MSA Magazine, summer 2018

MSA SUMMER 2018 THE

MAGAZINE FOR BRITISH MOTOR SPORT

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Contents

05 Forum

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Welcome letter from the editor

06 Action Replay

Silverstone welcomes World Rallycross

09 News

Latest updates and events from the MSA

17 View from the MSA

By outgoing Chief Executive Rob Jones

19 View from the Volunteer

Luke Souch, 23-year-old clerk of the course

21 View from the Competitor Drifter Steve ‘Baggsy’ Biagioni

24 Technology transfer

How the wider industrial world benefits from lessons learned on track or stage

30 Motorsport’s new dawn

Essex enthusiasts are first to capitalise on the UK’s latest closed-roads legislation

38 Education

Thruxton, 50 years old in its current guise

How students from the University of Bolton are earning their racing spurs

44 Three Sisters

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52 Place Notes 55 Toolkit

Useful equipment for regular competitors

Karting guru Bill Sisley gives popular north-western venue a fresh lease of life

59 National Court

50 Weekend Warrior

66 Club Focus

From horses to rallying: Siobhan Pugh

Reports from judicial hearings The De Dion Motor Club UK

contributors SAMARTH KANAL

LYNDON McNEIL Currently in-house photographer for Motor Sport magazine, McNeil has covered everything from stock cars to Formula 1 via drag racing. He was the ideal choice to shoot the 2018 Rally Tendring & Clacton.

By day Samarth is a staff writer for Motor Sport; by night he is a closet NASCAR aficionado. For this issue we sent him to Lancashire to see how University of Bolton students are getting a head start in race engineering.

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Editor’s letter Our cover story this month highlights a little-known benefit of motor sport: tech transfer.

This is a punchy way of saying that engineering solutions forged in motor sport competition can also have practical applications away from the track and be of real benefit to wider society.

This is not about the trickle-down effect of, say, F1 tech into road cars, but of clever ideas being harnessed for things that bear little relation to cars or transport.

Did you know that fridges in the chilled food aisle at Sainsbury’s incorporate cooling systems developed by an F1 team? That some sky-scrapers use race team wind tunnel modelling to reduce gusts at street level?

Or that babies’ lives can be saved by carbon-fibre pods developed initially to keep drivers safe in the cockpit?

But our story is about more than pub quiz facts. At a time when motor sport sometimes finds itself on the wrong side of the environmental argument, it is vitally important that the case for it is made again and again.

Motor sport is about more than just the competitors, it is also about the next generation of engineers and designers. It helps keep Britain at the cutting edge of innovation and produces technology that benefits wider society in ways that may surprise some people.

twitter feed What people are saying about the MSA on Twitter Wales Rally GB @WalesRallyGB May 31. The guys from @OfficialWRC TV have been looking over the 2018 route and the prime locations to film the exciting action. If you would also like to smell the fresh air and experience the rallying cocktail stage side, tickets are on sale at http://walesrallygb.com/tickets MSA @MSAUK May 29. @D2BDofficial made its @FIAWorldRX debut on Friday (25 May) when 100 schoolgirls descended on @SilverstoneUK for #Speedmachine. The girls, aged 8 - 11 years, were invited for an insight into the world of motor sport to see what a career in the industry could be like.

MSA @MSAUK May 24. “Without the commitment, skill, training & goodwill of volunteers it

would be impossible for motor sport participants to enjoy their passion every weekend.” #ThursdayThoughts from David Richards CBE, MSA Chairman.

Shelsley Walsh @shelsleywalsh May 23. We are very excited to confirm that we have two very special Williams F1 cars attending this year’s Classic Nostalgia. Nigel Mansell’s F1 World Championship winning FW14B from 1992 and last year’s FW40. Both cars will be on static display in the F1 Paddock area on both days.

MSA @MSAUK May 22.

Applications are open for the next @MSAAcademy AASE programme – a two-year course for drivers aged 16-18, delivered by the MSA Academy in conjunction with Loughborough College. msauk.org/aase.

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What: Speedmachine Festival, Silverstone Who: Johan Kristoffersson When: May 25-27, 2018 Defending champion Johan Kristoffersson leads during the first British round of the World Rallycross Championship to take place at Silverstone’s new facility, where WRX formed part of a double bill with live music. Having survived a semi-final clash with team-mate Petter Solberg, Swede Kristoffersson went on to take outright victory and extend his lead in the 2018 title race.

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CLACTON RALLY MARKS DAWN OF A NEW ERA

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Six thousand people turned out to watch the inaugural Corbeau Seats Rally Tendring & Clacton (22 April), the first event organised under new closed roads legislation in England.

An estimated 3500 people visited the service areas in Clacton-on-Sea, while 2500 more witnessed the competitive action from the spectator areas.

Melvyn Evans and co-driver Sean Hayde made history by winning the rally, organised by Chelmsford Motor

The number of marshals registered with the Motor Sports Association as of 1 June 2018

Club and a team of 500 marshals and officials. Hugh Hunter and Rob Fagg took second, while Kevin Proctor and Andrew Roughead completed the podium.

Mick Skeels, Tendring District Council Cabinet Member for Leisure and Tourism, said: “Speaking to spectators around the start in Clacton there was a real buzz of excitement.

Some were local residents, many not motorsport fans usually but who were keen to watch something different right on their doorstep.�

The organisers have announced that the event will return next year on 28 April.

Turn to page 30 to read our feature on this groundbreaking event.

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VNUK THREAT REMAINS

RECORD NUMBER OF REGISTERED MARSHALS

Marshal registrations are at their highest level since the MSA introduced annual renewals in 2012, with just under 10,000 dedicated volunteers now signed up. A recent survey suggests that 95 per cent of registered marshals are active, and that a quarter of them volunteer on 16 or more events per year.

David Richards CBE, MSA Chairman, praised the dedication of motor sport’s volunteers, including licensed officials, in a recent message to the community on FIA Volunteers Weekend (18-20 May).

“We are delighted to be on course to register more marshals than ever this year, as we edge towards the 10,000 milestone,” Richards wrote. “However, we must never become complacent and should always look for new ways to recruit and retain volunteers through further recognition and rewards.

“In January, I outlined my vision for UK motorsport during the Watkins Lecture at Autosport International, where I described volunteers as being, ‘the very life blood of motor sport’.

“I pledged to ensure that the huge wisdom and skills of our dedicated long-serving volunteers are passed on to the next generation; it will not happen overnight but in time I believe we can put the right initiatives in place to ensure that the volunteering community continues to thrive well into the future.”

The MSA will refocus its response to the Vnuk threat on national legislation, following the publication of proposed new text for Europe’s Motor Insurance Directive that does not exclude motorsport, despite lobbying by the MSA and other stakeholders.

Vnuk is a 2014 European Court judgement that would require all vehicles, including competition cars, to have compulsory third party insurance.

Simon Blunt, MSA General Secretary, said: “Despite lobbying, there doesn’t appear to be an appetite in Brussels to exclude motorsport from the Motor Insurance Directive.

However, this is not cause for the motorsport industry to panic.

“The UK’s Road Traffic Act will need to be amended to implement the proposed new Directive if and when it is finalised, so we will work with the Department for Transport to ensure that motorsport is excluded from any such changes to the Act.”

HUNDREDS INTRODUCED TO GRASSROOTS MOTOR SPORT The MSA gave 1300 people their first taste of club motor sport with free autoSOLO passenger rides at Speedmachine (26-27 May) and MotoFest Coventry (2-3 June), in conjunction with local motor clubs.

Oxford Motor Club ran the initiative at the UK’s round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship at Silverstone. Club competitors gave 600 people passenger rides.

The following weekend,

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Loughborough Car Club joined the MSA at MotoFest Coventry, where a city centre car park was transformed into an autotest venue. This time 700 enjoyed their rides.

Suze Endean, MSA Development Manager, said: “Everyone who had a ride said, ‘I can really do this? Where and when?’ We’ll be following up to steer them towards their local clubs.

We really appreciate Oxford MC’s and Loughborough CC’s support.”

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GB TAKES TO THE STREETS

This year’s Dayinsure Wales Rally GB (4-7 October) will feature closed public roads for the first time, marking the start of a new era for world championship motor sport on UK streets.

Capitalising on new closed roads legislation, round 11 of the FIA World Rally Championship will finish on the Great Orme and the streets of Llandudno in front of thousands of spectators.

In total, the route will feature 24 stages totalling more than 200 competitive miles. The first leg will include sections of closed road to create new challenges in the classic Brenig, Alwen and Penmachno forests.

Friday also heralds the introduction of a new double-header stage at Slate

Mountain, home to Zip World.

A gruelling ‘Super Saturday’ will encompass Myherin, Sweet Lamb, Hafren, Dyfi and Gartheiniog. Sunday morning features two forest tests run twice in Snowdonia, before finishing with the Great Orme Llandudno stage.

M-Sport’s Elfyn Evans, winner of the 2017 Dayinsure Wales Rally GB, welcomed the changes. “It looks like a great route with the inclusion of the Orme combined with all the fantastic forest stages,” he said. “The finale through the streets of Llandudno will be very, very spectacular.”

All the WRC teams will be based once again at the Deeside Rally Village, located in the grounds of the Toyota UK engine manufacturing plant, where public admittance is free.

in brief RALLY REQUIREMENTS UPDATED

SEEDING POSITION RELAXED

COMMITTEE APPLICATIONS

The latest version of the MSA Stage Rally Safety Requirements (SRSRs) has been published with effect from 1 July. The SRSRs represent a common template for the organisation of all UK stage rallies, as part of the RallyFuture programme to enhance safety further. The new version includes procedural updates reflecting the recently announced change from yellow to red flags, in line with FIA regulations. The SRSRs are available on the MSA website at msauk.org/rallyfuture.

In a move designed to support twowheel-drive and historic competitors, the MSA has relaxed its position to allow for split fields and more flexible seeding in stage rallying. David Richards CBE, MSA Chairman (left), said: “The MSA’s position on seeding has always been subject to regular review and I’m pleased that we have reached a point where we can once again accommodate two-wheel-drive and historic machinery on the smoothest roads at the front of the field.”

Anyone wishing to contribute to the governance of motor sport has until 22 June to apply for vacancies on several of the Specialist Committees. The Specialist Committees meet two or three times a year to discuss new regulations and other issues. They recommend regulation changes to the Motor Sports Council, which then approves them for ratification by the MSA Board. To find out which committees have vacancies and how to apply, visit msauk.org/governance.

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FAREWELL TO

Decision makers: Jack Aitken flanked by Steve Jones and David Coulthard

C4 F1 AND MSA TEAM UK PICK FIA F1 FUTURE STARS Channel 4 F1® and Renault Sport F1 reserve driver Jack Aitken helped the MSA select 10 young British karters as FIA F1 Future Stars for this year’s Rolex British Grand Prix at Silverstone (8 July).

The MSA pre-selected its reigning Bambino Kart Champion, Archie Clark, then invited kart licence holders to record a short video saying why they wanted to be an FIA F1 Future Star.

Channel 4 F1’s Steve Jones and David Coulthard sat down with MSA Team UK member and F2 racer Aitken to review the videos.

They selected: Summer Chapman; Callie Clifford; Zain Khan; Monde Jnr Konini; Jason Park; Skye Parker; Leo Robinson; Lucas Ross Cameron; and Ronnie Shrimpton.

“I couldn’t believe how many trophies some of these youngsters had in the background – I didn’t win as many in 30 years of racing!” said Coulthard. “I’m really looking forward to meeting the FIA F1 Future Stars at Silverstone and who knows, a future F1 world champion could be among them.”

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MARGARET FORREST Margaret Forrest, assistant to the chairman and chief executive, has left the Motor Sports Association after 30 years.

Margaret joined in 1988 as a personal assistant and went on to work with five chairmen and six chief executives. She was actively involved in the move from the MSA’s Belgrave Square premises in London to Motor Sports House in Colnbrook. She enjoyed meeting a broad spectrum of the motor sport community through her MSA work, a highlight of which was being invited by HRH Prince Michael, the Honorary President of the Motor Sports Council, to a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.

“It has been a real journey with the MSA, no two days having been the same” Margaret said. “I will miss everyone, but I am also looking forward to having the time to pursue my other interests.”

The MSA wishes Margaret well for the future and she would be delighted to hear from her motor sport friends – meeforrest@googlemail.com.

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Opinion

View from the MSA

Rob Jones Stepping down, but planning to stay involved

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hen I was 17 my neighbour, Merlin Thomas, asked if I’d be interested in watching a rally. I was interested in motor sport but not familiar with night events, so when the first Ford Escort came out of the dark and went sideways across a stone bridge to the cheers of dozens of people lining the route at 1am, my life changed; I knew that, in future, it must include the excitement that only motor sport can provide.

In many ways, my evolution from that youngster to Chief Executive of the MSA mirrored that of the sport itself. When I first sat in a competition car I was wearing a sweatshirt, jeans and trainers; the car had no side impact protection, nor a fire extinguisher or first-aid kit. Yet as I progressed I gained a keener appreciation of the need to protect myself in order to safeguard my future involvement and enjoyment, and I believe the sport has also been on the same journey.

As I write, it is 31 May, my last day at the helm of the governing body. Much more poignantly, it is also four years to the day since tragedy befell the Jim Clark Rally.

The MSA’s response to that fateful day – and to the similarly tragic incident on the 2013 Snowman Rally – has dominated my time as Chief Executive.

I am proud to have led the organisation successfully through such a challenging period, as we sought to show

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the world that stage rallying could embrace a safety-first culture and thus secure a bright future.

I am equally pleased that the strategic review of our organisation that I started in 2015 is continuing with renewed impetus and expediency under David Richards’ leadership. It is a fact of life that people and organisations can be resistant to change, but change we must if we are to keep pace with the world around us and be ready to seize new opportunities as they unfold.

However, the number one highlight of the last few years must be the success of our campaign for closed-road motor sport.

The new legislation presently in place in England and Wales allows us to take motor sport to the people and inspire new people to get involved. We now hope that Scotland will follow suit, so that closed-road motor sport will soon be possible across the whole of the United Kingdom.

Being MSA Chief Executive has never been just a job.

It has been the culmination of a lifetime’s involvement in motor sport, during which I have been a spectator, a marshal, on the clocks and radios, an event organiser, a motor sport lawyer, a rally co-driver and [bad!] driver, a karting dad and a club racer. The sport has given me so much and I hope that I have been able to give something back during my time at Motor Sports House.

I will remain very involved with the sport through ongoing roles with the FIA and I hope to see many familiar and friendly faces in paddocks across the country for years to come. In the meantime, I would like to say a simple ‘thank you’ to all those who have made my time at the Motor Sports Association such a wonderful experience.

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View from the volunteer

Luke Souch MX-5 racer... and a clerk of the course at 23 years old

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was first introduced to motor sport in about 2004, when I was nine years old and went with my family to a meeting at Thruxton. My father started to marshal for the BRSCC shortly afterwards and my interest in the sport really spiralled after I attended the Silverstone round of the Le Mans Endurance Series in 2005, to watch my dad marshalling – because that was cool at 10 years old! That same weekend, Abi Lee – now a good friend and my surrogate racing mother – arranged for me to have a tour of race control and a passenger ride in the course car. From that moment I was hooked.

I began as a motor sport volunteer soon afterwards, though because of my age my activities were rather limited to making tea and delivering results bulletins. I soon decided, though, that one day I would like to be a clerk of the course. As I grew I was able to develop within the BRSCC and MSA grading structure, managing the assembly area before I went on to become a flag marshal and, later, chief observer.

In recent years it has become evident that not enough youngsters are learning the ropes when it comes to organising or officiating. The majority of clerks, stewards and other officials are now relatively mature, which provides great experience and knowledge – and they are more than willing to pass that on to new blood – but does

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not secure the future of our sport. This became a great concern of mine.

For this reason I began to consider my progress within the sport more seriously.

How could I learn and benefit from the experience of role models such as Dave Pierre and Peter Daly, who are both international clerks, or Glynn Lee, another very experienced clerk?

I’d been thinking about applying to become an MSA clerk for a while, but was deterred by the stigma of being ‘too young’ – I was only 18 at the time, after all. So here’s some advice: age is not necessarily a barrier.

It wasn’t until the MSA’s Cheryl Lynch suggested that I apply for my probationary licence, during a discussion at the British Grand Prix in 2014, that I realised it really was possible.

After training, I qualified in June 2017 at the age of 22.

Being a clerk of the course brings many challenges and I feel I’m finally giving something positive back to the sport that played a huge part of my childhood. I enjoy interacting with drivers – and they remain very respectful, despite my age! It probably helps that I also hold a race licence – I compete in the BRSCC Mazda MX-5 championship – so can relate to many of the points they all want to discuss.

Qualifying as the UK’s youngest clerk of the course was very satisfying, but I would like to see others following in my footsteps. Our sport attracts plenty of young drivers, but for it to grow in the future we need lots more young officials who can continue to set the standards and foundations that have been created by our elders, while also bringing some fresh ideas to the table.

If anybody needs tips or advice, feel free to contact me via luke.souch@outlook.com.

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View from the competitor

Steve

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Biagioni The drift driver on the sport’s success

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believe that drifting is the most exciting thing you can do with a car. For me, it’s an expression of your personality as well as being a really exciting form of motor sport. It’s really something that people, young people especially, can get involved in.

I started out in karting from a very young age, then went to motocross and car racing but I fell in love with drifting. Now I’m competing in the European Drift Masters Championship, and later in the year I’ll be heading to America to do demonstrations – as I did last year – at NASCAR events.

Whether it should become an MSA-sanctioned motor sport is a point of contention, and one that has been debated for a very long time now. I understand both sides of the argument. On the one hand there are those who like the way it is being run at the moment. They claim that it’s a myth that drifting needs MSA involvement to become more professional, and argue that in actual fact drifting is very much a professionally run sport.

Unlike say, 10 years ago, when it was a street event only, drifting is now one of the most popular forms of motor sport in the UK and takes place at mainstream motor sport events. For example, at the WRX round – Speedmachine – at Silverstone, everybody was very excited to see the drift

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cars out on track, and the demo at the 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed was really popular as well.

On the other hand, I also appreciate the professionalism in the way that MSA events are run, and think that drifting could benefit from its experience of putting on large-scale events. It might also bring the sport to a wider audience – people who may love motor sport but might not think that drifting is for them. And it might also attract competitors from other disciplines too.

I’m not against the MSA taking over drifting, and I do believe it needs to take drifting more seriously and look into having more involvement. It would be good for our British governing body to recognise drifting like foreign governing bodies do.

The hardest thing about it is that I don’t have an international licence because drifting isn’t governed by the MSA. I have to go to championships abroad and register for a licence in that country, because the UK can’t provide me with anything other than a non-race National B Licence.

I also think it could be a win-win arrangement. I strongly believe that the MSA needs drifting and could benefit from it and learn from it too.

Drifting is one of the fastest-growing, most up-andcoming sports out there, particularly for young people.

And the reason is that drifting is very accessible – you can still build a car at home with mum and dad and compete – but there are some big teams out there too.

It’s a massive sport that’s growing faster and faster, and I think that the MSA could definitely benefit from putting drifting on its roster in the future.

If you look at attendance figures and popularity, drifting is mega, and that’s got to be good news for everyone involved in motor sport.

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ext time you grab a TV dinner from the supermarket, stride confidently in your wellies across a sea of mud at Glastonbury while all around slip and slide away – or arrive on time thanks to a super-efficient rail network – offer a silent ‘thank you’ to motor sport.

It’s a little-known fact that the tentacles of motor sport and particularly F1 – which for years has operated at the very edges of science – now reach into every aspect of civilian life, almost from cradle to grave.

Did you know, for instance, that critically ill new-borns frequently rely on the ‘Babypod 20’, a high-tech capsule developed to transport sick infants by ambulance, car or helicopter, and based on the very same technology used to protect F1 drivers in their racing cars?

Designed by Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), sister company to the F1 team and based at the same site in Grove, Oxfordshire, the Babypod – as used by Great Ormond Street Hospital in London – draws on the firm’s experience of building super-strong carbon-fibre survival cells created to withstand high-speed crashes. ❱❱

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The pods cost £5000 and are designed to protect vulnerable babies from vibration, shock and temperature changes, when they need to be transported. Weighing just 9.1kg, the pods are compact but can withstand an impact of up to 20g, in case of an accident. Crucially they also allow constant monitoring of the baby.

It’s not only the young that benefit from years of R&D into motor sport tech. At the other end of the age scale, McLaren Applied Technologies (MAT) – part of the McLaren Group, which includes the McLaren F1 team – has developed the ‘Invincibility Shield’, which could bring significant benefits to the fragile and elderly.

It sounds like something a superhero would don to fight the forces of evil but in fact it’s a wearable ‘vest’ that protects vital organs, including the heart and lungs, post-surgery. It incorporates Zylon fibres, used by all F1 teams on their cars for protection against side penetration, backed by carbon fibres for rigidity. McLaren’s suit was made as a one-off for an anonymous customer and the company has not confirmed whether it has plans to make the technology more widely available.

Even so, to some in the industry it is motor sport’s relevance to the wider world that is its most underrated strength. “History will say that the gift motor sport really gave the world in the 21st century was not flappy gear-change paddles and ceramic brakes,” says Nick Wirth, founder of Wirth Research, a company that specialises in design and manufacture for the motor racing industry. “The real gift is super-high resolution, high-technology tools developed in the fire of motor sport competition, where if it works you win

and if it doesn’t you die; tools and technologies that are solving real-world problems. That is how motor sport will be remembered in the future.”

Wirth knows all about transferring technology from the race track to the wider world. His company is currently working on a Vertical Take-off And Landing (VTOL) advanced terrain mapping drone, powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. Influenced by the firm’s research into lightweight motor sport technology, the unmanned drone offers new opportunities to pipeline and powerline industries, delivering power to your home, as well as ordnance clearing operations and surveillance.

Equally impressive is work Wirth conducted with Lockheed Martin, developing a powerful 110-mile range, 1.5kg reconnaissance drone for launch from Royal Navy submarines. Bristling with secret communications technology, it transmits data back to the sub – which remains under water. Wirth is even using its aerodynamic expertise to help leading architectural firms design large buildings in such a way so that they don’t create nasty wind surges for passers-by.

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“Williams developed the Aerofoil Fridge, which cuts energy use in supermarket cabinets”

Some motor sport-inspired innovations have more everyday applications, however. Prodrive, one of Britain’s leading motor sport consultancies which made its name in rallying, is currently using its expertise in working with carbon fibre to manufacture the world’s lightest folding bike, in partnership with Banbury based firm Hummingbird.

Petre Craciun, the designer of the Hummingbird Bike which weighs just 6.9kg, says Prodrive’s expertise was crucial in bringing its carbon-fibre bicycle to market.

“We joined the engineering team at Prodrive and we used FEA (finite element analysis) technology to calculate strength and bring the bike up to international standards.

Prodrive uses FEA software on its race and rally cars, which is something that translated over to our bike. That’s how we engineered it.”

Finite element analysis is a numerical simulation that engineers use to model the behaviour of a material or fluid, forgoing the need for a physical prototype. “I built the original concept myself. We re-engineered it using Prodrive’s facilities, because it needed quite a lot of work to

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pass safety tests and be strong enough to work in different environments. That’s where the race car engineering side comes in, as Prodrive used advanced simulations and computer modelling to analyse the structural integrity of the bike.

“Using Prodrive’s software, we managed to adjust the geometry and the ride. Prodrive had the knowledge to manufacturer it and the factory in Milton Keynes. It was the right partnership, and proved a massive advantage for us as they made the bike ready for manufacturing.”

Hummingbird was Prodrive’s first commercial project but it is also working with Wavetricity to create a waveenergy converter: the ‘ocean wave rower’. Its motor sport-based approach, in quickly taking ideas to the prototype stage, means that the Wavetricity device is now being tested and developed to harness wave power and bring it back to shore. Wavetricity says that the offshore platforms could benefit governments of “vulnerable island communities” that need to rely on 100 per cent renewable energy sources.

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being worked on by a motor sport company. Williams Advanced Engineering is also developing solar-powered fridges for bicycle-based ice cream vendors and it successfully developed the Aerofoil Fridge, which significantly cuts energy consumption of open-fronted fridges – such as those stocking your TV dinner in supermarkets. Already 130,000 have been sold and 4000 stores will have fitted or trialled the new tech by the end of 2019.

Paul Crewe, Sainsbury’s Head of Sustainability, Engineering, Energy and Environment, says: “By keeping the cold air in our fridges using this technology, we’ll see an energy reduction of up to 15 per cent, which when multiplied across all of our stores is a significant amount

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McLaren has had input into Singapore trains and medical vest, top right, while drones and even boots have gained from race technology firms

of energy saved. By looking outside our industry and borrowing technology from an industry that is renowned for its speed and efficiency, we are accelerating how we are reducing the impact on the environment whilst making shopping in Sainsbury’s stores a more comfortable experience.”

Williams has even turned its attention to washing powder – using its wind tunnel knowhow to develop an advanced system for household giant Unilever to dry soap flakes, while minimising energy consumption. It’s also planning to create advanced mobility wheelchairs – a spin-off of work it undertook for Paralympian Karen Darke, when the firm made her futuristic hand bike lighter and more aerodynamic.

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“The company has turned its attention to washing powder, using aero tech to dry soap flakes”

Paul McNamara, Technical Director at Williams Advanced Engineering, says creating solutions for wider society is a way of making use of facilities it already has: “We have two wind tunnels here for F1 and with the FIA regulations we can’t use them full time, so filling those wind tunnels is definitely a key objective of ours. They are useful for our other work, and for automotive work.

“The other great resource we have here because of F1 is a really great machining shop, a great composite shop and great rapid prototype manufacturing facilities, plus the expertise that goes with this. This is because the F1 cars are essentially made on-site – the only component that has to come from elsewhere is the engine. So we have a factory capable of doing everything else; the way we are organised

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is that we talk about a factory that services both a Formula 1 team and our department of engineering and business.

“Basically, we can leverage a lot of capability. Also as a group, what we want to offer sponsors and partners is not just the marketing platform (and ultimately the car is a marketing platform), but also a partnership with Williams that can develop a product or processes via F1 and can assist your business in a wider way.”

McLaren, meanwhile, has seen its own highperformance motor sport components – computerised sensors honed in the high-stress environment of the F1 cockpit – pressed into use on trains in Singapore, detecting technical or mechanical problems before they bring the transit system to a halt. The technology is expected to be rolled out in other parts of the globe.

Another forward-thinking F1 spin-off is the electrified digger being developed by WAE in conjunction with Finnish industry and trade conglomerate Wihuri. Calling on Williams’ electrification expertise, it is emissions-free and quieter too, enabling it to work beyond usual innercity curfews – perhaps when workmen are rushing to restore your leaking gas supply overnight.

While we’re on the subject of noxious emissions, that’s another area in which F1 tech is racing to the rescue.

Working with aerospace and space group Thales, WAE has developed an advanced air sampling device to detect minute quantities of bio hazards even in challenging outdoor windy conditions – thanks, again, to development trials in its wind tunnel labs.

Through its independently managed £20 million Foresight fund, WAE is also investing £500,000 in Southampton-based Utonomy, a ground-breaking intelligent ‘gas grid solutions provider’, to help it fight the leakage of methane from gas distribution networks.

The system automatically optimises gas distribution pressures through electro-mechanical actuators, retrofitted to the network and controlled by intelligent cloud-based software. It sounds fanciful – a long way from the racetrack – but leakage is a global problem, costing consumers £5 billion a year and damaging the environment.

But what about those wellingtons? Distinguished boot manufacturer Le Chameau teamed with Michelin – supplier of competition tyres across motor sport – and used its Ultraflex technology to create the Ceres boot, claimed to deliver extra high levels of grip on wet concrete – and slippy, festival mud. n

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For the first time motor sport took to closed public roads in England – and the first fruits are apparent. By Jack Benyon

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historic day for motor sport in Britain,” is how 1981 world rally champion co-driver David Richards described the Corbeau Seats Rally Tendring and Clacton, the first event to run under new closed-road laws, in April.

And unlike many rallies in which the new Motor Sports Association’s chairman has competed alongside a certain flying Finn, this one went smoothly and completely to plan. When considering the number of people and the sheer amount of work that went into the event, held on the Tendring Peninsula slightly more than 80 miles north-east of London, it’s even more difficult to believe.

The aforementioned legislation change, in place since April last year, means local authorities can suspend the Road Traffic Act for authorised events in England, negating the need for a costly and time-consuming Act of Parliament for each event.

Explained in a short paragraph it appears simple. But lobbying for the new laws, then having them drafted and implemented, was nothing short of an extraordinary effort led by a small number of people at the MSA and the Department of Transport.

The process began in 2011 for the MSA, with thencommunications director Ben Taylor leading the lobbying.

Motor clubs were contacted and were asked to step forward with expressions of interest. One of those was Chelmsford Motor Club (CMC), and competitor Tony Clements was on it in a flash.

Having initially looked at Norfolk, by the time the legislation was passed there was interest from Tendring District Council (TDC) and, after positive meetings, planning began. But the plan to hold a large-scale rally had been part of CMC’s plans for a long time.

“As a club we have developed a plan that always included promoting a national championship rally,” says Clements. “It was always in our minds that the reason we were running Brands Hatch and the other single-venue event and building up a war chest was so that we had the backing to run an event of this nature.

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“Obviously the CMC board gave it quite a lot of scrutiny on the budget front, there was a lot of talking about it, but there was never any doubt, it was something for which we had been preparing for 10 years.”

The current rallying climate had been crying out for an event that could be taken to the people. With motor sport struggling to elbow its way on to the mainstream agenda and reach people previously outside the sport, taking events into densely populated areas as well as into the traditional remote forests is only going to become more important in the future. It’s a strong way to engage the grass roots and find the next group of volunteers and competitors.

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This being the first, there were several interesting challenges involved. Things as obvious as preparing a route suitable for the event, down to making sure the correct signage would be ready and supplied.

It took more than 500 volunteers to make the event run.

It took them 193 pages of A4 for stage set-up and safety plans. It took a police anti-terrorism unit to keep an eye on proceedings. It truly was an event of stature.

The person in charge of the marshals was Matt Endean, a man with input at Chelmsford MC and at the MSA through a role with the rallies committee.

“The biggest surprise was how far people were willing to travel,” Endean says. “We had people coming from all over the place. Many of them were saying they’d never spoken to so many new people about rallying.

“The locals were bringing gazebos, teas, ice creams, that sort of thing. That story was repeated throughout the route.”

One marshal travelled all the way from John O’Groats, and the whole community truly united behind the event, sensing the chance to be part of something special and also out of a desire to see the rally run successfully.

Despite an adverse reaction from a small number of residents in advance, there was no trouble on the day.

Quite the opposite in fact, as drivers reported crowded road sections lined with enthusiastic locals.

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sitting out in the beer garden. It’s brilliant,” says competitor Guy Butler, who drove a Toyota Corolla.

“Everyone has been thumbs up and waving. There’s a real carnival atmosphere; it’s our own version of [Rally] Barbados.”

The fixture was certainly helped by balmy weather. It had a real festival atmosphere, and it’s estimated that more than 6000 people came out to watch the groundbreaking event.

Stages of between 1.5 and 3 miles greeted the competitors for 45-miles of asphalt action. An early charge from Melvyn Evans extended a lead that couldn’t be reeled in by his hard charging fellow Welshman Hugh Hunter in his Ford Fiesta RS WRC. “It’s incredible,” said Subaru Impreza driver Evans at the finish, with reference to winning England’s first closedroad rally. “I think I can retire now.

“It’s good, credit to the organisers because putting your neck on the line and doing it takes a lot.

“There are crowds of spectators and it’s great to see.”

Talking to Evans and his rivals down the field, it was clear to see the event was a massive success. Key

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to it was the Chelmsford MC’s approach. There was no over-exuberance. Everything they did was planned and executed. There was no biting off more than they could chew. They ran a short, compact event, and pulled it off brilliantly.

“It’s the first time we’ve had closed public roads under the new legislation, and if we can build on what Chelmsford Motor Club has done here, and the regional car clubs that have supported it, then we have a great blueprint for the future,” says Richards. “Walking around and talking to so many people who have not experienced motor sport before, it’s a challenge.

“There are spectators who would never go to Brands Hatch, who would never watch a rally in normal circumstances... Add all that up and bear in mind that the sun was shining – you can’t beat it!

“If local economies embrace this, as I’m sure they will, it’s positive.

“There’s a big opportunity for a resurgence in rallying, especially when you look at the cars here. There are some lovely cars coming out and they wouldn’t appear on gravel, they’d probably take them to Belgium or France. [Now] we can retain that business in England.”

The Corbeau Seats Rally Tendring & Clacton marked the start of a new era of closed-road events, not only in England but also in Wales, where equivalent legislation commenced in February this year. It also showed what can be achieved by an energised organising club.

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School of racing Samarth Kanal explains how University of Bolton students are able to get hands-on experience in a variety of disciplines

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ou can’t win anything with kids,” said soccer pundit Alan Hansen once.

Utter those words to Dr Mark Busfield, director of the National Centre of Motorsport Engineering at the University of Bolton and you’ll swiftly be contradicted.

And with good reason. Busfield along with his university’s performance and motor sport engineering students across all three years, have been working with leading rallycross outfit Albatec Racing and its driver Mark Higgins to create a winning team. Together they have taken victory at Lydden Hill and are in contention for the MSA British Rallycross title in their 600 horsepower, four-wheel-drive Peugeot 208.

The £13 million National Centre for Motorsport Engineering houses a scale wind-tunnel, 3D printers, CNC machines and facilities to model and produce parts from

materials such as carbon fibre. Students pursuing motor sport engineering degrees also have the chance to work with British GT squad Team HARD Racing and University of Bolton-based automotive start-up Keating Supercars.

Busfield has run a number of racing projects such as Nissan’s BTCC effort, Chevrolet’s WTCC campaign and CRS Racing, McLaren’s former GT racing partner.

“I approached Albatec about the collaboration,” says Busfield, “and [team owner] Andy Scott came down and was really blown away. It’s unique as Albatec has gifted and loaned Mark Higgins’ Peugeot rallycross car to us, and the students interact and work on the car between events and work on it under Albatec’s supervision during events.

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“They’ll be happy to give you something to do and tell you how to do it” performance and range of electric vehicles, and that’s something you want to be involved in.”

The students in the programme are involved with the preparation of the vehicle, making sure everything is in order for the shakedown and then the event; sorting out the car for scrutineering and everything in between.

Second-year student Naomi Knight explains that they’re put into pairs and given a corner of the car to work on every Wednesday – in the students’ free time.

“We’re in charge of everything in that corner,” she says.

“We take the wheel off and do checks on everything. We’re also taught to strip the entire bit of the car off. Say we need to change a brake disc, we’ve learned how to take it out

and put it back as fast as possible in order to help improve our skills.”

Albatec’s team of engineers – based in Dumfries, Scotland – works closely with the students as Higgins’s car is housed at the university most of the time. The group from Bolton does, however, have the chance to visit Dumfries to work on the car as well.

“The team is really lovely,” continues Knight, who has also worked with Team HARD and its Ginetta G55 GT4 through the university’s programme. “They want to get to know us and they’re interested in how we’re getting on, which is great. If you want to help out, they’ll be happy to give you something to do and teach you exactly how to do it.”

Fellow student Adam Grisely, also in the second year of his course, works on the data side of the car. “The cars have a VBOX [race data logger] and I’ll extract the data, sort it out and match it with the corresponding video.

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as the championship has regulations surrounding the use of data as well.

“For the first race, Mark came over and had a chat with me. He showed me the data that he wanted to look at, with the in-car video footage and corresponding lap times, so he could improve his use of the racing line,” explains Grisely.

Higgins himself has a wealth of experience under his belt and a reputation as a dependable driver, which makes the partnership with Bolton even more rewarding for the students – but it puts a fair amount at stake as this is Higgins’s debut season in the BRX supercar class. The Wales-based driver holds the car record around the Isle of Man in a Prodrive-built Subaru – in which he averaged 128.730mph in 2016 – and has won the British Rally Championship three times.

“It’s gone quite well for us this season, and what the students have done is really impressive,” he says.

“They’ve got a fantastic facility at Bolton and it’s great that the whole project works together.” The first round at Silverstone was a particularly competitive affair, as Sébastien Loeb made a victorious cameo, and World

The university’s bright, airy engineering lobby houses a fine array of competition cars

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Rallycross regulars Andreas Bakkerud and Timmy Hansen were added to the mix. Higgins, unfortunately, retired from fifth with a driveshaft problem, though the students visited Dumfries after that round to work on the car.

His team-mate and team owner Scott speaks just as highly about the course at Bolton. “We have a resource here, with the students and the knowledge that they have.

Yes, we invest time and effort, but it’s a great extension to our team. Depth in numbers is the best way to describe it.

“They have a state-of-the-art facility. When I first went there I was imagining a dreary, dark warehouse, but it’s gleaming. It looks like a BMW car showroom, with racing cars in the lobby. I find it hard to believe that there are many better facilities around, to be honest.”

Now, as the team prepares to contest its first World Rallycross round with Higgins at the wheel, the pressure is well and truly on, as a group will be working on the car and another will be sent to work with the scrutineers at the event. But second-year student Knight is unfazed.

“The pressure helps because we’re proud of the team and Mark is such a good driver. We put pressure on ourselves because we want to do better and we constantly want to improve ourselves.”

And team boss Scott sees the partnership as something more than just a vehicle for short-term success. “You need to give something back,” he says. “We’re desperately short of good engineers in this country, so we hope that what we’re providing will make sure more people pop-up in paddocks across the country – and it’d be a pleasure to see that we’ve helped people along in their career.” n

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Three Sisters reborn

Risen from the

Last year the Three Sisters circuit looked like closing, but with expert guidance it’s once again raring to go. By Paul Lawrence

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or 40 years the Three Sisters circuit near Wigan, Lancashire, has delivered grassroots motor sport to the major population centres of the North West. Now, after a couple of turbulent years, the venue is under new control and its future looks brighter than ever.

Motorsport Circuit Management Ltd, which has Christopher Tate as Executive Chairman, now has a long lease on the venue and, with the backing of City of London shareholders, has already implemented a major programme of investment. Most obvious is the complete resurfacing of the track at a cost of about £250,000; the first such project in the venue’s four decades.

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To head up the regeneration of the venue, MCM has drafted in the proven expertise of Bill Sisley, the man who developed the Buckmore Park venue in Kent. Sisley sold Buckmore Park to the late John Surtees in 2013 and retired, but he was coaxed out of retirement for an interim period to get Three Sisters back on its feet.

Although widely known as a prominent kart track, that accounts for only about 20 per cent of the activity at Three Sisters according to Sisley. “It’s not just a kart track: it does many things and is multi-functional,” he says. “A main aim was to secure the MSA events held there and we want to expand on that. We’re very keen to make contact with people and clubs who want to run MSA events.” ❱❱

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The Three Sisters story dates back to the 1860s when mining started at the nearby Garswood Hall Colliery. Coal was extracted right through until 1958 and the mining process left a legacy of three huge spoil heaps, always known locally as ‘The Three Sisters’. It also earned the area the nickname of the Wigan Alps.

Eventually, work to reclaim and refresh the area moved ahead under the direction of Wigan Council and, over a period of 20 years, the spoil heaps evolved into woodlands and open spaces.

The reclamation began in the late 1970s, and included the creation of the Three Sisters Nature Reserve, taking in a boating lake and picnic area as well as a wildlife wetland.

An extensive network of footpaths attracts walkers, cyclists and horse riders. Meanwhile, the Three Sisters race track was also constructed as part of the regeneration.

For many years the venue operated effectively and became a mecca for kart racing. Previously, under the management of club racers John Hammersley and Malcolm Barfoot, the venue was home to a thriving racing school and well as some high-profile karting.

In 1999 Three Sisters hosted its first round of the McLaren Mercedes Champions of the Future series, a karting initiative aimed at young, aspiring drivers from all backgrounds – and notable for spotlighting the talent of a young Lewis Hamilton in the Cadet class.

Unfortunately, after a change of ownership, things started to go downhill and by 2016 the venue was in trouble. Amid financial traumas, Three Sisters effectively

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Named after three spoil tips (above), the track now hosts all sorts of motor sport events

closed mid-2017 and was largely out of use until January.

Now, the new operators are busy re-establishing this truly multi-discipline motor sport venue.

Sisley, now 65 years old, is central to the track’s rebirth and his pedigree is impeccable. “This is not a long- term appointment for me,” he says from the start. “My brief was to turn it around and set up a structure. I thought I’d retired when I sold Buckmore Park!” Sisley’s involvement in the sport goes back more than 50 years, as he worked with karting supremo John Brise aged just 17 and went on to prepare the Formula Ford Elden raced by future F1 racer Tony Brise in the early 1970s.

Sisley was instrumental in nurturing the early career of Johnny Herbert. “He was one of the great natural talents in karting along with Ayrton Senna and Terry Fullerton,” he says. Sisley also worked at Brands Hatch, developing the kart track behind the Kentagon and running all the offroad activity at Brands.

In 1985 he took over Buckmore Park, which was about to close, and over 30 years developed it into a state-of-the-art 1200m international kart track, with more than 150,000 active users each year. Then John Surtees invested in Buckmore, which later turned into an equity share and in 2013 Surtees bought the whole site. Since Surtees’s death, his family has continued to manage the track.

However, Sisley’s retirement plans were soon derailed.

“I got a call out of the blue asking if I’d like to get involved at Three Sisters,” he says. “It had not had a happy recent past. It was closed down and dilapidated. It was a sad ❱❱

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story but it had massive potential. My brief was to use my experience to turn it around.”

One of Sisley’s first moves was to bring in some team members who had worked with him at both Brands Hatch and Buckmore Park, notably operations expert Chris Pullman, who was also tempted out of retirement. At a stroke, extensive experience of operating a venue of this nature was on tap for Three Sisters.

The first major work was to resurface the whole track, a task that finished in January as part of a large investment programme to improve the infrastructure on an on-going basis. The circuit is floodlit during the spring and summer season and open seven days a week, all year round.

“It was important to get people to come and it didn’t have a good name locally,” says Sisley. Understandably, customers left in limbo when the track closed in 2017 were vocal in their criticism and work is continuing to rebuild a dented reputation.

“Securing the MSA events held there was a primary aim,

The reinvigorated track is busy most days of the week

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but there’s much more to do,” says Sisley. “Wigan Council owns the freehold and is now very supportive. We are already operating five days out of seven.”

Aside from karting, this is a venue that hosts singlevenue rallies, sprints, motorcycle racing, Supermoto events, buggies and more. Drifting arrives this summer and car and bike track days are now on the schedule. Sisley also wants to attract car and bike testing and track hire for even an hour or two is available. Recently, a BTCC team hired the venue for a morning to do practice starts, and Sisley is keen to embrace schools and colleges that run hands-on race engineering programmes.

“Three Sisters is a fantastic circuit,” says Sisley. “I raced here in karts in the late 1970s as did my son Tom in the 1990s. I’ve managed to put together some of my old team from before and, combined with Ian Makinson and his existing team at the circuit, and I am sure there is a great future not just for karting but for many branches of motor sport here. Our aim is to make the circuit the ‘Jewel of the North’ once again.

“The electrical supply to and on the site is currently being upgraded and improvements to the drainage are next on the list,” says Sisley. “Upgraded toilets with showers are also in the plan. Then there will be improvements to the clubhouse and catering, along with other renewed spectator facilities. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I can assure everyone that we will have a revitalised facility of which the team here, Wigan Council, the racing community and all circuit users can be proud.” n

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Weekend Warrior

Siobhan Pugh Ford Escort Mk1

How a passion for horses morphed into a love for horsepower of a different kind

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chance passenger ride in her uncle’s rally car was a life-changing moment for Siobhan Pugh and, 80 events later, rallying is a huge part of her life. Now 24 and from Tregynon, near Newtown in Mid-Wales, Siobhan was into horse riding as a youngster and initially declined when her uncle Mal Bayliss offered her a passenger ride in his Ford Escort MkI at nearby Sweet Lamb.

“But I did sit in and loved it,” she says. “That was it, I was hooked and I wanted to be a co-driver. That was seven or eight years ago and Rally North Wales in March was my 80th rally. I won the Welsh Championship in 2014, I won the under 25s and the 1600 class and I won the FMP Rally Challenge in 2016.”

Siobhan started off doing BTRDA events in a 1400 Rally First car, moving on from there. In 2014 came a big accident in a Sunbeam, but she was not deterred. “I’d got an entry in for the Mid Wales Stages and needed a driver and my uncle Mal was ready to do it in his fresh Escort Mk1.” It was the start of a successful partnership in historic stage rallies, notably in the MSA British Historic Rally Championship.

“As long as it’s a rally car, I’ll go in it and I’d do more events if I had the chance,” she says. However, the limiting factors are funds and health as Siobhan suffers from arthritis in both hips and is waiting for a new joint on her right side. Eventually she’ll need one on the left, too.

“I cope OK with it. A lot of people ask me why I still go rallying but it’s my life; it is that important to me. Once my hip is sorted out, I’ll be out doing as many events as I can, hopefully next season. There are a lot of people worse off than me, so I can’t complain.”

Siobhan lost her father to an accident when she was a youngster and so Mal, her mum’s brother, is a very important person in her life. So too, of course, is her partner and fellow co-driver Arwel Jenkins.

“I wouldn’t be able to do it without Arwel and he’s been a massive support,” she says. “We’ve been together for five years. He was in the car in front of me on the Mid Wales Stages in 2013 and we got chatting at a stage start. He’s not doing a lot of rallying at the moment, but he will again.” n

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The Escort was built by Mal Bayliss, his brother Gwyn and nephew Tom, then prepared for rallying about five years ago. It has since taken part in at least 30 events, mostly on gravel stages in Wales.

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With its long technical highspeed corners, Thruxton is a challenge BTCC racers love

Thruxton Circuit New facilities add to circuit’s appeal

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hruxton, one of the fastest and most challenging race tracks in the UK, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. After half a century the venue is looking better than ever and enters its second 50 years on the back of a major investment programme.

Sited west of Andover in Hampshire, Thruxton offers drivers a unique high-speed challenge and constantly delivers exciting racing for the fans. With a record of actionpacked and unpredictable racing, it is little wonder that Thruxton is a popular stop off on the MSA British Touring Car Championship schedule.

The Thruxton story starts with the closure of Goodwood in July 1966.

The British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) needed a new home track and the former RAF Thruxton was a strong choice. In fact, three race meetings had been held on the disused runways in the early 1950s, and motorbike meetings had continued right up to 1965.

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By October 1967 plans were in place and the new 2.356-mile track was constructed in short order for a visit from the European Formula 2 Championship at Easter 1968. There was just time for a club meeting on 17 March before the F2 teams arrived.

Jochen Rindt dominated the first three F2 meetings in a sequence of international races that ran, with one gap, until the end of Formula 2 in 1984. A single Formula 3000 race followed in 1985, but the cost of the race was prohibitive and it was never repeated.

Instead, the Thruxton focus switched solely to domestic racing, headlined by the BTCC. Back in 1972 local noise objections had slashed the annual racing programme to just 12 days of racing and testing. It is a limit that has often held the circuit back and made on-going investment difficult, but the Thruxton team, headed by racers Bill Coombs and Pat Blakeney, has worked wonders to continually improve facilities. The recent opening of the new £2 million

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Thruxton Centre in the paddock is a sign of Thruxton’s good state of health.

For club and national racers, Thruxton has a Marmite tendency.

Some find the long high-speed corners, which effectively join the Campbell-Cobb-Segrave Complex with the Club Chicane, rather daunting.

Others love the technical challenge offered by Thruxton.

BTCC ace Andrew Jordan rates Thruxton alongside Brands Hatch GP as one of his two favourite tracks in the UK. “It’s got a great character and there is nowhere else like Church corner. It always makes for good racing and I love it.”

Jordan rightly highlights Church as one of the country’s most testing corners. The high-speed right-hander has a sizeable crest in the middle of the corner and comes as speed has built and built through the preceding sweeps at Noble, Goodwood and Village. It is incredibly rewarding for those who get it right, but punishes those who don’t.

Thruxton is still operated by the BARC and has an annual race programme topped by the BTCC and British Superbikes. Testing is limited, but the Thruxton Motorsport Centre can offer tuition and is busy all year round with a wide range of activities. n

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Motor Sports Council National Court SITTING TUESDAY, 6TH MARCH 2018 Steve Stringwell, John Felix, Kevin Witton Case No: 2018/1 This matter has been referred to the National Court by the MSA Disciplinary Officer. It is alleged that on the 20th January 2018, Car 90 being driven by Mr A Tejpar with Mr S Davey as co-driver, competed at the Single Venue Stage Rally at Brands Hatch and that during the course of that rally, Mr Davey and Mr Tejpar utilised pace notes contrary to General Regulations R.25.9, R25.9.1 and A 10.1.5.

Mr Tejpar and Mr Davey accepted the charge that they had breached the relevant General Regulations in using the pace notes.

The panel heard representations from Ms Sarah Franklin on behalf of the MSA and both Mr Tejpar and Mr Davey in mitigation. The panel heard evidence of Mr Tejpar and Mr Davey’s competitive experience, their view of the use of pace notes being safer and the fact that they did not know that the regulations prohibited the use of pace notes on single venue rallies.

Mr Tejpar and Mr Davey accepted that it is their responsibility to be aware of the relevant General Regulations as required by General Regulations A2.6.1 and H24 and that they would have signed a Declaration as required under D13.1 at the event.

Taking account of all the mitigating facts and circumstances, the National Court directs that: 1. Mr Tejpar and Mr Davey have

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4 points added to each of their licences in accordance with C2.1.

7 (iv) for their exclusion from the event.

2. Mr Tejpar and Mr Davey pay a fine of £1,000.

3. Mr Tejpar and Mr Davey shall contribute £250 to the costs of this hearing.

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SITTING TUESDAY, 6TH MARCH 2018 Steve Stringwell, John Felix, Kevin Witton Case No: 2018/2 This matter has been referred to the National Court by the MSA Disciplinary Officer. It is alleged that on the 19th November 2017 whilst taking part in Special Stage 4 of the Challenger Stages Rally, Mr Tappin (Car 6) lost control of his Darrian car and re­joined the stage in a dangerous and entirely unsafe manner contrary to General Regulation C.1.1.5 and A 10.1.4 Mr Tappin accepted the charge that he had breached the relevant General Regulations.

The panel then heard representations from Ms Sarah Franklin on behalf of the MSA and Mr Tappin in mitigation. The panel heard evidence that Mr Tappin had left the stage, got stranded on a tree stump and in trying to extricate and continue the stage he had re-joined the stage in an unsafe manner. Mr Tappin accepted that there were marshals in attendance but that he had not seen them. The panel heard of the consequences of the subsequent incident involving car 55.

Taking account of all the mitigating facts and

circumstances, the National Court directs that: 1. Mr Tappin’s licence be suspended for 12 months.

The first 6 months will be with immediate effect with the second 6 months suspended subject to no further reports of driving standards. Mr Tappin shall at liberty to reapply for his licence as from 6th September 2018, but as noted, such licence shall be subject to a suspended 6 months suspension subject to no further reports of driving standards.

2. Mr Tappin shall contribute £250 to the costs of this hearing.

STEVE STRINGWELL, CHAIRMAN

SITTING TUESDAY, 6TH MARCH 2018 Steve Stringwell, John Felix, Kevin Witton Case No: 2018/03 This matter has been referred to the National Court by the MSA Disciplinary Officer. It is alleged that: A. Mr Milne permitted: a. the unauthorised presence of a vehicle on Forestry Commission land on Sunday 6th August 2017 contrary to GR R 5.1.4, C 1.1.4 and A 10.1.5; b. unauthorised presence of a vehicle on Forestry Commission land on Tuesday 8th August 2017 contrary to GR R 5.1.4, C 1.1.4 and A 10.1.5; c. the unauthorised presence of a vehicle on Forestry Commission land at other times and dates in 2016/17 contrary to GR 5.1.4 and A 1.1.4; d. the unauthorised presence of a vehicle on Forestry Commission land on at least one or more occasions prior to competing in the Grampian

Forest Rally in August 2017 contrary to GR R 26.7 and C 1.1.8; B. Mr Milne has made postings on social media which calls into question the actions of officials and organisers and could be seen as prejudicial to the interest of motor sport contrary to GR C 1.1.4, A 10.1.2, A 10.1.3 and A 10.1.5 The panel considered extensive written evidence included in the court bundle including: 1. The Stewards report from the Grampian Stage Rally on 12 August 2017 that included statements from Andrew Tong (Assistant Safety Officer), Andrew Richie (Rally Manager), Jonathan Lord (MSA Steward), Graham Provost (Clerk of the Course) 2. A number of letters from the local motor club organisations 3. A statement from Dan Calde - Community and Visitor Services Manager for Forest Enterprise Scotland 4. A statement form Mr Thompson - Forest District Manager for Moray & Aberdeenshire Forest District All of whom raised their displeasure and concern at the total disregard by Mr Milne of the use of Forestry Commission land when not authorised.

The panel also considered a written statement from Mr Milne (who informed the National Court that he would not be attending the hearing in person).

Taking account all of the evidence provided and the potential loss of good relations between stage rallying and Forest Commission Scotland the National Court directs that: 1. Mr Milne’s license is suspended immediately and shall remain suspended for a period of 10 years. For the avoidance of doubt the suspension shall be of international effect.

2. Mr Milne shall pay a fine of £5,000 3. Mr Milne shall contribute £1,000 to the costs of this hearing.

STEVE STRINGWELL, CHAIRMAN

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Recently registered with the Motor Sports Association, the De Dion Bouton Club UK was founded in 2006 to safeguard the marque’s legacy. Established by a small group of UK-based enthusiasts, it now has a 250-strong membership that extends throughout Europe and as far afield as North America, South Africa and The Antipodes.

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“How many De Dion Boutons survive? It’s a good question. I’m aware of about 100 tricycles in the UK, perhaps 250 worldwide, and there are still up to 500 of the small early veterans around. De Dion Bouton was also one of the first companies to produce a big car, with a V8 engine, but these weren’t so easily stored and not many survived.

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