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ISSUE 057 AUGUST 2010

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parties is very special and we hope that we shall have very full grids for both Ferrari events.

Early signs are that the minor changes to the track, principally involving the relocation of the chicane some distance before the pits area, have effected a significant improvement to the old layout.

Make sure you are one of the first to sample the latest version!

the huge success of last season’s Dinner there may be insufficient Fernando Alonso’s victory for accommodation available to Ferrari at Monza was a dream satisfy demand. To avoid come true for all of Italy as well disappointment the advice is as most Ferraristi. If you are a clear: BOOK EARLY! Ferrari works driver the pinnacle This year is the 25th of achievement must be to win Anniversary of the Maranello the Italian Grand Prix at this Ferrari Challenge. With the historic race track. encouragement and support of Alonso’s signal success was Col Ronnie Hoare and Maranello reinforced by Felipe Massa’s fine Concessionaires, in 1986 the third place to bring both our fledgling Championship sprang drivers onto the podium along into life at Mallory Park. It was END OF SEASON DINNER with Jenson Button, long an instant success and from that regarded by your scribe as one of Included with this issue are day the Club’s race series has the very finest F1 drivers of all full details of the Racers End of never looked back. time.

Season Dinner, which this year It seemed that we should So, with this brilliant result we are holding at Pendley Manor mark this auspicious occasion by we were once again able to Hotel at Tring, in Hertfordshire. doing something a bit special and deplete the wine stocks at Chevy The date is Saturday, 20th what better way to celebrate than Chase and bedeck this issue of November. invite all the drivers who took CompRes in the celebratory red As you will see from the part in the Maranello Ferrari livery of Ferrari. leaflet, we have block-booked a Challenge in that first season to Fantastico! substantial number of rooms at a be our guests at Pendley Manor demon price although judging by in November.

LAST ROUND UP Already we have received acceptances from The final rounds of WHAT’S LEFT many of these anciens both our 2010 race series, pilotes as we have perhaps the PFfc and PFO, take rudely called them, place at Donington Park on SEPTEMBER 18-20 Goodwood Revival Race th although being one of them 9 October. All the Meeting myself I really feel proud to paperwork – supplementary be among their number.

19 Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb regulations, garage booking So I do hope that forms, and entry forms everybody who has had have already been posted 21 FOC Silverstone Arena Track anything to do with the to all registered competitors Day original Championship or in both these series. with its younger offspring, OCTOBER 3 Curborough Sprint It is important to note the Pirelli Ferrari formula that entries for both Ferrari classic and Pirelli Ferrari races need to be submitted 9 Donington Park: Pirelli Ferrari Open series – whether as a to Anne Swift, the Series Co formula classic; Pirelli competitor, preparer, Ferrari Open -ordinator, and not to our supporter or Club member hosts, Aston Martin Owners 23 PFHC End of Season Dinner – will come along to Club.

Moore Place, Aspley Guise Pendley Manor and enjoy The reopening of this what promises to be a NOVEMBER 20 Racers End of Season Dinner wonderful race circuit after tremendous party.

Pendley Manor, Tring its recent unfortunate vandalising by various

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2011 In a few weeks time the Race Committees of both our series, the Pirelli Ferrari formula classic and the Pirelli Ferrari Open, together with the Technical & Regulatory Committee of the Pirelli Ferrari Hillclimb Championship, will be meeting to discuss and formulate next season’s Regulations.

The rules that apply are constantly under review in the light of experience and the Committees regard competitors’ comments and suggestions as a very important part of the evaluation process.

With this in mind we invite all interested parties: competitors, preparers, race teams, etc , to submit their views for consideration. So that there is no misunderstanding of what may be suggested, I shall be pleased if you will let me have your written comments by email as soon as possible. Please send them to me, John Swift, the Club’s Competition Director, at cs.man@btinternet.com no later than 15th October.

Although I cannot guarantee that all suggestions will be adopted, I can assure you that they will be carefully considered by the respective Committees.

AMOC INTERMARQUE CHAMPIONSHIP In recent times, the Aston Martin Intermarque Championship has become slightly confusing to most observers. The principal reason for this is that the organising club doesn’t provide up-to-date information on the current points scores, so we no longer have a real feel for the workings of this long running team competition.

Thanks to Tim Mogridge, a regular competitor with his F355 Challenge Ferrari, we have some information on the present state of play. The most recent round of Intermarque was at Castle Combe, on Bank Holiday Monday, 30th August. Following this race the team points scores are as follows:

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Aston Martin V8 cylinder Ferrari

440

Sunbeam

320

Aston Martin 6cylinder Porsche

189

American V8s

387

177 94

Jaguar

0

Austin Healey

0

From which you will see that the Ferrari team, if not leading, is doing rather well. And individually, regular Ferrari competitors Wayne Marrs and Tim Mogridge are holding second and third places in Class D1 with 136 and 117 points respectively.

The final round of the Championship is at Donington Park on 9th October so if you fancy joining our team for this race, please do so to ensure that we hang on to that second spot.

BRAKE DANCE In the last couple of Classic races, at Oulton Park and, the following weekend, at Castle Combe, my normally well behaved 308GTB (‘The Old Blue Thing’) developed a mysterious violent front wheel vibration under braking. I was therefore forced to brake far earlier than normal to keep the vibration in check.

I immediately suspected a cracked disc or discs but careful examination showed they were both in perfect order. When I finally got round to removing the pads I found there were four metallic intrusions on the face of each pad.

These corresponded to four small posts inserted in the pad backing plates.

I have been using

Mintex race pads for many years now but have never experienced this phenomenon previously so I contacted the manufacturer for an explanation.

The answer is that the pads I am now using, from their F6R high performance range, now incorporate steel posts to supplement the usual bonding of the friction material to the backing plate. Apparently the temperatures are now so extreme that they cannot rely on bonding alone.

The length of these posts is about 4mm so that if the pads are much more than 50% worn, the steel will come into contact with the disc and cause the vibration I encountered.

So, for those who use Mintex pads on their race Ferrari, the advice is to discard the pads early to avoid the problem. For a frugal Yorkshireman, who likes to get the maximum use out of consumables, this comes as a bit of a shock.

MUST-HAVE FIAT ABARTH Keen readers of CompRes will recall that in the last issue I made some mildly disparaging remarks about the newly introduced Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari.

I now hear that, rather in the manner of Rolex watches being given to leading personalities to boost the image and sales, two of these squirty Abarths have been presented to our Ferrari works drivers, Fernando and Filipe, at the recent Italian GP at Monza.

Whatever next!

RA’s HILLCOMMENT

Sprints have always, from the very first season, been part of our hillclimb series. Opinions vary but those of us who can remember believe Millbrook was maybe the best. Some venues are featureless and makeshift such as North Weald, whilst Curbrough, for all its bijou qualities, is really rather good, proving this by continually attracting healthy entries.

Hethel, on my first visit recently, struck me as being very worthwhile and therefore a pity more of our crowd do not get over to Norfolk. How about the circuits, you may ask, and there are quite few of these that we still have not tried. Goodwood featured in the early days for a year or two until somebody destroyed their 308GT4. I have always believed the place to be a little on the dangerous side, and you will note that the FOC does not run track days there. Oh,

and there is the major noise issue too. My own view is that if you want to drive the circuits you should enter one of our Club’s race series. Anyway, despite this there could be new circuit venue in for next season.

Sponsor Door panels provided for the PFHC competitors are quality items that, besides promoting the series and Pirelli in particular, look really professional. As you all know our cars inevitably attract a lot of attention, which our mostly shy drivers manage to cope with. It is obviously important therefore that these panels should be affixed to the car in a tidy and elegant manner, and also of course the comp numbers too. Most Ferraris entered at our meetings always meet this simple requirement, but regrettably there are sometimes one or two cars that look really messy. There is no excuse for this as it is not difficult to maintain the panels, and if yours are getting tatty then Richard Prior has new ones with him at the meetings. You only need to ask.

Gear Blockers really are a worthwhile accessory for the PFHC, particularly with the five speed cars that involve the cross gate shift from first to second. At the recent Curborough event one of our competitors with a 328 mentioned a spoiled run due to the inevitable shift from first to fourth. You never mis-cue it on the road, but in the heat of a competitive run this is very likely to happen. A wooden drop-in blocker that blanks off fourth and fifth is very easy to make, and on the odd event that calls for fourth you just remember to remove it – easily said and I recall forgetting on my best run at Hethel recently.

Photo: SwiftyPix

Nearly Over for 2010 with just two rounds to go as I write these notes. The one-day Shelsley Walsh in September has fifteen Ferrari runners and the final round up at Curborough on October 3rd will probably draw more than twenty – both these meetings run by our friends at Midland Automobile Club. As you all know, a very consistent and dominant Chris Butler has put this year’s Championship beyond reach, with Richard Prior a secure second and Nick Taylor recently cruising in to third. Andrew Holman has also moved up to fourth and could in theory haul Taylor in: he has some low scores to drop but will need a max pointer somewhere for any hope of this. Over these last two rounds there will doubtless be some shuffling around right through the ranks, so expect some heroics at Curborough.

Rather more up-market than a wooden blocker is the beautifully crafted aluminium device seen on Swifty’s 308GTB, made by BRM parts manufacturer Price & Orphin.

Stuck wide open throttles are a most alarming experience and you will recall John Swift suffered this with his F355 at Harewood a couple of years back.

In his case it was a mechanical derangement, but more often it is caused by some foreign body falling down into the aperture below the accelerator pedal. This happened to Pauline Goodwin recently when practising for the Oulton Park Formula Classic race in her 328GTB. In this instance it was the cigarette lighter, long missing, that had lodged in the accelerator recess. Apart from creating some very dangerous moments out on the circuit for Pauline, had the car not been fitted with a rev limiter the engine would have going ballistic.

I had this happen on my F355 at a Brands Hatch Track Day some years ago. Going over the Dartford Crossing, I chucked some loose change on the floor and a two pence piece went down you know where. So with most of the cars we are using, be very careful to keep foreign bodies away from the floor area anywhere near the accelerator.

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Photo: Richard Prior

Sabbatical Spicer cannot keep away or indeed resist the temptation of competing. He is making a return appearance at Curborough in the final round on October 3rd in his recently acquired splendid 360 Modena.

Always very competitive and not afraid to take the odd risk, Mike is rumoured to be considering a 328GTB for next season so as not to expose his immaculate 360 to the attentions of his friendly local bodyshop!

Richard Preece not seen in action lately with his 348GTC hopes to be back in 2011. He has been struggling with some expensive problems on his 512BB and has also given his already immaculate GTC a birthday engine out and engine bay refurb, the wheels too and the car is absolutely stunning now and up to FOC Concours standard. Richard admits to really missing the atmosphere and camaraderie of the PFHC. John Marshall has added immensely to the series in 2010, campaigning his sensational 430 Scuderia and establishing quite a few Ferrari class records along the way. He now fancies returning to a much older car, even maybe something with carburettors - going back to basics really having learned a lot from the Scud experience.

Consequently you can expect to see the Scud up for sale anytime now.

Mandatory Gloves for the first time on the hills in 2010 has given those scrutineers of a zealous nature a bit of a field day.

Several of us with proper Nomex gloves that we have used for many years are told they are unsuitable as Washing up gloves are not they do not acceptable. carry the latest labels. The same gloves incidentally are not questioned at race meetings.

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Phil Whitehead endeavours to diagnose the strange ticking noises from his F355. The problem proved to be a collapsed timing chain tensioner

Regrettably, the only way around this is to take along a new pair.

Modern Car design you know is something I often whinge about, and it occurred to me recently that so much of the new blinding technology leads to ridiculous service and repair bills.

We all know that an axle replacement, carbon ceramic disc and pad set for the latest Ferraris cost very many thousands of pounds, but you need to steer clear of those Xenon headlights if you can. A friend of mine with an Audi had a headlight bulb fail.

His dealer had a new one for £150, but said it needed a new controller too, taking the total to £730! Then there are those run flat tyres that flatten your wallet, costing about £80 each more than the conventional equivalent.

I could go on, like having to pay £200 for an ignition key . . .

Philip Whitehead was a little perturbed half way through the recent Gurston Down hillclimb when his F355 engine developed a noticeable ticking noise. He had a grope around underbonnet (see pic) but could find nothing amiss although the pundits

suggested the exhaust manifolds were on the blink – a familiar 355 failing, though this does not usually produce ticking.

Unconcerned, Philip carried on, completing his competitive runs, and drove 200 miles home. He had a lucky escape, wallet wise, as it transpired the oil pump drive timing chain was flailing about due to the tensioner failing. This is also a known 355 concern that first became prevalent many years ago when the cars were first raced.

2011 PFHC programme is already in the melting pot and Richard Prior is busy planning the calendar of hill climbs and sprints. Expect all the favourite hills, including Doune, and we will be back in Jersey at Easter for Bouley Bay. Richard says that following some date shifts we will not be able to run the back-toback MIRA/Curborough weekend again. He is looking at new sprint venues – maybe even one at Brands Hatch. Whatever, I am sure there will be much to please the PFHC competitors for the 2011 season, the 25th Anniversary year of the Club’s Hillclimb Championship. 

PIRELLI FERRARI HILLCLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP: ROUND 11 HETHELL SPRINT 8th AUGUST 2010

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HE PFHC MADE A LONG awaited return to the Lotus Test track at Hethel, popular with the local Ferrari competitors but sometimes less so over the years with the majority, which led to the venue being dropped from the Club calendar reports RICHARD PRIOR. A shame as it really is a challenging sprint circuit, with flowing curves, a couple of tight man-made chicanes with fast straights, finishing with a long drag to the finish line (which builds up from a fast right hand curve known as Windsock Corner) and a rare snatch of 4th gear for some tipos.

Jack’s time in the 308GTB was 90.42, followed by WendyAnn Marshall (328) on 102.71.

The next three cars were quite close together: Sean Doyle (308GT4), Richard Allen (328) and Jeff Cooper (360 Modena) on 83.44, 82.56 & 84.98 respectively. Another trio of Ferraris also in a group around the mid 70 seconds saw John Marshall (430 Scuderia) taking an early lead with 73.82 seconds over Andrew Holman (75.87) and Richard Prior (76.39) both in their F355GTBs. Mark Hargreaves completed the class by stepping into the 308 shared with Jack, and was just over 3 seconds

Plan of the course at Hethel

Of the nine competitors, four were residents of East Anglia and were the ones looking most chuffed with their shortest journey to any PFHC event on the calendar.

Unfortunately there are no split times or speed traps at Hethel so the facts and figures in the table are all about the total time taken.

Jack Hargreaves started the class and everyone took it as a steady practice to learn the way, a new feature for this year being the lack of a roundabout at the far left of the circuit (which drivers previously had to circulate around before struggling to find the correct exit point) which now is just a sharp right-hander.

quicker than his son.

With a relatively small paddockful of entries (and a more efficient track set up which now included a return road) we had hardly written the times up on the scoreboard before we were called again for second practice.

P2 produced faster times for all the competitors (who now felt more familiar with the track layout) with the exception of Mark Hargreaves, who experienced gear selection problems at one of the chicanes.

There was no such trouble for John Marshall in the F1 gearboxequipped Scud, who improved by over 1.3 seconds to stretch his advantage over next placed man Holman, on 74.20. We all

compared notes after the run and without exception found that the track was quite slippery now that we had started to push a little harder. Prior found understeer a problem on the first half of the track, but we did notice some nice drifting around the corners from the other classes too. We expected a little more rubber on the track surface as this was a test venue regularly used by Lotus to demonstrate their car’s ability to potential customers, but it seemed tricky to master under Ferrari power and weight.

The organisers, Borough 19, were determined to run an efficient meeting and called for the first official runs before the lunch break. Most made improvements to their practice times; Wendy Ann Marshall liked the way the 328 was working with the list 1B tyres (a vast improvement over the previous road tyres which seemed so unpredictable on the track and road) and got started with her best so far of 95.19 seconds.

Jack Hargreaves took another second off with 81.58, but Sean Doyle jumped ahead with 80.63, who was in turn succeeded by Jeff Cooper in the 360 on 79.83.

This didn’t last long either as Mark Hargreaves climbed back into the warmed up 308 and outperformed all the previous runners with 79.07. Richard Allen was lying in the midfield on 77.23 leaving just the closely matched group of the three remaining cars. Of these Holman led the way on 72.97, Prior was in second place on 73.79 and Marshall, who slipped back slightly from his earlier practice times due to a twitchy moment on the back ‘straight’ known as the Senna Curves but which can be satisfying when taken flat out while clipping the apexes on a perfect run.

On the 2nd run Jack Hargreaves took another ¼ of a second off, Wendy was slower but Sean was now down to the 80-second mark. Allen continued

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his steady improvement with each run and was now on 76.80.

Cooper took a second off with 78.77, Prior and Holman lost time which gave Marshall the chance to catch up. John was careful and neat through the tight chicanes and looked incredibly fast as he exited them, but was only 0.14 ahead of fellow local driver Holman.

In Run 3 there was now a challenge between the 308 drivers. Doyle was still stuck in the 80’s and Mark Hargreaves clocked up 79.98, but son Jack blitzed them both with 78 seconds dead despite locking up the wheels while braking hard for the chicanes.

Allen continued to reduce his time with every run and finished the day with 76.52, Cooper

almost had RA within range but was happy to end the meeting with 77.15. Prior used his 3rd attempt to clock his best run of the day with 73.27 but still 0.3 seconds down on Holman’s best time and only good enough for 3rd place.

John Marshall couldn’t match his earlier class leading run, but Holman threw everything at it (literally) to try to beat John but ended up off the track with a failed attempt albeit retaining 2nd place on scratch with his first run.

Club Chairman Richard Allen was now in 4th place. Cooper in a respectable 5th position, followed

by Jack and Mark Hargreaves in 6th and 7th place in their shared car, with Doyle and Wendy-Ann Marshall completing the class.

With a total of five runs during

the day and being finished and back on the road home by 4pm, it seemed we were on the go all day with hardly a break in proceedings. Club President Jack Sears was on hand to present the trophies to the first 3 Ferrari drivers, (but unfortunately no cameras are allowed at the circuit so no podium picture).

After applying the Performance Equalising Percentage, the 20 Championship points went to Andrew Holman, 17 pts to Richard Prior, and Richard Allen 15 pts. John Marshall was not far enough ahead of the field to net more than 11 points after applying the PEP adjustment.  Editor’s Note: Photographs are not permitted at Hethel.

HETHEL SPRINT 8 August 2010 Round 11 Pirelli Ferrari Hillclimb Championship Driver

Tipo

*John Marshall

430 Scud

Pract 1 73.82

Pract 2 72.48

Run 1 74.35

Run 2 72.83

Run 3

Andrew Holman

F355

75.87

74.20

72.97

74.38

999.00

0.0

72.97

20

Richard Prior

F355

76.39

76.14

73.79

74.71

73.27

0.0

73.27

17

Richard Allen

328GTB

82.56

78.89

77.23

76.80

76.52

-3.0

74.22

15

Jeff Cooper

360 Mod

84.98

79.39

79.83

78.77

77.15

+1.0

77.92

9

Jack Hargreaves (Gp2)

308GTB

90.42

82.65

81.58

81.24

78.00

-3.0

75.66

13

Mark Hargreaves (Gp2)

308GTB

87.20

88.45

79.07

80.83

79.98

-3.0

76.70

10

Sean Doyle

308GT4

83.44

87.38

80.63

80.01

80.43

-4.5

76.41

12

*Wendy Ann Marshall

328GTB

102.71

97.66

95.19

95.40

95.75

-1.0

94.24

8

* list 1B tyres

999.00 = no time or wrong route

Class Awards:

1st John Marshall

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2nd Andrew Holman

PEP time 76.47

Pts

73.84

PEP % +5.0

3rd Richard Prior

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PIRELLI FERRARI HILLCLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP: ROUND 12 MIRA SPRINT 14th AUGUST 2010 HE FIRST DOUBLE-HEADER sprint of the weekend took place at the Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA) facility near Nuneaton writes RICHARD PRIOR. Within the healthy entry of 22 drivers were newcomers Anthony Chadwick (sharing his father Ian’s 348) and Douglas Campbell in a matt black 360 Spider. Pauline Goodwin made the series debut of the Ferrari California (in which she out-performed husband Jon in the equally lovely 250 Lusso) and Julian Playford returned to competition after a long summer layoff while repairs were made to his F355.

The morning practice runs were taken delicately in the wet conditions (with standing water on most of the straights) the only exceptions were Richard Prior in the F355 (60.31 seconds), Nick Taylor (348GTC) 60.65, and Chris Butler (F355) 61.01. These top three also pushed through the speed trap at over 90mph, aquaplaning their way towards the control tower. Pauline Goodwin was performing brilliantly in the California (63.46) and currently in 5th position behind Andrew Holman on 62.96.

Pauline hit the 4th highest speed figure at 90mph, which isn’t all down to new technology in the car but also her commitment and lack of fear while exiting the preceding high speed corner; this also applied to Jon Goodwin (250 Lusso) who was just half a second adrift of his wife.

P2, in very similar conditions, again had Prior and Taylor fastest but now with Andrew Holman in the giallo fly F355 in third position on 60.82. Butler was next and then John Marshall brought the 430 Scuderia into play, knocking nearly 5 seconds off and finishing on 62.71.

Lorraine Hitchman (328) took over 7 seconds off her earlier practice, Anthony Chadwick improved by over 8 seconds and Peter Wilson (348) pared his time by 5 seconds.

At lunchtime the Pirelli gazebo did a fine job of keeping the drizzle off until the wind picked up and the rain turned horizontal.

In the first official run after the break, in similar wet plus standing water conditions, the two double drive cars broke the 70 second barrier for the first time, with Mark Hargreaves (308GTB) on 68.03 and Anthony Chadwick on 68.86. Tracey Haynes recorded 67.01, Charles Haynes 75.93 and Jack Hargreaves (not quite matching dad) with 71 seconds dead.

The 246 Dino of Colin Campbell was circulating some 7 seconds slower than in the morning session while Sean Doyle in the 308GT4 was on a flying lap! As Sean neared the final corner he was bearing down on the helpless 246 and subsequently successfully appealed to the Clerk of the Course for a re-run as he rightly felt he’d been held up. On his second attempt he clocked 65.72.

The 328s of Lorraine Hitchman and Wendy Ann Marshall were both slightly down on their best practice times: Lorraine 74.25 and Wendy 89.84.

Pauline was still impressing with her car control and instant gear changes, and official time now on the board of 65.28. Peter Wilson was leading the battle of the 348s on 76.08 as Ian Chadwick was a little slower on 76.67 despite a better getaway with less wheelspin. Nick Taylor was 0.2 slower over 0-64ft but he made up for it during the remainder of the run and looked incredibly fast through the Esses after posting 101mph at the trap, clocking 60.17 and fastest so far.

Richard Prior splashed his way around and pushed his trap speed up to 100mph Although the F355 twitched through the puddles he took the lead with 59.21.

Chris Hitchman was narrowly ahead of Julian Playford, with similar speeds. Chris recorded

69.88, Julian 70.76. Douglas Campbell jumped ahead of both the 355s with 69.38. Another brief shower passed over as Andrew Holman was called up, his 61.79 putting him into 3rd place behind Taylor, but was happy to learn the following car of Chris Butler had a time of 61.95. John Marshall took the Scud through the trap at 98mph, braked hard for the corners but the acceleration helped him get ahead of Holman with 61.74.

Peter Hitchman struggled to match his fastest time from first practice in the 550 and his recorded his best official run of 86.55. Jon Goodwin drove superbly to get 64.18 (just 5 hundredths short of his 2006 pb in the Lusso) and moved himself and the oldest car on the scoreboard ahead of the newest car in the line-up, Pauline’s California With the start of the afternoon’s second runs the sun was shining but the track was greasy and even more unpredictable for some of the runners. Anthony Chadwick improved to 68.28, Mark Hargreaves increased his speed trap to 93mph but then spun out two corners later, Tracey Haynes was also another improver knocking another half second off to finish 11th, while husband Charles took almost 4 seconds off for 18th place.

Colin Campbell was back to his practice form and the startline marshals gave him plenty of time before setting Sean Doyle off.

Doyle took ¾ of a second off his earlier time and received 8th place on scratch and 6th on PEP placing. Lorraine Hitchman and Wendy Ann Marshall both made massive improvements to their time, Lorraine by over 3½ seconds to give 70.52 (2 tenths ahead of Julian Playford) and Wendy was now on 77.92.

Pauline made a better start this time and got back ahead of husband Jon with 62.91 and 6th place on scratch. Peter Wilson’s

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Photo: Richard Prior

dodgy moment at the first corner, Taylor improved to 59.59 seconds and 105mph at the speed trap to confirm 2nd place, while Prior started out cautiously Car Park Full. The Ferrari hillclimbers took over a (thanks to local hotel for the double-header weekend. watching speed had increased by 10mph Taylor ahead of him) but lost the and his time down came down to back end around the right-hander 72.31. Ian Chadwick had his near the control tower. His run warmed up car returned to him was wasted with a sideways slide and must have been taking notes which seemed to go on for 25 from Anthony as he took 8½ yards. When the red flags had seconds off, beating his son by been put away the heavens 0.16. opened again and the visibility Despite a slippery start and a was dire. Douglas Campbell

impressed everyone by taking another 2 seconds off his first run time with 67.27. Chris Hitchman wiped 3½ seconds off his previous time and, despite the torrential downpour, Holman also took 0.71 off and regained his place over Marshall with 61.08.

Butler bravely tried to beat the conditions with a fantastic effort of 99mph through the trap with his best time of 59.77 and just 2 tenths behind 2nd place man Taylor.

Richard Prior took the 20 points, with Taylor on 15, Chris Butler 17, and 4th placed Holman on 13.

The majority of competitors had an interesting stopover at a local hotel before the second sprint of the weekend, at Curborough in Lichfield the following day.

Editor’s Note: Photographs are not permitted at MIRA.

MIRA SPRINT 14 AUGUST 2010 Round 12 Pirelli Ferrari Hill Climb Championship Driver Richard Prior

Tipo

Pract 1

Pract 2

Run 1

Run 2

0-64ft

Speed

PEP %

PEP time

Pts

*

F355

60.31

60.36

59.21

fail

2.79

100

0.0

59.21

20

Nick Taylor

348GTC 1B

60.65

60.86

60.17

59.59

2.75

105

+2.5

61.08

15

Chris Butler

F355

61.01

61.22

61.95

59.77

2.67

99

0.0

59.77

17

Andrew Holman John Marshall Pauline Goodwin Jon Goodwin Sean Doyle

F355

62.96

60.82

61.79

61.08

2.81

94

0.0

61.08

13

430 Scud (List 1B)

67.47

62.71

61.74

69.26

2.81

98

+5.0

64.83

7

California

63.46

66.19

65.28

62.91

2.86

90

0.0

62.91

10

250GT Lusso (Gp2)

63.98

65.08

64.18

70.73

2.91

90

-4.5

61.29

12

308GT4

67.90

67.13

65.72

64.54

2.71

86

-4.5

61.64

11

308GTB (Gp2)

73.54

71.87

71.00

65.25

2.82

88

-3.0

63.29

9

Chris Hitchman

F355GTS

70.38

69.66

69.88

66.18

2.73

86

0.0

66.18

5

Tracey Haynes

328GTB

68.74

70.11

67.01

66.54

2.80

88

-3.0

64.54

8

Douglas Campbell

360 Spider

68.96

65.51

69.38

67.27

2.97

83

+1.0

67.94

2

Mark Hargreaves

308GTB (Gp2)

72.20

74.26

68.03

83.88

3.23

83

-3.0

65.99

6

Ian Chadwick

348ts

74.26

72.04

76.67

68.12

2.71

---

-2.0

66.76

4

Anthony Chadwick

348ts

78.77

70.29

68.86

68.28

2.86

88

-2.0

66.91

3

Lorraine Hitchman

Jack Hargreaves

328GTS

79.65

72.24

74.25

70.52

2.87

70

-3.0

68.40

1

Julian Playford

F355

72.72

70.97

70.76

---

2.91

81

0.0

70.76

1

Charles Haynes

328GTS

78.83

78.06

75.93

71.96

2.81

80

-3.0

69.80

1

348tb

80.95

75.53

76.08

72.31

2.78

78

-2.0

70.86

1

Peter Wilson Wendy A Marshall

328GTB (List 1B)

81.95

81.11

89.84

77.92

2.81

74

-1.0

77.14

1

Colin Campbell

246GT

84.41

83.10

90.02

82.44

3.10

69

-6.5

77.08

1

Peter Hitchman

550 Maranello

77.80

86.77

86.55

91.96

3.35

55

-1.0

85.68

1

Class Awards: 8 CompRes

1st Richard Prior

2nd Nick Taylor

3rd Chris Butler

It was a debut weekend for Pauline Goodwin’s California which she drove to very good purpose. She won the Fastest Lady Driver award.

And you can’t beat a blue Ferrari!

too much speed and elected to take the escape road down the main straight. Most of the drivers made it round without a problem (even though mud was spread over the tarmac at the far hairpin). Chris Butler (F355) was quickest - just over half a second off his personal best. John Marshall’s went through the speed trap at an incredible speed

Photo: Richard Prior

FTER THE WET sprint meeting at MIRA, the next day dawned bright and sunny ready for the convoy run from our Colton House hotel (which was fully booked for us by our ace social secretary, Jon Goodwin) to Curborough for the popular 2-lap sprint organised by the Reliant Sabre and Scimitar Owners Club (RSSOC) writes RICHARD PRIOR. The event forms part of their annual meet and prize giving weekend.

Another good entry list of 20 Ferrari drivers almost balanced the list of RSSOC cars in the programme although Phil Whitehead was unfortunately an absentee due to a mechanical problem suffered at Gurston. We were joined by Barrie Wood and Peter Rogerson, with Charles Haynes blagging an entry on the day to share the 328 with Tracey, and making up one of four husband and wife combinations competing in the event.

Ian Chadwick led first practice away in the 348ts, but at the first corner realised he had

Photo: Richard Prior

PIRELLI FERRARI HILLCLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP: ROUND 13 CURBOROUGH SPRINT 15th AUGUST 2010

It was another new track to learn for Douglas Campbell, who drove his mean looking satin black 360 Spider to a creditable 6th position.

but didn’t even try turning right for the second lap but came back to the paddock in half the usual time. Like Ian Chadwick he was rewarded with a fail.

There was no such trouble in P2. Ian Chadwick now got a time on the board which would be his best of the day (but unfortunately practice times don’t count). Julian Playford knocked 5 second off in the 355, Peter Rogerson went 1.5 seconds quicker in the 360, Tracey dipped under 70 seconds and ahead of her PB (possibly thanks to some extra homework at the tuition day in May), Sean Doyle (308GT4) was hot on her heels 0.4 seconds behind with 69.79.

It was another new track for Douglas Campbell to learn in the satin black 360 Spider, now 3½ seconds quicker than in P1, while Holman now took the lead in the yellow 355 on 63.29. But it didn’t last long: Taylor passed him with the sticky 1B tyre shod 348GTC and 62.93.

The Clerk of the Course decided the meeting was going so well that we would have another run before the lunch break, which would be the first official timed session. Ian Chadwick was still in the 70’s,

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Giving it lots of wellie, Andrew Holman drove his giallo fly F355 into 4th place and collected a useful 15 Championship points into the bargain.

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to receive a failed run, causing much laughter amongst the spectators and fellow drivers (including Prior who sat on the startline and witnessed it, sarcastically applauding Holman’s return from the track). But he got his comeuppance by following in Mad Dog’s footsteps and spinning at the Hairpin, which just goes to show you shouldn’t get over excited behind the wheel.

Butler resumed normal service by taking the lead with 63.29 and a fast start over 64ft in 2.33 second, Taylor almost matching it with 2.34 seconds but had a quicker time at the finish of 63.12 despite being 4mph slower than Chris at the

Photo: Richard Prior

just 2 tenths ahead of Lorraine Hitchman’s 328 (70.97). Wendy Ann Marshall in her similar car had now moved up to 74.30 taking 2 seconds off her practice time when it mattered (and was to be her best run of the day) as was Peter Rogerson’s of 70.93.

Sean Doyle also peaked with 68.80, which was way under his personal best from last year, knocking nearly 1.5 seconds off.

Pauline Goodwin clocked 69.68 despite gear change problems with the California, husband Jon was taking around half a second off with each run and now recorded 68.48 in the sublime 250 Lusso. Peter Hitchman in the mighty 550 was doing a great job, getting down to 73.47.

The next four drivers were covered by less than 0.4 of a second: Barrie Wood (355) on 66.83, Richard Allen (328) on 66.46, Chris Hitchman (here for the first time in a 355) had 66.67, and newcomer Douglas Campbell on 66.81. Things weren’t so good for the next two 355 runners. Holman and Prior both sped away from the startline only to find there was a cone missing on the straight at the turn in point for the first corner, throwing them both offline and leading to a claim to the Clerk of the Course for a re-run. Holman went first and no doubt with a big smile on his face drove with his usual enthusiasm until turning in for the second lap he lost the back end and spun off the track

speed trap. Marshall blasted the Scud through at 106mph and was within a gnat’s of the leading pair on 63.32.

In round 2, Playford performed his best run of the day on 72.39, as did Pauline Goodwin on 66.42, giving her a fine 8th place on scratch with the California. Peter Hitchman was slow away from the start and was even wheel spinning after the 64ft beam but improved during the rest of the run and produced his best time of the day on 72.71. Allen Locked up into the second lap with a cloud of tyre smoke, while Jon Goodwin drove smoothly in the Lusso for a best time of 67.82.

The disgraced pair of Holman and Prior managed to get a banker time in, Holman on 65 dead and Prior 65.13. Butler was just 1/100 behind Taylor’s first run time on 63.13 but Nick followed with his usual smooth and fast cornering style on the grippy 1Bs and pushed the leading score now to 62.02 and a new class record. Marshall went wide at the right hander at the commencement of the second lap and almost looked as if he had stopped, resulting in a slower time of 64.41.

So it was all down to the third and final run of the day.

Charles Haynes had his best time so far with 71.22 but

Launch control. Unsurprisingly, John Marshall’s 430 Scuderia topped the speed trap figures, stopping the clock at 106mph.

Photo: Richard Prior

During the trophy presentation in the RSSOC marquee, Pauline Goodwin was again surprised to be presented with the ‘Fastest Lady Driver of the Day’ award for her excellent work in the California.  Richard Allen brought out his circuit racing warhorse for the occasion, the silver 328GTB being the quickest in the Classic car division.

Photo: Richard Prior

diplomatically stayed behind his wife while sharing her car.

Tracey pushed her personal best to 69.26, keeping ahead of Lorraine Hitchman by just 1 tenth of a second. Allen matched his Round 1 score exactly in 66.46 and was one of the most consistent drivers of the day, Chris Hitchman performed well at the end of the day, his 66.04 giving him 7th place on scratch behind Douglas Campbell who just stole the place from him in the final round by 8 hundredths of a second.

Holman stretched the advantage over Prior with 63.88, the latter’s reply being a slower 64.10. Butler was slightly slower but Taylor again put in another splendid 62.02 run to reinforce his lead. It was now down to John Marshall to stop him but his final time of 63.95 was still short of his personal best here.

So it was Nick Taylor who took the win on scratch and 17 points after the PEP factor had been applied, with Chris Butler in 2nd (20 points), John Marshall in 3rd position, Holman 4th, Prior 5th and, on his first visit to Curborough, Douglas Campbell 6th.

Mad Dog and Englishmen. There wasn’t much midday sun around but Andrew Holman finds a photo opportunity with two of Curborough’s friendly start-line marshals.

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CURBOROUGH SPRINT 15th AUGUST 2010 Pirelli Ferrari Hillclimb Championship Round 13 Driver

Tipo

*Nick Taylor

348GTC

Pract 1 64.31

Pract 2 62.93

Run 1 63.12

Run 2 62.02

Run 3 62.02

64ft

split

speed

2.38

35.06

90

PEP % +2.5

PEP time 63.57

Pts

Chris Butler

F355

63.92

63.65

63.29

63.13

64.27

2.44

35.67

94

0.0

63.13

20

17

*John Marshall

F430 F1

fail

63.53

63.32

64.41

69.95

2.37

35.63

106

+5.0

66.49

7

Andrew Holman

F355

64.28

63.29

fail

65.00

63.88

2.36

36.07

93

0.0

63.88

15

F355

65.54

64.14

fail

65.13

64.10

2.36

36.34

93

0.0

64.10

13

Douglas Campbell

360 Spider

72.05

68.57

66.81

67.42

65.96

2.77

37.75

93

+1.0

66.62

6

Chris Hitchman

F355GTS

68.09

66.96

66.67

67.06

66.04

2.70

37.98

90

0.0

66.04

9

Pauline Goodwin

California

70.36

67.50

69.68

66.42

67.23

2.50

37.50

96

-3.0

66.42

8

Richard Allen

328GTB

67.34

67.46

66.46

66.73

66.46

2.40

37.84

88

-3.0

64.47

12

Barrie Wood

F355

68.66

69.51

66.83

67.33

67.39

2.42

37.71

94

0.0

66.83

5

Richard Prior

250 Lusso

69.63

68.94

68.48

67.82

69.06

2.65

38.38

79

-4.5

64.77

11

Sean Doyle

308GT4

70.15

69.79

68.80

69.55

69.06

2.50

38.66

--

-4.5

65.70

10

Tracey Haynes

328GTB

71.70

69.39

70.16

69.86

69.26

2.48

39.39

86

-3.0

67.18

4

Lorraine Hitchman

328GTS

72.10

72.64

70.97

70.73

69.36

2.49

39.42

86

-3.0

67.28

3

Jon Goodwin (Gp2)

348ts

fail

70.47

70.78

73.28

72.20

2.64

40.83

84

-2.0

69.36

1

Peter Rogerson

360 Mod

72.57

71.06

70.93

71.22

71.43

2.49

40.05

94

+1.0

71.64

1

Charles Haynes

328GTB

76.47

72.88

71.94

71.92

71.22

2.51

40.92

86

-2.0

69.08

2

Julian Playford

F355

77.80

72.15

73.30

72.39

72.77

2.75

41.76

89

0.0

72.39

1

Peter Hitchman

550 Mar

79.93

75.22

73.47

72.71

73.42

2.89

43.00

93

-2.0

71.98

1

*Wendy Ann Marshall

328GTB

76.77

76.37

74.30

76.07

76.16

2.89

43.69

84

-1.0

73.56

1

Ian Chadwick

* 1B tyres

0-64ft, split and speed for fastest run

RS&SCC Class Awards:

Championship Points after Round 13

Classic competitors after Round 13 (best 8 scores) 12 CompRes

1st Nick Taylor

Chris Butler Richard Prior Nick Taylor Andrew Holman Richard Allen John Marshall Sean Doyle Jon Goodwin Pauline Goodwin Philip Whitehead Mark Hargreaves Jack Hargreaves David Tomlin Chris Hitchman Barrie Wood Tracey Haynes Wendy Ann Marshall

2nd Chris Butler

157 135 124 112 111 104 96 78 77 60 48 46 45 40 37 34 33

3rd John Marshall

John Swift Sergio Ransford Peter Rogerson Jeffrey Cooper Ian Chadwick Lorraine Hitchman Peter Wilson Charles Haynes Peter Hitchman Edward Briscoe Adrian Wilson Douglas Campbell Colin Campbell Julian Playford Andrew Duncan Anthony Chadwick

Richard Allen 110, Sean Doyle 96, Pauline Goodwin 74, Mark Hargreaves 48, Jack Hargreaves 46, Tracey Haynes 34, Wendy Ann Marshall 33, Sergio Ransford 28, Jon Goodwin 23, Lorraine Hitchman 16, Charles Haynes 14, Edward Briscoe 13,

29 28 25 21 21 16 14 14 14 13 9 8 8 7 5 3

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OULTON PARK INTERNATIONAL 21st AUGUST 2010

Vintage Stuff at Oulton Park HE OULTON PARK race meeting, on Saturday, 21st August, marked the end of the 2010 Pirelli Ferrari formula classic double headers reports JOHN SWIFT. Back in England, after our forays to Spa, Knockhill and Zolder, the final three remaining races in the series are single race events.

The entry for this race was extremely encouraging. 25 Ferraris were listed – more than a Formula One grid! – although this number was reduced to 23 with the non-arrival of the Gp2 308GTBs of William Jenkins and Chris Compton Goddard. The weather predictions for this corner of Cheshire weren’t too favourable although, as we all know, forecasting is a very inexact science.

Scrutineering went off

to the ambitious programme of races arranged by AMOC. This is really too short a period, particularly if there are any holdups, as we were to find out. The Ferraris were called up well before the appointed time and we found that the field had now dropped to 21 cars with the Photo: Jonathan Tremlett

T

without any obvious hitches. On this occasion our regular Eligibility Scrutineer, John May, was assisted by a new man to the fold, Neil Procter, who normally is involved with the Aston Martins of our hosts, AMOC. The qualifying session was limited to a mere 15 minutes due

Where else in the world would you see a collection of 308GT4s racing?

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cement dust. After Gp4 machine. Just 0.23 seconds about a quarter of covered all three. Tomlin, Chris an hour the circuit Butler and Nick Taylor (Gp4 was reopened and Mondial t) vied for 4th spot with we all set off again almost identical times. All this albeit without the close proximity at the front of the aforesaid Mr grid promised a tremendous race.

Simpson.

In the other classes, the Because smaller engined Gp2 division was we had already led by Richard Moseley (308GTB) had three minutes in 2:09.653 while William of lappery the Moorwood maintained his recent restarted session good form by setting the quickest was cut to around Gp1 lap in 2:12.701. Mention 12 minutes, which should be made of Pauline meant that most Goodwin’s impressive lap time Neil Procter, our new man in the scrutineering drivers were with her Gp3 328GTB. Only bay, checks Nick Cartwright’s 328GTB. restricted to no circuit racing occasionally, absence of John Watts. John’s more than 5 laps.

308GT4 had developed an oil leak Nick Cartwright which couldn’t be rectified in the (Gp4 328GTB) had a time available. spin at Cascades and After only one lap of the ended up without session, the red flags signalled a damage in the gravel return to the pitlane. Tris trap. David Tomlin in Simpson’s 308GT4 had blown an his Gp3 version was oil line and deposited a wide slick also a spinner but of oil all the way down the pits continued without straight and ending at the entry much delay. to Old Hall. The car was The timesheets abandoned on the grass verge at showed that Gary the infield side in a cloud of Culver (Gp4 328) had Mopping up Tris Simpson’s oil slick. smoke. captured pole position It took some concentrated on 2:01.726 but only work by the marshals to clean up by a whisker. Less than a tenth Pauline sensibly took advantage the mess, with a recovery vehicle of a second behind was Ben of some professional instruction speeding up and down the track Cartwright in his Gp3 328, and in earlier in the week and it in an effort to distribute the third was Jim Cartwright with his obviously paid dividends. She was almost as quick as her husband, Jon. Following the end of the qualification session we had a briefing for all the Ferrari drivers.

Before the Clerk of the Course arrived I said a few words of my own about driving conduct in the race. My brief dissertation essentially told everyone (a) not to weave at the start (b) not to imagine that the race is won or lost at the first corner, and (c) not to hit each other. I might as well have saved my breath because that is exactly what happened when the race started some four hours later.

Weather conditions during the afternoon varied by the hour.

There was a brief spell of rain and then things dried out, so that by 4.45pm, when the Ferraris The start of the race and barrelling into Knickerbrook are Ray Ferguson were released from the collection (Mondial t), Richard Moseley (308GTB), William Moorwood (308GT4), area, the track was in good John Swift (308GTB), Pauline Goodwin (328GTB), Nick Whittaker (308GT4), Tris Simpson (308GT4) and the rest of the field. order. Tris Simpson, after

misses, and Tomlin took to the grass to avoid a collision. In short, for a few seconds it was mayhem but happily – and a tribute to the skill of the drivers – no one else collected any damage.

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Then there were two. This interesting sequence shows the 328GTBs of Gary Culver, Jim Cartwright and Ben Cartwright flying into Knickerbrook on lap 1. Gary and Ben get it right but the unfortunate Jim locks up and has to take to the grass.

renewing his oil lines and fitting Jubilee clips in triplicate, joined us once again so that we had 22 cars slaloming their way to the starting area on their installation cum green flag lap.

The lights were doused and the big field surged forward. But then at Old Hall, the first corner, Jim Cartwright, making a great start from row 2, attempted to pass both front row men by driving straight between them. The gap that seemed to be available became narrower and unfortunately he hit Gary Culver on one side and rebounded into his brother on the other.

The damage to the three cars was slight but the kafuffle caused upset for everyone following; there was heavy braking, some near

Ray Ferguson’s team is anything if not professional. At Oulton they sported smart new Scuderia Ferguson shirts.

At the end of lap 1, with Culver leading Ben Cartwright by a couple of seconds, Jim C pulled off onto the grass opposite the pits to retire, his car having developed a serious misfire.

Perhaps, if you were unkind, you could conclude that the gods responsible for dishing out retribution for misbehaviour were doing a good job that day.

On lap 2, Culver was still leading but Ben C was closing dramatically, putting in the fastest lap of the race in his impressive charge. After his battle with Jim C at the last race, at Zolder, Gary Culver must have felt he was suffering from a severe attack of Cartwrightis or whatever virus you might catch at Matlock. And it made a great spectacle for the big crowd of spectators.

By lap 3, Cartwright had closed to within a car’s length or so of the leaders, Butler had consolidated his position in third

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There were no holds barred between Wayne Marrs (60) and Peter Fisk.

Richard Squire (328GTB) leads David Tomlin in ‘Rosie’. Just as in the famous Remington advert, Richard was so impressed he later bought Rosie for his son Michael to campaign next season.

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place, albeit some 18 seconds in arrears, and Nick Cartwright, as if to make up for his youngest son’s retirement, was shaping up to take fourth spot away from Wayne Marrs. Behind these battling heroes there was some serious arm wrestling going on between Nick Taylor, Peter Fisk (Gp3 328) and Jon Goodwin.

Your scribe, who had been held up in that first lap fracas, made a successful bid to get past Pauline G, William Moorwood (Gp1 308GT4), Ray Ferguson (Gp3 Mondial t) and Geoff Neal (Gp3 328GTB) on the run down to Shell hairpin. This manoeuvre seemed to sting them into action and they all speeded up in retaliation.

By lap 6 of what proved to be a 10 lap race, Tomlin was making some forward progress through the field – not easy - and was now in 11th position. Nick Taylor pulled off with intermittent electrical trouble, a hangover from Snetterton in the first race of the season, when he left assorted hardware banging around in the boot of his Mondial.

Also calling it a day was Richard Fenny, whose GT4 also developed electrical bothers – thought to be a duff coil or condenser.

Nick Whittaker executed a neat spin at Cascades on lap 7, followed by an encore at Island 400 metres later. He decided enough was enough and parked his GT4 on the grass at Shell.

Another lap, and the rate of mechanical attrition was increasing worryingly. Richard Moseley gave up the unequal struggle with locking brakes on his Gp2 308GTB and parked up at Knickerbrook while Ray Ferguson also retired with alarming readings on his Mondial’s thermometer indicating a failing water pump. The number of retirements had now reached six – an unusually high proportion of the 21-car field.

As the race reached its climax the intensity of the battle at the front increased. It only needed one mistake by Culver for Ben Cartwright to snatch the lead. But those of us who know

Pauline Goodwin (33) had a particularly good meeting. Here she leads Nick Whittaker and a recovering David Tomlin into Knickerbrook.

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Gary were pretty sure no such error would be likely. And so it proved, with Culver taking victory by less than a second. Chris Butler, somewhat outpaced this time by Ben C, collected third position by a margin of around 10 seconds from Nick C’s Gp4 Ferrari.

Further back, Swift was put under extreme pressure by Geoff Neal, who finished only half a second behind after a wonderful struggle. Swift won Gp2 honours while William Moorwood was again victorious in Gp1, his 308GT4 being as consistently reliable as a clockwork mouse this year.

The first three home took to the podium and the prizes for 1, 2 and 3. Class awards will be

“Further back, Swift was put under extreme pressure by Geoff Neal, who finished only half a second behind after a wonderful struggle.”

sent by AMOC to the winners within the next week or two.

And the Hackwood Group Classic Ferrari Driver of the Meeting?

Ben Cartwright, 2nd overall, fastest lap of the day (and a new Gp3 record) was the unanimous choice. 

PIRELLI FERRARI formula classic – Round 9 OULTON PARK 21st August 2010 Pos

No

Driver

Tipo

Group

Laps

Time

Best Lap

Qualify

Pos

1

34 Gary Culver

328GTB

4

10

20:15.421

2:00.341

2:01.726

1

2

72 Ben Cartwright

328GTB

3

10

20:16.245

1:59.575

2:01.804

2

3

5 Chris Butler

328GTB

3

10

21:07.416

2:04.668

2:03.412

5

4

3 Nick Cartwright

328GTB

4

10

21:17.396

2:05.695

2:05.040

7

5

60 Wayne Marrs

328GTB

4

10

21:29.152

2:06.162

2:05.953

8

6

30 Peter Fisk

328GTB

3

10

21:40.272

2:06.537

2:08.050

11

7

18 Jon Goodwin

Mondialt t

3

10

21:47.393

2:08.388

2:08.502

13

8

35 Richard Squire

328GTB

3

10

21:48.554

2:08.316

2:08.067

12

9

6 David Tomlin

328GTB

3

10

21:48.914

2:05.024

2:03.373

4

10

15 Peter Moseley

328GTB

3

10

22:06.546

2:08.577

2:07.322

10

11

11 John Swift

308GTB

2

10

22:15.689

2:10.295

2:11.961

16

12

47 Geoff Neal

328GTB

3

10

22:16.052

2:09.763

2:13.044

19`

13

33 Pauline Goodwin

328GTB

3

10

22:18.902

2:09.899

2:09.996

15

14

29 William Moorwod

308GT4

1

10

22:26.128

2:11.031

2:12.701

18

15

22 Tris Simpson

308GT4

1

10

22:26.304

2:10.152

16 Richard Moseley

308GTB

2

7

15:21.582

2:07.063

2:09.653

14

DNF

22

DNF

7 Ray Ferguson

Mondial t

3

7

15:46.766

2:11.405

2:12.257

17

DNF

48 Nick Whittaker

308GT4

1

6

13:38.922

2:11.461

2:14.842

20

DNF

25 Richard Fenny

308GT4

2

5

12:00.625

2:14.043

2:14.888

21

DNF

57 Nick Taylor

Mondial t

4

5

17:05.247

2:06.336

2:03.538

6

DNF

69 Jim Cartwright

328GTB

4

1

2:12.374

2:01.957

3

31 Martin Hart

Mondial t

3

2:06.213

9

NS

Fastest Laps:

Gary Culver

Group 4

2:00.341 (80.53 mph)

lap record

Ben Cartwright

Group 3

1:59.575 (81.04 mph)

lap record

Richard Moseley

Group 2

2:07.063 (76.27 mph)

lap record

Tris Simpson

Group 1

2:10.152 (74.46 mph)

lap record

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OULTON PARK INTERNATIONAL 21st AUGUST 2010

USEFUL ENTRY – the numbers are improving all the time – of 16 Ferraris was expected for Pirelli Ferrari Open race at the one-day Race meeting at Oulton Park on Saturday, 21st August reports JOHN SWIFT. The meeting was hosted by our friends at Aston Martin Owners’ Club and, because they had included some long duration races, the Ferrari events were compromised somewhat, particularly our PFO race.

The fact that our final numbers shrank to a more modest 13 was disappointing. Of those who failed to make it to this challenging Cheshire circuit, David Hathaway, due to the unavailability of certain bits, was

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unable to complete repairs to his race were Sean Winder, who was 360 Challenge car after its making his debut in a 360 argument with the barriers at Challenge being run by Jason Zolder in mid-July. The similar Hughes of preparers JMH. Derek car of Robert Macfarlane was also a nonrunner. Robert had hit the barriers heavily during general testing on the Friday when avoiding a much slower Aston DB4.

The third absentee was Cliff Fox, who withdrew his F430 Challenge.

A victim of the difficult conditions was Wayne Marrs, New to the seen here in qualifying in his 360GTC, who stalled at series for this the start and was hit from behind by another Ferrari.

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Dancing in the

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Johnston and Ian Hartley – both seasoned racers – were making their first appearance, driving F430 Challenge cars. Hartley was the one remaining driver in FF Corse’s original plan to run four cars for this race.

A last minute entry in class C1 was that of Ben Cartwright at the wheel of a F355 Challenge that the Cartwright team have recently acquired. It is an early car, originally imported from Hong Kong by Robin Mortimer and not - yet - fitted with a rear wing. The plot was to allow all three Carties: Nick, Ben and Jim, have a drive in the final three PFO races of the season.

Mick Dwane had burned lots of midnight oil in getting his 360 Challenge ready. A recent ‘off’ at

Brands Hatch in a GT Cup event, on an oil spillage at Paddock Hill Bend, had caused extensive body damage but by the time it arrived at Oulton – following work in the workshop until well after midnight the previous day - the car was almost back to its usual pristine appearance.

The mix of Another driver making his debut was Sean Winder classes in the 13 at the wheel of a 360 Challenge run by JMH. strong field was three C3, two C2, five C1 and a (1:50.506) set prior to the couple of ‘S’ cars. There was inclusion in the series this year of quite a lot of hanging about for the more modern 360 and 430 machinery.

Third man, Derek Johnston, who takes his ultra light Ginetta round this circuit rather quicker than his 430, seemed to have got the hang of the much heavier Ferrari to post a time 0.8 seconds shy of Marrs’s figure, so the race looked to be set to be a humdinger.

Mick Dwane was the fastest C2 car, a further three seconds adrift, while young Gavin Shirley surprised

At the restart Mick Dwane (360/Ch) leads Derek Johnston’s 430 Challenge with the F355s of Nigel Jenkins, Vance Kearney, Gavin Shirley and Craig Milner in hot pursuit.

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Ben Cartwright (72) made his first appearance in PFO with the F355 but was involved in the collision on the start line. Here he leads Gavin Shirley in the ex-Tomlin F355 Challenge car.

the Open competitors due to AMOC’s timing of the meeting. A 9.30am sign-on was followed by a 15 minute qualifying session at midday and the 20-minute race at the end of the afternoon.

The conditions for qualifying, which commenced almost half an hour earlier than programmed, were dry, warm and overcast.

Wayne Marrs, whose rapid 360GTC is re-classified as C3, vied with Ian Hartley for pole position. Hartley snatched the spot by a mere 0.126 seconds in 1:45.932. To put this in perspective, this time was some five seconds faster than the previous outright PFO lap record

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everyone but, perhaps, himself, recorded the best C1 lap (1:55.014), just a soupçon ahead of Vance Kearney and Nigel Jenkins in their similar F355/Chs. Gavin’s time was all the more creditable as it was his first time out in the ex-David Tomlin car which Ecurie Shirley has recently acquired.

Of the others, Ben Cartwright played himself in sensibly with the ‘new’ F355/Ch and Paul Unsworth was the pick of the S class in his 550 Maranello (1:58.617), Paul Brooks (456GT) confessing to being a bit rusty so far as this circuit is concerned.

The PFO drivers then faced a long wait for their race, having to endure, along with the bored looking spectators, an interminably long (1½ hour) Aston Martin GT4 race followed by a slightly less protracted 45-

minute Heritage GT contest that conditions for the race compared was equally mind numbing. The with those in qualifying it was Ferraris were summoned to the surprising that the Clerk of the collection area at around 5.45pm and immediately dark clouds rolled in and rain started to fall. All the cars were on slicks and the drivers looked up to the heavens with increasing desperation as the rain became heavier. Their dilemma wasn’t There was an interesting battle of the V12s. Brooks helped by a (456GT) leads the 550 Maranello of Unsworth. marshal who came round to tell each of them “Don’t worry, Course didn’t see fit to order an the track is dry.” additional green flag lap (“I was The cars were released onto under pressure to get the race the track at the started to make sure we finished advertised before the 6.30 curfew,” he 6.00pm but by explained afterwards to your then the rain scribe). was becoming For those who subsequently increasingly had major problems one could heavy. Despite easily say they were the victims the unfriendly of circumstance. And of course, weather it was the sudden rain was the main a pleasant culprit. surprise to see The thirteen cars lined up for just how many their standing start, the lights spectators had went out, and then disaster. stayed to brave Wayne Marrs, on the front row, the elements to stalled, and those behind, on the watch what left-hand side of the grid, were promised to be immediately in trouble. Dwane a fascinating and Shirley managed to move race. round the 360GTC but then In view Jenkins, on row 4, only saw the An intelligent switch to wet weather tyres enabled of the quite stationary car at the very last Paul Bailey to achieve a podium finish in his 430. different track moment and just avoided

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Some things don’t always work out as planned. Johnston (13) manages to find a way past leader Dwane at the entry to Knickerbrook but then, 100 metres further on, gets on the power a touch too early and spins off.

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Druids claimed the F355 of Vance Kearney on lap 2. Happily the driver was unharmed but the car wasn’t quite so fortunate.

snapping into a 360º spin and hitting the barriers with some force. Afterwards he explained that some of the Armco uprights had fractured and the shape of the twisted barriers replicated perfectly the profile of his 355!

Lap 3 saw Shirley in the glorious position of being third overall – probably something he had never even dreamed of when he was travelling down to Oulton from the Highlands of Scotland.

But all this time, the two cars on wets were making progress through the field. The

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contact. But behind Jenkins, the luckless Ben Cartwright was completely unsighted and was unable to avoid hitting the 360 an almighty thump. Both Marrs and Cartwright were sent to the medical centre for whiplash checks but happily were pronounced okay albeit with very sore necks.

The race was immediately aborted and the field slowly returned to the start area for a resumption. During the short time taken to remove the damaged cars, Hartley and Bailey wisely took the opportunity to pull into the pit lane and change to wets. Their 430s are equipped with air jacks, which helped speed the process.

The restart was clean this time and it was Dwane who took the initiative hotly pursued by Johnston, both driving their slick shod Ferraris circumspectly on the treacherous track. Hartley and Bailey, starting from the pit lane, brought up the rear.

For the first two laps Dwane kept the lead, with Johnston, in the matt black 430, looking for an opportunity to get past. He managed to do this on lap 3 at the entry to Knickerbrook but then applied a thought too much power on the way out and spun.

Behind these two leaders came the three F355s of Jenkins, Kearney and Shirley. Jenkins spun on lap 2 but continued and on the same lap Kearney came to grief at the exit to Druids, his car

question was, would there be enough time for them to get to grips with the valiant Dwane, who was driving a superlative race in really tricky conditions.

By lap 5, Hartley had closed to within four seconds of the leader, with Bailey now in third just ahead of Shirley. The battle for class S was going Unsworth’s way. He had pulled out a 24 second advantage over Brooks’s 456 and one lap later the latter was brought in to retire.

On lap 6, Hartley put his superior traction to good use and breezed past Dwane to take the lead. Also on that lap, Shirley and Johnston, who were almost tripping over one another in 4th and 5th spots, came into Druids together and both ended up in the gravel. Shirley managed to coax his 355 back onto the track but Johnston’s 430 was immovably beached.

From then on, with the rain easing slightly, the eight survivors played out the final laps. Hartley throttled back to make sure he reached the end intact, Bailey realised he was unable to close on Dwane’s 360, some 20 seconds ahead, and settled for third place. Jenkins

Mick Dwane drove his 360 Challenge superbly on unsuitable slicks to finish in second place overall and take a class win.

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The overall winner, Ian Hartley, gives a victory salute after a professional drive in the tricky conditions.

was, no doubt, grateful that Shirley, with his excursion into the gravel, had handed him victory in C1 on a plate.

The chequered flag came out just one minute before the 6.30pm curfew and the three to

cross the line first took their places on the podium. The overall victor and C3 class winner, Ian Hartley, took victory by a margin of 12 seconds from C2 winner, Mick Dwane. Nigel Jenkins, 4th overall, won C1 by

some 15 seconds from Gavin Shirley. The class winners who weren’t applauded on the podium will receive their trophies by post at a later date.

PIRELLI FERRARI OPEN– Round 9 OULTON PARK INTERNATIONAL 21st August 2010 Pos

No

Driver

Tipo

Class

Laps

Time

Best Lap

Qualify

Pos

1

17 Ian Hartley

F430/Ch

C3

9

19:41.323

2:03.390

1:45.932

1

2

77 Mick Dwane

F360/Ch

C2

9

19:53.495

2:10.368

1:49.777

4

3

28 Paul Bailey

F430/Ch

C3

9

20:15.066

2:09.906

1:52.882

5

4

54 Nigel Jenkins

F355/Ch

C1

9

20:36.314

2:11.856

1:56.628

8

5

9 Gavin Shirley

F355/Ch

C1

9

20:51.919

2:11.983

1:55.914

6

6

65 Craig Milner

F355/Ch

C1

9

21:47.874

2:22.981

1:56.868

9

7

21 Sean Winder

360/Ch

C2

9

21:55.605

2:24.285

1:57.924

11

8

26 Paul Unsworth

550 Maranello

S

8

20:10.938

2:26.871

1:58.617

12

DNF

13 Derek Johnston

F430/Ch

C3

6

13:38.495

2:10.105

1:46.902

3

DNF

22 Paul Brooks

456GT

S

4

10:24.021

2:32.716

2:01.657

13

F355/Ch

C1

1

2:20.515

1:56.048

7

DNF

8 Vance Kearney

NS

60 Wayne Marrs

F360GTC

C3

1:46.058

2

NS

72 Ben Cartwright

F355/Ch

C1

1:57.051

10

Fastest Laps:

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Ian Hartley

C3

2:03.390 (78.54 mph)

Establishes lap record

Mick Dwane

C2

2:10.368 (74.33 mph)

Establishes lap record

Nigel Jenkins

C1

2:11.856 (73.49 mph)

Establishes lap record

Paul Unsworth

S

2:26.871 (65.98 mph)

Establishes lap record

M

ORE THAN ANY OTHER UK circuit, Castle Combe has arguably the longest and closest association with Ferrari racing writes JOHN SWIFT. We have been competing at this Wiltshire track for more years than you could shake a stick at. The spectators love our cars, the marshals enjoy our company, and the circuit’s owner, Howard Strawford, always finds time to come along to present the Ferrari trophies.

By tradition, we race at ‘Combe on August Bank Holiday Monday and this year was no different. A huge crowd estimated at 10,000 converged on the circuit to enjoy an interesting menu of races with the Pirelli Ferrari formula classic getting top billing in a 15-lap race in the middle of the afternoon.

And to match the occasion, we Danish pastries served in the produced a splendid field of 26 morning, an excellent cold lunch cars – the highest so far this (in two sittings), and tea and season. cakes in the afternoon.

The weather gods smiled on Combined with the unrivalled us as well – I can’t remember the spectator view from the top floor last rainy meeting here, although of the Centre, it was a formula there must have been one or two that clearly appealed. The over the years – and all was set numbers we catered for were fair for a superb event.

Again, as traditional, we had hired the Strawford Centre and arranged hospitality for not only competitors but also members of the Club who cared to come along. The catering was Richard Allen (328GTB) ahead of John Swift first rate, with (308GTB) and Richard Fenny (308GT4). coffee and

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Lap 1 and Ben Cartwright (Gp3 328GTB) takes an immediate lead over Gary Culver’s Gp4 car with David Tomlin and Chris Butler handily placed behind.

the Strawford Centre, space was tight especially as the big transporters from the likes of FF Corse and M Tech mop up a lot of the available area. However, most of our cars were shoehorned into the designated plot.

Most of the Classic runners we had seen before at earlier races. However, one newcomer was Jon Goodwin’s son, David, who had been entrusted with his father’s Mondial t. David had raced with us previously (he

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around 90, a record for Castle Combe.

Managing this level of hospitality does not happen by magic and we are very grateful to those who so expertly assisted Anne on the day: Alan Tiplady, Simon Cooke and Derek Seymour. What would we do without them!

Castle Combe isn’t blessed with a large paddock and although the Ferraris were allocated a plum spot adjacent to

Nick Whittaker was in storming form in his stripey 308GT4.

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learned his craft at the wheel of a Ginetta) but then as David Goodwin. Just to confuse us, he has now changed his surname to Goodwin-Hughes but this didn’t seem to affect his latent speed in any way.

We also had one ‘new’ car.

That arch Ferrari enthusiast, David Hathaway, has added a 308GT4 to his collection of race cars and was a welcome returnee to the Classic series. The car looked very smart in definitive rosso corsa but detailing it for competition had only been completed the day before the event. Indeed, David had only driven the car a short distance up the road from his home.

Qualifying commenced at around 10.30, with the sun shining down from a cloudless sky. Track conditions were perfect and we expected some quick times. The session had only just begun when the yellow flags at Quarry corner signalled the first casualty. Hathaway’s new steed had developed some serious bottom end maladies and had blown up in a terminal fashion. In so doing it had dropped a fair lashing of oil at the corner before Hathers was able to bring it to heel on the grass

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Pauline Goodwin simply flew in her 328, being rewarded with the Hackwood Group Driver of the Day award for her efforts.

High speed arm wrestling by David Goodwin-Hughes (driving his father’s Mondial t) and Peter Fisk (328GTB).

Reeder brothers who just happened to have a brand new pair of overalls with them.

Perhaps the most significant feature of qualifying was the problems encountered by Jim Cartwright, a potential front runner in his Gp4 328GTB. The week before, at Oulton Park, the car had developed a misfire which caused his retirement.

However the engine subsequently ran perfectly and it appeared to have been a just a strange glitch which had self healed. Here at ‘Combe the problem returned and the engine kept cutting out without warning. As a result Jim seemed to be parked up at some different bit of grass verge whenever we passed him on the circuit.

Gp2 308GTB was featured on the cover of the programme, holds the outright Classic lap record in 1:20.291. The qualifying timesheets showed that Gary Culver (Gp4 328) had got well below this with a blistering 1:18.197. Second fastest, and only a second slower, was Ben Cartwright with his Gp3 car.

Then came David Tomlin, Nigel Jenkins and Nick Taylor, all on low 1:20s.

Leading the Group 2 machinery was William Jenkins with the Gulf Oil liveried 308GTB run by QV Motors (1:22.441).

Nick Whittaker (308GT4) was the Gp1 pace setter with a useful 1:27.056.

There was lots to do and see before the 15 lap race scheduled for 3.15pm. Apart from the important matter of lunch there was a general briefing by the Clerk of the Course at midday.

We had arranged for a special

pronounced front end tramp when full braking force was applied. The reason wasn’t obvious and the only immediate remedy was to simply brake much earlier than usual, resulting in a slower than normal lap time by a couple of seconds.

Chris Compton Goddard, a photograph Sweet revenge! Chris Butler at last got the better of arch rival David Tomlin to take 4th overall. of whose

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Your reporter’s 308GTB had developed a brake problem, a

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infield.

Another oil dropper was Pauline Goodwin. Although she was accompanied at the track by her faithful preparers, Nick and Nigel from R&D Automotive, she had thought it necessary to check the oil level on her 328GTB herself but failed to replace the filler cap properly. The leakage was a minor hazard at Bobbies chicane for a short time.

We noted that Gary Culver had turned up at the circuit having forgotten his race suit, an unusual thing to happen to this ultra well-organised pilot. The problem was resolved by the

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briefing for the Ferrari drivers to follow, and the Clerk told us he wanted to talk about our “Code of Contact” – a Freudian slip which raised some laughter among his audience.

There was a long delay to the afternoon’s programme of races caused by a serious accident at the start of the AMOC Intermarque race. Chris Scragg (5.3 litre Aston) was the unfortunate driver who hit the barriers very heavily in trying to avoid another Aston that spun, the driver of which didn’t appear to bother to slow down for Quarry corner. Tim Mogridge, who got caught up in the incident in his F355/Ch, was extremely lucky to emerge unscathed. It took some time to remove Scragg’s car from the barriers – it had landed on top of them – and almost 4.00pm before the Classic Ferraris were able to take to the track. As a result of the delay the Ferrari race was shortened to 12 laps instead of the planned 15.

The Ferraris finally assembled on the grid just before 4 o’clock. As we have said before, the way the cars are gridded at Castle Combe leaves a lot to be desired. The rows are far too close and the distance side to side is too small. We have discussed this with the circuit, they have promised to look into it, but nothing is ever done. The problem is that when a car is slow to get away, those immediately behind have no option but to jam on their brakes.

There is simply insufficient space to manoeuvre round a recalcitrant car ahead.

As the cars lined up on the dummy grid before taking to the track we noticed a large horse blanket being removed from Nick Cartwright’s 328 boot – no doubt an oversight after keeping his prancing horse at the correct temperature for the race.

On the installation lap, Jim Cartwright’s 328’s engine stuttered to a halt at Camp Corner, fired up again, and then Jim proceeded to the start area at the very back of the field, from where he was obliged to start.

From top: Peter Everingham keeps William Jenkins and Richard Moseley at bay; Nigel Jenkins brought his Gp4 328GTB into 3rd place overall; Nick Taylor spun into the barriers at Bobbies chicane; Richard Squire ahead of Peter Moseley and Ray Ferguson.

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was Taylor, Butler, GoodwinHughes and William Jenkins in a tightly knit group. Bringing up the rear, after a terrible opening lap, were your reporter and William Moorwood.

For seven laps Ben kept the harrying Gp4 car of Culver at bay, although the gap was rarely more than a car’s length or two.

Jenkins’s third place seemed secure as he was lapping half a second quicker than 4th place man Tomlin, who in turn was under siege from Taylor and Butler. Some distance (20 seconds) behind this leading sextet, there was a very close contest featuring GoodwinHughes, Fisk, William Jenkins and Everingham. The action at the back saw Swift picking up a

behind the Moseley 308, Hart was suffering clutch slip with his Mondial.

By the last lap, Butler had caught up with Tomlin and, as they raced towards Tower corner, came up behind Swift on the preceding straight. The latter moved to the right to give the pair plenty of space to get Losing his grip. This was all that through unimpeded, Butler saw was left of Martin Hart’s Mondial the opportunity and shot through clutch after the race. to take 4th place. The So, when the lights went out unfortunate Tomlin must have and the field surged forward, misread the situation, kept there were some who made a doggedly to the right, and was good start – like your scribe – therefore baulked. All three and then had to brake heavily to drivers subsequently missed out avoid the rows in front. Do this the first section of Boobies and with a 308 which, although it has ploughed through the grass at a fair amount of power, isn’t too undiminished speed. Fisk also strong in the torque department, had his moments on that final lap, spinning away his well earned 6th place down to 11th overall.

Then came the chequered flag to greet Gary Culver, once again the victor, with Ben Cartwright – having eased slightly on the final lap – 3.5 seconds adrift.

These were the winners of Groups 4 and 3 respectively. William Jenkins brought his 308GTB home just half a second ahead of Richard Moseley to take victory in Group 2 while Nick Whittaker, after a super To the winners, the spoils. Howard Strawford, Castle Combe’s owner, presents drive in his ever quicker the top trophies to Ben Cartwright, on the left, who was second overall and the GT4, finished on the tail winner of Group 3, and to the winner overall, Gary Culver. of local man Ray and you tend to lose momentum. couple of places to go ahead of Ferguson’s Mondial to collect When the pack arrived at Fenny and Neal.

Group 1 honours.

Quarry there were the usual lockCulver found a way past Ben Pauline Goodwin had a ups and tyre smoke but everyone C on lap 8 although the latter tremendous race in her 328GTB, managed to get through without was not beaten yet: the lap times finishing just behind Nick contact. The unfortunate Jim of the leaders were not only Cartwright’s Gp4 328. In Cartwright failed to get beyond sensationally quick but almost recognition, she was awarded the the chicane that follows before a identical.

Hackwood Group Classic Driver of recurrence of the electrical With two laps to go, Taylor the Day award. gremlin. He parked his Ferrari on spun at the exit to Bobbies The boss of Castle Combe, the grass at Old Paddock Bend chicane, his Mondial clipping the Howard Strawford, came along to and was a spectator for the rest kerb and then pitching backwards the Strawford Centre while tea of the race. into the barriers. The rear end of was being served to present At the end of the first lap it the car was looked a trifle second trophies to the first three Ferrari was Ben Cartwright in the lead of -hand and Nick was obliged to drivers home. All the other class the big field, just half a second retire, promoting Richard Moseley awards will be sent to the ahead of Culver. In third, Nigel up one place and now in winners by post as soon as Jenkins had a three second contention with Jenkins W for available. advantage over Tomlin. Then it Group 2 honours. Immediately

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PIRELLI FERRARI formula classic – ROUND 10 CASTLE COMBE 30th August 2010 Pos

No

Driver

Tipo

Group

Laps

Time

Best Lap

Qualify

Pos

1

34 Gary Culver

328GTB

4

12

16:03.929

1:18.953

1:18.197

1

2

72 Ben Cartwright

328GTB

3

12

16:07.355

1:19.015

1:19.222

2

3

54 Nigel Jenkins

328GTB

4

12

16:14.608

1:20.140

1:20.293

4

4

5 Chris Butler

328GTB

3

12

16:21.989

1:20.062

1:20.423

6

5

6 David Tomlin

328GTB

3

12

16:26.965

1:20.596

1:20.041

3

6

18 David Goodwin-Hughes

Mondial t

3

12

16:53.992

1:22.516

1:23.890

13

7

12 Peter Everingham

328GTB

3

12

16:59.691

1:22.446

1:22.164

11

8

38 William Jenkins

308GTB

2

12

17:00.085

1:22.689

1:22.441

12

9

16 Richard Moseley

308GTB

2

12

17:00.569

1:22.075

1:25.132

17

10

31 Martin Hart

Mondial t

3

12

17:04.341

1:21.636

1:21.863

9

11

30 Pete Fisk

328GTB

3

12

17:08.863

1:22.725

1:21.572

8

12

60 Wayne Marrs

328GTB

4

12

17:15.252

1:21.970

1:22.074

10

13

45 Richard Allen

328GTB

3

12

17:15.674

1:24.515

1:24.877

16

14

15 Peter Moseley

328GTB

3

12

17:17.560

1:23.549

1:25.286

19

15

35 Richard Squire

328GTB

3

12

17:19.527

1:23.986

1:24.230

15

16

3 Nick Cartwright

328GTB

4

11

16:05.302

1:25.576

1:24.036

14

17

33 Pauline Goodwin

328GTB

3

11

16:06.948

1:24.662

1:26.412

20

18

7 Ray Ferguson

Mondial t

3

11

16:08.210

1:24.579

1:25.193

18

19

48 Nick Whittaker

308GT4

1

11

16:08.785

1:25.041

1:27.056

22

20

11 John Swift

308GTB

2

11

16:25.689

1:26.524

1:26.947

21

21

25 Richard Fenny

308GT4

2

11

16:26.464

1:26.373

1:28.676

24

22

47 Geoff Neal

328GTB

3

11

16:35.513

1:27.886

1:28.524

23

23

29 William Moorwood

308GT4

1

11

17:04.126

1:30.570

1:30.177

25

DNF

57 Nick Taylor

Mondial t

4

10

14:27.575

1:20.636

1:20.312

5

DNF

69 James Cartwright

328GTB

4

0

NS

4 David Hathaway

308GT4

1

Fastest Laps:

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Gary Culver

Group 4

1:18.953 (84.35 mph) lap record

Ben Cartwright

Group 3

1:19.015 (84.28 mph) lap record

Richard Moseley

Group 2

1:22 075 (81.14 mph)

Nick Whittaker

Group 1

1:25.041 (78.13 mph) establishes lap record

1:20.730

7

1:33.682

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ROUND 10: CASTLE COMBE 30th AUGUST 2010

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OR THE FIRST TIME at Castle Combe, our Pirelli Ferrari Open series was invited to take part in the Bank Holiday meeting on 31st August writes JOHN SWIFT. Hitherto, any non-Classic Ferrari drivers had to race in the AMOC Intermarque event, on treaded tyres. However, with the revamping of PFO this season, we were able to promise Castle Combe Racing a viable number of our quickest cars.

The agreed arrangement was to include Porsches and Aston Martins in a short 10 lap race labelled ‘CCRC Sportscar Challenge’. We felt this title, in view of the invited content, was rather ambiguous so we persuaded Castle Combe to rename it more descriptively the ‘Trimarque Challenge’. At the same time we agreed to increase the duration to 12 laps.

There was a an excellent Scragg withdrew prior to the entry of 26 cars listed in the qualifying session. programme for this race although We were able to welcome on the day this reduced to 20, of some newly registered Ferrari which 7 were Porsches and 13 drivers to the series. Nima Ferrari. There should have been Khandan-Nia drives a very hot more Ferraris but some drivers 430GT3 which is run by MTech were forced to withdraw. Wayne Motorsport, under the guidance Marrs and Robert Macfarlane of Mike Topp for this race. incurred unfortunate damage to Thomas Boettcher, whose car their 360s at Oulton Park the was brought to the circuit by our previous weekend; Mario Ferrari old pal, Nigel Chiltern-Hunt had similarly had an accident at a (Thomas’s 430 Challenge is non-Ferrari race at Knockhill, and Ray Ferguson realistically reckoned his Classic series Mondial was a bit short of steam in this company after taking part in qualifying.

Being the only Aston Martin In the absence of his 360, David Hathaway entered, Chris wheeled out his trusty F355 Challenge.

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Ferrari win Trimarque Challenge

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domiciled at Nigel’s premises) was having his first outing, as were Gary Eastwood (430 Challenge) and Keith Godber in a 360 Challenge, two of three Ferraris being run at the event by FF Corse. Hardly a newcomer, we were pleased that Tim Mogridge has rejoined our ranks with the F355 Challenge he enjoys racing so much.

The Ferrari line-up consisted of three Class ‘S’ cars: the 456GT of Paul Brooks and 550 Maranello of Paul Unsworth together with the reclassified 430GT3 of Nima Khandan-Nia. In C1, for F355s, we had four cars: Mike and Graham Reeder, Mogridge and David Hathaway, whose 360 Challenge is not yet race-ready after its misadventure at Zolder.

Class C2 attracted a couple of 360 Challenge machines: the fast car of Mick Dwane together with newcomer Godber. In C3 were three drivers: Gary Eastwood, Mark McAllister and the previously mentioned Thomas Boettcher, all in 430 Challenge.

Adding to the field was Peter Fisk in his Gp3 328GTB from our Classic series.

The 15-minute qualifying session began spot on time at 11.20am under a cloudless sunny sky, warm temperatures, and near perfect track conditions.

The only Ferrari to have trouble was the F355 of Mike Reeder. To try to reduce the exhaust noise, always an issue at Castle Combe, the rear silencer had been stuffed with additional muffling material.

This caught fire out on the circuit and Mike, having been alerted by the marshals’ flags, had to stop to have his car doused by fire extinguishers.

From top: There was a close battle between the silver dream machines of Keith Godber (360/ Ch) and Paul Unsworth (550 Maranello); Tim Mogridge (F355) leads Thomas Boettcher (F430/Ch); Paul Brooks (450GT) and Mike Reeder (F355) were evenly matched; Mark McAllister was the third Ferrari home in his pristine F430 Challenge.

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mistake was easily rectified and some of our Open drivers breathed a sigh of relief.

There was a delay to the afternoon’s programme of racing caused by an accident in the Intermarque race, leading to a shortening Just for fun! With no real hope of success Peter Fisk entered his Classic series 328GTB. And he didn’t of our PFfc exactly hang around! event but by 5.30, when the Trimarque race and Mogridge fighting it out for was due to start, sufficient time Class C1 honours. had been caught up to allow the Mike Reeder, who had race to run its full 12 laps. qualified poorly due to his rearThe weather was still perfect end fire, had it all to do but was as the pace car pulled into the pit making progress through the field lane and the first three cars and just ahead of Unsworth’s 550 started faultlessly when the at this stage. gantry lights went out. However, The order at the front a 4th placed Porsche failed to remained unchanged for the rest keep up and, as one feared, of the contest. This suggests a compromised all those behind monotonous race but it was who obviously are not permitted anything but boring. Eastwood to pass a dithering car until the gave Khandan-Nia no respite race officially begins. whatsoever, and was always At the end of the first lap, within a half a second or so of the Khanddan-Kia was in the lead but leader, with the third placed had Eastwood almost attached to Porsche GT3 ready to pounce if his rear wing. Then it was a given the chance. couple of Porsches, with Dwane overcame the McAllister in a solid 5th ahead of Porsche 993 GT2 of Chilton to yet another German car. Then it take 6th overall and Graham was Dwane with Graham Reeder Reeder continued unopposed to lead C1 from Mogridge and brother Mike, who had got the better of David Hathaway. Paul Brooks was going great gun in the 456GT, even keeping ahead newcomer Godber in his 360 Challenge.

An interesting scrap had developed between the F355 of Mogridge and the 430 Challenge of Boettcher. Despite the differing potential speeds of their cars, the pair’s lap times were virtually identical and they spent the whole of the race almost tied together in a blur of Ferrari red.

At the back of the field, Peter Fisk, despite his Classic car being obviously outclassed in this Castle Combe specialist Graham Reeder was the winner of Class C1. company, seemed to be enjoying

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Mike’s misadventure was a little worrying because earlier in the day Wayne Marrs’s similar car, also prepared by Reeders, had also caught fire, no doubt due to the same flammable material being used to counter the noise problem. Happily, both cars were cleaned to get rid of the aggressive extinguishent and were ready for action for their respective races.

Looking at the qualifying times, Khandan-Nia had claimed pole position with 1:09.596, less than a second in front of Eastwood’s 430 Challenge.

McAllister wasn’t far behind, his time of 1:11.487 getting him onto the third row of the grid behind a pair of outlandish looking Porsches – a 911SC and a heavily perforated GT3. The fastest C2 car was Mick Dwane (1:13.414), just ahead of Graham Reeder’s F355 in 1:14.463. Brooks was the fastest S car (ignoring the pole setter), his 456GT being on 1:17.792.

There was some confusion early in the day about the starting procedure for this Trimarque Challenge race. A week before the event I had agreed with Castle Combe to change to a rolling start and backed this up with written confirmation. Despite this, a newly appointed Competition Director had misunderstood and thought we wanted to change the system for the Classic race. The

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himself. The angle of his 328GTB in the corners demonstrated just how hard he was trying.

When the chequered flag signalled the end, Nima KhandanNia crossed the line a mere half a second ahead of Gary Eastwood after a thoroughly entertaining and sporting race. Mark McAllister was the third Ferrari home. Taking a class C2 second place. Graham Reeder had had a lonely race but comprehensively won Class C1 by some 13 seconds from Tim Mogridge.

It was edge of the seat stuff right to the end, with Gary Eastwood (F430 Challenge) never more than a couple of cars’ lengths behind the overall race winner, Nima Khandan-Nia, in his extremely potent F430 GT3.

Trimarque Challenge incorporating PIRELLI FERRARI OPEN Round 10 CASTLE COMBE 30th AUGUST 2010 Pos 1 2 3

No

Driver

28 Nima Khandan-Nia 1 Gary Eastwood 47 Mike Johnson

Tipo

Class

Laps

F430GT3

S

12

14:10.629

Time

Best Lap 1:09.715

Qualify 1:09.596

Pos 1

F430/Ch

C3

12

14:11.236

1:08.885

1:10.369

2

Porsche 911 SC

P

12

14:11.549

1:09.796

1:10.940

4

4

2 Stephen Ritchie

Porsche GT3

P

12

14:21.808

1:10.300

1:10.710

3

5

3 Mark McAllister

F430/Ch

C3

12

14:22.729

1:10.545

1:11.487

5

6

77 Mick Dwane

360/Ch

C2

12

14:50.172

1:12.292

1:13.414

7

7

79 Mark Chilton

Porsche 993 GT2

P

12

14:58.575

1:12.953

1:12.961

6

8

23 Graham Reeder

F355/Ch

C1

11

14:15.876

1:16.354

1:14.463

8

9

70 Tim Mogridge

F355/Ch

C1

11

14:28.341

1:16.972

1:16.443

9

F430/Ch

10

4 Thomas Boettcher

11

9 David Whelan

12

40 David Fissenden

13

5 Mike Reeder

14

22 Paul Brooks

15

19 David Hathaway

16

92 Adrian Clark

17

10 Richard Ellis

18

55 Keith Godber

19

26 Paul Unsworth

20

30 Peter Fisk

NS

C3

11

14:28.941

1:16.405

1:16.816

10

Porsche 993 RS

P

11

14:29.787

1:16.135

1:17.812

13

Porsche 911

P

11

14:32.900

1:15.838

1:17.667

11

F355/Ch

C1

11

14:41.870

1:17.899

1:21.793

19

456GT

S

11

14:48.733

1:18.125

1:17.792

12

F355/Ch

C1

11

14:50.614

1:18.027

1:18.410

15

Porsche 928 GTS

P

11

14:51.322

1:17.187

1:18.875

16

Porsche 993 C2

7 Ray Ferguson

Ferrrari Fastest Laps:

Porsche Fastest Lap

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P

11

14:52.528

1:17.689

1:20.107

17

360/Ch

C2

11

14:57.692

1:18.491

1:18.066

14

550 Maranello

S

11

14:59.241

1:18.704

1:20.108

18

328GTB

Gp 3

10

14:16.579

1:22.905

1:22.581

20

Ferrari Mondial t

Gp 3

1:24.197

21

Gary Eastwood

C3

1:08.885 (96.66 mph)

Nima Khandan-Nia

S

1:09.715 (mph)

Mick Dwane

C2

1:12.292 (mph)

Graham Reeder Mike Johnson

C1

1:16.354 (mph) 1:09.796 (mph)

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