Sss oct 2014

Hillclimbing and Sprinting in Scotland

Issue 2014/7

Speedsport Scotland is published by

The Scottish Sprint and Hillclimb

Championship Committee EDITOR: ROBERT SMITH, 25 BALLOCHMYLE VIEW, CATRINE,

AYRSHIRE KA5 6EN Tel 01290 550897

E-mail: [email protected]

ISSUE 2014/7: OCTOBER 2014

SCOTTISH SPRINT & HILLCLIMB

CHAMPIONSHIP COMMITTEE

GENERAL EXECUTIVE MEMBERS

Chairman: Steve Marr, 141 Jesmond Avenue, Bridge of Don, Aber-deen AB22 8UG Tel 001224 706295. [email protected]

Vice-Chairman: Graeme Bremner, Tigh-an-Iasgair, Ackergill, Wick KW1 4RG 07770 396265. [email protected]

Secretary: Leslie-Ann Scoular, Triquerta, 15 Bonnyside Road, Bon-nybridge FK4 2AD. Tel 07896 840966 [email protected]

Treasurer: Mike Murchie 3 Cyprus Aveune Elderslie PA5 9NA Tel 01505 320373 [email protected]

Sprint Championship Co-ordinator: Iain Scoular, Triquerta, 15 Bonnyside Road, Bonnybridge FK4 2AD. Tel 0771 7131596 [email protected]

Hillclimb Championship Co-ordinator: Ian C Thompson,

Easter Woodlands, Dalcross, Inverness IV2 7JE Tel 07753 488568. [email protected]

Club Representatives:

Aberdeen & DMC: Roy Napier:

Caithness CC: Roy Munro: [email protected]

East Ayrshire CC: Russell Fair: [email protected]

Grampian AC: Trevor Park: [email protected]

Lothian CC: Tim Thomson: [email protected]

Machars CC: Robin Christie: airlour@btinternet

Monklands SCC: Colin McLatchie: [email protected]

Scottish Sporting CC: Stephen Alexander: [email protected]

Competitor representatives:

Jonathan Rarity(Hills): [email protected]

David Reid (Sprints): [email protected]

Eligibility Scrutineer: Rob McKinna: [email protected]

Views expressed in Speedsport Scotland are not necessarily

those of the Scottish Sprint & Hillclimb Committee.

CLUB CONTACTS

Aberdeen & DMC: Janet Dickson 07949 425195

Caithness CC: Jennifer Bremner 0782 433 6468

East Ayrshire CC: Janet Garner 07982 727444

Grampian AC: Peggy Fraser 01467 621 076

Machars CC: Roger Anderson 01988 403 287

or Gavin Campbell: [email protected] Lothian CC: Billy Cater 01555 750 197

Monklands SCC: Marion Hopkins 01236 842 388

Scottish Sporting CC: Alistair Reid 01236 720819

Wigton MC: Graeme Forrester 01900 825642

Cover Photograph:

Scott Moran winning the British Hillclimb Champion-ship at Doune on 21st September

Our regular photographers:

Ian Thompson ( Thompson Photography)

Tel 01667 462569

Bill Henderson Tel 01324 622671

Steve Wilkinson Tel 01704 225267

Dave Carlin: [email protected]

John Crae: http://jcrae.smugmug.com/MotorSport

One of the attractions of Doune hillclimb is the quality

cars which are not even competing, like this trio of AC

Cobras. [John Crae]

CALDER FAMILY 1-2 IN BRITISH

SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIP

Although they missed the final round at Anglesey on 5th Octo-

ber, Colin Calder retained the SBD Motorsport British Sprint

Championship and his elder daughter Heather secured the

runner-up spot. These were well-earned successes as the

team had to transport their 3.5 litre Gould GR55 all the way

from the north coast of Scotland to tracks as far away as

South Wales, Norfolk, Anglesey, Wiltshire, Yorkshire and

Northern Ireland.

This continues the recent dominance of the series by Scottish

drivers since Roy Dawson won in 2006. Other than Jock Gray

coming close in 1991 when he was third and being runner-up

on the two ensuing campaigns, Scottish competitors had

never featured strongly in National rounds until the new Mil-

lennium, although Jock still holds the record for the Brighton

Speed Trials quarter mile and half-mile courses having won

Britain’s oldest speed event three times between 1991 and

1993.

Stewart Robb Junior brought the title north in 2008 and three

years later his father, also Stewart did likewise then retained it

in 2012. In 2013 Colin became the fifth Scot to win the Cham-

pionship and his current success means the Championship

trophy has been in Scottish hands for six of the last nine

years.

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Our next issue will list final results of all the speed champion-

ships of interest to Scottish competitors and a provisional list

of 2015 dates.

Could we ask registrars of all championships to let us have a

copy of their regulations, even in draft form by 25th January to

let us prepare our pre-season edition.

SPEEDSPORT SCOTLAND OCTOBER 2014

DOUNE Guyson Scottish

Hillclimb

Championship

Avon Tyres British

Hillclimb

Championship

August 23 & 24th

Lothian Car Club

FIRST RUN-OFF

Scott Moran 35.16

Will Hall 35.79

Jos Goodyear 35.91

Trevor Willis 35.96

Alex Summers 36.48

Tom New 37.00

Alastair Crawford 38.04

Dave Uren 38.20

George Coghill jr 39.43

Les Mutch 39.54

Richard Spedding 40.29

SECOND RUN-OFF

Jos Goodyear 35.20

Scott Moran 35.38

Trevor Willis 35.60

Will Hall 35.72

Alex Summers 36.63

Tom New 37.18


Dave Uren 39.01

Goerge Coghill jr 40.78

Richard Spedding 40.87

Steve Marr 41.50

Simon Fidoe 41.98

EVENT PROPER Will Hall 35.67

Scott Moran 35.91

Trevor Willis 36.05

Jos Goodyear 36.28

Alex Summers 37.03

Tom New 37.77

Wallace Menzies 38.07

Dave Uren 38.62


Garry Dickson 39.55

TOP SCOTS

Wallace Menzies 38.07

Garry Dickson 39.55

George Coghill jr 39.64

George Emmerson 39.92

Danny Dickson 40.30

Les Mutch 40.47

Steve Marr 41.71

Fergus Duncan 42.92

Nicola Menzies 43.61

Craig Nicol 43.65

David Seaton 43.91

Kevin Illingworth 44.63

Photographs by

John Crae

MORAN BECOMES CHAMPION AT SUNNY DOUNE

With the Guyson Scottish Hillclimb championship having been tied up by Ross Napier at Fintray the importance of the second National Doune meeting of 2014 was to see if Trevor Willis could prevent Scott Moran winning the Avon Tyres British Hillclimb title. It took until only the first of the run-offs to settle that score, Scott winning with the Fastest Time of the day and Trevor having to settle for fourth place behind an impressive Will Hall and the mercurial Jos Goodyear in the amazing GWR Raptor.

Even though he didn’t need to stretch himself Scott was only 0.22 of a second slower on the second set of run-offs but was beaten by Jos Goodyear by 0.18 of a second. Willis was third and Hall fourth, with only 0.52 of a second covering all four.

Scottish hopes received early setbacks with Ross Napier retiring in practice and Wallace Menzies crashing out at the approach to East Brae on his first Championship run

Other Scots did us proud, George Coghill Jr, Les Mutch and Steve Marr all scoring points in the Na-tional championship. Garry Dickson was also fast enough to qualify for the lunchtime run-off but was not registered for the Championship.

To lower the longer-established records at Doune takes considerable talent but some new targets were set, by Donald McCaskill, Will Hall and Robert Bremner, while Craig Nicol missed his goal by 0.06 and Jos Goodyear by 0.10.

This was Doune at its best, beautiful weather, lovely setting, fast times and even an early finish to the meeting. A few more of the top English competitors would have further enhanced the spectacle, but those who did come were out of the top drawer.

As usual the Paddock, even the car park was full of interesting vehicles, including a few pristine Cobras and a GT40. The good weather brought out specta-tors in big numbers and it was a pity we did not have a home driver among the leading group to give them something to shout about.

Class A(i) (Record 51.07): Stephen Mason (MGTF) 56.22, Eddie Berney (MGF) 65.78.

Class B (Record 43.59): Craig Nicol (Caterham) 43.65, Alan Nicol (Caterham) 45.37, Alan Warburton (Caterham) 47.57, David Warburton (Caterham)

47.97, Gavin Marshall (Caterham 49.62, John Hamil-ton (Westfield) 49.68.

Class C(i) (Record 50.52): Brian Beverley (Nova) 51.84, Shaun Beverley (Nova) 52.12.

Class C(ii) (Record 47.44): David Adam (Peugeot 205) 48.11, Jock Ramsay (Open Manta) 49.51, Stu-art Reid (Peugeot 205) 50.02, David Dennis (Peugeot 205) 50.76, Allan Reid (Peugeot 205) 52.06.

Class C(iii) (Record 45.13): Donald Mcc

Caskill (Evo5) 44.93 New Record, Geoff Twemlow (Impreza) 50.80.

Class D(i) (Record 44.50): Stuart Dow (Caterham) 45.96, Trevor Park (Tiger R6) 46.35, Melvyn Hartley (Autotune Gemini) 47.69, David Baker (Ginetta Broomstick) 57.87.

Class F (Record 41.08): Kevin Illingworth (GWR Wam) 44.63, Graham Clark (Radical) 46.30, Drew Murray (DMS01) 49.10.

Class G (Record 41.32): Graham Wynn (Force LM01) 42.23, David Seaton (Pilbeam MP43) 43.91, Douglas Thomson (Pilbeam MP43) 45.00, Allan McDonald (Mini EVO4) 45.05.

Class H (Record 44.00): Harry Pick (OMS) 45.98, Garry Hill (OMS) 46.56, Steve Owen (OMS) 47.84, Mike Fitzsimmons (OMS) 52.96.

Class I (Record 40.78): Simon Fidoe (Empire Wraith) 41.40, Steve Marr (PCD Saxon) 41.71, Fer-gus Duncan (OMS) 42.92, Tom Graham (Terrapin) 44.78, Colin Graham (OMS) 45.96.

Class J (Record 37.62): Garry Dickson (OMS) 39.55, George Coghill Jr (Force) 39.64, Danny Dick-son (OMS) 40.30, Les Mutch (GWR Raptor) 40.47, Richard Spedding (Force) 40.92.

Class K (Record 36.02): Jos Goodyear (GWR Rap-tor) 36.12, Alex Summers (DJ Firehawk) 37.03, Dave Uren (Force) 38.62, George Emmerson (Dallara) 39.92,Nicola Menzies (Force) 43.61, Geoff Guille (OMS) 44.46.

Class L (Record 35.83): Will Hall (Force HW) 35.67 New Record, Scott Moran (Gould GR61X) 35.91,

Scott Moran showed he is still at the top of his game with a Championship winning performance.


DOUNE 2

Trevor Willis (OMS28) 36.05, Tom New (Gould GR55) 37.77, Wallace Menzies ( D J Firestorm) 38.07, Alastair Crawford (Gould GR55) 39.34.

Class M (Record 50.96): Robert Bremner (AC Cobra 289) 50.46 New Record, John Albiston (Lotus 23B) 56.00, Daniel Bremner (Imp) 57.82, Alex Hazelwood (A/Healey) 60.19, Markus Bewley (GT6) 63.41, Douglas Anderson (Austin 7 Special) 63.62, Donald Third (Turner) 63.71, Felix Sear (Austin 7 Speedex) 67.68.

Class N (Record 53.04): Alex Graham (Firenza) 53.84.

Class SA (Record 47.47): Charlie Fleming (Westfield) 47.92, Lovat Fraser (Sylva Striker) 49.47, Gordon Brodie (Clio) 50.29, William Millard (Impreza) 50.54, Paul Ram-say (Nova) 52.67, John Ramsay (Nova) 53.02, Brian Wilson (Puma) 53.23, Charlie Fraser (CRF) 53.43, Greg Paterson (CRX) 53.98, Ross Glen (MX5) 54.07, Andrew Con-nell (MX5) 54.37, John Roddick (MX5) 54.38, Ian Wright (Civic) 56.73, Eddie Young (Mazda RX7) 59.00, Kenneth Sutherland (MX5) 60.03, Brian Ralton (Corolla) 63.35, John McGill (MX5) 64.32, Archie Bell (MX5) 65.83.

Class SB (Record 48.50): Stuart Sugden (GWR Mini) 50.16, Gardner McIlwaine (Westfield) 52.40, Andrew Massie (Saxo) 54.02, Jim Sugden GWR Mini) 54.98, Mal-colm McDonald (Peugeot 106) 58.09, John Kean (Peugeot 106) 58.23.

Class SE (Record 40.02): Johnny Mackenzie (Force) 45.07, Vince Banks (Vauxhall Lotus) 47.91, Andy Paterson (Van

Steve Owen has a bit of a moment at the top of East Brae, but recovers well

Jos Goodyear won the second run-off but just missed his class record by one tenth.

Will Hall was fastest qualifier on Sunday morning and the competition proper

Wallace Menzies (Left) crashed out but George Coghill Jr (above)

scored points on both Championship run-offs.


DOUNE 3 E A S T B R A E A C T I O N Les Mutch, John Roddick and Robert Bremner

Left, from top:

Kevin Illingworth

Alastair Crawford

Tom Graham

Steve Marr

Above:

Nicola Menzies

Alistair Forbes


DOUNE 4

Above Top: Alan Nicol in The Esses

Middle: Stuart Dow.

Lower: David Seaton

Below: Geoff Twemlow travels from Cornwall for

every Doune meeting

Above: Fergus Duncan Below: George Emmerson


BOYNDIE Guyson Scottish

Sprint

Championship

September 26 & 27th

Aberdeen & District

Motor Club

SATURDAY

John Mackenzie (OMS) 58.34 John Munro 58.48 Louise Calder 59.70

Roy Munro 60.12

Colin Calder 61.00

Johnny Mackenzie (Force) 61.27 John Plenderleith 62.15 Stuart Brown 63.01 Donald McCaskill 63.56.

Drew Murray 63.77

SUNDAY

John Mackenzie (OMS) 58.12

Louise Calder 59.42

Heather Calder 61.41

Stuart Brown 61.72 Johnny Mackenzie (Force) 62.06 Graham Clark 63.24 John Plenderleith 63.34

Drew Murray 63.42 Donald McCaskill 63.71

Sandy Donaldson 64.61

Photographs by Bob Reid

Thompson Photographic

The Scottish speed season ended on a high note as ADMC held their second doubleheader of the year at Boyndie. The club were blessed with good weather which contrib-uted to a fine weekend of sport.

The main incident of the meeting was a heavy accident on Sunday practice when Colin Tullis badly damaged his MNR Vortx for the send time this year. While every-one present had Colin’s wellbeing foremost in mind, and he escaped relatively unscathed, the ensuing gossip after the fifty minutes delay in recovering the car was of a mag-nificent effort by the Club, marshals, officials and fellow competitors. This was a great credit to everyone involved and emphasises what a close-knit group the Scottish sprint and hillclimb community is. Well done, all concerned!

John Mackenzie took his OMS to twin wins, but he was pushed hard on Saturday by John Munro who ended the day only 0.14 of a sec-ond adrift. A repeat of this confron-tation was lost when the Munro car was withdrawn overnight with the father and son taking up offers of double entries in the Mazda

Mayhem.

The challenge for FTD was then taken up by Louise Calder who was

third overall, but she could only repeat her 1.3 sec-ond deficit to Saturday’s winner. She did, however have the satisfaction of heading her two co-drivers, dad Colin on Saturday and big sister Heather next day.

The track temperatures in the autumn is not condu-cive to record breaking but Donald McCaskill did just that on the opening day, taking 0.61 of a sec-ond off the B4 record and coming within 0.15 of repeating the feat on Sunday.

In the class confrontations, other than double B4 winner Vicky Park’s narrow 0.14 win on Saturday over Craig Morrison, the closest finish came next day in C1 where Graham Clark avenged his first day defeat by Drew Murray with a 0.18 winning margin.

A fitting way, this to end the Guyson action before retreating into winter hibernation.

Class A1 (Record 70.84) Saturday: Stuart Morri-son (Peugeot 106) 73.17, Ricky Gauld (Imp) 74.73, Craig Beaton (Rover 25) 77.03, Roy Anderson (MG ZR) 77.20, Steph Mitchell (Metro) 79.05, Callum Gauld (Imp) 80.08, Keely Mitchell (Metro) 81.06, Jo Young (Imp)86.61.

Sunday: Stuart Morrison 72.89, Callum Gauld 74.53, Ricky Gauld 75.33, Roy Anderson 77.90, Steph Mitchell 78.41, Craig Beaton 79.30, Jo Young 82.34, Keely Mitchell 82.95, Jonathan Young (Imp) 83.61.

Class A2 (Record 69.72) Saturday: Jim King Sr (Clio) 71.42, Gordon Brodie (Clio) 72.11, Martin Gauld (Clio) 72.70, Peter Locke (RX8) 74.89, Ben Melvin (Clio) 76.31, Neil Hamilton (Clio) 77.31, Ali MacRae (Peugeot 206) 79.82, Alisdair MacRae (Peugeot 206) 79.93.

Sunday: Jim King Sr 72.21, John Munro (RX8) 73.88, Peter Locke 74.19, Neil Hamilton 75.21, Ben Melvin 96.52.

Class A4 (Record 63.27) Saturday: Sandy Coghill (Westfield) 66.01, Charlie Fleming (Westfield) 67.03, Colin Tullis (MNR Vortx) 67.27, Charlie Fra-ser (Westfield) 70.84.

Sunday: Charlie Fleming 67.04, Charlie Fraser 70.82.

Class A6 (Record 62.82) Saturday: Matt Bridger (Dax Rush) 71.63, Pete Lawton (Westfield) 72.32, Gordon Sinclair (Westfield) 72.42, Richard Bridger (Dax Rush) 73.94.

Sunday: Jonathan Neale (Caterham) 69.26, Matt Bridger 70.68, Gordon Sinclair 73.86, Richard Bridger 74.54.

Class A7 (Record 73.50) Saturday: Graham Ball (Midget) 75.91, Brian Carter (Celica) 86.06.

Sunday: Graham Ball 76.14, Brian Carter 83.47.

Class A8 (Record 67.83) Saturday:

Martin Smith (Vauxhall VX220) 68.22, Ronnie Mac-Gregor (Honda S2000) 71.84, Alex Murray (Ginetta G32) 74.28, Leslie-Ann Scoular (MX5) 80.98, Eddie Berney (MG TF) 87.74.

Sunday: Martin Smith 68.69, Ronnie MacGregor 71.17, Gus Carnegie 75.258, Roy Munro (RX5) 76.13, Leslie-Ann Scoular 80.63, Eddie Bernie 76.13.

Class B1/B2 (B1 Record 68.40, B2 68.47) Satur-day: Mike King [B2] (Civic) 71.32, Jim Sugden [B1] (GWR Mini) 72.48, Scott Love [B2] (Nova) 76.32, James King Jr [B2] (Peugeot 106) 80.72.

Class B1 Sunday: Bradley Holroyd (Mini) 69.17, Jim Sugden 70.53, Mike Jolly (GWR Mini) 73.36.

Class B2 Sunday: Mike King 71.00, Scott Love 75.08, Robert Martin (Peugeot 106) 79.74, James King Jr 81.70.

MACKENZIES ENDS WITH A BRACE GOOD ATMOSPHERE AS SEASON CLOSES


BOYNDIE 2 Class A3/B3 (A3 Record 65.37, B3 64.17) Saturday: Donald McCaskill [B3] 63.56 New Record, Chris Randall [A3] (Evo) 69.40, Steven Jeffries [A3](Evo6) 71.20.

Sunday: (B3 Record 63.56): Donald McCaskill [B3] 63.71, Chris Randall [A3] 69.47, Steven Jeffries [A3] 70.24.

Class B4 (Record 61.92) Saturday: Vicky Park (Tiger FR6) 66.98, Craig Morrison (F27 Clubman) 67.11, John Lowe (Fisher Fury) 67.19, William Littlejohn (Sylva Striker) 79.21.

Sunday: Vicky Park 66.47, Craig Morrison 68.87, William Littlejohn 74.17.

Class C0/C1 (C0 Record 66.52, C1 62.40) Saturday: Drew Murray [C1] (DMS001) 63.77, Graham Clark [C1] (Radical) 64.23, Gordon Forbes [C1] (Global Light) 67.72, David Littlejohn [C3] (Imp) 70.59, Mike Murchie [C0] (Fiesta) 71.91.

Sunday: Graham Clark [C1] 63.24, Drew Murray [C1] 63.42, Gordon Forbes [C1] 66.61, Rod Manson [C1] (Crusader) 67.05, Mike Mur-chie [C0] 71.55, Angie Adams [C1] (Crusader) 72.18.

Class C3 (Record 61.56) Saturday: Eric Holmes (Evo6) 69.09.

Sunday: Eric Holmes 69.13.

Class C4 (Record 57.40) Saturday: John Munro (OMS) 58.48, Louise Calder (Jedi) 59.70, Roy Munro (OMS) 60.12, Colin Calder (Jedi) 61.00, Stuart Brown (OMS) 63.01, Paul Rhodes (OMS) 65.63.

Sunday: Louise Calder 59.42, Heather Calder (Jedi) 61.41, Stuart Brown 61.72.

Class C5 (Record 55.17) Saturday: John Mackenzie (OMS) 58.34, Johnny Mackenzie (Force) 61.27, Sandy Donaldson (OMS) 64.94, Barbara Mackenzie (OMS) 71.97.

Sunday: John Mackenzie (OMS) 58.12, Johnny Mackenzie (Force) 62.06, Sandy Donaldson 64.61, Barbara Mackenzie (OMS) 68.85.

Class C6 (Record 57.61) Saturday: John Plenderleith (Reynard FV Lot) 62.15, Mike Jolly (Reynard FV Lot) 66.46, Alistair Forbes (Renault Tatus) 66.99, Mark Forbes (Renault Tatus) 74.67.

Sunday: John Plenderleith 63.34, Alistair Forbes 65.07, Mark Forbes 69.11.

Colin Tullis

Graham Ball

Brian Carter


BOYNDIE 3

Alex Murray Jim King

Craig Morrison

Leslie Scoular

Donald McCaskill

Peter Locke

John Lowe John Munro


KAMES Cross Border Speed

Championship

October 5th

Wigton Motor Club

SCOULAR ON SONG AT END-OF-SEASON THRASH

Mark Scoular shows his delight at securing FTD on the final day of the season

The 2014 season did not go out in a wimper as these shots by Kevin Brown. FTD was set by Mark Scoular in his OMS. Report and re-sults in our next issue.

Jock Ramsay

Dave Exton

Henry Simmons

Melvyn Hartley

James Gibb

Below:

1

2

3


WILL HALL ON TOP AT LOTON

Will Hall ended a successful season with a fine double success in the run-offs at the popular Shropshire hill on 28th September, bringing his total wins in his 3.5 litre Force-Nissan WH to five for the year and confirming his third position in the 2014 Avon Tyres British Hillclimb Championship. Scott Moran, having sealed the Championship at Doune the previous week-end, finished a quarter of a second down on Hall both run-offs and was pipped for the runner-up spot on the lunchtime session by Jos Goodyear.

It was another good weekend for Goodyear, with a second and third in the run-offs which clinched him the Leaders Championship and fourth place in the Avon Tyres British Hillclimb Championship which must have pleased designer Graeme Wight Jr no end. Wallace Menzies double-entered Will Hall’s car and came seventh and sixth in the run-offs, very commendable in an unfamiliar car.

FTD: Will Hall (3.5 Force-Nissan WH) 44.01s

Championship run-off, round 33: 1 Hall 44.02s; 2 Jos Goodyear (1.3s GWR Raptor-Suzuki) 44.19s; 3 Scott Moran (3.5 Gould-NME GR61X) 44.26s; 4 Trevor Willis (3.2 OMS-owertec 28) 44.91s; 5 Roger Moran (3.5 Gould-NME GR61X) 45.45s; 6 Deryk Young (4.0 Gould-Judd EV GR51B) 46.03s; 7 Wallace Menzies (3.5 Force-Nissan WH) 46.87s; 8 Tom New (4.0 Gould-Judd EV GR55) 47.04s; 9 Alastair Crawford (2.8 Gould-NME GR55C) 47.28s; 10 Oliver Tomlin (4.0 Pilbeam-Judd MP97) 47.50s; 11 Steve Owen (1.6 OMS-Suzuki 28) 47.53s; 12 Richard Spedding (1.6 Force-Suzuki PC) 47.73s.

Championship run-off, round 34: 1 Hall 44.02s; 2 Scott Moran 44.32s; 3 Goodyear 44.67s; 4 Roger Moran 45.41s; 5 Young 46.33s; 6 Menzies 47.17s; 7 New 47.21s;8 Dave Uren (1.3t Force-Suzuki PC) 47.24s; 9 Crawford 47.31s; 10 Owen 47.79s; 11 Paul Haimes (1.3t Gould-Suzuki GR59) 48.50s; Willis DNF (gearbox).

Final British Championship positions: 1 Scott Moran 262pts; 2 Trevor Willis 236; 3 Will Hall 231; 4 Jos Goodyear 186; 5 Alex

Summers 182; 6 Tom New 125; 7 Wallace Menzies 121; 8 Roger Moran 108; 9 John Bradburn 100; 10 Alastair Crawford 70; etc.

LAST SPRINTS GO TO SAMPSON AND HOLMES SBD Motorsport British Sprint Championship

Round 14 Anglesey October 4th At just 16 year and 317 days John Munro became the youngest ever qualifier for any British Top Twelve Run-off. On Saturday he finished eleventh and broke the 1100 class record on each run and on Sunday he managed eighth and again broke the 1100 class record on each run. On Thursday, he starts in the Henry Surtees Challenge at Buckmore Park and the entire British Sprint Championship wish him well.

The Saturday event on the National course was run in near perfect if blustery conditions and the run-off was a cliff hanger. Mark Smith and co-driver Craig Sampson broke a drive shaft during qualifying and it was touch and go if they could get it repaired in time as they didn’t have a spare! After a mad dash to Holyhead Smith returned and the pair just beat the deadline to take their runs. Sampson ran first and a slow run to test the repaired shaft was the priority. Smith then charged into the lead only for Sampson to pip him to the win on his second run claiming his first ever round win. John Graham just held off Steve Broughton for third place as Steve Miles limped home ahead of Matt Hillam. Tony Jarvis and Martin Webb were once again on the pace with their shared Dallara.

1. Craig Sampson (2.0 Reynard-Duratec 903-DB) 48.25s, 2. Mark Smith (2.0 Reynard-Duratec 903-DB) 48.44s, 3. John Graham (2.8 Gould-NME GR55B V8) 49.08s, 4. Steve Broughton (2.0 Dallara-Vauxhall F3RB) 49.17s, 5.Steve Miles (2.0 Van Diemen-Duratec/SBD RF96/MM13) 49.39s, 6. Matt Hillam (2.0 Dallara-Vauxhall F3RB) 49.86s, 7. Terry Holmes (3.5 Lola-Judd ERH V8), 49.90s, 8. Tony Jarvis (2.0 Dallara-Vauxhall/Connaught F399/00) 50.16s, 9.Graham Porrett (3.5 Lola-Judd ERH V8) 50.53s, 10.Martin Webb (2.0 Dallara-Vauxhall/Connaught F399/00) 50.77s, 11. John Munro (1.0 OMS-Suzuki/RPE 2000M) 50.86s, 12. Jim Belt (3.0 Juno-Jaguar TR400 V6) 51.43s.

Round 15 Anglesey October 5th The Sunday event on the International course suffered variable conditions with heavy rain squalls and severe gales. Smith and Sampson were reduced to spectators when the repaired driveshaft shattered during the first qualifying runs. Terry Holmes, who was somewhat off the pace on Saturday’ stormed through to take the win in fine style. Steve Miles, who was nursing a twisted driveshaft both days, grabbed second when he threw caution to the wind and nailed the start for the first time all week-end.

John Graham again took third as he struggled with a lack of top end speed due to only being able to run hillclimb ratios. Steve Broughton and Matt Hillam followed in their shared Dallara which continues to run full circuit aero. The Sports Libres were well represented with Jim Belt in the Juno finishing seventh whilst the Radicals of Kurt Ramsden and Matt Carter were ninth and tenth. Also making it into the run-off was Roy Munro, John’s father, but he only took one run to avoid overheating the Suzuki mo-tor and possibly robbing John of his second run.

Terry Holmes (3.5 Lola-Judd ERH V8) 78.83s, Steve Miles (2.0 Van Diemen-Duratec/SBD RF96/MM13) 80.79s, John Graham (2.8 Gould-NME GR55B V8) 80.96s, Steve Broughton (2.0 Dallara-Vauxhall F3RB) 81.26s, Matt Hillam (2.0 Dallara-Vauxhall F3RB) 82.01s, Graham Porrett (3.5 Lola-Judd ERH V8) 83.81s, Jim Belt (3.0 Juno-Jaguar TR400 V6) 84.57s, John Munro (1.0 OMS-Suzuki/RPE 2000M) 85.06s, Kurt Ramsden (1.5t Radical SR3) 85.10, Matt Carter (1.4 Radical PR6) 86.50s, Roy Munro (1.0 OMS-Suzuki/RPE 2000M) 88.51s, Grahame Harden (2.0 Dallara-Vauxhall/Harden F397) 90.03s.

Steve Wilkinson

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