese and syrup waffles as a souvenier of their visit to Holland. There was a bottle of champagne presented at the finish plus The Regis Classic Tour Trophy made by Kevin Law of Orchard Restorations in memory of his wife Liz (who was Dutch and a great supporter of the tour) and replica. This went to Ian & Carole Potter from Derbyshire who have raised in excess of 2,800 in sponsorship! A second bottle went to Sheila Tiller with the May 2017

Allard L Type having the car the RAC boys would most like to take home. A third bottle went to John Ball for the best mask plus an amazing blonde wig at the Gala Dinner on Saturday night.

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paid and all the promised sponsorship money has been included a final figure plus Gift Aid cannot be calculated.

Thanks again to all the generous companies and individuals who have donated prizes for the auction and raffle: Richard Andrew, Richard & Nadzieja Askew, Edward & Lesley Behrendt, Mick Briggs, Andy Doherty, Jill Collings, Donington Historic Festival, Flywheel Festival, Ian Glass from Country Lane Tours, Peter & Mary Hall, John & Sarah Harmer, Terry & Jackie Kerr, Peter & Glynis Lansdale, Nicholas & Kerry Parton, Valk Hotels, Mike Jiggle of Vintage Road Car/Race Car Magazine & Mick & June Wildgoose.

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Rotterdam and the vast selection of vessels moored there as the sun set and then into the darkness.

For those staying over beyond Sunday there was a private visit and lunch at the wonderful Healey Museum near Utrecht on Monday morning taken up by 48 people and thoroughly enjoyed by everyone with wonderful hospitality from Hans van der Kerkhof and his volunteer team. The museum is a little gem and a real homage to Donald Healey and the cars he created – a must for the enthusiast. It is complete with a ten seat cinema and amazing archives.

All funds again will be donated to Against Breast Cancer & Orchid – Fighting Male Cancer with the main aim as a celebration anniversary event for the fun, fundraising and friendship that have taken part over the past 20 years. The figure is looking well over £35,000 but until all the bills are May 2017

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organising team. It has been the most fabulous fun but better to finish on a massive high with everyone wanting more than to fade into obscurity, which probably would have happened if it had continued much longer. Thanks again to Carla van Bregt in Holland – she and her husband Henri de Potter assisted with the 2007 event and Carla lost Henri in 2014 to cancer, as a tribute to him she helped again in 2017.

Thanks again to James Campbell who printed and compiled all the roadbooks but then work commitments forced him to cancel his entry. Also to Geoff & Keitha Insley of Clayton Classics who have been generous supporters for at least 10 years but Keitha was not well enough to take part, but is hopefully on the mend now making slow progress. Heather & Christopher Darwin had hoped to enter the very last tour (having sponsored the first 10 years through Line Up Aviation

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Personnel) but expectant Ewes caused last minute problems.

We also need to thank Nigel & Julie Eddleston and Steve Carpenter from EDP Photo News for supporting 18 of the 20 tours with their amazing photography. Thanks to all our long term advertisers: Hardy Engineering, Orchard Restorations and this year REIS who have all helped to boost the funds.

Lastly to Barry Griffiths of Griffield for providing free of charge ID badges and stickers for all 20 tours.

We would also like to thank the whole volunteer marshalling team plus Chris, Gordon, Nigel and Richard who provided mechanical assistance all weekend.

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Cancer. The total raised for cancer charities in 19 years smashed the half million figure at £523,638.84! This year will be well over £558,000.00 before gift aid has been calculated after the 20th event which is looking like a record year, if all the promised funds come in. Thanks to everyone who has made this possible. The event was very generously sponsored for the tenth year by William Frosts of Frosts Ltd www.frosts4cars.co.uk Photographs of the 20th Regis Classic Tour are available from Nigel Eddleston at www.edpphoto.com, on-line View Galleries or click www.edpphotoco.uk Rally-Tours official photographers for The Regis

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taking place on Sunday 3rd September and raising funds for Sussex Air Ambulance. Over 75% of the entry is now reserved so if you wish to join in further fun and fundraising please complete and return the flyer without delay.

To learn more about the tour please call Ali Green 01243 542674 or email theregisclassictour@btinternet.com or log onto www.theregisclassictour.co.uk The ladies of Bognor Regis Motor Club are very pleased to announce that they have exceeded expectations with their fundraising for the 20th and final Regis Classic Tour. The total so far for 2017 is well over £38,000 which will be divided between Against Breast Cancer & Orchid – Fighting Male Most raised money award went to Ian & Caroline Potter

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British Touring Car Championship Donington Park Sunday 16th April 2017

By Simon & Janet Wright.

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Jeff Smith Honda Civic Type R leads a train through the chicane

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Rob Austin on pole for race 1

The British Touring Car Championship circus arrived back to Donington Park a month after the media launch of the 2017 series, for the second race meeting of the year. Rounds 4,5 and 6 took place on Easter Sunday in mixed weather conditions round the sweeping turns of the East Midlands circuit.

In Qualifying, Ashley Sutton had topped the time sheets with a sensational lap record for the Adrian Flux Subaru Racing team, but his time was disallowed after qualifying when the turbo overboost was adjudged to have contravened technical regulations and he was relegated to 31st on the grid. Joining him on the back row was Jake Hill May 2017

who had set sixth fastest time but his rear wing angle was outside permitted tolerance which sent him back to 32nd and last place on the grid. This meant that crowd Mat Jackson flying over the chicane in his Ford Focus pleasing Rob Austin was on Pole position for Round 4 of the BTCC championship with a time of 1 minute 9.514 seconds in his Handy Motorsport Toyota Avensis. The front two rows of the grid did not feature any of the usual big name drivers, with Jack Goff in the Eurotech Honda Civic 2nd fastest, Tom Ingram in the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis 3rd fastest and Aiden Moffat in the Laser Tools Racing Mercedes 4th fastest. The first of the former champions made up the third row of the grid, with local Halfords Yuasa Racing Honda Civic’s of Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden taking 5th and 6th.

The first race, just before lunch time, was held in dry, overcast

Aiden Moffat won his first BTCC race in heat 1

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1-2 and Moffat was 3rd in the Mercedes. The rest of the field was like one long train, with many cars flying on two wheels over the kerbing at the Roberts chicane. Moffat was soon past Austin for 2nd and the two Yuasa Halford Hondas were just about hanging on in 4th and 5th place. Front row man Goff had slipped back through the field from the start.

On lap 5 Moffat had a run at Ingram through the Craner curves, and with Morgan (Mercedes A-class) and Austin (Toyota Avensis) trade paint through Redgate in race Ingram running success ballast from conditions and the field got off to a good start. Ingram made a Brands Hatch, the Mercedes was able to power past the Toyota flying start to beat Austin into Redgate and Moffat got past Goff and went on to take his at the start as well. By the end of the first lap it was Ingram maiden Touring car leading in the Toyota, with Austin in the other Toyota making it a victory. Behind him at the flag was former champion Matt Neal in the Honda Civic and Rob Austin in the other Toyota Avensis.

The second race of the day was after lunch and the first race after the long delays due to the rescue work after the terrible Formula 4 accident of Billy Monger. Moffat in his Mercedes was running with maximum success ballast for the first time but still managed to pull out a lead over the first Moffatt leads Race 1 in his Mercedes A Class May 2017

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few laps. Neal had got swamped by the field at the start and Austin was through into 2nd while fighting off a pair of BMWs of Rob Collard and Colin Turkington. Austin quickly slipped back through the field and eventually went off and got stuck in the gravel. Ingram quickly split the dualling BMWs and by the fourth lap was through to 2nd place behind Moffat and ahead of Collard. The Mercedes was on the option tyre and with the success ballast weight he was quickly caught and passed by Ingram and during the rest of the race slowly went back through the order to finish 14th. Ingram maintained his lead to win his second race of the season, with Collard finishing 2nd, just ahead of Ashley Sutton in the Subaru Levorg which had charged from 13th to 3rd after having to start the first race from 31st position.

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Gordon Shedden ready to go

Race 3 winner Colin Turkington BMW 125i M Sport

immediately and the cars all returned to the grid. the marshals could not move the Honda and one of the snatch trucks dragged it out of the gravel. Neal returned to the grid and his front row spot next to pole position man Dave Newsham in his Chevrolet Cruze.While waiting for the rain storm to clear, the officials removed Neal and the Honda from the grid. He was disqualified

Jackson forced Wharton-Eales wide in the Audi battle

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Very close racing, Moffat MercedesA-Class leans on Newsham Chevrolet Cruze round Redgate, Race 2 May 2017

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from taking the restart as he had received mechanical assistance to get to the grid. This left a gap on the front row as the race re-started. Newsham managed to hold the lead from the start in the wet conditions, but Gordon Shedden in the other Yuasa Halfords Honda Civic proved to be an expert in the conditions despite loosing a place at the start to Josh Cook.

Shedden made short work of the cars in front of him and soon took the lead round the outside of Newsham at Redgate.

Shedden then maintained the lead to take the chequered flag.

When the car came in to the pit lane at the end, it failed the ride height check and was disqualified.

Meanwhile, Turkington in the BMW had dived up the inside of Newsham at the chicane on lap eight. In the tricky conditions he could not catch Shedden on the track but was now declared the winner of race 6. Newsham had battled hard with Sutton through the race with the pair swopping position several times.

On the last lap Adam Morgan in his Mercedes A Class joined in

Chilton Vauxhall Astra gets sideways with a little help from Jeff Smith Honda Civic Type R inside Jack Goff Honda Civic Type R

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Race 2 winner Ingram two wheeling Roberts chicane in front of Adam Morgan

the fun and the three of them were side by side down the back straight heading for the final chicane. It was Morgan who emerged ahead to grab 2nd place with Sutton and Newsham right behind.

So after the three races at Donington Park, Tom Ingram leads the championship on 86 points ahead of Colin Turkington on 72 points and Adam Morgan on 69 points. Reigning champion Gordon Shedden has dropped to 4th place on 67 points.

Plato & Cole Subaru Levorg had a poor weekend

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The Michelin Ginetta GT4 Supercup grid ready for the start of race3

Supporting the Touring cars at Donington were the usual series.

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lap 2 and Callum Pointon took a narrow victory from Tom Roche.

Charles Ladell was 3rd. In the second race on Sunday morning Roche went one better to win by over 3 seconds from Ben Green with Declan Jones in 3rd place.The third race was delayed because of the accident in Formula 4 and took place late on Sunday evening, Again, the previous race runner up went on to win with Green taking the flag over 3 seconds ahead of the first race winner Pointon. Jones took another 3rd place.

The Ginetta Juniors first race on Saturday afternoon saw pole man Daniel Harper finish in 3rd place. He was beaten by Tom Gamble who won and Kiern Jewiss. Harper also had pole for the second race of the weekend and this time took a decisive victory with Tom Wood over 6 seconds behind at the end of the race.

Race one winner Gamble was 3rd. Harper also had pole for the last Junior race of the weekend, but ended up in 6th after receiving a 5 second penalty for exceeding track limits. Gamble took his second win of the weekend, with Jewiss claiming another 2nd place and Wood got 3rd.

Ian Robinson had a big spin at Coppice in the Ginetta GT4 Supercup race

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The Renault UK Clio Cup first race had Dan Zelos on pole position by just 0.046 of a second, with the first 19 cars separated by less than one second.

The Renaults only had two races and Race 3 winner Tom Gamble showing battle damage in the Ginetta Junior race Max Coates won the first for Ciceley Motorsport. Les Pattison was 2nd and Mike Bushell was 3rd. The second race took place late on Sunday afternoon and saw Paul Rivett win by just over1/2 a second from Max Coates and Bushell taking another 3rd place.

The Porsche Carrera Cup GB first race had Charlie Eastwood on pole position to take a win by nearly two seconds from Dan Cammish and Tom Wrigley. The second race on Sunday saw Eastwood take another victory. Lewis Plato was 2nd and Dino Zamparelli was 3rd.

Dorlin (Blue Clio) gets out of shape at the chicane in the Renault UK Clio Cup

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The only single seater category on the race program was the F4 British Championship, and they took all the headlines from Dockerill leads Mundy in the Porsche Carrera cup race this meeting for all the wrong reasons. The first race on Saturday was held in bright , dry conditions and saw Swedish driver Linus Lundqvist finish in 2nd place after starting from pole position. he was beaten by Jamie Caroline who won from Carlin by over five seconds.

Billy Monger took the last Jamie Caroline took two F4 wins on Saturday podium place in 3rd. The second race rounded off Saturdays action and saw Finnish driver Patrik Pasma on pole position. Jamie Caroline was the driver on form and he took his second win of the day for Carlin, this time beating Oliver York in 2nd and Pasma took 3rd. The fateful race was the third race on Sunday. Lundqvist was on pole position but as the race started, it began to rain, first light rain, then quite heavy spots of rain. This caught out some of the cars as Pasma spun on lap 3, as the World saw on live TV, Billy Monger had no where to go as he Page 64

was unsighted and hit the almost stationary car of Pasma at full speed. the race was red flagged and it took the safety crews nearly two hours to extract Billy Monger from the wreckage before he was airlifted by the rescue helicopter to Nottingham hospital. He suffered extensive, life changing injuries, but thanks to the safety teams, he did survive. The results were declared at 3 laps with the win officially going to Lundqvist from Oscar Piastri and Oliver York. The public reaction to this terrible accident has been amazing.

See the News page for the latest information.

F4 Lucas Roy and Hampus Ericsson get caught out in the rain in race 3

Field chased by a 2 wheeling Taylor in the Renault UK Clio Cup race

Plenty of glamour at the BTCC

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Carl Boardley was 5th in the third Ginetta GT4 Supercup race

Eastwood gets the lead into Redgate for the Porsche Carrera Cup race

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Archive Photo of the month.

Š Pete Austin

By Pete Austin.

This year sees the 50th Anniversary of Formula Ford. This shot was taken at Brands Hatch in 1970. Although I no longer have the programme as far as I know the first three drivers shown here are Mo Harness (Jim Russell Lotus), Colin Vandervell (Merlyn) and Bob Evans (Palliser). Any further information will be gratefully received.

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British GT Oulton Park 15 & 17 April

By David Goose & Stuart Yates of Motorsport Imagery

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Morning warm up with Jonny Adam and Derek Johnston Aston Martin Vantage GT3

Liam Griffin & Sam Tordoff Lamborghini Huracan

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2017 saw the opening round of the British GT Championship return to Oulton Park after being held at Brands Hatch last year.

As free practice started on Saturday morning, it wasn't long before new boy Sam Tordoff found his feet in the Barwell © Motorsport-imagery Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan.

Topping the table in the shortened session. Which had to be stopped after major repairs were required on the barrier at Druids due to an an accident involving Century’s Steve Fresle and Autoaid/RCIB Insurance Racings Mike Newbould. Moving on with FP2 and it was Phil Keen in the sister Barwell Motorsport Huracan who topped the tables. By now the track was drying and his time of

1m34.291 was half a second faster than last years fastest race lap. The Team Parker Racing Bentley Continental GT3 driven by Seb Morris was second 0.130s behind Keen.

Again the session was held up by a red flag when Liam Griffin hit the barrier at © Motorsport-imagery Island.

The GT4 times were topped by Sandy Mitchell and Ciaran Haggerty, Black Bull Garage 59. Top three positions being covered by under two tenths of a second. Mike Simpson in the Century Motorsport Ginetta G55 in second and the Lanan Racing Ginetta of Alex Reed and David Pittard taking third spot.

In the qualifying GT3 AM session Rick Parfitt Jnr saved his best till last, then produced a lap time 0.430s faster than his nearest rival to put his Bentley on pole. Jon Minshaw came in second with

Race 2 start

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Macmillan AMRís Jack Mitchell taking third.

During the session Lee Mowle and Derek Johnston had a coming together, meaning Mowle could only put the AMDtuning.com with Cobra Exhausts Mercedes-AMG in ninth due to steering and suspension damage. The TF Sport Aston Martin of Derek Johnston and Jonny Adam - who was absent due to racing in the WEC at SIlverstone would not set a time and would start at the back of the GT3 field.

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Anna Walewska brings home her battle scarred Ginetta

was still a wet race. The Huracan of Jon Minshaw was a lot better suited to the trying conditions and after passing Rick Parfit in the Team Parker Racing Bentley into Old Hall Minshaw already held a five second lead after lap one.

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James Littlejohn in the Macmillan AMR Aston Martin Vantage GT3

Keen in second and Sam Tordoff who made two Barwell Lamborghinis in the top three. In setting the pole time Morris also set the fastest ever GT3 lap of the Cheshire circuit, beating the previous best time by six tenths.

GT4 race one pole was taken by the Black Bull Garage 59 McLaren 570S of Sandy Mitchell, with race two pole set by Mike Simpson, Century Motorsport who also set a new British GT4 qualifying lap record.

Race day would dawn with grey overcast skies and rain which by the time the first race was to start had eased considerably but it May 2017

Ian Loggie & Callum Macleod Bentley Continental GT3

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Nick Jones & Scott Malvern Team Parker Racing Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport

passed by Sam Tordoff in the second Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini. It was Jonny Adam who passed team mate Jon Barnes then forced his way past Seb Morris, in doing so Derek Johnston and Jonny Adam had gone from eleventh to third. Final placings were victory to Jon Minshaw and Phil Keen, Liam Griffin © Motorsport-imagery

Race reflections from Sandy Mitchell McLaren 570S GT4

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Rick Parfitt Jnr in full flight Bentley Continental GT3

and Sam Tordoff second with Derek Johnston and Jonny Adam third. Adam Balon and Adam Mackay in the No. 72 track-club McLaren 570S took the GT4 win.

Keeping a 100 percent record, Barwell Motorsportís Jon Minshaw and Phil Keen took victory in the days second race, this time ahead of the two TF Sport Aston Martins. Derek Johnston and Jonny Adam taking second ahead of Jon Barnes and Mark Farmer in third place. In the GT4 Alex Reed and David Pittard took © Motorsport-imagery the honours in the No. 51 Lanan Racing Ginetta G55, even after Reed had a 360 spin at Matt Nicoll-Jones with a battered Aston Martin Vantage GT4

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Max Bladon

Mini Challenge JCW Oulton Park For the 2017 season the British GT now have the Mini Challenge - JCW Championship as a support event, leading the 32 car entry is reigning champion David Grady. Another busy calendar meant an unavoidable meeting clash with the Donington round of the BTCC, this would provide it's own challenge for Eurotech driver Jeff Smith. Who would attempt to © Motorsport-imagery fly from Donington to Oulton Park between FP2 and qualifying, catch the Mini qualifying at 3.00pm and get back in time for the 3.40pm BTCC qualifying at Donington.

With a flight time of 30 minutes Jeff said “It is tight, but providing everything runs to the timetable and the weather May 2017

stays favourable it is completely viable."

When qualifying got underway it was Max Bladon taking pole position for the seasons opening race at Oulton Park. The session was very stop start due to two red flag incidents. © Motorsport-imagery Bladon eventually taking pole from teammate Mark Wakefield by 0.011s, and Reece Barr starting third.

Jeff Smith and Jo Polley would make it from Rob Smith Donington but due to the red flags would only manage to get in three laps before the dash back to Donington.

In a shortened race one it was Mark Wakefield who would take the lead after a lightening start and passing Max Bladon on the inside at Old Hall. Bladon soon saw his pole position disappear further as both Charlie ButlerHenderson and Brett Smith would be past him by the time they got to Brittens chicane. At the flag it would be Mark Wakefiled who would take victory ahead of Brett Smith, who also set the fastest lap, with Charlie Butler-Henderson in third. Pole man Max Bladon

Jeff Smith leaning hard into Cascades

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Charlie Butler-Henderson and Brett Smith

in fourth with James Turkington completing the top five.

Race two had Max Bladon on pole, Charlie Butler-Henderson second and Bret Smith third. Making a demon start it was ButlerHenderson who was in the lead by the time they arrived at Old Hall, Bladon making a poor start with excessive wheel spin off the line and Mark Wakefiled handed a 10 second penalty for a jump start. The top three would start to pull away as Brett and © Motorsport-imagery

Ryan Dignan pushes Paul Bell

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Rob Smith were side by side through Cascades. With several drivers suffering spins and excursions to the grass David Grady was making his way up to seventh behind Jeff Smith, who was demoted four places after an earlier excellent start.

Max Bladon made a brief surge towards Butler-Henderson but managed no further progress.

At the chequered flag it was Charlie ButlerHenderson ahead of Max Bladon, Rob Smith third, Brett Smith fourth and Mark Wakefiled in fifth position. © Motorsport-imagery Race 1 winner Mark Wakefield

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Jamie Chadwick in her first F3 race

James Pull

British F3 Championship Oulton Park.

With barrier damage it meant all three F3 races would now be held on Monday. Enaam Ahmed took the lead from Toby Sowery with three laps remaining in race one when Sowery ran wide into the gravel, which in turn let James Pull through into second place.

Adding to his earlier victory in race one it was Enaam Ahmed who secured his second victory of the day in race two after an opening lap red flag forced a restart. At the start Callan O’Keeffe was slow off the line with wheel spin letting Ahmed through. Ben Hingeley also took advantage moving into second place which was how it stayed to the flag.

Enaam Ahmed had the perfect start to his 2017 campaign with a lights to flag win in race 3. Cameron Das taking second and James Pull third giving him his second podium finish of the day.

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Cameron Das

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Triple race winner Enaam Ahmed

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HSCC Season Opener 2017, Donington Park. 8th April 2017

By Simon & Janet Wright.

Stephen King Macon MR8 leads Philip Walker Crossle 16F and Matthew Sturmer Marcon MR8 in the Historic FF race

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Dick Coffey Turner Mk1 inside Mervyn Selwyn Lotus Elan S3 in the Historic Road Sports race

The Historic Sports Car Club (HSCC) started the new season with a nine race program at Donington Park at the beginning of April. Most of their major championships were at this opening meeting and provided a wide variety of different categories of racing to keep the fans entertained. First out on track were the Historic Road Sports that saw the mighty Morgan of William Plant win by over 5 seconds from Peter Shaw in his class winning Lotus Elan S1. Colin Sharp in a Triumph TR5 won his class in 5th place along with Costas Michael driving a Sunbeam

Mike Eagles in the De Tomaso Mangusta, Histroic Road Sports race

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Alpine in 8th place. The other class winners were Dick Coffey in a Turner Mk1 in 11th and 12th placed Paul Rayment in his MG B. Celebrating 50 years of Formula Ford in 2017, the Historic Formula Ford race saw the fastest drivers in practice go straight to the second Formula Ford race of the day. They would be joined by the first eight finishers in the first race, there was everything to play for. Ross Drybrough won the race in a Merlyn Mk 20AS from Chris Sharples in a Palliser and Andrew Mansell was 3rd in the Macon MR8. Alison Langridge won her class in 19th place in a Lotus 61.

Nigel Adams leadsAlison Langridge Lotus 61 pair

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First lap of the Historic Touring cars through the Craner curves

The Historic Touring Cars was won by Jack Drury making a stunning debut in his Ford Falcon. Ben Winrow, in a Ford Lotus Cortina, finished 2nd when Warren Briggs was given a 30 second penalty for a non working transponder in his Ford Mustang. Paul Pheysey was 3rd in another Ford Lotus Cortina.

The other class winners were 7th placed Barry Sime in a Morris Mini Cooper, Richard Belcher in another Ford Lotus Cortina Mk1 in 8th, Simon Benoy in a Hillman Imp in 9th, Robyn Sister in a Ford Anglia in 11th, Roger Godfrey in an Austin Mini Cooper S in 12th and Roger Cope in a Jaguar Mk1 in 13th.

Drury leads through Old hairpin in his Falcon

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Start of the FF2000 race with Park already pulling clear in the Reynard

The Formula Ford 2000 race was next on track. Andrew Park led from start to finish in his Reynard SF81. Nelson Rowe in a Reynard SF79 and Tom White in an Osella FAF finished 2nd and 3rd, with White winning his class. Other class winners were Chris Lord in a Van Diemen RF82 in 8th, Jan Langdon in a Reynard SF78 in 15th and John Stapleton in a Tu BH2 in 17th.

Drive of the day was Benn Simms who only did one lap in qualifying and started last. Using some of the grass at the start he worked this way through the field to finish 4th overall and 3rd in class.

Benn Simms moving through the pack in his Spax Reynard

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Start of the Derek Bell Trophy race with Jamie Brashaw March 73A ahead of Mark Dwyer March 742 and winner David Shaw Eifelland March 721

The Classic Formula 3 and Derek Bell Trophy races were combined with the F3 grid starting a few seconds after the much faster Derek Bell Trophy cars. Frank Lyons was the only member of his family at the meeting, as Michael was racing in Europe in the Masters series and Mom Judy was with him. Frank had problems with his Formula 5000 McRae in practice, and did not start the race. Pole position went to Jamie Brashaw in his Formula 5000 March 73A who was leading the race when on lap 8 the safety car was deployed and it picked up the Formula 3 leader instead of the race leader. Brashaw and 2nd placed Mark

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Dwyer, in a Formula 2 March 742, were in front of the safety car and were able to make up a whole lap and joined the rear of the field. They then overtook the other cars in the queue and took up position behind the safety car. This made them a lap ahead of the rest of the field.

After the race both were excluded for passing under the safety car. This left Classic F3 winner Gaius Ghinn Ralt RT3 victory to David Shaw in the stunning designed Eifelland March 721 Formula 1 car, with Paul Campfield in 2nd and winning his class in the Formula 5000 Chevron B24. Martin Bullock was 3rd overall and won his class in the Chevron B17C and 4th placed Martyn Donn in the Lola T760 was also a class winner. The first of the Classic F3 cars was Gaius Ghinn in a Ralt RT3 ahead of Paul Smith in another Ralt RT3 and 3rd placed Benjamin Tusting in a Martini Mk34. The Class B winner was Adrian Langridge in a Castle Mk 10.

Derek Bell Trophy race winner David Shaw in F1 Eifelland March 721

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The second of the Formula Ford races was probably the closest finish of the day. Michael O’Brien started from pole position in his Merlyn Mk20, with Callum Grant behind him in third place in his Merlyn Mk20A. The pair went together at the start, leaving front row man Sam Mitchell in another Merlyn Mk20 to fight off the rest of the field. The two remained locked together for the rest of the race, with O’brien leading until lap 6, then Grant leading the rest. On the last lap O’Brien fought his way back to the front, but coming out of Roberts chicane Grant managed to slip past to take the win by just 0.057 of a second. from O’Brien with Richard Tarling a distant 3rd, over ten seconds behind, in his Jamun T2.

John Soiers TVR Griffith ahead of the Brookes’ Merlyn Mk6 in Guards Trophy race

optional driver change. A pair of Chevron coupes pulled out from the start with Charles Allison leading in his Chevron B8 from the Hugh and Mark Coleman Chevron B8 right behind. This race also had a safety car period, where most of the teams pitted.

Father and son pairing Michael and Andrew Hibberd in a Lotus 23B were leading when the race re-started, with Allison back in third and traffic between them. Andrew was driving the Lotus and he fought as long as he could to remain in front of the faster Chevron but by lap 24, with just 3 laps remaining, Allison re-took the lead. Andrew finished a close 2nd overall and the Hibberds

Historic Formula Ford winner Callum Grant Merlyn Mk 20A ahead of 3rd placed Richard Tarling Jamun T2

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Andrew Hibberd Lotus 23B tries to fight off winner Charles Allison Chevron B8 Page Guards Trophy race

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won their class. Phillip Nelson was over 7 seconds further behind in 3rd overall in another Chevron B8. Dominic Barnes in an AC Cobra was 5th and won his class. The other class winners were Brian Casey in a Denham P69 in 10th, Wainwright and Pancisi in a Lotus Elan S1 GTS in 14th, Mark Russell in a Jaguar E-Type in 19th and Andrew Bentley in an MG B in 21st.

Classic Clubmans Race winner Mark Charteris Mallock Mk 20/21

Final race of the day was for the Classic Clubmans cars. Pole man Mark Charteris took an easy win in his Mallock Mk 20/21 by over 47 seconds. Alan Cook was 2nd in another Mallock Mk 20/21 B and David Wale was 3rd in another Mallock Mk20/21.

Clive Wood won his class in 6th place at the wheel of another Mallock Mk20B, while Roger Waite won the Invitation class of Sports 2000 cars in 8th place at the wheel of a Royale S2000M, two laps behind the winner.

70s Roadsports Nigel Ashley Lotus Europa leads a group of cars down the straight

The 70’s Road Sports saw a race long battle between Charles Barter in a Datsun 240Z and James Dean in a Lotus Europa, with Barter getting the overall race victory and 2nd placed Dean also winning his class. Iain Daniels was 3rd overall in a Lotus Europa TC. The other class winners were 4th placed Robert Gate in a Jaguar E-Type, Jonathan Wagstaff in an Alfa Romeo GTV in 10th, Tim Hayes in an Alfa Romeo Alfasud in 12th and Chris Fisher in an MG Arkley in 16th.

70’s Roadsports Stephen Bellerby TVR 3000M ahead of Paul Ugo Ferrari 308 GT4

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Classic Clubmans Invitation class winner Roger Waite in the sports 2000 Royale S2000M ahead of John Muirhead Mallock Mk18

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Hankook 24 Hours, Silverstone 1st - 2nd April 2017.

By Dave Goose and Stuart Yates - Motorsport Imagery Š Motorsport-imagery

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Sunset Saturday evening

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Last years winners, British Team ABBA with Rollcentre Racing were back in their BMW M3 V8 hoping for success in 2017.

After the hour long qualifying session it was the #7 MONLAU COMPETICION SEAT Leon team with Jurgen Smet/Jose Manuel Perez Aicart/Alba Cano Ramirez/Alvaro Bajo that took pole position. #303 Red Camel-Jordans.nl SEAT Leon in 2nd place and #100 Team Bleekemolen SEAT Leon in 3rd. © Motorsport-imagery

Race start

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Saturday and Sunday, April 1st and 2nd saw Silverstone host the first round of the Hankook 24H TCE Series (Touring Car Endurance). The entry was down on last years event but it was hoped 34 cars would make the start. Unfortunately this was further reduced to a final starting grid of 30 cars. Regulations this year have been changed slightly to allow cars from the SP3GT4 class to compete. Based on the proven balance of performance, SP3-GT4 cars and cars from the TCR category as the series top touring car class are expected to perform at an equal level. © Motorsport-imagery

Sunrise on Sunday with Sam Tordoff

At the two hour point it was the Red Camel-Jordans.nl SEAT Leon TCR #303 in the lead after a well timed pitstop by initial driver Rik Breukers under Code 60 conditions saw them jump from fourth to first. Last years winners Team ABBA with Rollcentre Racing running a respectable fifth.

Moving up to the halfway point it was Team Bleekemolen continuing to lead the Hankook 24H Silverstone by just over a lap from fellow TCR runners #216 Modena Motorsports and #303 Red Camel-Jordans.nl. With cooling track conditions, Rik Saturday evening problems for 176 Synchro Motorsport

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91 Area MS / Owens Endurance

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Breukers in the #303 was complaing about worrying signs of uneven tyre wear, meaning the Seat was leaning harder on its front tyres. With Team Bleekemolenís late-race retirement from the lead last year in the back of the leaders mind the race was far from over.

As daybreak arrived and the sun started to show reliability issues

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Third place 217 Modena Motorsports

were to hit some of the front runners. #100 Team Bleekemolen had managed to pull out a two lap lead overnight which was then lost due to a broken shock absorber. After repairs taking 14 minutes they were back on track but now second behind #216. It May 2017

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was now Modena Motorsports turn to be struck down, a bolt connecting the rear-trailing arm to the suspension mounting had snapped, bringing the Modena Motorsport machine into the pits.

Four laps after repairs and problems hit the #216 again, this time a rear wheel trying to break free from the studs. With smoke billowing from the rubbing tyre when entering pit road, this time repairs would see them drop to 6th place.

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Overall winners 100 Team Bleekemolen

Bettera and John FilippÏ took second place 5 laps down. A further 10 laps down third place went to the #217 Modena Motorsports Seat Leon TCR V3 DSG driven by Marcel Tjia, Christian Chia, Michael Soeryadjaya Benny Simonsen and Philippe Descombes.

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102 Holmgaard Motorsport

This time when the chequered flag dropped after 24 hours the #100 Team Bleekemolen SEAT Leon TCR V2 SEQ driven by Sebastiaan Bleekemolen, Melvin de Groot, Rob Smith, and Rene Steenmetz were there to take it putting all of last years woes behind them. With 549 laps completed it was Rene Steenmetz who drove the final stint, the team having covered 3.239,65 kilometres over the 24 hours. After a very consistant drive the #122 Pit Lane Competizioni Audi RS3 LMS TCR DSG driven by Alberto Vescovi, Roberto Ferri, Zach Arnold, Enrico May 2017

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Night pitstop for second place overall 122 Pit Lane Competizioni

154 QSR an hour into the race

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Abercrombie, William Lucas, Kye Wheatley and Rob Ellice in the Sorg Rennsport BMW M235i Racing Cup car finished 8th overall and 2nd in the CUP1 class. We wish him all the best in his British GT campaign in 2017. © Motorsport-imagery

Last years winners Team ABBA with Rollcentre Racing during Saturday warmup

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266 Wimmer Werk Motorsport on the grid

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Pride of Longbridge Cofton Park, Longbridge, 15th April 2017.

By Simon & Janet Wright.

Cars filled Cofton Park, with Metro and Rover 100s in the foreground.

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The Pride of Longbridge is an event to commemorate the original closure, twelve years ago, of what was ‘The Austin’, at Longbridge in Birmingham, and to celebrate the workers who produced cars at the factory for almost 100 years. The event took place in Cofton Park, Coften Hacket, just opposite the main entrace to the old Austin/British Leyland/Leyland Cars/ Rover/MG factory, which had been producing the Chinese MG cars until recently.

After last years cancellation due to poor weather making the park unsuitable, this years event was dry and bright and held over on the Easter weekend Saturday.

Vast numbers of cars produced at Longbridge, or with a Longbridge connection, had made the journey to be part of this free event. A group made the trip from Ireland and there were several cars which had made the trip from Holland, Germany and France. One of the furthest that had driven to the event was Johan Bengtsson who drove his MG ZT all the way from Sweden.

The park was full of a lot of the more modern Rover and MG models which had been assembed at Longbridge in the later years, but there were quite a few much older Austin cars that May 2017

were on display. The oldest model was the Austin 7 which was an economy car that was built between 1922 and 1939. During that period it is estimated that over 290,000 were built. It was also licensed and copied by foreign companies. The first BMW car, the Dixi, was an Austin 7 built under license. In France it was made and sold as Rosengarts and the Japanese Nissan company copied the design as a basis for their first cars, though not under license.

The most popular car built at Longbridge was probably the

Mini Traveller estate and Mini Cooper

original Mini, which was built between 1959 and 2000. It is claimed that 5,387,862 cars were built in total, including the varients, Riley Elf and Wolseley Hornet. There were many Mini’s out in Cofton Park, including Riley Elf and Wolseley Hornet, plus Travellers, vans and pickups. It’s successor was supposed to be the Austin Metro which was also sold as the Page 87

MG Metro and the Rover Metro before it was rebadged as the Rover 100. Over 2 million were buit during the lifetime of the model, which was outlasted by the Mini it was supposed to replace by 3 years! There were a pair of unusual Rover Metro

including original Rovers like the 90, 110, 3.5 coupe amd SD1 models, Triumph TR3, TR7, 2000, Vitesse and Herald, Jaguar Mk 2, Land Rover, Riley 1.5 and Wolseley 1500.

Some of the more unusual cars included the Austin A90 Atlantic, a four seater convertible which was originally aimed at the American market. There was a more modern Austin Allegro Estate, and a line up of 18 Rover BRM hatchbacks.

The Austin 3 litre was a big saloon fitted with a powerful 3 litre engine. It was a larger brother of the Austin 1800, (Known a the Landcrab) which BMC used as a long distance French Rover Metro Cabriolet Rover Metro GTi 16v Rally car. Neither of these were as popular as some of the previous Austin models. Both GTi 16v convertibles, one coming from France. Other Austin of these models were replaced with the Austin Maxi, which with models that were also in attendance included the Allegro, 1100, its more modern hatchback design, proved to be a popular Ambassador, Somerset, Cambridge, Oxford, A40, A35, A30, model for 1800, 3 lire and Maxi the family models from the that needed 1950s to 1970s. a little more The Austin had been space and part of the much the 1750cc larger BMC/British engine was Leyland/Leyland car a popular empires and cars choice. from other Although companies were also the factory welcome in the park, had built Morris Oxford

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Austin 3 litre saloon

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Austin 1800 rally car

Austin models for almost one hundred years, there were probably more MG badged cars in the Park. There were most of the MG sports car ranges represented which had not been built at Longbridge but were part of the group, but there were all the newer MG ZR hatchbacks and larger MG ZT saloons and estates, plus the current MG3 and new MG GS SUV, plus the MG6 saloon which have been manufactured during the Chinese ownership of Longbridge. Most of the original factories has been replaced with housing estates and a shopping centre.

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New MG6 MG GS and MG3

1975 Austin Apache.

South African built version of the Austin 1300 (ADO 16) featured different front and rear styling to the 1300. The model was built at the Leykor Assembly plant at Blackheath, Cape Town, South Africa where a total of 18,689 were built between 1971 and 1978. This is believed to be one of only 3 in the UK and was bought from one lady owner in Cape Town. It had only covered 30,000 kms. It is unrestored, the paintwork just needing a good compound and polish and fitting a new set of tyres

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Twin engined Mini Clubman Estate fitted with TWO Vauxhall engines (Front and rear).

Rare Allegro Estate

MG Montego

Austin 7 special

City Rover

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Line up of Rover BRM hatchbacks

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Flying Scotsman Rally.

Report from Andrea Seed Photos by Gerard Brown

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Concours D’elegance winners Clint & Brad Smith in a Jaguar SS100

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MG TAKES ON THE BIG ENGINES AND WINS IN A NAIL-BITING FINISH ON THE FLYING SCOTSMAN RALLY © Gerard Brown

2nd placed John Abel & Leigh Powley 1937 Lagonda LG4

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Storming into the lead at the end of day two, leap frogging John Abel and Leigh Powley with their 1937 Lagonda LG4, the MG suffered broken rear suspension issues but got back on the road thanks to the ERA’s mechanics.

The winning 1939 MG TB of Paul & Ali Proctor

It was a tight finish with the winning crew securing an overall total of 00:19:37, only 00:00:24 separating them from Abel and Powley, who have finished second for the past two years, on 00:20:01. Bill Cleyndert and Dan Harrison took third place in the © Gerard Brown 1928 Ford Model A with a total of 00:20:21.

The Endurance Rally Association’s ninth Flying Scotsman Rally ended in a nail-biting finish as the winning crew of Paul Crosby and Ali Proctor suffered two break downs in their 1939 MG TB Supercharged on the final run for the chequered flag at Gleneagles, Scotland.

Paul Crosby said: “I’m absolutely overwhelmed because we never thought

The event started at Slaley Hall in Hexham, Northumberland, with over 750miles of rally ahead of the 103 crews.

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3rd Bill Cleyndert & Dan Harrison 1928 Ford Model A

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Charlie Nearburg & James King 1927 Bentley Tourer

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Kate & Sophie Wickham 1948 MG TC © Gerard Brown

Theo Hunt & James Galliver 1933 Frazer Nash TT Rep

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Robert Wilkinson & Maurice Thompson 1926 Bentley Tourer

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Fred Gallagher, ERA Rally Director, said: “This event just gets better and better. The standard of cars and driving is excellent but the credit must go to the navigators who faced an intense challenge over the three days. Our thanks go to every crew and marshal who once again made it a fantastic event for the vintage motorist.”

There were two special awards presented at the prize giving dinner at the luxurious Gleneagles Hotel. The Concours D’elegance went to Clint Smith and Brad Smith in the 1938 Jaguar SS100. The Spirit of the Rally award went to Mitch and Wendy Gross in the 1938 BMW 328.

The 2018 Flying Scotsman Rally will take place from Thursday 26th to Sunday 29th April, marking its tenth anniversary by returning to its southern roots. Entries will open at the end of May 2017.

Pioneer winner David Ayre & Anthony Thompson 1907 Itala 40

we had any chance of coming here and winning. We’ve done two Flying Scotsman events and Ali didn’t make a mistake all weekend.

For more details including all the results and the latest updates on the forthcoming ERA events, visit www.endurorally.com © Gerard Brown

“We thought it would be a big engined car that would come here and win it. They rearranged the test very slightly this year to make it a lot fairer for smaller cars so we were good on some tests and the big cars were good on others. A brilliant event, incredibly well organised, and amazing amazing result for us.”

There was also a win for the oldest Pioneer car in the rally, the 1907 Itala 40, which is considerably well travelled having competed in the ERA’s Road to Mandalay and Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, was crewed by David Ayre and Anthony Thompson.

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Wilfried Schaefer & Sandra Hubner 1934 Talbot AV105

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David Thomson & Alan Smith 1936 Talbot 105 Alpine

Anthony & Fiona Galliers-Pratt 1926 Bentley 3-41/2

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Robert Pell & Thomas Pfeiffer 1930 Lagonda M45 Rapide

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Chris Abrey & Sara Banham 1936 BMW 328

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World Endurance Championship Rd 1 Silverstone 6 Hours

By Simon Wright.

Toyota took the victory with the No 8 car of Buemi, Davidson and Nakajima after the No 7 car was involved in a high speed off at Copse

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2nd placed Porsche 919 Hybrid of Bernhard/Bamber/Hartley

The World Endurance Championship (WEC) arrived in England for the opening round of 2017, at Silverstone over the Easter weekend. Over 50,000 fans flocked to the circuit to enjoy modern Le Mans style sports and GT racing round the fast sweeps of the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit. Reigning Champions Porsche

looked like they might have an easier season defending their title after Audi decided to withdraw from the WEC at the end of 2016, leaving Toyota as the only other major manufacturer in LMP1. With Porsche driver Mark Webber retiring at the end of 2016, Porsche had a different driver line up for 2017. The No. 1 car was driven by Neel Jani, Andre Lotterer and Nick Tandy, while the No. 2 car was driven by Timo Bernhard, Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley. Toyota also had a strong line up with former Grand Prix drivers Sebastien Buemi, Anthony Davidson and Kazuki Nakajima in the No. 8 car and Mike Conway, Kazuki Kobayashi and Jose-Maria Lopez in the No 7 Toyota. After qualifying, it was a Toyota lock out with the 7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid on pole with the 8 next to it. The two Porsche 919 Hybrid cars occupied the second row with the number 1 car in third position. The fastest LMP2 car was 5th of the grid, Roman Rusinov, Pierre Thiriet and Alex Lynn in an Oreca 07-Gibson.

The GT classes were well represented with cars from Ford,

LMP2 Oreca battle between 13 Beche/Heineneier Hansson/Piquet Jr and 37 Cheng/A Brundle/Gommendy with the Reid/Cairoli/Dienst LM GTE Am Porsche 911 RSR behind

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lead. After several light rain showers had dampened the circuit, during the fourth hour Lopez lost control of the 7 Toyota and went straight on at Copse corner, hitting the tyre barrier hard, head on. The car was very badly damaged and had to be lifted out of the gravel trap, but missing the nosecone, he managed to limp back to the pits. The team worked hard to get the car back out and it was eventually classified 4th. Lopez was taken to Hospital for a check up and

G-Drive Oreca 07- Gibson of Rusinov/Thiriet/Lynn was fastest LMP2 in qualifying

Ferrari, Porsche and Aston Martin. Fastest qualifier in the LM GTE Pro class was the Ford GT of Andy Priaulx, Harry Tincknell and Pipo Derani, while the LM GTE AM pole was taken by the Aston Martin V8 Vantage driven by Paul Dalla Lana, Pedro Lamy and Mathias Lauda.

From the start of the race on Easter Sunday, it was the pole sitting number 7 Toyota that grabbed the initial lead from the sister 8 Toyota, with Porsche holding station a little way behind.

For the first two hours the two Toyotas swopped position for the

Priaulx/Tincknell/Ferani Ford GT won LM GTE Pro class

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LM GTE Am Ferrari 488 GTE of Flohr/Castellacci/Molina was significant to the result

was later released with a clean bill of health.

The accident had brought out the safety car, which closed the field up. Porsche, who were running a low downforce package at Silverstone, had Hartley in their number 2 car in the lead with 30 minutes remaining. However Buemi emerged from a final pitstop with new Michelin tyres it was only a matter of time until the high downforce packaged Toyota re-took the lead. With just 12 minutes remaining Buemi managed to force his way past Hartley at the inside of the loop, as they exited on to the Wellington straight. Buemi, Davidson and Nakajima won by 6.173 seconds in the No 8 Toyota with Porsche taking 2nd and 3rd places with Hartley, Bernhard and Bamber 2nd Page 98

and Jani, Lotterer and Tandy 3rd. This was Toyotas 11th victory in the WEC and earned them the prestigious RAC Tourist Trophy.

The LMP2 category saw the first ever victory for a Chinese entered team, when the Jota-Sport run Jackie Chan DC Racing team Oreca 07 - Gibson of Oliver Jarvis, Thomas Laurent and Ho-Pin Tung finished 4th. They were almost 20 seconds ahead of the Vaillante Rebellion Oreca of Bruno Senna, Nicolas Prost and Julien Canal. The past LMP2 podium place went to the TDS Racing Oreca of Mathieu Vaxiviere, Emmanuel Collard and Francois Perrodo. The reigning LMP2 champions Signatech 2nd in class LM GTE Pro for Calado/Pier Guidi Ferrari 488 GTE Frederic Makowiecki and Richard Lietz. The sister Porsche 911 Alpine, with their Alpine A470 - Gibson, lead the most laps in the RSR of Michael Christensen and Kevin Estre was classified in LMP2 class driven by Nicolas Lapierre, Matt Rao and Gustavo 27th and last place, after it caught fire at Luffield.

Menzes but had slipped back to 7th overall and 4th in class by The LM GTE Am class saw a really dramatic finish when the leading No. 98 Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin V8 Vantage driven by Pedro Lamy and the No. 54 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GTE driven by Miguel Molina collided on the very last lap, giving victory to the Singapore entered Clearwater Racing No. 61 Ferrari 488 GTE of Matt Griffin, Wen Sun Mok and Keita Sewa.

They had started the last lap 3rd in class, but took the suprise victory. Lamy recovered to finish 2nd in class with Paul Dalla Lana and Mathias Lauda, while 3rd in class went to the Alpine A470 - Gibson LMP2 of Lapierre/Rao/Menzes Dempsey-Proton Racing No. 77 Porsche 911 RSR (991) of the end of the 6 hours.

Christian Reid, Matteo Cairoli and Marvin Dienst.

The top GT car was the LM GTE Pro No. 67 Ford GT from Ford Chip Ganassi Racing, driven by Andy Priaulx, Harry Tincknell and Pipo Derani in13th overall. They had an eventful race, with a loose door and a deflating tyre but still managed to take a famous victory after gaining a ‘free’ pitsop in the fourth hour safety car period. After the stop, Tincknell raced to the front, passing the then leading No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE of James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi who were 15.604 seconds behind at the chequered flag. Porsche managed to make it three manufacturers in the top three in GT with the No. 91 911 RSR of May 2017

Aston Martin nearly won LM GTE-Am win Lamy/Lauda/Della Lana

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LMP2 winnersJarvis/Laurent/Tung Oreca 07 - Gibson

LM GTE Pro Aston Martin Vantage of Turner/Adam/Serra finished 7th in class

LMP1 Enso CLM P1/01 - Nismo of Webb/Kraihamer/Rossiter had problems

LM GTE Pro Porsche 911 RSR retired when it caught fire

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Gonzalez/Trummer/Petrov Oreca 07 7th in class

N. Prost/B. Senna/Canal LMP2 Oreca 07-Gibson

Griffin/Sawa/Mok won LM GTE Am in Ferrari 488 GTE

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European Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Silverstone

By Simon Wright.

May 2017

The winning United Autosports Ligier JSP217 - Gibson ofOwen/De Sadeleer and Albuquerque.

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Ried/Camathias/Cairoli Porsche 911 RSR 991 LMGTE ahead of Lammers/Van Erd LMP2 Dallara P217 - Gibson and the winning Ligier JSP217 - Gibson of Owen/ De Sadeleer/ Albuquerque

The European Le Mans Series started at the Silverstone 4 Hours race, supporting the WEC in England over the Easter weekend.

The ELMS race was held on the Saturday afternoon and saw Pole position go to the American DragonSpeed team, their No. 21 Oreca 07 - Gibson LMP2 car driven by Ben Hanley, Henrik Hedman and N Lapierre. In LMP3, the fastest car was the AT Racing No. 9 Ligier JS P3 - Nissan of Mikkel Jensen, A

Lacorte/Sernagiotto/Aelicchi LMP2 Dallara P217 - Gibson finished 6th

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Talkantitsa and A Talka Jnr and in the LM GTE class, there was a debut ELMS pole position for the local TF Sport team No. 90 Aston Martin V8 Vantage, driven by Nicki Thiim, Salih Yoluc and Euan Hankey.

The race was full of excitement. Harley took the initial lead from pole position, but when he handed the car over to Hedman, he had a spin that dropped the car down the field. The High Class Racing No. 49 Dallara Gibson led the race on its debut with Anders Fjordbach and D Andersen driving. The No. 40 Oreca 07 - Gibson of Richard Bradley, J Allen and Franck Matelli started back in 28th place and the British driver fought his way through the field to be leading by lap 30. As half distance approached the No 25 Algarve Pro Racing Ligier - Gibson of Matt McMurray, A Pizzitola and A Roda took the lead and then Matelli dropped back to 3rd as he was passed by the No 22 GDrive Racing Oreca 07 - Gibson of Leo Roussel, M Rojas and Ryo Hirakawa, which then took the lead just after 2 hours.

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Talkanitsa/Talka Jr/Jensen LMP3 Ligier JS P3 - Nissan finished16th - 5th in class

The race came to a dramtic conclusion with just 15 minutes remaining, the No. 32 United Autosports Ligier JS P217 - Gibson of Owen, De Sadeler and Albuquerque passed the G-Drive No 22 Oreca to take victory. The High Class Racing No. 49 Dallara P217 - Gibson driven by Andersen and Fjordbach was 3rd.

In LMP3 at half distance it was the United Autosport cars in first and second in class with the No 2 Ligier-Nissan of Sean Rayhall and John Falb leading the No 3 car of Christian England, M

LMP3 Ligier JS P3 Nissan of Smiechowski/Hippe

limits and dropped back through the field. United Autosport made it a double victory winning the LMP3 class as well as the LMP2 class, Falb bringing the No. 2 home well in front of the rest.

In the LMGTE category it was the pole winning Aston Martin leading at the half way stage, but then was involved in an incident at Copse which saw the Aston Martin spin off along with the No 51 Ferrari of Gianluca Roda, Roda and A Bertolini. This gave the lead to the No. 77 Proton Competition Porsche 911 of Joel Camathias, Christian Ried and Matteo Cairoli. However, by the end of the race victory went to TF Sport with the No 90 Aston Martin V8 Vantage of Yoluc, Nankey and Thiim.

LMGTE winners Yoluc/hankey/Thiim Aston Martin V8 Vantage

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LMGTE Ferrari 488 GTE of Cameron/Griffin/Scott

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Lando Norris won the first Euro F3 race

Supporting the sports car action at Silverstone were three races for the F3 FIA European championship. This was the first round of the championship and saw rookie driver Lando Norris take pole position for the first race for the Carlin Team. The McLaren junior driver converted it to a maiden win, leading from start to finish. The 17 year old Briton beat fellow countryman Jake Dennis (Carlin) and German Maximilian Gunther (Prema Powerteam).

Callum Llott won the third Euro F3 race at Silverstone

The other series which supports the WEC is the World Series Formula V8 3.5. This is a single chassis single seater series running Dallara chassis and a Zytek 3.5 litre V8 engine. There were two races over the weekend and both were won by Brazilian Pietro Fittipaldi, the latest generation of the Fittipaldi family to race in Europe. He led the first race from pole position to the chequered flag for his maiden win in the series in the Lotus team.

Egor Orudzhev for SMP Racing by AVF was 2nd and Alfonso Cellis Jr for Fortec Motorsports was 3rd. In the second race it was a familiar story for 1st and 2nd but this time 3rd place was taken

by Roy Nissany for RP Motorsport.

Championship leader Eriksson won race two

The second race saw Joel Eriksson give the Motopark team their first FIA F3 European championship victory. Callum Llott (Prema Powerteam) was 2nd and Jake Hughes (Hitech Grand Prix) was 3rd. The final race of the F3 for the weekend, saw Callum Llott (Prema Powerteam) unbeatable, keeping second race winner Eriksson behind for 2nd and while rookie Lando Norris for Carlin was 3rd. After the three races Eriksson leads the Championship May 2017

Pietro Fittipaldi (Lotus) won both World Series Formula V8 3.5 races

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