Autosport – 18 April 2019

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NATIONAL REPORTS CLUB AUTOSPORT

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Bentley race had

Le Mans-style start

Walker took two

victories in Lotus 15

(below) and 16

Smith and Martin took

FF1600 win apiece

behind. David May and Wayne Flint both
had spells in second as Ben Huntley looked
on, but after Flint went off at Cascades on
the last lap May just fought off Huntley to
retain second. Steven Dailly, May and Keith
Towers got away on the second lap of race
two. While the lead duo ran nose-to-tail
throughout, Towers fought off a brief
challenge from Skeats for third.
After Jones had an off at Old Hall on
the first lap, Huntley endured race-long
pressure from Dailly to win race three,
with Tom Griffiths a close third.
Ross Martin (Van Diemen) and Rory
Smith (Medina) shared the victory spoils
in Northern Formula Ford 1600. Martin
led from the start of race one, while
Smith had to combine challenges for
the lead with defending his second place
from Jack Wolfenden’s Firman. Smith
managed to nose alongside, but all three
held station and were only 0.303s apart
at the flag. Jamie Sharp (Van Diemen)
snatched fourth from David McArthur
(Medina) on the last lap.
Although Martin made the best start
again in race two, his defence finally yielded

dug deeper to harass the ERAs of winner
Paddins Dowling (R10B) and Julian
Wilton (R7B) in the Pre-War finale.
Earlier, Mark Gillies (R3A) had ambushed
Nick Topliss (R4A) to grab third overall and
the Patrick Lindsay Trophy behind Philip
Walker (Lotus 16) and Fred Harper (Kurtis-
Offy), battling for concurrent Amschel
Rothschild post-war honours. Walker also
scored in Sunday’s VSCC/FiSCar ’50s’
sportscar race, in his Lotus 15.
HGPCA Pre-’66 poleman Barry Cannell
won twice in his ex-Carlo Vogele Brabham
BT4, but had to come from behind on both
days. On Saturday he threw it sideways into
Brooklands on lap one avoiding out-of-
shape Tom Dark (Cooper T51), narrowly
missed Andrew Beaumont (Lotus 18/21),
overshot and rejoined seventh.
After Jon Fairley’s Brabham BT11/19
halted with ignition failure, Cannell calmly
charged down leader Peter Horsman (18/21)
who, with only fourth and fifth gears, was
easy prey. Horsman kept second as Mark
Daniell, gifted third when Dark spun at
Luffield, held his Cooper T45 in second.

Cannell led the sequel sooner, while Dark

and Beaumont – from the back – shot

through to second and third, chased by the

18s of John Chisholm and Charles McCabe.

HRDC Allstars gold fell to Chris Clarkson

in his big Healey after his buddy David

Smithies’s sister car and Pete Chambers’s

Lotus Cortina retired while leading.

Clarkson’s Ford Falcon blew spectacularly

at Copse on lap two of the Coys Trophy

enduro, leaving Chambers – following a

gearbox change – to outrun the brakeless

Mustangs of Nick Ruddell and Bill and

Fred Shepherd. Peter Snowdon (GTV6)

aced the Classic Alfa set, as Richard

Merrell screamed his Giulia Sprint GT

from the back to second.

Almost a year after his last victory, the

indefatigable Keith Ahlers won his 100th

Morgan Challenge race in his faithful +8.

The first 500cc F3 race since the death of

triple contemporary Autosport British

champion Jim Russell fittingly fell to

fellow East Anglian George Shackleton

in his Cooper-Norton.

MARCUS PYE

to Smith’s challenge into Knickerbrook

on lap two. Smith then eased clear to

victory, with Wolfenden and Sharp

completing the top four again.

It was a virtual dead heat between the

XR2s of Adam Brown and Greg Speight

in the first ST-XR Challenge race. Speight

ousted William Heslop from second on

lap five of nine, but Heslop remained in

touch as Speight pushed Brown all the

way to the flag, losing by a thousandth

of a second. Heslop led race two from the

start, as Brown and Speight again made

it a three-way battle. Speight grabbed

second at Old Hall with a lap to go.

PETER SCHERER

WEEKEND WINNERS

SILVERSTONE

BENJAFIELD RACE FOR VINTAGE BENTLEYS

Richard Hudson/Stuart Morley (3/4½)

FOX & NICHOLL TROPHY

Richard Pilkington (Talbot T26 SS)

GP ITALA & LANCHESTER TROPHIES

Patrick Blakeney-Edwards

(Frazer Nash Super Sports)

SILVERSTONE TROPHY

Patrick Blakeney-Edwards

(Frazer Nash Super Sports)

PRE-WAR SCRATCH

Paddins Dowling (ERA R10B)

AMSCHEL ROTHSCHILD & PATRICK

LINDSAY MEMORIAL TROPHIES

Philip Walker (Lotus 16)

HAWTHORN INTERNATIONAL &

TOM COLE 1950s RACE

Philip Walker (Lotus 15)

HGPCA PRE-1966 GRAND PRIX CARS

RACE 1 & 2 Barry Cannell

(Brabham-Climax BT11A)

HRDC ALLSTARS

Chris Clarkson (Austin-Healey 3000)

HRDC COYS TROPHY

Peter Chambers (Ford Lotus Cortina)

HRDC CLASSIC ALFA CHALLENGE

Peter Snowdon (GTV6)

MORGAN CHALLENGE

RACE 1 & 2 Keith Ahlers (+8)

500CC F3

George Shackleton (Cooper-Norton Mk11)

PRE-WAR ALLCOMERS

Eddie Williams (Frazer Nash Super Sports)

PRE-WAR HANDICAP

RACE 1 Michael James (Riley 12/4 Special)

RACE 2 Roland Woodtli (Riley 15/6 Special)

For full results visit:

theresultslive.co.uk

OULTON PARK

FUN CUP

DespatchBay.com (Andy Bicknell/

Riley Phillips/Marcus Clutton)

BMW COMPACT CUP

RACE 1 Ian Jones

RACE 2 Steven Dailly

RACE 3 Ben Huntley

NORTHERN FF1600

RACE 1 Ross Martin (Van Diemen)

RACE 2 Rory Smith (Medina JL18)

ST-XR CHALLENGE

RACE 1 Adam Brown (XR2)

RACE 2 William Heslop (XR2)

For full results visit:

tsl-timing.com