The Speed Scene:
Graves makes it a double - HSA Round 9
Terry Graves made it a double at Werrington on May 6th with an FTD time of 38.02s.
Afternoon showers meant that times were slower than the morning and so
no records were threatened. Anne and Bob Adams repeated their Saturday
performance with Anne just aheadafter the first timed run only to lose
out on the second.
Fellow HSA competitors Matthew Searle (VW lupo 1.4 TDi) and Peter Hodson
(0.7 SMART Roadster) battled in their class in their more unusual cars
with Matthew coming out ahead.
More news and photos to follow.
Results here.
08/05/2012
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Graves FTD at Werrington - HSA Round 8
Terry Graves and his Gould GR37 were the only 'big banger' present at Werrington on May 5th and duly took FTD with a 32.93.
The South West was able to escape the worst of the poor weather
afflicting the rest of the country and the event was run in good
conditions. A handful of HSA competitors and members made the trip
including Fyrth Crosse, who despite setting a PB on his seconed practice
run suffered a mechanical problem and his Ensign LNF3 had to sit out
the rest of the meeting.
An upset was potentially on the cards as Anne Adams was ahead of husband
Bob after the first timed run in their Royale RP30 but a mistake on the
second run changed the order. Keith Harris went well in his Jamun M90
(40.38s) while Steve Loadsman was still getting to grips in his OMS and
was going well until a mistake on his final run.
More to come as our correspondents report in!
Results here.
07/05/2012
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Sad news at Goodwood Sprint
We are sad to report that Sandra Harrison-Moore died while taking part in a Sprint event held at the Goodwood Motor Circuit on April 28th.
The HSA sends its deepest condolences to her family and friends at this
time.
A further statement will appear in Speedscene magazine.
04/05/2012
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FTD to Rodney Thorne at Wet & Windy Wiscombe - HSA Rounds 6 & 7
Rodney Thorne, in his Pilbeam MP58, took FTD at Wiscombe on Saturday in 44.26s on a day of heavy showers and changeable conditions. Runner up was Dave Gardner in his Empire 001 on 45.04s
With 7 major and 20 minor incidents the Woolbridge MC did an excellent job in the difficult circumstances. However, with conditions forecast to be even worse (and they were!) for the following day the Sunday event, which was to be HSA Round 7, was unfortunately cancelled.
The Saturday event did see 4 'Flatheads' make an appearance with three of them running in Roadgoing Series Production - well they did make rather a lot of Model Ts! The quickest of the four was Neil Bennett (pictured - courtesy of Bob Ridge-Stearn) in his Batton Special and they made for an interesting and different sight for the spectators and other competitors.
An 'off' for John Phelps removed an oil pipe from the Aries, which he shares with son Adam, and earned him some less than encouraging comments! However, the damage was repaired in time for Adam to give Graham Beale's Ginetta G33 a good run for the class win, missing out by 0.3s. Ex HSA Champion Tony Thomas was having his first outing in his Ginetta G20 and promply left the track but fortunately without damage. Another ex Champion John Palmer was going well and was easily the fastest of all the Roadgoing Specialist Production cars present.
Clive Wooster was the fastest Libre car present despite the track and conditions being less than ideal for his Radical SR4. Adam Pemble, returning to the HSA Championship in his Celica GT4, was having his first hillclimb and up against some stiff oppostion of Evos, Imprezas and Cosworths. Nigel Hodgson badly damaged his MX-5 and we hope it isn't too long before we see him back on the tracks. The rest of the HSA contingent all had stories to tell but survived the day!
Results here.
30/04/2012
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ADAMS WINS PRESCOTT’S BHC OPENER
The weather did its best to wash out the opening rounds of the Avon MSA British Hillclimb Championship at Prescott, but the top contenders splashed through the murk to produce two nail-biting run-offs with the Scots to the fore.
Last to run in the opening shoot-out, Wallace Menzies screamed the high-revving Firestorm-Cosworth through the spray to defeat defending champion Scott Moran and his father Roger by almost a second in the opening shoot-out. After challenging the Scot hard in qualifying, Trevor Willis spun his OMS like a top and out of the points at the fast Orchard Corner.
In the second run-off Lee Adams (pic- John Hayward), who had failed even to qualify his diminutive GWR Raptor for the first stanza, produced a superb shot to set the day’s outright pace and lead the field. Neither the V8s of Willis, Moran Jr nor Menzies could match the time of the bike-engined machine and Adams took the win and FTD by seventeen hundredths from Willis.
Almost as impressive was the performance of Alex Summers, who thrust his tiny 1-litre OMS into the run-off each time – with a fine fourth place finish in the morning – to earn the Midland Man of the Meeting award and level on points with the overall winner. But it was the see-saw duel between consistent front-runners Moran and Menzies that gave them the joint championship lead after the first two rounds.
Full report to follow in Speedscene.
Championship standings after rounds 1 and 2, Prescott: 1= Scott Moran and Wallace Menzies 17pts; 3 Roger Moran 14; 4= Alex Summers and Lee Adams 10; 6 Trevor Willis 9; etc.
29/04/2012
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INVITATION CLASS FOR MOTORSPORT AT THE PALACE
Sevenoaks
& District Motor Club, organisers of Motorsport at Crystal Palace,
have announced that an additional 'Invitation Class' has been added to
this year's Crystal Palace Sprint programme.
The
new class is open to vehicles which do not comply with other class
regulations; entries in this class will run as part of the event, with
equal billing as regards Practice and Timed runs. However, Invitation
Class cars will not be eligible for fastest time of the day.
25/04/2012
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First MOLE Report of 2012
MOLE Racing have published their first report for 2012 including winter development, shakedowns and the first British Sprint Championship round at Castle Combe.
Image courtesy of Steve Kilvington
25/04/2012
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HSA Round 5 - Gurston Down. FTD to Tony Wiltshire
Tony Wiltshire to FTD in his Gould GR55 at Gurston Down on Saturday April 21st.
Class wins for Tim Richardson, Matt Hillam, Nick Jeffs and Mike Smith and strong seconds in class for Fyrth Crosse, Simon Andrews, Rob Pallett and Paul Webster.
More details and photos when our correspondents report in!
Results here.
22/04/2012
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GURSTON ANNOUNCES £1000 HILLCLIMB PRIZE
Gurston Down hillclimb will award a £1000 prize for the driver who breaks their class record by the largest margin, or the one who gets closest to it, during the July 21/22 Spire FM Race Day meeting, at which the popular Wiltshire venue will host the TTC Group Midland Hillclimb Championship for the first time. The event also marks a promotional first for local Salisbury radio station Spire FM. Full details on www.gurstondown.org
22/04/2012
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HSA Round 4 - FTD for Ian Catt at sunny Lydden
Practice, two timed runs, a third timed run for best improvement, on a cracking track, £99 and all done and dusted by midday. Welcome to Sprinting Tunbridge Wells Motor Club style and if Lydden Hill were located in the Midlands they would be turning competitors away in their droves.
As it was there were a fair few HSA Championship competitors and members enjoying the Spring sunshine on a track, still dusty following the previous week-end's Rallycross event, despite the organisers best efforts to clean the circuit.
Ian Catt took FTD in his OMS SF2a with a 72.17s time just ahead of Steve Boother's OMS 2000M. In the same class it was good to see HSA member Glyn Sketchly back out after a recent illness in his immaculate (this doesn't really do justice to the car though) Megapin Mk9 which he has owned for 20 years or so.
Dennis Pickett (pictured) won the Formula Ford class while John Brookes
scored well in his Mazda MX-s, setting a new class record and Mark
Patterson was another competitor to gain good points in his Ginetta G15.
George Harris encountered electrical problems during practice and had
to retire.
Results here and photo gallery here.
15/04/2012
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