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FERRARICOMPETITIONRESULTS SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS The final closing date for entries for our sojourn to Spa with our two race series is Monday, 10th May. At the time of writing entries were trickling in nicely but with a few notable absentees. One hopes that the laggards get their pens moving across the page before they find it’s too late. Similarly, the special Ferrari Dinner scheduled for the Friday evening is almost sold out already. As competitors will know from their group emails, I endeavoured to find a track day organisation that had hired the circuit immediately prior to our race weekend. I eventually found that Curbstone, a Belgian outfit, had taken the track on the preceding Thursday. However, their rates proved to be prohibitively expensive, at an eye -watering €1,250 for nonmembers of their club. Unsurprisingly there didn’t seem to be much interest in this from our competitors even though the day was focussed on an inappropriately lavish lunch MAY and champagne at the end of the day. Curbstone have subsequently contacted me with an even more expensive offer at this track day. For a mind-blowing non-refundable €10,300, you and four of your friends can drive a 458 Italia around Spa, although if you JUNE damage it the bill will be a further €5,000. For a slightly more modest €9,500 they will provide you with a Ferrari 430. Again, you get the gourmet lunch and the champagne but the downside is that you need
to bring your own helmet. Oh, and you can bring along a few non-driving pals to watch, at a further €150 apiece!
KNOCKHILL The next Big Thing after Spa for our circuit racers is the Scottish weekend at Knockhill, where we shall be running double -header races for both Pirelli Ferrari formula classic and Pirelli Ferrari Open. The meeting is entitled Speedfair and will be held on 25/27th June. Knockhill will take on a distinctly Ferrari complexion, with a Ferrari track day on the Friday as well as testing sessions for the competitors later in the afternoon. We are even promised Italian dishes in the restaurant, which will make a change from haggis and neeps. We are awaiting the final timetable for this event which we will circulate the instant we receive it. One extra event we have arranged with the race
WHAT’S ON 8/9
Harewood Hillclimb
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Oulton Park Track Day
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Spa-Francorchamps: Pirelli Ferrari formula classic; Pirelli Ferrari Open
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Prescott Hillclimb
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Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb
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Brands Hatch Track Day
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Doune Hillclimb
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Knockhill: Pirelli Ferrari formula classic; Pirelli Ferrari Open
organisers, the Scottish Motor racing Club (SMRC) is a team invitation challenge race between Ferraris and the local sportscar drivers (mostly driving Porsches and quick Morgans). We haven’t finalised the rules yet for this additional race but the good thing is that there will be no charge for taking part. The packs for Knockhill, which include hotel arrangements as well as details of the Friday evening Ferrari Dinner, have already been sent out to all registered competitors. If, for some reason, you have been omitted from the list, get in touch with us without delay (contact numbers on p1 of this issue). Drivers should note that we are giving them a couple of weeks start before we issue hotel and Dinner booking forms to the Scottish Area groups, who will be coming out in force to support this event. This is to give priority to competitors, so it is advisable to take advantage of this by making your reservations without delay.
NOISES OFF In this issue you will be able to read Richard Prior’s report on the PFHC sprint at Goodwood. As you will see, for two Ferrari drivers this was literally a non-event since they were unable to take part due to failing to satisfy the uncompromising Noise Judges, and therefore had no option but to return home. Two others were able to compete only thanks to the sporting generosity of another competitor, David Tomlin (himself falling foul of the officials), who put his
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the chances are they will believe you and specify a lower level of revs for testing. 4. Try to be courteous to the officials even though it seems the odds are stacked against you. More and more these days, environmentalists are causing major headaches at motorsport events. So the only way we can counter these difficulties is to be pragmatic when we come to be noise test. And sadly, for me anyway, give Goodwood a wide berth in the future. Photo: Jonathan Tremlett
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F355 at their disposal. The overall winner, John Marshall, only managed to scrape his 430 Scuderia through the monitoring process by backing off at the three posts where ‘drive-by’ measurements were being taken. So, from a splendid Ferrari entry of 22 cars, some 25% were unacceptably noisy according to the aforementioned judges. This serious situation raises a number of questions for our hillclimbing competitors, not least whether it is worth bothering in the future to submit a not inexpensive entry for an event where it is possible that the car will be thrown out. To take this chance, and make a round trip in some cases of several hundred futile miles, is no joke. It must be remembered that we are not driving racing cars. Our Ferraris are almost invariably standard production models unchanged from the manufacturer’s specification and designed for use on public roads. In the PFHC we necessarily have to drive to the events rather than trailer them. So to have this wholesale rejection on the grounds of excessive noise is really not acceptable. As an aside, at Goodwood there were loads of light aircraft buzzing about, including a particularly raucous 1943 North American T-6 Harvard, making far more noise from its radial engine than the loudest of our Ferraris. Bafflingly, however, there doesn’t seem to be any sound restriction for planes! We all know that noise testing is a very inexact science. A car can be tested at one event and be found to be well within the maximum tolerance level only
to have trouble a couple of weeks later, despite the fact that the car is in exactly the same state and tested at the same revs. I believed my F355 was bog standard until my friends at R&D Automotive recently told me that it is fitted with a ‘sports’ exhaust. Even so, the zealous Goodwood officials pronounced it legal at 102 Db(A). The maximum permitted sound level at this event was 105dB(A) measured at 0.5m at an angle of 45º to the exhaust outlet. The revs at which the measurement is taken is prescribed as a percentage of “the engine’s maximum revs”, which at Goodwood was 75% although at most hillclimb events, for instance Prescott, it is 2/3rds with a maximum level of 108dB (A). So why, I wondered, was my F355, even with its apparently non-standard exhaust, so much quieter than some of my fellow competitors with their standard systems? Well maybe the answer is that I practised what I try to preach to others when they ask about noise testing. The essentials are these: 1. When requested to take the engine to the specified revs, do so smoothly and progressively. 2. Even more important, when the test is completed, take the revs down slowly. If you simply take your foot off the throttle there is a danger it make cause a ‘spike’ on the meter’s reading. 3. Don’t brag about your car’s rev limit (when did you last actually use 8,500rpm?). Tell them ‘your’ limit is 7,000rpm and
DECALS and STICKERS It was noticed at the first race meeting of the season, at Snetterton, that some competitors in PFfc and PFO were not displaying their series decals either correctly or, in one or two cases, not at all. Competitors should be aware that, in accordance with the Regulations, series decals and stickers must be displayed, in unaltered form on their cars. The photograph above shows exactly what is required. And if this new competitor can get it right first time there is absolutely no excuse for others not to. The Eligibility Scrutineer will be checking compliance at all future race meetings and will refuse to give approval to any competitor’s car if all the decals are not affixed properly. Anne always carries spares at the track, so there is absolutely no excuse!
RA’s HILLCOMMENT The 2010 Long Wait Season to get Unfolds back with action into some real withdrama our Ferraris as youiswill nearly read inover. this issue As I about write these the notes, coming recent Goodwood up to sprint– mid- a great February, venue, butthere one fraught is still snow with on the groundprimarily problems, here in Suffolk noise as (see our pic) and enough competitors discovered. salt on the After roads to speedily and Snetterton dissolve the AGM your favourite tipo Whittlebury Hall – such and Silverstone is the power of Global your weekend Warming. columnist Just was one month atorest, taking go before and although the PFHC launchesmuch hearing into the about 2010 theseason amazing on the Siberian goings on at wastes Goodwood, of North I am Weald,looking really and less forward than two to reading before the report. circuit racers are underway with That a double-header race at AGM Weekend weekend at Snetterton. Early Whittlebury Hall in April was very signs are that the still uncertain well supported by the economic scene will notand also membership generally discourage our enthusiastic Club our competitors. The Prizegiving competitors, with strong entries Lunch on Sunday is always expected through 2010. memorable, especially this time The have really now as two ofMSA our hillclimbers, improved also very successful their speedcircuit of service racers, if my experience took away a shed-load is anything of Club to go by. I applied trophies. We for are my talking new here licence of late January David Tomlinby whose post greatest and without the medical successes were certificate on the as circuits therein was still both Classic a month and PFO, left on and last Chris year’s.with Butler Remarkably the PFHCthe andnew Classic. licence We were was all back very pleased here within to four days! It is as well enthusiastically applaud this time them of yearthe and to look otheratwinning helmets, Club suits and also safetytoo. members belts if you are a circuit racer. All these Silverstone Trackhave Day awas, habit of going out of date andfine it is unlike last year, blessed with no fun to first find this out at weather. The place was full and scrutineering. Hillclimbers some sensational cars werealso to be need to note the thatpaddock the wearing of seen around and out suitably approved gloves is now on the circuit. From the Club’s mandatory. perspective we were over the The Social a very moon to have anScene incident-free important day. Manypart of our of the hillclimbers hillclimbers season, were outisand set about, fair forincluding 2010. You will already Andrew Holman knowrunning that the his Swiftys F355 have on a spare arranged set of accommodation wheels shod and dinner with slicks. over He managed the Harewood to get double-header all these wheelsweekend, to Silverstone and Jon by Goodwin has strapping twobeen on the busy rear covering of his Loton 355 onPark, top of also thea engine double-header bay. where arrangements Richard Prior was out are trying already his firmed up. recently acquired Jon is ex-Spicer also on the F355 casebefore but for theheweekend could get when the hang MIRA and Curborough are on
of the revised consecutive days. Club Full Corner details the on the hotels water pump and belt dinners came for off,these will be in athe meaning tow next truck issue theof following CompRes, day to nearby and Damax. the booking The details will be emailed Goodwins were out in action to competitors and in goodPauline whilst time. circulated in her ‘hillclimb’ 328 Italia as opposed to her The 458 continues to ‘circuit’ 328, Jon was zooming gather great press and has around Pauline’shuge California. He already in generated interest thought the car to be great on and excitement amongst the circuit and thekind seven speed Ferraristi. At the invitation dual clutch gearbox sensational. of the new Ferrari North Europe He also must Tore, have thought he boss, Matteo I went along was in a hillclimb, running out of to the UK launch at the petrol on the start/finish straight, Hurlingham Club in London early causing a 20 minute delay and February. Over 300 people were his share– price present manytoofplummet! them club members Autocar and magazine, it soon became as you apparent should now that know, mostare of running those a present F430 forexcluding six months. dealers Quite and apart Ferrari from a long staff term have appraisal cars on order. the One dealer idea is for them I spoke to find to claimed out what to have it is like four being years Ferrari worthowners. of orders, A and it isofreckoned couple their guys that have taking been large deposits made temporary thismembers time they ofhope the to weed FOC, andout Editor the Steve speculators. Cropley Afterbethe will guesting champagne in ourand Ferrari canapés, class at Prescott Matteo late fronted in May. up a At presentation the Silverstone of Track the 458 Day and their was even assisted Road Test manbyMatt Giancarlo Fisichella Prior spent who said it was his lifetime’s ambition considerable time on to be with the Scuderia, track with though the 430, I suppose and originally very impressive not as he a test wasdriver! too. ATalking to him Challenge in Ithe market learned he had driven place for the 458 Italia will come in theMcLaren’s September 2008 from soon to be Britcar 24-Hour race launched MP4-12C. This looks to on the GP circuit, be very nice and maybe the most coming third overallyet. in McLaren, serious competitor an Aston Martin N24. I though, have a big hurdle to suppose that must overcome if they are serious mean has on done about he taking Ferrari. They more laps than any of as such have no dealer network us andSilverstone whilst this long was not a problem termers. with the low volume, hugely New Competitors joining in expensive F1, it will not do if they are serious our Hillclimbabout Championship their MP 4are 12C’s sales always made objectives. very welcome and the fresh intake has helped keep Automotive News lately the running strongly for has series been ever more interesting, nearly years - inevitably and the25 one I like is Spyker’ssome of the regular competitors takeover of Saab. Generalretire Motors, with all their huge
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Chris Butler, gosenior chaps as he after was racing karting Minis in in the Monaco, early sixties. is in the Soon news again. His latest afterwards he took venture to the is water into Nascar. to race hydroplanes On a holidayand in Florida power he has and boats, taken with in a andrive international package at Daytona, licence racedhurtling both in around the UK the and famous oval abroad. Eventually in one of marriage those took fearsome its toll and, Nascar although racenot cars. You may have noticed competing, Ian subsequently the guys normally driving supported his sonNascar in assorted are mostlysport motor big and activities. hairy, soHe they is due will have to debut hadat allHarewood the seat cushions in the in for our diminutive double-header Mayace meeting hillclimber! with I heard his 348ts from Chris today and he says Douglas “Daytona Campbell is awesome the is –from banking is seriously steep and East Grinstead in Sussex and has takes lot of –commitment and a 360 aSpider his first Ferrari strength for a quick lap. I and not to be missed in that managed a top speed of (see 146mph stealth matt black finish and a best lap average of pic). He was hammering this car 136mph . . .never turned right once though!” (see pic). Charles Haynes as you know is a professional golfer and regularly reaches for a different club. He seems to have continued this golfing practice with Ferrari. I have lost count of the different tipos we have seen him out with on the hills over the years, and now he has reached for a smaller iron in the shape of a 328GTS. A late 1988 pre-ABS car, inevitably rosso chiaro and already off to have some suspension around at the sorting recent – Silverstone otherwise TraceyDay, Track will be anddisappear will debutinto at the distance Doune orwith Prescott her similar if he can car! get Charles an entry.plans Douglas to beisout new in to April the with his hills, butnew has acquisition been circuitand racing will also takeininthe recently theElise upcoming Trophy Silverstone Track Day. series. Richard Paul Tunnicliffe Preece always is another a bit first of a whizz Ferrariwith owner, computers, lives in has spent much time recently
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big grumbling V8, but no, it has a 2.7tdi. Sounds boring but it flies - David says it is chipped within an inch of its life! The Land Rover does have a switchable management module though and will run in lower-power mode for durability on the 8000 mile transAfrica trip.
A perfect backdrop. Paul Tunnicliffe’s 348tb we shall see on the hills.
Aylesbury and has a 348tb. He is very familiar with our venues having competed for ten years in a 1929 Lea-Francis in the VSCC classes (see pic). As he says the
Hyperactive. The Tunnicliffe LeaFrancis regular competes in vintage events.
speed of this machine does mean he is intimate with the courses – getting a good look at the scenery on the way up! He expects to be out at Prescott and also Doune.
Sergio Ransford is expected back soon on a hill near you. His very nice 308GTB is now fully recovered from injuries received at Harewood last September. The car is now looking good and if all goes well he plans to surface at Prescott in May (see pic). Jon Goodwin is still out there having a good time. Right now he has just disappeared off to the Monaco Historic GP weekend, and he is then over to the USA to ride his bike from Los Angeles to Albuquerque across the Rockies. Sounds formidable, but this is quite a short hop compared to some of his earlier transcontinental cycle rides.
David Tomlin is following in Goodwin’s steps as a world class adventurer. He is to embark on New Years Day 2011 on the London to Cape Town Rally. Going via Algiers, this is the first time a rally has gone all the way with no airlifts of ferries. Across the Sahara to the jungle trails of Cameroon and the Congo, and on to the northern coast of Namibia – not called The Skeleton Coast for nothing. A Ferrari sounds unsuitable and David has this off-road race Land Rover (see pic) which appears eminently suitable. ‘Scorchio’ Ransford will be back soon. I assumed it would have a
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List 1b Tyre Fiasco resulting from the MSA’s insistence on the optional use of these tyres in club championships, against participants wishes such as ours has had far reaching consequences. You may recall that this caused us considerable inconvenience and delay getting out this year’s PFHC regs, exacerbated by our season’s early start in March. We later discovered that many other clubs have encountered similar problems and the Midland Speed Championship dug their heels in. Now the MSA have recognised their folly and apparently the inclusion of List 1B tyre is no longer mandatory – too late for us regrettably.
David Tomlin’s wheels for the London to Cape Town.
Loton Park and MIRA/ Curborough weekends in July and August are back to back meetings. I indicated previously we have arranged accommodation and dinner for these and our thanks to Jon Goodwin for making the arrangements. The booking forms have been prepared and will be sent out very soon – you will probably have these to hand by the time this CompRes drops on your doorstep. Please be sure to deal with your requirements as soon as possible.
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FTER A LONG WINTER of motor racing inactivity, Ferrari engines were fired up for the first event of the 2010 season reports JOHN SWIFT. Snetterton was the venue, a circuit that will be remembered by a number of Pirelli Ferrari formula classic drivers with mixed feelings following the problems that occurred in 2009 – primarily due to the weather conditions and racing immediately after some incontinent, oily Aston Martins. However, we won’t dwell on the past. Hopefully with a fresh mind-set, some 25 competitors appeared in the entry lists for two double header races on Saturday/Sunday 10/11 April. The Saturday race was a 20minute sprint, the Sunday one a rather longer 30 minute affair. There should have been one or two more entries but Chris Rea, having just completed his successful concert tour a few days before, found that his Barry Hodson-prepared 308GT4 was still awaiting some vital parts and was therefore withdrawn. Another GT4 driver, John Watts, was also short of bits and unable
last season. There were two newcomers. Ray Ferguson was a welcome returnee to Ferrari racing, having been a regular competitor in the past in the Pirelli Maranello Ferrari Challenge. Ray has acquired a very racy looking Gp3 Mondial t. Photos: Jonathan Tremlett
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to take part. Gary Culver is focussing his considerable talents on Classic this year and has put his trusty F355 Challenge car up for sale. However, following David Preston’s winter overhaul, his 328GTB’s engine emitted some
It was great to have Ray Ferguson back in the fold. His meticulous eye for detail extended to his Mondial’s racy livery as well as his beautifully detailed helmet.
odd noises that couldn’t be diagnosed. In the interest of prudence, the 328 was scratched and the as yet unsold 355 substituted in the PFO events. Of those who were ready for the fray, most were driving machinery they had campaigned
Martin Hart is a well practised racer from other series and, like Ray, has also chosen a Gp3 Mondial t for Classic racing this year. His car is the ex-Peter Hitchman car that suffered some minor reliability problems last year in the hands of Craig Milner.
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Wayne Marrs, who flirted with Classic last season in Graham Reeder’s 328, has now become more serious having bought the ex-Marco Pullen Gp4 328GTB, now in distinctive and appropriate (bearing in mind his ‘Fresh-nFruity’ business) orange livery. This first Ferrari race weekend of 2010 was blessed with perfect spring weather – warm sunshine and never a threat of rain throughout the two days. Some competitors were out testing the previous day. For Chris Goddard this preliminary lappery served to show that his highly developed Gp2 308GTB had very little compression on some of its eight cylinders. Bitterly disappointed after a winter of engine work, he had no alternative but to pull out and plan his next engine rebuild before Spa.
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At around 09.30 the cars emerged from the collecting ring for the 15 minute qualifying session. The short duration meant that the sharing drivers, Richard and Michael Squire, had to be pretty adroit in changing over mid-way to ensure they each recorded the necessary minimum three laps to qualify. Richard Allen (45) had a great tussle with Peter The Cartwright Fisk, both in their 328GTBs. family were in deep trouble. Nick’s Gp4 been buzzed in the process. Hart 328GTB failed to satisfy the experienced a misfire with the scrutineers due to a defective Mondial and combed the paddock master switch and youngest son afterwards for some fresh plugs. James hadn’t received his The timesheets showed that competition Ben Cartwright, upholding family licence from honour, had captured pole the MSA. Both position with a time of 1:23.688 were allowed – faster than the class record but to qualify out about three-quarters of a second of session but shy of Chris Goddard’s outright with the record with his Gp2 308GTB last penalty of year. Just behind Ben were starting at the David Tomlin and Fred Honnor on back of the 1:24.088 and 1:24.120 grid. respectively. All 19 Fred’s time confirms just Ferraris how quick the smaller engined managed to Gp2 cars can be round complete the Saturday’s runner-up, Ben Cartwright, leads Evers Snetterton, with only one really session without and William Jenkins through Riches Corner. slow corner. The fastest Gp4 car apparent was Nick Taylor’s Mondial t, in
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Mondial tease. Nick Taylor, with petrol can and torque wrench rattling around in the boot, leads newcomer Martin Hart in Race1.
problems although the 328s of Peter Everingham and David Tomlin seemed to have had their wet sumps overfilled and were puffing out clouds of oil smoke which gradually faded as the dip stick levels became normal. Like lambs enjoying the spring sunshine, the Moseleys, father and son, executed neat spins on consecutive laps. Peter Fisk (328GTB) had a little tank slapper as he emerged from Russell chicane but gathered it all together safely. Fred Honnor was noticed to miss a change from 4th to 5th along the seriously quick Revett straight – the longest straight on any UK circuit. A plume of smoke punctuated the miscued gear and one hoped the engine hadn’t
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4th, while William Moorwood (308GT4), with the sole Gp1 Ferrari, was naturally the quickest in his class.
Race 1 The 20-minute race was the second on the afternoon’s programme. We now had a grid of 21 Ferraris, with Nick and James Cartwright in the mix with their big braked Gp4 328s. The start area markings at Snetterton make for a tightly bunched grid – too tight in the opinion of some competitors. However, there are other circuits in the UK that give even more closely bunched fields – Castle Combe is one such track - and it is clear that if one car has difficulty getting off the line it can cause mayhem for those unfortunate to be behind it. Perhaps a review of this aspect of circuit layout is something the MSA should undertake. So, as we had feared, the start was not totally clean. In this case it was Richard Moseley, on row 4, whose Gp2 308GTB failed to move when the lights were extinguished. A marginally hesitant Richard Allen suffered a glancing blow from Geoff Neal’s similar 328 before everyone recovered position to take the first corner, Riches, in exemplary fashion. Tomlin got the best front row start (the commentator suggested he jumped it, and that Ben Cartwright missed a gear) and as the field sorted itself out of Sear corner, he screamed off in the lead with Ben C, Evers (from row 3) and Honnor in hot pursuit. In close attendance were William Jenkins (in the ‘Gulf Oil’ liveried 308GTB), Butler, Taylor, Marrs and Richard Squire. By lap two, Tomlin and Cartwright had pulled out a little lead from third man Everingham, who in turn had contrived a cushion to the trio of Jenkins, Honnor and Butler. Richard Squire had a spin which knocked him down to last place. Taylor had gravitated down the order due to having
Race 1. Top: Ray Ferguson leads William Moorwood’s Gp1 308GT4 and Richard Squire (328GTB). Centre: The winner, David Tomlin, is pursued by Ben Cartwright, William Jenkins and Peter Everingham. Bottom: Jim Cartwright posted a new Gp4 lap record in his chase of the leaders from the back of the grid. His flapping bonnet didn’t seem to slow him down.
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Left: David Tomlin receives his trophy from Suzanne Everingham. Right: Fred Honnor was the popular winner of the Hackwood Group Classic Ferrari Driver of the Meeting
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what had been a terrific race. Jenkins, in 4th, took the Gp2 class win, just ahead of Evers in 5th. Further down the order, Richard Allen came out best in a race-long duel with Peter Fisk in their Gp3 328s while Wayne Marrs finished just ahead of Richard Moseley after a similar battle. Martin Hart drove a sound debut race in his Mondial,
Race 2 Sunday’s 30-minute race was scheduled for just before the lunch break, at around 11.30am. The weather was again superb and the track in good order. Overnight there had been some frantic work to sort out the previous day’s deficiencies. Fred Honnor had taken his 308GTB Photo: Jonathan Tremlett
inadvertently left a full can of fuel in his Mondial’s boot. The petrol can played havoc as Nick drove round the track, denting the bodywork and wilfully attacking the rear lights and their wiring. A loose torque wrench compounded the problem. On lap 6, Jenkins – who was now flying – got the better of Evers to take third, and set off after the leaders. Meanwhile Jamie C, from the back of the grid, was wringing the neck of his 328 and blasting his way through the field: 11th on lap 2, 8th by lap 3, 5th by lap 7. At this point Geoff Neal, whose 328 had been emitting lots of smoke, retired with a fractured oil cooler pipe. It was on lap 7 that Honnor’s clutch disintegrated and for the rest of the race he soldiered on without swapping cogs. Taylor decided to give up the unequal task of driving with a missile in his boot and retired on lap 9. Four laps from the end Richard Moseley outbraked himself into Russell and cut across the grass – a manoeuvre that Jamie Cartwright also seemed to enjoy on more than one occasion although the Clerk of the Course didn’t share his pleasure. And then the chequered flag came out at the end of the 20 minutes, with 14 laps having been completed. David Tomlin took the flag less than half a second ahead of Ben C, with brother Jamie C taking third just a tenth behind. Less than a second covered the first three in
Richard Moseley was out of luck in Race 2 when his 308GTB shed its alternator/water pump drive belt.
finishing just a second behind Nick Cartwright’s Gp4 Ferrari. Richard Fenny (308GT4) was always a threat to your scribe’s old blue 308 but couldn’t quite get past. The fastest lap of the race was credited to Jamie Cartwright in 1:23.568, a new Gp4 record. The other fastest class times were set by Moorwood, Jenkins and Ben Cartwright.
back to Lincolnshire to remedy its defective clutch whilst the Reeder brothers organisation re-plumbed the Neal oil cooler. Nick Taylor tried to ignore the good natured chortling about the need to carry extra fuel ballast and temporarily repaired his damaged luggage compartment with swages of tank tape. Hart found some sound
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Diversity of line. Tomlin (6) makes an unusual approach to Russell at the start of Race 2. More conventional are the eventual winner Ben Cartwright and his pursuers, Jenkins, Everingham, Butler and Marrs.
the previous day) and failed to get into the assembly area in time; he was obliged to start from the pitlane so faced another bout of playing catch-up. More serious was father Nick’s predicament: his 328’s steering rack had developed some serious problem which couldn’t be sorted, and he was disappointingly a non -starter. This time, when the lights went out, everyone managed to get away cleanly. And it was Ben C who got the jump on David Tomlin. Behind these two, Butler
slotted into third ahead of Everingham, Marrs, Jenkins and Allen, with Fisk and Honnor nibbling at his heels. Ray Ferguson, from the penultimate row on the grid, made a determined beginning but things got a bit too hectic by the time he reached Russell, and he spun at the exit. On lap 2, Evers displaced Butler to steal third while Jamie Cartwright, continuing in his gung ho style of the previous day, short circuited across the grass at Russell.
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plugs to bring new life to his Mondial. A good turnout of Ferrari owners from the Anglia area group, under the guidance of Andrew Holman, parked their cars in a dedicated area overlooking the chicane to watch the day’s fun. The grid for R2 was based on the finishing order for R1, which meant that the front row was exactly the same albeit with Tomlin now in the pole position. Jamie Cartwright arrived at the circuit late (he was feeling unwell
Trouble at t’Mill. Swift’s rear anti-roll bar fractured mid-way through Race 2 while Jamie Cartwright’s front spoiler shows signs of imminent collapse after suffering several bouts of off-course grass cutting.
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Man of the Match. Ben Cartwright drove an exceptional race to win Sunday’s contest.
take third. Honnor also seemed to enjoy the agricultural route with some grass mowing as he closed on the tail of Butler. Further down the order there
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Firing on all cylinders. After some ignition problems early on with his Mondial t, a change of plugs enabled newcomer Martin Hart to make an impressive debut. Here he chases the Club Chairman’s 328GTB.
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was a close battle between Geoff Neal and your reporter, not helped by the fact that Geoff was running out of brakes and the blue 308’s rear anti-roll bar assembly had fractured, making the car handle like a rowing boat in a storm. Richard Fenny, who had aspirations of beating Swift this time, was also hampered by a loose ignition lead on his GT4. A delighted Ben Cartwright took the chequered flag, a comfortable 14 seconds ahead of runner-up David Tomlin at the end. Jamie crossed the line to capture 3rd, just a couple of seconds ahead of Peter Everingham. Fred Honnor, in 5th overall, made up for his disappointment of the previous day by winning Gp2 with his now very fit 308GTB. It had been an exciting race to not only engage in but also, so they told me, to watch. Fastest laps were claimed by William Moorwood (1:31.125) in Gp1, Fred Honnor (1:23.814) in Gp2, David Tomlin (1:22.992) in Gp3 and Jamie Cartwright (1:23.174) in Gp4. The last two times are new class records. Debbie Culver moistened her lips and tackled the prize-giving in elegant fashion as we congregated at the Pirelli Tyre truck. Amongst the spoils, Fred Honnor was presented with the Hackwood Group Driver of the Meeting award in recognition of his commendable recovery from his Saturday’s clutch problems and outstanding drive in Race 2.
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A couple of laps on, the race began to take shape. The leading pair, Ben C and Tomlin, appeared to have the legs of the rest of the field, and were dropping Evers who in turn seemed to have the measure of 4th placed Butler. Marrs was under attack from Jenkins and then it was Allen leading a strong quartet that included Fisk (who exuberantly took to the grass at the chicane), Honnor, Hart and Taylor. The lap chart shows that Ben Cartwright was always in the lead but he and Tomlin did in fact swap places from time to time around the circuit. Marrs joined the grass cutting fraternity on lap 8 and around this time Allen dropped down the order to 11th. Honnor was now on a charge and with Jamie C hard up his rudder, had caught and passed his Gp2 rival, Jenkins. Richard Moseley pulled into the pitlane on lap 15 when his dashboard lights signalled that his 308GTB’s alternator/ water pump belt had disintegrated. And on this lap, despite further excursions off the track, Jamie C got past Evers to
PIRELLI FERRARI formula classic – Race 1 SNETTERTON 10 April 2010 Pos
No
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 DNF DNF
6 72 69 38 12 5 60 16 45 30 3 31 15 20 35 11 25 29 7 54 47
Driver David Tomlin Ben Cartwright Jim Cartwright William Jenkins Peter Everingham Chris Butler Wayne Marrs Richard Moseley Richard Allen Pete Fisk Nick Cartwright Martin Hart Peter Moseley Fred Honnor Richard Squire John Swift Richard Fenny William Moorwood Ray Ferguson Nick Taylor Geoff Neal
Tipo
Group
Laps
328GTB 328GTB 328GTB 308GTB 328GTB 328GTB 328GTB 308GTB 328GTB 328GTB 328GTB Mondial t 328GTB 308GTB 328GTB 308GTB 308GT4 308GT4 Mondial t Mondial t 328GTB
3 3 4 2 3 3 4 2 3 3 4 3 3 2 3 2 2 1 3 4 3
14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 9 6
Time
Best Lap
20:01.648 20:02.091 20:02.223 20:05.578 20:06.431 20:27.775 20:34.173 20:35.165 20:47.747 20:50.305 20:55.222 20:56.238 21:08.822 21:15.769 21:22.364 20:05.455 20:07.226 20:15.520 20:16.403 17:30.128 10:38.465
Qualify
1:24.479 1:24.233 1:23.568 1:24.153 1:24.429 1:25.952 1:26.911 1:26.068 1:26.663 1:26.304 1:27.475 1:27.208 1:27.864 1:25.900 1:28.679 1:30.541 1:30.486 1:30.712 1:31.015 1:25.995 1:30.942
1:24.088 1:23.688 Q 1:24.668 1:24.919 1:24.967 1:26.697 1:25.458 1:27.976 1:26.797 Q 1:26.822 1:27.145 1:24.120 1:25.651 1:29.585 1:29.690 1:32.888 1:32.383 1:24.644 1:29.492
Pos 2 1 5 6 7 10 8 14 11 12 13 3 9 16 17 19 18 4 15
Q = qualified out of session Fastest Laps: Jim Cartwright Ben Cartwright William Jenkins William Moorwood
Group 4 Group 3 Group 2 Group 1
1:23.568 1:24.223 1:24.153 1:30.712
(84.08 mph) (83.42 mph) (83.50 mph) (77.46 mph)
Lap record
PIRELLI FERRARI formula classic – Race 2 SNETTERTON 11 April 2010 Pos
No
1 2 3 4
72 6 69 12
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 DNF NS
Driver
Tipo
Group
Laps
328GTB 328GTB 328GTB 328GTB
3 3 4 3
22 22 22 22
31:01.658 31:15.756 31:29.222 31:31.116
1:23.091 1:22.992 1:23.174 1:24.004
2 1 *3 5
20 Fred Honnor 5 Chris Butler
308GTB 328GTB
2 3
22 22
31:39.626 31:44.328
1:23.814 1:24.963
14 6
38 54 60 30 45 32 31 15 47 11 29 25 7
308GTB Mondial t 328GTB 328GTB 328GTB 328GTB Mondial t 328GTB 328GTB 308GTB 308GT4 308GT4 Mondial t
2 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 1 2 3
22 22 22 22 22 22 22 21 21 21 20 20 20
31:47.073 31:50.977 32:03.744 32:07.538 32:11.266 32:12.265 32:12.899 31:36.366 31:45.951 31:46.504 31:12.998 31:17.966 31:36.644
1:24.917 1:24.582 1:26.031 1:25.259 1:26.433 1:25.255 1:25.938 1:27.782 1:27.590 1:28.698 1:31.125 1:31.387 1:30.690
4 22 7 10 9 20 12 13 21 16 18 17 19
308GTB
2
14
20:53.939
1:26.064
328GTB
4
Ben Cartwright David Tomlin Jim Cartwright Peter Everingham
William Jenkins Nick Taylor Wayne Marrs Pete Fisk Richard Allen Michael Squire Martin Hart Peter Moseley Geoff Neal John Swift William Moorwood Richard Fenny Ray Ferguson
16 Richard Moseley 3 Nick Cartwright
Time
Best Lap
Start Pos
8 NS
* started from pit lane Fastest Laps:
Fred Honnor David Tomlin James Cartwright William Moorwood
Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 1
1:23.814 (83.84 mph) 1:22.992 (84.67 mph) 1:23.174 (84.48 mph) 1:31.125 (77.11 mph)
Lap record Lap record
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SNETTERTON: ROUNDS 1 & 2 10/11 April 2010
HE FIRST EVENT on the 2010 Pirelli Ferrari Open programme, at Snetterton on the weekend of 10th/11th April, promised to be the most interesting for some time writes JOHN SWIFT. This was when we would see if the overhaul and modernisation of the Open series would bring about the hoped for surge in competitor numbers. The change to the regulations, which now invites drivers with the most modern Ferrari GT cars to take part, was never going to be a certain success. The big question to be answered was whether the inclusion of new machinery would more than compensate for the expected loss of some of the F355 Challenge cars. For those not fully au fait with the new situation, let me explain. The PFO series, which first saw the light of day in 2006, has never been short on excitement. The racing has
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invariably been very close, strongly contested, and sportsmanlike. It has produced an astonishingly diverse number of winners – in fact at many rounds it was difficult to predicate which, of five or six different drivers, would be the race winner. The spectators liked it as did most of the competitors,
an ideal situation, you would think, for a club one-make series. Despite this undoubted success in producing the quality of racing, the PFO has always failed to attract a sufficient number of entries to make it totally viable financially. Indeed, it has had to rely on its more popular sister series, the Pirelli Photo: Jonathan Tremlett
T
The Shape of Things to Come
Whichever way you look at it, there was some highly interesting, breathtakingly rapid (and seriously expensive) machinery at Snetterton.
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Ferrari formula classic, to support it. So, after four years, the Club’s Tech & Regs committee made the decision to broaden the base of the series by introducing new classes with the hope of not only attracting new machinery but also retaining as many of the older Ferraris as possible. The big question to be answered at Snetterton was, has this idea worked or would we be looking at a Norfolk turkey? Judging from the list of entries, with 19 cars in the programme, things looked promising. Okay, we seemed to have lost – hopefully not permanently – a few drivers of F355 Challenge cars but there was a strong influx of new names with 360s and 430s. We still had a solid element of 355s – now called Class C1 – with 9 cars, including Gary
Culver, who had abandoned his misbehaving 328GTB for this meeting for his Challenge car. Mike Reeder was a welcome returnee having at long last solved the problem of his car’s misfire which first manifested itself in, er, 2008. Yorkshireman Robert Pulleyn was keen to get his licence upgraded to allow him to go to Spa this year and looked forward to Marrs (360GTC) initially snatched second spot but getting the was hauled in by Price later on. remaining two Clerk of the Course’s signatures could only guess he had he needed. Vance Kearney, who withdrawn. Paul Bailey was shared his Mafia black car with making his debut in his 430/Ch. Lee Moulden in 2009, had a new We know Paul is a very co-driver this event: Pat competent pilot and our only Gormley. John wonder is why he hadn’t made Shirley, from the move to racing earlier. the Highlands Wayne Marrs was a of Scotland, is reclassification into C3 from class giving his son C2 with his rapid 360GTC whilst Gavin a taste the rest of the class were 430s of PFO and, being run by FF Corse: Mark apart from the McAllister, Stuart Tarrant-Willis overseas and the experienced Leon Price. events, has Finally we had the 430GT3 of donned Cliff Fox (also an FF Corse client) mechanics’ being driven by Jamie Stanley in overalls. And the absence on business of its Craig Milner, owner. The 430GT3 is way who didn’t beyond the scope of class C3 and have much therefore had been reclassified in luck last class S. Class S should have also They’re behind you! Mike Reeder valiantly fends off season in included the interesting 456 fellow F355 drivers Craig Milner and Gary Culver.
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The start of Race 1, with front row men Jamie Stanley (430GT3) and Leon Price (430/Ch - no 88) ready for blast off.
Classic, has bought the ex-Mick Dwane F355 and hopes for better fortune. Nigel Jenkins, always a potential front runner, was called away to Toronto on urgent business and had to withdraw. The class was completed by the ultra-competitive David Tomlin. In C2, for 360 Challenge, it was a three horse race between Mick Dwane (with his usual local village support group in attendance), David Hathaway and newcomer Robert Macfarlane with his bright yellow car. Class C3, for 430s, attracted a good entry of six cars, although on the Friday afternoon the car of Thomas Boettcher was spotted heading back to home and we
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being prepared by Brands Hatchbased Fosker Engineering but the car wasn’t quite ready although its driver, Paul Brooks, was at the track watching points and Vanessa Naylor, Foskers’ Operations Manager, was at the business end of a Nikon to record the event. Predicting winners is a bit like betting on the horses when you don’t have any form for guidance, but a win for the 430GT3 was almost a certainty unless its engine blew up or Jamie broke a leg, neither of which seemed likely. It is worth mentioning that Jamie S not only busied himself as a driver but also helped out with the Classic race commentary – a multitalented young man.
Qualifying There were no apparent problems with any of the cars in the qualifying session although we noted that Culver had an innocuous spin at Russell. FF Corse brought all their cars into the pitlane for checks about halfway through, which was perhaps surprising in view of the short (15 minutes) session. The timesheets confirmed that the 430GT3 was the quickest car by some margin, with Stanley’s pole position lap timed at 1:10.650. Price showed his potential by claiming a front row spot with 1:12.291. Marrs should, perhaps, have been faster but was hampered by a gear change snag which was to adversely affect him all weekend. In C1, it was almost a dead heat for fastest time by Culver (1:17.013) and Tomlin (1:17.014) which underlines my earlier comments on the competitiveness of drivers in F355 Challenge cars. A few days before the race meeting, I had concerns about the wisdom of the prescribed standing start procedure for this event. Although the question of starting – standing vs rolling – had been previously debated thoroughly by the T&RC, I felt that for these first two rounds,
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Top: Robert Macfarlane (360/Ch) leads Stuart Tarrant-Willis (430/Ch) through Russell Centre: David Tomlin wrings the neck of his F355/Ch in winning Class C1 Bottom: Paul Bailey (430/Ch) made a successful debut to circuit racing.
with so many new drivers unaccustomed to racing, it might be better to go for a rolling start. There are ‘fors’ and ‘against’ the rolling method. ‘For’ arguments include that it’s easier on the transmission, there’s no likelihood of stalled cars, and less danger from weaving. In the ‘against’ list are the facts that the cars will be travelling much faster into the first corner, the grid may be disorganised due to stragglers (because no-one is permitted to pass the cars in the row ahead), and it removes that traditional possibility in racing for drivers to move up a few places if they make an electrifying start. You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Race 1 There was a field of 16 cars that formed up in the assembly area for R1 on a beautiful spring Saturday afternoon. Those who hadn’t raced before were obviously a little nervous, but then who isn’t a bit anxious before a race? It’s all part of the experience. The pace car – that was a misnomer as it crawled round at funereal pace on the start lap – brought the grid round and it was clear that many drivers wouldn’t have got their brakes and, more importantly, their tyres up to working temperature. When the lights went out the front row cars accelerated hard towards Riches but, from mid-field back, the grid was fragmented due to stragglers. By the second corner, Sear,
usefully closed the gap by lap 6, only to lose momentum by taking to the grass at Russell one lap later. Bailey was recovering well after that first lap problem and was now up to mid-field and eyeing-up McAllister. Also making progress was TarrantWillis, now with his head down to make up for that early spin. As expected, Jamie Stanley was making it all seem easy in his impressive demonstration of superiority (the car’s for sale, by
looking comfortable in the 430GT3 but Marrs was in second with Price, Dwane and Hathaway all attached to his boot. C1 leader Tomlin came next with a little gap to McAllister’s 430/ Ch. Tarrant-Willis spun his 430 and dropped to the rear of the field. On lap 3, Price found a way past Marrs to take second while Dwane seemed to be at ease in 4th, ahead of Queen of the barbeques, Yvonne Preston shows Hathaway and a just what can be done with the aid of some hot closing Tomlin. It charcoal and an old Ford Zephyr wheel trim. looked like Dwane was after Marrs’s scalp and the way!) and Leon Price looked unbeatable for second with Marrs still suffering gear change difficulties. Tomlin was enjoying harrying Hathaway, and Kearney was ahead of a very close dice between Mike Reeder (celebrating his 65th birthday) and the rather more youthful Gary Culver. Further back, Craig Milner was keeping his F355 ahead of Macfarlane’s 360, while Gavin Shirley was managing to keep Robert Pulleyn at bay. After the allotted 20 minutes the chequered flag greeted the winner, Jamie Stanley, who finished almost a minute ahead of the duo fighting hard for second: Leon Price and Wayne Marrs, with Suzanne Everingham presents the Leon getting the verdict by a overall winner, Jamie Stanley, with slender half second. Dwane beat his trophy.
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Mission accomplished. Robert Pulleyn, driving his nicely presented F355/Ch, gained the two Clerk of the Course signatures he needed.
the lack of heat in the equipment became obvious and we had three spinners – but happily no contact. Culver was one who had to make an avoidance and he came round at the back of the pack. Already with a clear lead, Stanley was
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Hathaway for 4th in their well matched 360s. David Tomlin, the C1 winner, set the fastest time in his class in 1:16.818, Mick Dwane, victor in C2, recorded 1:15.925, and Leon Price, the winner of C3, achieved 1:13.948. The fastest lap of the race was 1:10.641 by the overall winner, Jamie Stanley. All these times, because of the new class structure, were new lap records. Suzanne Everingham presented all the prizes later in the afternoon and your scribe breathed a sigh of relief that it had all gone so well and all the competitors – especially the new ones – had enjoyed themselves.
Race 2
Top: The encouragingly large field shape up for Race 2 Centre: Mark McAllister (430/Ch) survives a spin Bottom: Silver Dream Machines. Mick Dwane leads David Hathaway in their duel in the sun.
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Sunday’s race – a rather longer 30 minute contest – was programmed for immediately after the lunch break. Again, the weather was perfect with this fast Norfolk circuit bathed in warm sunshine. In view of the difficulties with the previous day’s start, I arranged with the Clerk of the Course to have an extra formation lap for this second race. I hoped that if the pace car’s progress could be hurried up a bit the extra lap would give the drivers more opportunity to warm up their rubber. And it seemed to work although there was still a problem on the dummy grid. The 360GTC of Marrs is clearly difficult to get moving from a standstill, not helped by the car’s imperfect gearchange mechanism. Wayne’s car made an unexpected spasmodic movement and, as it finally stuttered away on the first of the green flag laps, there was inadvertent contact with Hathaway’s 360. The 16 car field got away much better this time, with Marrs managing to get back into his rightful spot in the pack before they were all released. In a repetition of Saturday’s race, Stanley streaked into the lead with the warring duo of Marrs and Price in his wake. Then it was
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(1:16.902) in C1 as he jousted with Reeder before the latter’s
Leon Price had a good weekend, netting two class wins with his 430/Ch.
1:10.109. Pat Gormley showed that he is a man to watch in the future by setting the fastest lap
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Dwane and Hathaway locked together followed by McAllister with the 355s of Culver and Tomlin under his rear wing. Lap 2 saw Price take over second spot and Tomlin nip past Culver to lead C1 and into 7th overall. At the tail, Milner moved ahead of the 355s of Shirley and Pulleyn. On lap 8 McAllister made a successful pass on Hathaway and set off after his next target, Dwane. Four laps later he managed to squeeze past the 360/Ch but then immediately spun away his advantage at Russell. Paul Bailey used his power advantage to outpace Culver but Tomlin, with his 355 on fast freeze, was just too much to cope with although their lap times were now very similar. Pat Gormley was having a good first race in his shared car, being
Winner’s spoils. Mick Dwane won Class C2 on both days.
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OAP. Mike Reeder celebrated his birthday on Sunday.
sandwiched between Macfarlane and our new bus pass holder, Mike Reeder. An excursion onto the grass four laps from the end didn’t appear to slow Gormley very much. And that is how it all ended, with the field fairly well strung out behind the double victory scoring Jamie Stanley. Leon Price was the C3 winner, Mick Dwane took the honours in C2, and David Tomlin again proved invincible in C1. The lap records established in R1 were all broken by the same drivers in R2 except the C1 time, with Jamie Stanley managing a 100mph lap in
throttle started to stick open (later traced to a small key fob battery wedged under his F355’s throttle pedal). During the course of the race the commentator became confused and gave us the news that “today it’s Robert Pulleyn’s (he meant Mike Reeder’s) 65th birthday”, which came as a shock to Robert’s wife, Jo. The winners’ glassware was nicely presented by Suzanne Everingham and most of us – me, certainly – came away from Snetterton very pleased indeed with the way the new-look PFO seems to be shaping up.
There was a good turnout of Ferraris from the Anglia Area Group, who came to enjoy the fun and the sun on the second day.
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PIRELLI FERRARI OPEN Race 1 SNETTERTON 10th April 2010 Pos
Tipo
Class
Laps
Time
Qualify
Pos
1
81 Jamie Stanley
430GT3
S
17
20:41.422
1:10.641
1:10.650
1
2
88 Leon Price
430/Ch
C3
17
21:36.957
1:13.948
1:12.261
2
3
60 Wayne Marrs
F360GTC
C3
17
21:37.406
1:14.815
1:15.109
3
4
77 Mick Dwane
F360/Ch
C2
17
21:53.605
1:15.925
1:15.416
4
5 6
19 David Hathaway 36 MarkMcAllister
F360/Ch 430/Ch
C2 C3
16 16
20:45.472 20:53.364
1:16.299 1:16.583
1:17.487 1:16.867
10 7
F355/Ch
C1
16
20:54.977
1:16.816
1:17.014
9
7 8 9
No
Driver
6 David Tomlin 28 Paul Bailey 8 Vance Kearney
10
47 Stuart Tarrant-Willis
11
34 Gary Culver
12
5 Mike Reeder
Best Lap
430/Ch
C3
16
21:06.920
1:16.902
1:16.371
6
F355/Ch
C1
16
21:36.693
1:19.182
1:19.125
11
430/Ch
C3
16
21:39.966
1:16.867
1:15.851
5
F355/Ch
C1
16
21:44.606
1:19.237
1:17.013
8
F355/Ch
C1
16
21:53.087
1:19.949
1:19.441
12
13
27 Robert Macfarlane
F360/Ch
C2
16
21:59.326
1:18.895
1:21.763
14
14
65 Craig Milner
F355/Ch
C1
16
22:01.394
1:20.707
1:20.245
13
F355
C1
15
21:02.703
1:21.762
1:21.811
15
F355/Ch
C1
15
21:49.045
1:24.910
1:27.944
16
15
9 Gavin Shirley
16
7 Robert Pulleyn
Fastest Laps:
Jamie Stanley Leon Price Mick Dwane
S C3 C2
1:10.641 (99.47 mph) 1:13.948 (95.02 mph) 1:15.925 (92.55 mph)
Establishes lap record Establishes lap record Establishes lap record
David Tomlin
C1
1:16.818 (91.47 mph)
Establishes lap record
PIRELLI FERRARI OPEN Race 2 SNETTERTON 11th April 2010 Pos
Tipo
Class
Laps
1
No
81 Jamie Stanley
Driver
430GT3
S
25
30:16.078
Time
Best Lap 1:10.109
Start Pos 1
2
88 Leon Price
430/Ch
C3
25
30:54.222
1:12.259
2
3
60 Wayne Marrs
F360GTC
C3
24
30:17.923
1:14.212
3
4
77 Mick Dwane
F360/Ch
C2
24
30:43.578
1:15.404
4
5
19 David Hathaway
F360/Ch
C2
24
30:52.381
1:16.139
5
6
36 MarkMcAllister
430/Ch
C3
24
31:9.3481
1:14.685
6
7
6 David Tomlin
F355/Ch
C1
24
31:30.444
1:17.134
7
8
28 Paul Bailey
430/Ch
C3
23
30:24.011
1:17.057
8
9
47 Stuart Tarrant-Willis
430/Ch
C3
23
30:29.756
1:16.770
10
10
34 Gary Culver
F355/Ch
C1
23
30:37.396
1:18.093
11
11
27 Robert Macfarlane
F360/Ch
C2
23
30:39.533
1:17.461
13
12
18 Pat Gormley
F355/Ch
C1
23
30:44.318
1:16.902
17
13
65 Craig Milner
F355/Ch
C1
23
31:39.097
1:20.524
14
14 15
9 Gavin Shirley 5 Mike Reeder
F355 F355/Ch
C1 C1
22 21
30:51.369 30:21.785
1:20.757 1:18.172
15 12
16
7 Robert Pulleyn
F355/Ch
C1
21
30:43.686
1:23.676
16
Fastest Laps:
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Jamie Stanley
S
1:10.109 (100.23 mph)
Lap record
Leon Price
C3
1:12.259 (97.24 mph)
Lap record
Mick Dwane
C2
1:15.404 (93.19 mph)
Lap record
Pat Gormley
C1
1:16.902 (91.47 mph)
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PIRELLI FERRARI HILLCLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP: ROUND 2 GOODWOOD SPRINT 24 April 2010
(IN)GLORIOUS GOODWOOD
W
E OCCASIONALLY look for a new or unusual venue for a hillclimb or sprint to maintain the interest from year to year reports RICHARD PRIOR, so when we were sent an invitation to compete at the famous Goodwood circuit (and it fortunately slotted nicely into the calendar between North Weald and Harewood) it was too good an opportunity to miss. The challenging circuit may be unfamiliar to most current drivers in the Ferrari competition scene, but many will have watched from the trackside at the Revival meeting held in September or know of its history when Graham Hill, Mike Hawthorn
and even Jack Sears used to race there. The fast corners such as Madgwick, Fordwater and Woodcote lend themselves nicely to the 4-wheel drifting technique
The Goodwood Circuit Layout.
seen in the sixties sports and GT cars. The entry list was well supported by 22 Ferraris and looked to be a promising meeting, with the beautifully manicured surroundings of Lord March’s estate and the spring sunshine. Scrutineering went smoothly but the stringent noise test which have been imposed on the circuit by the local authorities and residents was a different matter. Noise levels vary from track to track and also to different organising clubs (and their equipment) so it was a shock to all the drivers when six of our cars were judged louder than anywhere else we have appeared at and wouldn’t be allowed to compete. Barrie Wood and Nick Taylor unfortunately sat the day
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trapped silencer cans to his F355 and squeaked through. John Marshall was understandably confused that his
Judge Dredd, the highly popular noise judge, peers at the rev counter of Nick Taylor’s 348GTC.
standard 430 Scuderia had been measured at 110dB(A) and retook the noise test with a warm engine and received 105dB(A) this second time. Sean Doyle played on the sympathy of the officials and had them believe the older 308s wouldn’t rev beyond the midpoint on the dial and also scraped through, but Adrian Wilson and Richard Prior conceded their cars wouldn’t make it by swapping the Tomlin silencers around before
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each run. David then lock wired them on permanently to his 355 so that they wouldn’t fall off. It was fanciful thinking because, while taking the fast Madgwick corner on his practice run, they clattered onto the track. Happily they were recovered by the marshals and returned to the paddock. Mark Hargreaves brought out his lovely 365BB but unfortunately it developed an oil leak while out on track. More serious was that Julian Playford’s day was cut short when his F355 berlinetta (the organising club called them ‘belinettas’) lost traction through St Mary’s corner and nudged the barrier at the side of the circuit (incidentally the same corner where an accident ended the international Mark Hargreaves’s 365BB succumbed to an oil leak. Mark made up for his disappointment by trouncing his career of son, Jack, in the family 308GTB—that’s Dads for you. Stirling Moss) With the usual great spirit shown to other spectator car park than we competitors there was much car usually find at any other round in sharing to allow the noise-banned England, and of course the sunny drivers to still take part, weather is always a good excuse particular thanks going to Chris to bring out a freshly polished car Butler and David Tomlin for from the garage. The allowing fellow competitors enthusiastic support was much Adrian Wilson and Richard Prior appreciated.
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Photo: Jonathan Tremlett
Goodwood is a superb venue, with its manicured lawns and immaculately maintained evocative infrascture. The Ferraris were lined up in batches of five, with minimal delay between cars.
to use their pride and joy. Mark Hargreaves shared the 308GTB entered by son Jack for the remainder of the day, and in return (in true fatherly spirit) beat him by 2.82 seconds at the end of the meeting. Apart from the above mentioned low points, practice was taken with caution by the remaining drivers, getting to know the circuit on their 2 lap session. The only exceptions were the husband and wife partnerships of John and Wendy Marshall together with Jon and Pauline Goodwin, who had squeezed in a track day before this event and had the advantage of knowing where the circuit was going. During the lunch break there was time to catch our breath from the frustrating noise testing and almost frantic queuing for the dummy start grid for each run, and the opportunity to recognise a few well-known faces from the Wessex and Sussex Area Groups who were at the track to witness the Ferrari competitors return to Goodwood for the first time in 20 years. We saw more Ferraris in the
Photo: Jonathan Tremlett
Pauline Goodwin (328GTB) in full flight passes a group of (far noisier!) Goodwood Aero Club aircraft.
their F355s (Tomlin using every competitors in the Ferrari class inch of kerb as he exited the were able to complete a third chicane) and run. It was therefore decided to were very base the PFHC results on the first evenly two timed runs. matched, just This was an emphatic victory 0.36 seconds for the most modern Ferrari in covering them the Championship, and far in 5th, 4th and enough ahead of the next 3rd place competitor to also take the respectively. maximum 20 championship But this is points. Jon Goodwin took 17 a track that points, Chris Butler 15, Andrew suits the larger Holman 13, and David Tomlin engined tipos was on 12. Unusually, the top 5 and the 550 of scratch finishers were also the Jon Goodwin top 5 points finishers. was able to Chris Butler now leads the stretch its V12 Championship as we head for the John Marshall’s 430 Scuderia was not surprisingly legs and record next two rounds, at Harewood on the quickest Ferrari at Goodwood, with John taking an astonishing the 8th and 9th May. home the 20 Championship points for good measure. best time of matching his first run by 3 99.60. Only John Marshall, hundredths of a second. in the 430 Sean Doyle (308GT4) and Scuderia was Wendy Marshall in the 328GTB left on track were closely placed on 117.45 and the and 117.66 seconds respectively, blistering while Pauline Goodwin (328GTB), pace was John Swift (F355) and Jack clearly Hargreaves were all in the 109 visible. The second bracket. car’s top The borrowed F355 cars of speed down Adrian Wilson (123.11) and the back Richard Prior on 105.50 were straight was being caught by Jeff Cooper who close to was enjoying the openness of the 160mph and circuit, putting the extra power John crossed down on the straights and was the finish line only a fraction behind on 105.81 in 92.22 in the 360 Modena. seconds. Tomlin (101.30 seconds) Because of Holman (101.01) and Butler Goodwood’s Arguably the star of Goodwood was Jon Goodwin, who (100.94) were obviously trying as curfew, only drove his 550 Maranello to devastating effect. hard as they possibly could in some of the
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Photo: Jonathan Tremlett
Photo: Jonathan Tremlett
Doyle (who spun his GT4 at St Mary’s) and Andrew Holman (who made the similar mistake to Chris Butler at Lavant). Andrew entered the corner too fast (remember: slow in, fast out!) ran out of tarmac and collected a wheelbarrowful of gravel in his undertray before continuing on his way. However his excursion only lost him 10 seconds. Ed Briscoe (308) put in his best of the day with 123.83 seconds, as did Lorraine Hitchman on 127.21. On the final run Peter Wilson brought his time down to 120.10, and Peter Hitchman was quite consistent in the mighty 550 Maranello, almost
GOODWOOD SPRINT 24th April 2010 Round 2 Pirelli Ferrari Hillclimb Championship Pos Driver Scr 1 John Marshall 2 Jon Goodwin
Tipo
Pract
Run 1
430 Scud
no time
96.04
Run 2
Run 3
92.22
PEP % +5.0
PEP time 96.83
Pts 20
550 Mar
104.18
102.25
99.60
-1.0
98.60
17
3 Chris Butler 4 Andrew Holman
F355 F355
105.97 104.01
102.76 114.20
100.94 101.01
104.84 100.10
0.0 0.0
100.94 101.01
15 13
5 David Tomlin
F355
109.07
103.08
101.30
100.35
0.0
101.30
12
6 Richard Prior
F355
no time
108.86
105.50
0.0
105.50
10
360 F1
107.62
111.45
105.81
+1.0
106.87
7
8 *Mark Hargreaves
308GTB
123.82
111.16
107.15
-3.0
103.94
11
9 Pauline Goodwin
328GTB
116.13
109.14
109.06
-3.0
105.79
9
F355
118.51
109.88
111.25
0.0
109.88
6
308GTB
117.03
112.93
109.97
-3.0
106.67
8
F355
115.20
112.86
111.00
0.0
111.00
5
13 Sean Doyle
308GT4
114.74
134.69
117.45
-4.5
112.16
4
14 Wendy A Marshall
328GTB
126.57
120.30
117.66
-3.0
114.13
3
348tb
126.93
123.93
120.10
-2.0
117.70
2
550 Mar
126.48
121.93
121.96
-1.0
120.71
1
F355
-
129.89
123.11
0.0
123.11
1
18 Edward Briscoe
308GTS
127.83
125.24
-4.5
119.60
1
19 Lorraine Hitchman
328GTS
129.49
127.21
128.74
-3.0
123.39
1
DNF
NS
0.0
7 Jeffrey Cooper
10 John Swift 11 Jack Hargreaves 12 Chris Hitchman
15 Peter Wilson 16 Peter Hitchman 17 Adrian Wilson
109.71
116.43 119.82
20 Julian Playford
F355
119.26
21 Barrie Wood
F355
withdrew
0.0
22 Nick Taylor
348GTC
withdrew
+2.5
Notes: * practised in 365 BB
Adrian Wilson and Richard Prior competed in David Tomlin’s car
Championship Points after Round 2 Chris Butler John Marshall Andrew Holman David Tomlin Mark Hargreaves Jon Goodwin Richard Allen Jack Hargreaves Sean Doyle Jeffrey Cooper Richard Prior
35 30 30 25 22 17 15 15 12 12 10
Barrie Wood Adrian Wilson Pauline Goodwin Peter Wilson John Swift Wendy Ann Marshall Chris Hitchman Julian Playford Edward Briscoe Lorraine Hitchman Peter Hitchman
Classic Cup Competitors Aggregate scores to date: Mark Hargreaves 22, Richard Allen and Jack Hargreaves 15, Sean Doyle12,, Pauline Goodwin 9, Wendy Ann Marshall 6, Edward Briscoe and Lorraine Hitchman 1 22 CompRes
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FERRARI OWNERS’ CLUB COMPETITION CALENDAR 2010 Classic
Open
Month
Date
Club
MAY
8
BARC Yorks
§
Harewood 3
9 11 20
BARC Yorks FOC FOC
§
Harewood 4
28/30
ADAC
§
29
BOC
§
Prescott 5
5/6 9 12/13 19/20 25/27
MAC FOC for info LCC SMRC
§ §
Shelsley Walsh 6
3
FOC
4
FOC
8 -12
FOC
9/11 10 11 15 18
ADAC H & DLCC H & DLCC FOC BARC SW
23/25
for info
8
B’rough 19
§
Hethel 11
14
MAC
§
15
RS & SCC
§
MIRA Sprint 12 Curborough Sprint 13
21 22 30
AMOC FOC CCRC
§
Oulton Park 9
Oulton Park 9
§
Castle Combe 10
Castle Combe 10
12
FOC
Prescott Picnic
16
FOC
Silverstone GP Track Day
18/20 19 22/30
for info MAC FOC for info
§
3
MAC
§
9
AMOC
§
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPT
OCT
§ §
§ § §
Spa-Francorchamps 3 & 4
Spa-Francorchamps 3 &4
20
KEY
FOC - For Info Harewood Dinner Saturday Chatsworth House Picnic Oulton Park Track Day Bedford Experience Spa Dinner Friday
Brands Hatch Track Day Le Mans Doune 7 Knockhill 5 & 6
Zolder 7 & 8
Knockhill 5 & 6
Knockhill Dinner Friday
Zolder 7 & 8
Evening Event Walton Hall Concours Walton Hall Classic Le Mans Club Tour Zolder Dinner Friday Loton Park 8 Loton Park 9 Snetterton Track Day
§
Gurston Down 10 Silverstone Classic Festival
2 laps Wimpole Hall Picnic PFO with Porsche
Goodwood Revival Shelsley Walsh 14 French Tour Curborough Sprint 15 Donington Park 11
Donington Park 11
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NOV
Hills & Sprints
End of Season Dinner Classic
End of Season Dinner Open
1 lap
End of Season Dinner
if Donington is operating Moore Place Aspley Guise
Hills & Sprints
Pendley Manor Tring FOC - For Info
Pirelli Ferrari Hillclimb Championship, Pirelli Ferrari Open, Pirelli Ferrari formula classic, FOC Trackdays, § = house points event
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JU NE BI RT HD AY S
04
Nathan Kinch
19
Wendy-Ann Marshall
07 09
Joe Billingham Edward Bourn
22
Geraldina Nickless
Tracey Haynes
23
Ray Ferguson
13
Geoffrey Rollason
24
Martin Hart
15
Sally Mason-Styrron
25
Grahame Bryant
16
Jon Goodwin
18
Dave Clark
Len Watson
Leon Bachelier
27
John Marshall
Peter Hitchman
28
Ian Hetherington
Gavin Shirley
30
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