Autosport – 01 August 2019

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NATIONAL REPORTS CLUB AUTOSPORT

VSCC UNDER 30s HANDICAP RACE

Louis Parkin (Frazer Nash Super Sports)

GEOGHEGAN TROPHY RACE FOR STANDARD

AND MODIFIED PRE-WAR SPORTS CARS

Christopher Mann (Alfa Romeo Monza)

SPERO, VOITURETTE AND

MELVILLE TROPHY RACE

Alexander Hewitson (Riley 12/4 Special)

GARRY WHYTE RILEY HANDICAP RACE

John Reeve (Riley Brooklands)

FRAZER NASH RACE

Tom Waterfield (Frazer Nash Super Sports)

HANDICAP RACES FOR PRE-WAR CARS

Race 1 Jack Bond (Vauxhall A/D Type)

Race 2 Steven Pryke (Frazer Nash Slug)

500cc FORMULA 3

Richard de la Roche (Cooper MkV)

TRIPLE M REGISTER RACE FOR PRE-WAR MGs

Thomas Hardman (MG Bellevue Special, below)

VINTAGE AND PRE-1961 RACING CARS

Hamish Bibby (Morgan Racing)

SCRATCH RACE FOR PRE-WAR CARS

Richard Iliffe (Riley TT Sprite Replica)

race was won by Tom Waterfield’s Super
Sports, while Steven Pryke in a Slug won
a Handicap Race for Pre-war Cars.
Bond, again in his A/D Type, took the
earlier Pre-War Cars’ handicap race, ahead
of the closing Roland Woodtli’s Riley
15/6 Special. Richard de la Roche won the
red flag-interrupted 500cc Formula 3 race
in his Cooper MkV, passing Mike Fowler’s
Cooper MkIV just before the stoppage.
The VSCC was also joined by a race for
MG Car Club’s Triple-M Register Pre-war
MGs, which was won in dominant fashion
by Thomas Hardman’s MG Bellevue
Special, despite dropping a valve.
Hamish Bibby in his Morgan likewise
dominated the race for Vintage and
Pre-1961 Racing Cars, as did Richard
Iliffe’s Riley TT Sprite Replica in the
Scratch Race for Pre-War Cars.
GRAHAM KEILLOH

ENDURING LEGACY For Alexander Hewitson’s Riley 12/4 Special (28) this was a particularly

significant meeting, as the fifth Garry Whyte Memorial Trophy handicap race was held. Whyte was

a VSCC member who died in a 2014 Silverstone crash and had a special passion for Rileys, having

raced Hewitson’s model. Hewitson finished 10th in the handicap as Whyte’s parents watched on.

Hewitson won the last two class championships in the Riley and leads this year’s, and has claimed

two hillclimb records. He also won the Spero, Voiturette and Melville Trophy at Cadwell.

UNUSUAL HISTORY The ever-enthusiastic Duncan Ricketts’ elegant 1938 Parnell Challenger

has a strange history. It was built by Reg Parnell and ERA, but its intended one-off engine never

got off the drawing board so the car was run with other powerplants. It was later converted to a

road car before going missing in America. It was rediscovered in the Lagonda Club and Ricketts

rebuilt it over 15 years, racing it at last year’s Prescott Hillclimb for its first meeting since 1948.

At Cadwell he finished second in the Vintage and Pre-1961 Racing Cars encounter.

SPECTACULAR COOPER Duncan’s son Matt also competed in a striking car at Cadwell, in his case

a 1957 Cooper T41. “It’s the only car I’ve ever raced, but I love it, it’s like a little go-kart,” said Matt.

The Cooper was owned by world champion speedway rider Ronnie Moore, who raced it in Rhodesia

for a season before leaving it there. It got sold, had several different engines put in, then ended up

in Australia, where it was later made available for sale. “I thought, ‘That would be a good little car

to buy’,” said Duncan. “I had no idea what it was like – it turned up in a container.”

CADWELL PARK

WEEKEND WINNERS

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