Classic & Sports Car UK – September 2019

36 Classic & Sports Car September 2019

HOTF2DOUBLEINFRANCE

DavidTomlinscoredaHistoric

FormulaTwobraceinhisMotul

attheGrandPrixdeFrance

HistoriqueatMagny-Coursfrom

28-30June.Astemperatures

hit40ºC,hebattledthroughto

takeSaturday’sraceandscored

alights-to-flagwinonSunday.

FIRSTS ON ANGLESEY

The Historic Sports Car Club’s

inaugural meeting at Anglesey

on 13-14 July featured the first

standalone Formula Atlantic

races since the ’80s. Matt Wrigley

(March 79B, above) and Bob

Juggins (March 722) won.

FLYINGINFLANDERS

CedriekMerlevedeandJeffrey

Vandebussche(above)wonthe

ClassicsYpresHistoricRallyon

29 JuneintheirOpelAsconaB.

IntheconcurrentYpresHistoric

Rallyon28-29June,BjornSyx

andAriVanrobaeys(E30BMW

M3)wonbymorethan 90 secs.

ANNIVERSARY SHOWCASE

When the WRC comes to the UK

from 3-6 October, the event’s

75th anniversary will be marked

with a display of classic rally cars,

including Group B legends and

victorious cars campaigned by

home heroes Colin McRae (above,

winning in ’95) and Richard Burns.

SixERAswereinthefieldforthe
70th-anniversaryHistoric and
VintageSeamanTrophiesRaceat
theVintageSports-CarClub’s
DoningtonParkFormulaVintage
meetingon 29 June.
Butit wasFrederickHarperin
his Kurtis Indyroadster that
claimed victory,beating Mark
Gilliesin R3Abyjust5 secs.Gillies
made amends in thepre-war

scratchrace,withPaddinsDowling

makingit anERA1-2withR5B.

Animpressive 27 carscontested

theHandicapRaceforPre-war

Cars,andthetoptwoweresplitby

just0.15secsintheir82-year-old

machinesasShortScratchRace

winnerAlexanderHewitson(Riley

12/4Special)beatSimonGallon

(FrazerNash-BMW329/8).

FredandBillShepherd(Ford

PrescottSpeedHillClimbhosted
theBugattiFestival&Members’
Meetingon6 July,with three
Bugattistakingto thehill.Edmund
BurgessinhisType51Ssetthe
fastesttimewitha 53.29secsascent.
Therewashugevarietyelse-
where,nonemoresothaninthe
classicclasses.MikeHenney(Lotus
Cortina)prevailedin thePre-1977
SaloonCardivision,YvetteStader
continuedherblisteringformin an
MGBGTtotakethePre-1977
SportsCarsclass,andPhilFisherin
a MallockMk11claimedPre-’71
Sports-RacingCars.

Dragstalgiabroughtthereturnof

classicdragracingtoSantaPod

Racewayfrom12-14July.

NickBarnettwasamongthe

winners,smokinghisFordFalcon

toGasserCircusspoilsagainst

C&SC’sveryownJulianBalme–

inactioninhis‘KandeeTwist’

RanchWagon.TheOutlawAnglia

divisionattractedmorethan

30 entries,butnonecouldbeat

ScottCrookstoninhis‘TheFlyin

Scotsman’FordPop.Meanwhile,

SwedeTobbaJanssonclaimedthe

NostalgiaCannonballclassinhis

‘Nitrocalypse’ChevroletCorvette-

bodiedsteed,andtopinNostalgia

SuperStockwas‘Kiwi’drivinghis

replicaofthe‘AkronArlenDuster’

1971 PlymouthDuster.

OLD-SCHOOL

STRAIGHTS

MichaelBainbridgewonthe

Pre-’71RacingCarsonhandicapin

hisFormulaThreeEnsignLNF3.

TheNewBarnCarsB Licence

SpeedChampionshipwastakenby

BenjaminWilamowski(E30BMW

318is)onhandicap,withJulian

Harber(1970 MiniClubman)

winningtheSaloonCarHandicap,

JamesFletcher(TriumphTR7V8)

theSportsCarHandicapandNigel

Andrews(MondialeFF2000)the

RacingCarHandicap.Butnobody

couldmatchthe40.34secssetby

TimDaviesinhisPilbeamMP88

topostfastesttimeof theday.

SPORT

Mustang)ruledtheHRDCCoys

100 andMatthewMoore(Austin-

Healey Jamaican)theHRDC

Allstars,beforeMooreswitchedto

hisAustinSevenUlsterandtook

the pre-warShort Handicap.

EdwardWilliams(FrazerNash

SuperSports)toppedtheStandard

&ModifiedPre-warSportsCars,

whilebothFerrariraceswerewon

byJamesLittle(458Challenge).

Big grids celebrate at Donington

High variety at Prescott

Nick Barnett lighting up his Ford Falcon

ThetopBugattiat

Prescotton 6 Julywasa

Type51S,withEdmund

Burgess at the wheel; FTD

was claimed by Tim Davies

in his Pilbeam MP88

RICHARD

BESENT

ERIC SAWYER

Mark Gillies scored a win and a second in ERA R3A at a sunkissed Donington Park in June

The large fields were a spectacular sight

Harper won in his Kurtis Indy roadster

RONNY VAN PARYS

CJM PHOTOGRAPHY/PETE AUSTIN

PAUL LAWRENCE