Autosport – 25 July 2019

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CLUB AUTOSPORT NATIONAL NEWS

56 AUTOSPORT.COM 25 JULY 2019

Locost celebrates 20th

anniversary at Cadwell

Jowsey returns to competition as

Wasp F3 car buzzes back to life

IN THE HEADLINES

WHITESIDE’S RELAY CRASH

Greggs bakers’ chief executive Roger

Whiteside was taken to hospital with

a broken shoulder after an accident

competing in the Equipe 3 Hour

Classic Relay at Donington Park last

weekend. Whiteside’s Morgan was

spun by Rick Evans’ Marcos GT and

then collected by Olivia Wilkinson’s

MGB Roadster. Evans was facing a

black flag at the time of the incident,

having not pitted after being given

a black and orange flag. He was

issued with two licence points.

PETER ELLIS 1938-2019

Leading Lotus-blessed Formula

Junior privateer Peter Ellis died last

week. Ellis started racing in 500cc F3

Coopers before moving into FJunior,

where his most successful season

came in a Lotus 18 in 1960. A massive

shunt at Oulton Park in 1962 – he

cartwheeled into the Cascades lake

and was rescued by two men in a

rowing boat – ended his career.

CARL JEANES 1951-2019

A £50 bet that he wouldn’t run

naked through the paddock at

Thruxton in March 1974 helped

Carl Jeanes realise his ambition to

become a racing driver. Competing

as ‘The Streaker’, he debuted in

Monoposto mid-1975, finished

second in the title race in 1976 and

won it in 1977, all driving a Lotus 35

entered under star John Fenning’s

Stockbridge Racing banner.

750MC

The Locost Championship

commemorated its 20th

anniversary at Cadwell Park

last weekend, celebrating with

drivers past and present.

Ron Champion, author

of Build your own Sports Car

for as little as £250, the book

that set the foundations for

the series, visited to see the

Locosts in action 20 years on,

alongside myriad drivers who

have enjoyed racing in the

championship over the years.

Celebrations were originally

intended to be held at the early-

summer Silverstone meeting,

until the event was postponed

due to track resurfacing ahead

of the British Grand Prix.

“This is the closest date

on the calendar to the 20th

anniversary of the first race,

which started in 1999 at

Mallory Park,” said 750 Motor

Club competition secretary

Giles Groombridge.

“Locost has become one of

the strongest, most sustainable

categories in British club racing

history. It allows people to

achieve that goal of going racing

and buy a car on a tight budget.

It’s good to see it still going

strong 20 years later.”

ANNA DUXBURY

HILLCLIMB

Former historic racing star Edwin Jowsey

was back behind the wheel for the first

time in seven years when he made his

debut in the Jack Moor Wasp 500 at

Chateau Impney earlier this month.

Jowsey, who was a regular frontrunner

in Historic Formula Junior in the 2000s,

now hopes to race the Formula 3 car at

the Goodwood Revival in September,

20 years after his father Clifford drove

the Wasp at the Sussex venue.

“We then dismantled it and it was in

such a state it was left until last November,”

said Jowsey Jr. “Then we started to build

it up and only finished it last week, giving

it a shakedown at Teesside Autodrome.

“My last races were in F3, but this

was my first time on a hillclimb and

first time in a 500.”

The car ran successfully, finishing

fourth in the class for machines built

between 1946 and 1958 with engines

under 500cc.

The car, which has been in the Jowsey

family for more than 20 years, had previously

appeared at Chateau Impney 60 years ago

in the hands of its creator Moor.

PETER SCHERER