Hot Rod Racing
ISSUE 6: APRIL 2012
whistlinjacksmith
Results
National Hot Rods WQ Rounds
205 History: part 3
Willie Hardie’s new Spedeworth
built National Hot Rod
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This copy contains a racing report from the traditional Good Friday meeting which is a real favourite of mine as it has the add-
ed benefit of F2 and Saloon Stock Cars. The entry as usual was great considering the potential fuel issues that had threatened
in the weeks leading up to the event. Makes you feel good when the sport you love has so many die-hard teams and drivers
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contents 4 News and Reports: Northampton, Arena Essex and Swaffham
6 205 History: Part 3
All the familiar names were racing in the hunt for the top 20
qualifying positions barring 734 Ralph Sanders who has now
trying to sell all 6 (yes six!) of his National Hot Rods after last
weekend’s load-up for a weight infringement.
Heat 1
From pole position 67 David Brooks pulled into the lead. Lap 2
348 Shane Brereton spun on turn 2 and was hit by 209 Kym
Weaver who couldn’t avoid him and then 14 Phil Spinks ran
into him being jacking him up. Weaver and Spinks limped off
while Brereton got going again. Over recent meeting Brooks
had been quick recently and today was no different built a lead
of a straight over 116 Steve Burrows, 92 Jack Blood and 339
Danny Hunn. Hunn though lost out on his fourth place with
engine problems in the final few laps.
At the back 72 Willie Hardie, 95 Gavin Murray, 911 Malcolm
Blackman and 303 Matt Simpson had all been drawn in this
race. Simpson had ducked inside Blackman early on and from
that point onwards these four lapped as one; going outside 100
Dick Burtenshaw and inside 152 Shaun Taylor on tow. Murray
though moved beyond 10 Sam Holland on the final lap.
Res: 67, 116, 92, 219, 162, 95, 10, 72, 303, 911
Heat 2
Holland led for a short while before Blood eased past and into
a big lead. Holland had the other queuing up behind her.
Within that battle was 316 Paul Frost in his first meeting in a
graded position, he had fallen back a few places from his row 3
starting position but did repass 60 Mark Paffey for 7th place,
perhaps a little insignificant for this race but is the sign of
things to come for another newbie to the class. Frost did how-
ever get caught on the outside and fall outside the top 10.
Blood was clear by a long way while Holland had 5 cars
battling behind, Holland took her second successive second
place (in terms of meetings), one of those behind was Weaver
who equally had his second successive black cross (in terms of
meetings).
Res: 92, 10, 339, 60, 174, 115, 27, 209 (x-2), 780, 303
Heat 3
Brooks led from the flag before 780 Mike Loosemore and Bur-
rows moved past. Brooks had another retirement that would
put him out of the final as well. Burrows took up the lead easi-
ly but had nothing to stop the charging Paffey who was being
tracked by 31 Dick Hillard all the way. With 3 laps to run
Paffey eased into first place.
Res: 60, 116, 31, 780, 72, 911, 115, 174, 316, 100
Final
Holland had the front row to herself but couldn’t hold back the
second row starters of Loosemore and Burrows who passed on
each side before entering turn one. 27 Mikey Godfrey moved
into second place. Yet again it was Paffey making the moves
passing Holland, Blood and Loosemore in quick succession but
ran of laps to catch the front two. Blood lost out a decent fifth
place when clipping Brereton and was being forced to the in-
side of the track. Burrows and Godfrey's top positions would
help out in their quest for world final qualification.
Moving up from the back there was great battle from Hardie,
115 Chris Haird, 174 Jason Kew and Simpson. Blackman was-
n’t able to cut through the traffic as the protagonists battling
for a group one position and trailed the others by a quarter of a
lap. By the end of the race he was able to get within one place
behind but moving into 2012 the others do seem to have the
upper hand.
News and reports
The Good Friday meeting at Northampton hosted annually gives the one and only opportunity in England to see Na-
tional Hot Rods, Brisca F2 and Saloon Stock Cars racing together. Although no championships are being held it is the
best domestic meeting of the year. Northampton in the last few years been promoted by Incarace, the Good Friday
meeting is slightly different with Autospeed running the show. Autospeed stopped running National Hot Rods at their
tracks back in the mid-90’s when the qualifying trail dropped from 48 meeting to the modern 16-17 per year. They kept
their foot in the door with an annual meeting at Ringwood initially that transferred to Northampton in recent years
(possibly Arena Essex in 2013!).
National Hot Rods WQR NORTHAMPTON ROUND 12: 6TH APRIL 2012
Res: 116, 27, 60, 72, 115, 174, 303, 911, 780, 10
Blackman's better finish in the final heat had at that point
closed the gap in the chase for silver to one point but by the
end of the meeting Simpson finished it 2 points clear. Hardie
retook the place in group one from Murray. The biggest mover
was Burrows who has jumped from 20th to 10th place. No
movements in and out of the top 20 though Colin Gomm is
only 3 points from safety with Blood poised behind, his clash
in the final with Brereton proving costly.
21st April
Swaffham Hot Rods opening meeting
The Swaffham Hot Rods had their first meeting of the season
on a very wet Saturday 21st April, which saw 12 cars turn out
with a good mixture of car specs including non and full space-
framed. Drivers were 5 Terry Sewell, 17 Micheal Benstead, 19
Luke Retchless, 27 parviz, 28 Richard Ansell, 76 Neil Howitt,
150 Robin Ashman, 198 Steve Nash, 371 Mark Sewell, 373
Andy Stevenson, 448 Gary Farrington and 516 Shaun Lane.
Heat 1: 5, 28, 17, 448, 373, 19, 516
Heat 2: 28, 17, 371, 448, 373, 19, 516
Final: 371, 28, 448, 17, 373, 27, 19, 516
Thanks to Mark Sewell
22nd April
Arena Essex - Lightning Rods - English Championship
It is the true the English Champion is infact Scottish, Frankie
Cunningham is licensed with Incarace and won the title from
Spedeworth’s Ben Murray and the reigning World Champion
Gary Greenland.
Heat 1: 636, 227, 503, 240, 526, 106, 237, 87, 452, 416
Heat 2: 416, 267, 181, 730, 87, 781, 633, 452, 51, 22
Final: 87, 503, 267, 240, 227, 181, 730, 781, 452, 22
Results via mylaps
29th April
Northampton - Stock Rods - English Championship
At a very wet Northampton Dean O'Dell claims his first title in
the class after front row starters Smyth and Sturt collide before
collecting further penalties.
Heat 1: 447, 74, 288, 745, 394, 168, 900, 755, 876, 300
Heat 2: 168, 924, 171, 755, 300, 136, 151, 447, 823, 28, 91
English: 171 Dean O'Dell, 755, 300, 447, 924, 136, 876, 168, 91, 74
Results supplied by Terry M.
Northampton - 2L Hot Rods
Heat 1: 88, 11, 310, 96, 75, 565, 304, 303, 8, 306
Heat 2: 11, 303, 96, 88, 543, 87, 304, 65, 30, 8
Final: 87, 96, 11, 88, 304, 65, 303, 418, 43, 118
Results supplied by Terry M.
General news SWAFFHAM, ARENA ESSEX & NORTHAMPTON
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This touch-up piece has been in the making for several months,
thanks to those that have already commented. Recently for sale
on this site was a Peugeot 205 that had been racing at Buxton
with the Central Hot Rods, although a former National Hot
Rod, it wasn't one from the SHP workshop.
My dad Ken Marriott bought this car off Iain Grayson No 19 it
was used by him at Buxton for a season, he bought it off Paul
Green who also used it at Buxton as well, it's an Ex Keith
Lynam national hot rod and as I was told it's a lightweight
(t45) space frame built by Neville Stanley as a copy to the Lud-
low one he had made but was only used a few times for cham-
pionship meetings with it been lighter chassis.
Ste Dunston
Between Stanley and Lynam the car was also raced by Karl
Price who represented Scotland using the car in the 1998
World Final, it was possibly raced by Ian McGuigan as well.
Over the past few years the 205 has almost completely disap-
peared from the National Hot Rod scene, 57 Mike Oliver made
sporadical appearances in his 205 during 2009 and it is now
back with the Blackman family. Although not in it's 205 dis-
guise Mikey Godfrey does race a car that oncelooked like a 205
(now a Saxo). Heading down the ranks of hot rod classes at the
end of 2009 what 205's are still being raced?
Outlaw hot rod have suffered this year with a lack of numbers
even though there are plently of drivers and cars it's just a case
of getting them onto the track at the same time (easier said
than done!). At the start of the year 74 Lawrence Connors
raced a 205 with the Outlaws during the Expo meeting, that
day also gave the SEGTO drivers had a chance to race on tar-
mac and 178 Alan Relf was also sporting a 205.
My 205 went to Lawrence Connors but was not the car he used
at Expo last year, that was a tin car with nat kit fitted.
Jason Villa
At PRI 5 Roy Rawlins still races a 205 while 12 Mark Cook
stepped up from many years in Group A Hot Rods with the ex
-Phillips/Fray 205. 113 Richard Simmons's 205 served him well
up to this year and could have became the basis to the British
Championship and World Cup winning Mini.
As you mentioned I had one (originally Mick Phillips) which I
bought down from Scotland owned by Steve Jeffrey's who
rebuilt it after Mick Phillips had dumped it on top of a scrap
heap. I believe Dave Fry bought from Mick and sold it on to
Steve. I had the car for 10 years racing it mainly at Arena Es-
sex. It was the best car I have ever raced. It started with a 2Ltr.
pinto but then had to put a Vauxhall 2Ltr 16v to compete. Yes I
did sell this onto Mark Cook who was going to carry on at
Arena.
Rick Fray
The pug 205 run by Richard Simmons 07-08 is now the basis
for the Bmw Mini (and is now up for sale). The car started life
being built by Dave Longhurst and Phil (Mr Cheese) Young as
a tin car racing at Angmering, then being bought by Patsy En-
right who changed it to a plastic car, being bought by myself in
2006 and racing in outlaw at Arena in 07-08 then turned into
mini for 09 season. The ex-Dave Fry car bought by Patsy En-
right is now a 206.
Richard Simmons
The above mentioned ex-Lynam 205 stayed at Buxton with 7
Simon Hutt, the track also sees Ivan Grayson and Richard
Stilleto stay faithful to the 205's. GMP still has one 205 knock-
ing about with 172 Derek Connor behind the wheel that car.
This was believed to have gone through the hands of Mark
Jones, John Carding, Steve Mannett, Owen Will, Graeme Gor-
don and Ian Donaldson.
205 History Part 3 ORIGINALLY RELEASED ONLINE 22.01.10
Top picture: Richard Simmons
Bottom picture: Roy Rawlins.
Both taken at Arena Essex
Sorry to say but the 205 Ian crashed is dead, the extent of the
damage on it was huge. Probably some of the worst I have
seen on a hot rod. Ian bought another 205 rolling from down
south and transferred all his stuff on to it from the old car.
However the old damaged 205 that is still sitting on top of a
container at Ian's place looking a wee bit worse for wear. Im
not sure if its being kept for sentamental reasons or if it could
be sorted, I very much doubt it though.
John Sibbald – nationalhotrod.com forum
Hot Rods aren't dead yet in the South-West and drivers are still
keen to race Mendips; Langmead (although in possession of
Focus as well), Loram and Norton have been using their 205's
more many years. Although more likely to be racing at Grim-
ley 22 Andy Tidmarsh races a 205 (ex-Bland/ Fitch/ Wilcox) in
bright pink the same colour he used on his Porsche Super Rod
and BMW. Grimley are now running Outlaw hot rod racing,
although not an official title anything that caters for National
spec car is Outlaws. 171 Dan Lewis leads the way their in a
205. Ringwood's hot rods are pretty similar to Grimley and do
have a wide range of cars: 22 Steve Woods raced there in a 205.
Tipperary's 1600 Hot Rods definately has a few being raced.
The Spedeworth Slick Car events (any car with Slick Tyres,
mainly Super Rods) hasn't attracted any 205's yet.
This part may be alot shorter than the previous editions but
information is drying up and the cars are disappearing. The
price of scrap metal was high last year and perhaps some driv-
ers cash in. A car that definately bit the dust was 115 David
Haird's at Hednesford it melted! Over the last few years some
205's have been used omitted from this list as their where-
abouts was unknown, so what about these? Your knowledge is
appreciated.
What about these ones:
3 Ian Davidson
10 Chas Bain
10 Stephen Harris
17 Shane Newman
19 Keith Lynam—repanelled as 206
37 Kev Fulton
100 Phil Mitchell
103 Alan White
106 Alan Finnie
167 Rob Lowe—self built
171 Adrian Hall
174 Tony Collings
208 Phil Mansell—repanelled as 206
250 Ian Cross—built by Wills
263 Gary Deal
283 Allen Goddard
299 Nick Bass
306 Keith Lambert
311 Chick Laing
250 Patsy Enright—built by Autocross
473 Nigel Pike
637 Warren Farazmand
717 Trevor Bibby
906 Eddie Foott
935 Davy Gurney
Those names are just the drivers that were last known to have
raced a 205 or car that began life as a 205. The recent installa-
tion provided a plethora of information, but it now seems that
people are not just after information of what the cars are cur-
rently being used as but also the history of them. Some are
more well documented than others, the movements of the
Hunn and McKellar cars for example.
I purchased Phil Mitchell's 205 (raced at Buxton 2008) recently,
I am going to repanel it as 206 and run a redtop engine in it for
2010 season. I'm quite interested in who else has owned the car
and raced it before Phil, as I don't know any history of the car
and it would be nice to know. So if anyone has any info please
let me know.
Graham Jackson
There are at the moment three 205 National Hot Rods are rac-
ing on mainland Europe:
44 Dieter Baader most times race in Venray or Lelystad when
NHR are on as he does not like the Posterholt track where the
most races from NHR take part. He also did a public drag rac-
ing with the car and is very often on various events to show
the car.
120 Toon de Kleijn was only racing 1-2 times this year.. think
due financial problems.
99 Johann Baer is the most often seen guy from these 3 on the
tracks. He raced most times at Posterholt.
Sascha Paar
My step father Steve Burgess 286 had two, the one raced by
283 Allen Goddard came from Leon Facey? Originally Steve
never raced it and Allen sold it to Derek Luke 103 about a cou-
ple of years ago who raced it in a outlaw series, the other 205
Steve had I think was a SHP but he couldn't get on with it so
sold it to Paul Sheard and kept his trusty starlet. Come to think
of it Derek Luke 103 a SHP 205 and so did Neil Facey.
Culligan Ward
208 Phil Mansell repanelled as 206:
This car was brought by John Wood 486 and raced at Arena as
an outlaw, then sold to Mick Pagden 197, this car is now being
raced by Lee Pepper 155
Kim Pepper
174 Tony Collings - This car was originally that of 784 Mike
Serjeant, which we built using the roll cage from his ex Paul
Grimer Sonny Howard Fiesta. After Tony blew the engine, the
car was dismantled and I last saw the space frame hanging on
a garage wall in Cornwall!
Rob Sherrell
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