whistlinjacksmith Hot Rod Racing ISSUE 6: APRIL 2012
Results National Hot Rods WQ Rounds 205 History: part 3
Willie Hardie’s new Spedeworth built National Hot Rod
WJS EDITORIAL Another opener message for the online magazine that is having the format tweaked monthly to look more and more like a professional outfit, though I would say that because I am the one is doing the creative work on it. Though it is not all easy, picking the current font has taken about 4 hours and I’m still convinced it is the right one. This copy contains a racing report from the traditional Good Friday meeting which is a real favourite of mine as it has the added benefit of F2 and Saloon Stock Cars. The entry as usual was great considering the potential fuel issues that had threatened in the weeks leading up to the event. Makes you feel good when the sport you love has so many die-hard teams and drivers that will still continue to put a great show week after week.
PAUL BALLARD
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News and Reports:
Northampton, Arena Essex and Swaffham
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205 History:
Part 3
News and reports National Hot Rods WQR NORTHAMPTON ROUND 12: 6TH APRIL 2012
The Good Friday meeting at Northampton hosted annually gives the one and only opportunity in England to see National Hot Rods, Brisca F2 and Saloon Stock Cars racing together. Although no championships are being held it is the best domestic meeting of the year. Northampton in the last few years been promoted by Incarace, the Good Friday meeting is slightly different with Autospeed running the show. Autospeed stopped running National Hot Rods at their tracks back in the mid-90’s when the qualifying trail dropped from 48 meeting to the modern 16-17 per year. They kept their foot in the door with an annual meeting at Ringwood initially that transferred to Northampton in recent years (possibly Arena Essex in 2013!). All the familiar names were racing in the hunt for the top 20
Blood was clear by a long way while Holland had 5 cars
qualifying positions barring 734 Ralph Sanders who has now
battling behind, Holland took her second successive second
trying to sell all 6 (yes six!) of his National Hot Rods after last
place (in terms of meetings), one of those behind was Weaver
weekend’s load-up for a weight infringement.
who equally had his second successive black cross (in terms of meetings).
Heat 1
Res: 92, 10, 339, 60, 174, 115, 27, 209 (x-2), 780, 303
From pole position 67 David Brooks pulled into the lead. Lap 2 348 Shane Brereton spun on turn 2 and was hit by 209 Kym
Heat 3
Weaver who couldn’t avoid him and then 14 Phil Spinks ran
Brooks led from the flag before 780 Mike Loosemore and Bur-
into him being jacking him up. Weaver and Spinks limped off
rows moved past. Brooks had another retirement that would
while Brereton got going again. Over recent meeting Brooks
put him out of the final as well. Burrows took up the lead easi-
had been quick recently and today was no different built a lead
ly but had nothing to stop the charging Paffey who was being
of a straight over 116 Steve Burrows, 92 Jack Blood and 339
tracked by 31 Dick Hillard all the way. With 3 laps to run
Danny Hunn. Hunn though lost out on his fourth place with
Paffey eased into first place.
engine problems in the final few laps.
Res: 60, 116, 31, 780, 72, 911, 115, 174, 316, 100
At the back 72 Willie Hardie, 95 Gavin Murray, 911 Malcolm
Final
Blackman and 303 Matt Simpson had all been drawn in this
Holland had the front row to herself but couldn’t hold back the
race. Simpson had ducked inside Blackman early on and from
second row starters of Loosemore and Burrows who passed on
that point onwards these four lapped as one; going outside 100
each side before entering turn one. 27 Mikey Godfrey moved
Dick Burtenshaw and inside 152 Shaun Taylor on tow. Murray
into second place. Yet again it was Paffey making the moves
though moved beyond 10 Sam Holland on the final lap.
passing Holland, Blood and Loosemore in quick succession but
Res: 67, 116, 92, 219, 162, 95, 10, 72, 303, 911
ran of laps to catch the front two. Blood lost out a decent fifth place when clipping Brereton and was being forced to the in-
Heat 2
side of the track. Burrows and Godfrey's top positions would
Holland led for a short while before Blood eased past and into
help out in their quest for world final qualification.
a big lead. Holland had the other queuing up behind her. Within that battle was 316 Paul Frost in his first meeting in a
Moving up from the back there was great battle from Hardie,
graded position, he had fallen back a few places from his row 3
115 Chris Haird, 174 Jason Kew and Simpson. Blackman was-
starting position but did repass 60 Mark Paffey for 7th place,
n’t able to cut through the traffic as the protagonists battling
perhaps a little insignificant for this race but is the sign of
for a group one position and trailed the others by a quarter of a
things to come for another newbie to the class. Frost did how-
lap. By the end of the race he was able to get within one place
ever get caught on the outside and fall outside the top 10.
behind but moving into 2012 the others do seem to have the upper hand.
General news SWAFFHAM, ARENA ESSEX & NORTHAMPTON
Res: 116, 27, 60, 72, 115, 174, 303, 911, 780, 10
Heat 2: 28, 17, 371, 448, 373, 19, 516 Final: 371, 28, 448, 17, 373, 27, 19, 516
Blackman's better finish in the final heat had at that point closed the gap in the chase for silver to one point but by the
Thanks to Mark Sewell
end of the meeting Simpson finished it 2 points clear. Hardie retook the place in group one from Murray. The biggest mover was Burrows who has jumped from 20th to 10th place. No movements in and out of the top 20 though Colin Gomm is only 3 points from safety with Blood poised behind, his clash in the final with Brereton proving costly.
22nd April Arena Essex - Lightning Rods - English Championship It is the true the English Champion is infact Scottish, Frankie Cunningham is licensed with Incarace and won the title from Spedeworth’s Ben Murray and the reigning World Champion Gary Greenland. Heat 1: 636, 227, 503, 240, 526, 106, 237, 87, 452, 416 Heat 2: 416, 267, 181, 730, 87, 781, 633, 452, 51, 22 Final: 87, 503, 267, 240, 227, 181, 730, 781, 452, 22 Results via mylaps 29th April Northampton - Stock Rods - English Championship
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At a very wet Northampton Dean O'Dell claims his first title in the class after front row starters Smyth and Sturt collide before collecting further penalties. Heat 1: 447, 74, 288, 745, 394, 168, 900, 755, 876, 300 Heat 2: 168, 924, 171, 755, 300, 136, 151, 447, 823, 28, 91 21st April Swaffham Hot Rods opening meeting
English: 171 Dean O'Dell, 755, 300, 447, 924, 136, 876, 168, 91, 74 Results supplied by Terry M.
The Swaffham Hot Rods had their first meeting of the season on a very wet Saturday 21st April, which saw 12 cars turn out
Northampton - 2L Hot Rods
with a good mixture of car specs including non and full spaceframed. Drivers were 5 Terry Sewell, 17 Micheal Benstead, 19
Heat 1: 88, 11, 310, 96, 75, 565, 304, 303, 8, 306
Luke Retchless, 27 parviz, 28 Richard Ansell, 76 Neil Howitt,
Heat 2: 11, 303, 96, 88, 543, 87, 304, 65, 30, 8
150 Robin Ashman, 198 Steve Nash, 371 Mark Sewell, 373
Final: 87, 96, 11, 88, 304, 65, 303, 418, 43, 118
Andy Stevenson, 448 Gary Farrington and 516 Shaun Lane. Results supplied by Terry M. Heat 1: 5, 28, 17, 448, 373, 19, 516
205 History Part 3
ORIGINALLY RELEASED ONLINE 22.01.10
This touch-up piece has been in the making for several months,
As you mentioned I had one (originally Mick Phillips) which I
thanks to those that have already commented. Recently for sale
bought down from Scotland owned by Steve Jeffrey's who
on this site was a Peugeot 205 that had been racing at Buxton
rebuilt it after Mick Phillips had dumped it on top of a scrap
with the Central Hot Rods, although a former National Hot
heap. I believe Dave Fry bought from Mick and sold it on to
Rod, it wasn't one from the SHP workshop.
Steve. I had the car for 10 years racing it mainly at Arena Essex. It was the best car I have ever raced. It started with a 2Ltr.
My dad Ken Marriott bought this car off Iain Grayson No 19 it
pinto but then had to put a Vauxhall 2Ltr 16v to compete. Yes I
was used by him at Buxton for a season, he bought it off Paul
did sell this onto Mark Cook who was going to carry on at
Green who also used it at Buxton as well, it's an Ex Keith
Arena.
Lynam national hot rod and as I was told it's a lightweight
Rick Fray
(t45) space frame built by Neville Stanley as a copy to the Ludlow one he had made but was only used a few times for cham-
The pug 205 run by Richard Simmons 07-08 is now the basis
pionship meetings with it been lighter chassis.
for the Bmw Mini (and is now up for sale). The car started life Ste Dunston
being built by Dave Longhurst and Phil (Mr Cheese) Young as a tin car racing at Angmering, then being bought by Patsy En-
Between Stanley and Lynam the car was also raced by Karl
right who changed it to a plastic car, being bought by myself in
Price who represented Scotland using the car in the 1998
2006 and racing in outlaw at Arena in 07-08 then turned into
World Final, it was possibly raced by Ian McGuigan as well.
mini for 09 season. The ex-Dave Fry car bought by Patsy En-
Over the past few years the 205 has almost completely disap-
right is now a 206.
peared from the National Hot Rod scene, 57 Mike Oliver made
Richard Simmons
sporadical appearances in his 205 during 2009 and it is now back with the Blackman family. Although not in it's 205 dis-
The above mentioned ex-Lynam 205 stayed at Buxton with 7
guise Mikey Godfrey does race a car that oncelooked like a 205
Simon Hutt, the track also sees Ivan Grayson and Richard
(now a Saxo). Heading down the ranks of hot rod classes at the
Stilleto stay faithful to the 205's. GMP still has one 205 knock-
end of 2009 what 205's are still being raced?
ing about with 172 Derek Connor behind the wheel that car. This was believed to have gone through the hands of Mark
Outlaw hot rod have suffered this year with a lack of numbers
Jones, John Carding, Steve Mannett, Owen Will, Graeme Gor-
even though there are plently of drivers and cars it's just a case
don and Ian Donaldson.
of getting them onto the track at the same time (easier said than done!). At the start of the year 74 Lawrence Connors raced a 205 with the Outlaws during the Expo meeting, that day also gave the SEGTO drivers had a chance to race on tarmac and 178 Alan Relf was also sporting a 205. My 205 went to Lawrence Connors but was not the car he used at Expo last year, that was a tin car with nat kit fitted. Jason Villa At PRI 5 Roy Rawlins still races a 205 while 12 Mark Cook stepped up from many years in Group A Hot Rods with the ex -Phillips/Fray 205. 113 Richard Simmons's 205 served him well
Top picture: Richard Simmons
up to this year and could have became the basis to the British
Bottom picture: Roy Rawlins.
Championship and World Cup winning Mini.
Both taken at Arena Essex
Sorry to say but the 205 Ian crashed is dead, the extent of the
What about these ones:
damage on it was huge. Probably some of the worst I have
3 Ian Davidson
seen on a hot rod. Ian bought another 205 rolling from down
10 Chas Bain
south and transferred all his stuff on to it from the old car.
10 Stephen Harris
However the old damaged 205 that is still sitting on top of a
17 Shane Newman
container at Ian's place looking a wee bit worse for wear. Im
19 Keith Lynam—repanelled as 206
not sure if its being kept for sentamental reasons or if it could
37 Kev Fulton
be sorted, I very much doubt it though.
100 Phil Mitchell
John Sibbald – nationalhotrod.com forum
103 Alan White 106 Alan Finnie
Hot Rods aren't dead yet in the South-West and drivers are still
167 Rob Lowe—self built
keen to race Mendips; Langmead (although in possession of
171 Adrian Hall
Focus as well), Loram and Norton have been using their 205's
174 Tony Collings
more many years. Although more likely to be racing at Grim-
208 Phil Mansell—repanelled as 206
ley 22 Andy Tidmarsh races a 205 (ex-Bland/ Fitch/ Wilcox) in
250 Ian Cross—built by Wills
bright pink the same colour he used on his Porsche Super Rod
263 Gary Deal
and BMW. Grimley are now running Outlaw hot rod racing,
283 Allen Goddard
although not an official title anything that caters for National
299 Nick Bass
spec car is Outlaws. 171 Dan Lewis leads the way their in a
306 Keith Lambert
205. Ringwood's hot rods are pretty similar to Grimley and do
311 Chick Laing
have a wide range of cars: 22 Steve Woods raced there in a 205.
250 Patsy Enright—built by Autocross
Tipperary's 1600 Hot Rods definately has a few being raced.
473 Nigel Pike
The Spedeworth Slick Car events (any car with Slick Tyres,
637 Warren Farazmand
mainly Super Rods) hasn't attracted any 205's yet.
717 Trevor Bibby 906 Eddie Foott
This part may be alot shorter than the previous editions but
935 Davy Gurney
information is drying up and the cars are disappearing. The price of scrap metal was high last year and perhaps some driv-
Those names are just the drivers that were last known to have
ers cash in. A car that definately bit the dust was 115 David
raced a 205 or car that began life as a 205. The recent installa-
Haird's at Hednesford it melted! Over the last few years some
tion provided a plethora of information, but it now seems that
205's have been used omitted from this list as their where-
people are not just after information of what the cars are cur-
abouts was unknown, so what about these? Your knowledge is
rently being used as but also the history of them. Some are
appreciated.
more well documented than others, the movements of the Hunn and McKellar cars for example.
I purchased Phil Mitchell's 205 (raced at Buxton 2008) recently,
My step father Steve Burgess 286 had two, the one raced by
I am going to repanel it as 206 and run a redtop engine in it for
283 Allen Goddard came from Leon Facey? Originally Steve
2010 season. I'm quite interested in who else has owned the car
never raced it and Allen sold it to Derek Luke 103 about a cou-
and raced it before Phil, as I don't know any history of the car
ple of years ago who raced it in a outlaw series, the other 205
and it would be nice to know. So if anyone has any info please
Steve had I think was a SHP but he couldn't get on with it so
let me know.
sold it to Paul Sheard and kept his trusty starlet. Come to think Graham Jackson
of it Derek Luke 103 a SHP 205 and so did Neil Facey. Culligan Ward
There are at the moment three 205 National Hot Rods are racing on mainland Europe:
208 Phil Mansell repanelled as 206:
44 Dieter Baader most times race in Venray or Lelystad when
This car was brought by John Wood 486 and raced at Arena as
NHR are on as he does not like the Posterholt track where the
an outlaw, then sold to Mick Pagden 197, this car is now being
most races from NHR take part. He also did a public drag rac-
raced by Lee Pepper 155
ing with the car and is very often on various events to show
Kim Pepper
the car. 120 Toon de Kleijn was only racing 1-2 times this year.. think
174 Tony Collings - This car was originally that of 784 Mike
due financial problems.
Serjeant, which we built using the roll cage from his ex Paul
99 Johann Baer is the most often seen guy from these 3 on the
Grimer Sonny Howard Fiesta. After Tony blew the engine, the
tracks. He raced most times at Posterholt.
car was dismantled and I last saw the space frame hanging on Sascha Paar
a garage wall in Cornwall!
Sascha Paar picture
Rob Sherrell
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