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ISSUE 090 NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2013
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FERRARICOMPETITIONRESULTS MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE! From all of us at CompRes Towers we wish all our readers a sparkling Christmas and the raciest New Year possible.
Christmas wouldn’t be the same without our Miss Tonks in party mood. Here she is, on the right, whooping it up with her friend Geraldina. Cheers!
We can look back on the 2013 Ferrari competition season as one of great success. Numbers enjoying our hillclimb championship have continued at a very strong level and once again the destiny of the champion’s crown has been on a knife edge almost to the finish. The Classic race series has also enjoyed some really memorable racing and, despite some early misgivings about the choice of tyre, we have seen very close and exciting competition. Similarly, the Open series has produced racing of the very highest order and our drivers can be very proud of what they have achieved.
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All of this has been accomplished in the best sporting tradition and in the safest possible way. We reckon that over 400 drivers have taken part in competition with their Ferraris in the years we have been involved, a number that dwarfs those from any other Ferrari club in the world. Long lasting friendships have resulted from all this high-speed action on the track, and Anne and I are delighted to be able to continue to contribute to the Club’s unique success. As always we hope that everyone who has enjoyed their racing and hillclimbing in 2013 will be planning on coming back for more next year. Plans are already in place for a similarly busy season with a few new ideas to keep things interestingly fresh. And to all those who have helped us along the way, whether with sponsorship, photography, contributions to this mag, or simply help whenever we have needed it, we say a very grateful ‘thank you’.
THE 2014 CALENDAR The dates for next season’s competition are virtually all in place but, as always, we must label them ‘provisional’. Bernie can always make late changes to the F1 calendar and inevitably this filters down the food chain to club events. The regulations for the circuit racing are printed and ready to be issued, but before we can do this we need the necessary formal approval and certification from the MSA. These days our controlling body seems to work at a slower tempo than we would like so as usual we have to wait until they have shuffled all the papers before we
can send out the registration packs to competitors. So, with that proviso regarding ‘provisional’, here are the 2014 dates. Please note that the overseas Zandvoort event is not an official race meeting within our Classic and Open programme. Whilst the races will be exclusively Ferrari they are not so-called rounds of our two race series but by invitation of the Dutch organising club. We hope you get the idea! The other point to note is that the race meeting at Silverstone in September is organised by Ferrari SpA and is the prestigious ‘Ferrari Racing Days’ event. As in 2012, when we produced a grid of no fewer than 32 Pirelli Ferrari Open cars, we are honoured to have been invited to organise two PFO races on the full GP circuit.
2014 PIRELLI FERRARI formula classic May 03/04
Brands Hatch (D/H)
May 31/June 01
Donington Park (D/H)
June 07/09
Zandvoort (D/H) see note.
June 21/22
Silverstone GP (D/H)
July 18/20
SpaFrancorchamps (D/H)
August 16/17 Thruxton (D/H) August 25
Castle Combe
September 27 Oulton Park (D/H)
2014 PIRELLI FERRARI OPEN May 03/04
Brands Hatch (D/H)
May 31/June 01
Donington Park (D/H)
June 07/09
Zandvoort (D/H)
June 21/22
Silverstone GP (D/H)
July 18/20
SpaFrancorchamps (D/H)
August 25
Castle Combe
September 12/14
Silverstone GP (D/H)
THE 2013 RACERS DINNER This year’s Presentation Dinner took place at the Cotswold Water Park Hotel on Saturday, 30th November. It was a packed house with close on 100 guests who enjoyed a great evening of excellent dining in a wonderful party atmosphere. Our President, Jack Sears, and Diana were in good form with Jack doing a marathon job of presenting many of the vast collection of trophies. John Kemp represented Ferrari North Europe while our valued sponsors were in welcome attendance: Shaun Marriott and Andy Doyle from Pirelli, Anthony Cheshire
from FF Corse, Colin Sowter from Superformance, Nick Taylor of Dichtomatik, and Richard Dougal of RnR Performance Cars. Our ace photographer, Simon Cooke, put on an excellent continuous show of race images on the big screen in the dining room, and we must give our grateful thanks to Peter and Suzanne Everingham together with Club secretary Gary Dearn for their invaluable assistance with getting everything in place. We have listed all the trophy winners in the accompanying table and we again applaud them for their tremendous achievements. In addition to all these winners, Anne presented
2013 RACING AWARDS
The hillclimb Championship looks even busier than the circuit racers’ programmes although here the events are not usually double headers. Here is the plan:
2014 PIRELLI FERRARI HILLCLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP March 16
North Weald
April 21
Bouley Bay
May 10
Harewood 1
May 11
Harewood 2
May 24
Prescott
May 31/June 01
Shelsley Walsh
June 15
Blyton
June 22
Gurston Down
July 12
Loton Park 1
July 13
Loton Park 2
August 03
MIRA
August 17
Curborough
September 06
Prescott
September 21
Shelsley Walsh
October 13
Curborough
CLASS
TROPHY
WINNER
2ND
3RD
2013 PIRELLI FERRARI OPEN C1
Ivan Bishop Trophy
Paul Brooks
Tris Simpson
Tim Mogridge Lee Moulden (equal)
C2
David Hathaway Trophy
Paul Ugo
Nick Kaye
C3
FF Corse Cup
Tim Ingram Hill
Tim Summers
Simon Smeeth
C4
Graypaul Racing Trophy
Sam Smeeth
Paul Bailey
Wayne Marrs
2013 PIRELL FERRARI formula classic Gp1
Stubberfield Trophy
William Moorwood
Carl Burgar
Gp2
Stirling Cup
David Tomlin
Richard AtkinsonWilles
John Swift
Gp3
The Big Swifty
Peter Fisk
Tim Walker
Peter Everingham
Gp4
Trofeo Italia
Jim Cartwright
Wayne Marrs
Nick Cartwright
OTHER AWARDS David Preston Trophy for Preparer of the Year: Balfe Motorsport Spirit of the Series (PFfc): Tim Walker Wilkinson Trophy for Circuit Driver of the Year: Jim Cartwright
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some extra prizes to various deserving people. These included presentation boxes of a pair of Prosecco glasses together with a bottle of the correct fizz to this year’s newcomers who attended the Dinner: Carl Burgar, Simon Smeeth and Paul Ugo. Others receiving bottles of Italy’s finest Prosecco were Christian Mineeff for his work on the Club’s website, Simon Cooke for his magnificent photographic output during the year, Shaun Marriott and Andy Doyle of Pirelli, for their tireless work at the circuits, Andy Bush our indefatigable Eligibility Scrutineer, Derek Seymour for all his assistance, and Tim Mogridge, our team captain in Intermarque. Towards the end of this edition you will see a gallery of photographs taken at the Cotswold Water Park Hotel party by Simon Cooke. Finally Anne and I would like to thank everyone for the splendid gifts that were so generously presented to us. We shall enjoy immensely the case of my favourite claret, the Chateau Clarke. The arrangement of flowers was superb and we are still debating where exactly the Orient Express voucher will take us in 2014. How very nice of everybody!
DRIVER OF THE DAY In 2013, a very popular feature of our Classic series was the Driver of the Day competition, awarded at each race meeting by our friends at RnR Performance Cars. At every round, as chronicled in the race reports in CompNews, a driver was selected who was considered to have driven ‘above the call of duty’ and excelled in performance, regardless of his or her finishing position. It was clear that their opposite numbers in the Open series felt envious of the drivers
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SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL
The Prestige Estates ‘Open Driver of the Day’ award.
in Classic and made it plain that it was high time that they were similarly rewarded. Happily the problem has been solved. Thanks to the good offices of ex-Maranello Ferrari Challenge race driver Tony Jones, his company, Prestige Estates MK Limited, will be sponsoring a Driver of the Day competition next season for competitors in our Open series. A photo of their planned handsome trophy is shown. I am also delighted to announce that RnR Motorsport’s Richard Dougal has confirmed that they will be again sponsoring their Driver of the Day award for our Classic series. Good stuff. Everyone will need to sharpen their game to take the eye of the judges!
FERRARIS WANTED Recently we have had a very high level of enquiries for race Ferraris for acquisition, especially cars suitable for our Classic series. There are a number of would-be competitors who would like to purchase a 308GTB or a 328. If you have a car for sale please let us know here at CompRes and we may be able to put you in immediate touch with a buyer.
It is hand-in-pocket time we’re afraid. It is that time of year when we ask you to renew your sub for CompNews, and you will find a renewal form included with this issue. Competitors should remember that the cost of the newsletter is included with the 2014 registration fee for whichever race series or championship you intend to compete in. However, to make sure that you don’t miss any issues it is essential to renew without delay via the form; the amount can then be deducted from the appropriate registration payment later on. Last year at this time we made a resolution to get the mag out earlier by sticking to the last day of each month as the closing date for copy. Despite our best endeavours we failed miserably. In 2014 we shall renew our efforts to bring you the event reports etc in a more timely fashion and look forward to everyone’s cooperation in so doing.
AUTOSPORT INTERNATIONAL The Autosport International Racing Car show runs from 9th to 12th January at Birmingham’s NEC. Many Ferrari competitors and friends will be attending – especially on the Thursday trade day. The Pirelli stand usually provides a focal point for us and their staff, especially those divine Pirelli Girls, always make the Ferraristi very welcome. See you there!
RA’s HILLCOMMENT Hybernation Time for our favourite Ferraris as I write these notes. Snow is on the way and the dreaded gritting lorries have already been out. I hate coming across one of these on a dual carriage way as I did in Scotland recently. Do you go past it slowly or fast? Either way your paintwork will suffer. There’s loads of mud around here in Suffolk too, but we did have a couple of dry days in the last week. I have been out in the 458, the 355 and 328 briefly just to remind them what life is all about before maybe three months of inactivity.
Photo: SwiftyPix
Get Your Feet Up, contemplate next season and particularly the return to Jersey for the famed Bouley Bay event. The sun usually shines, the scenery is great, and driving a Ferrari up the hill in anger is a truly remarkable experience – it may be over in less than a minute but the excitement level is about as high as you can get. Read Andrew Holman’s “My Favourite Hill” further down the column. Jon Goodwin has already been making the hotel arrangements for us including the
Stirling Moss at the wheel of RA’s 550 Maranello some years ago at Goodwood.
ferry schedule, and the prices will, as always, be very attractive – even the Bouley entry fee is ridiculously cheap. I always look forward greatly to the Jersey trip. It’s one of the few holidays I get time for and will make sure to book early! Prescott Picnics organised by the Ferrari Owners’ Club are always a lot of fun, as those of you who took part in September will clearly recall. We have arranged a date next year, earlier than usual on July 6th, so be sure to get this in your diary. It is totally relaxed and much better value than the competition rounds we enter there.
The Island of Love. Jersey at Easter time.
Ferrari Racing Days next September 12/14 will be a re-run of the famed Guinness
World Record meet at Silverstone in 2012 – the one that just about everyone with a Ferrari turned out for. The difference will be that there will be no GWR attempt this time unless, of course, the Japanese snatch the record back. The full Corse Clienti show from Ferrari SpA will be at Silverstone in the Wing with all the displays and on track activity we expect on these occasions. Racing too with the 458 Challenge series and, better still, races for the Ferrari Owners’ Club Pirelli Ferrari Open series. Another one to make sure you have in the 2014 diary. Famous 550 is that familiar titanium specimen, P550 ROO (see pic) campaigned by Jon Goodwin in the PFHC nowadays. I was at the Club Office recently and Sandra Dent pulled this photo out of a drawer saying ‘Who is that driving your car Geoff Dark?’ The picture was taken at Goodwood in 1998 and shows Sir Stirling Moss driving, but I have no idea who the
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passenger is. Club member Clive Beecham owns the ex-Rob Walker TT-winning dark blue 250SWB that Stirling achieved so much success with. He has often organised days such as the one concerned, when Moss would take Clive’s friends and associates around Goodwood in the 250SWB, one of the circuits where this car dominated Sports and GT racing in the early sixties. Over lunch I suggested to Clive that Stirling should try a decent modern Ferrari – the 550 had not long been out at the time. This he duly did and was suitably impressed, signing the handbook too. I forgot to charge Jon for that when he bought the car! Ferrari Experience Days that’s the new posh name for our 2014 Track Days. If you have never tried one of these club days give it a whirl – they are a lot of fun socially even before you venture out on the circuit. A unique feature is the availability of experienced Club Instructors at no cost. Their mission is to get you on the right lines so as to really enjoy your day and discover your Ferrari’s amazing potential. The ethos is all about safety too, not about turning you instantly into a racing driver! Andrew Duncan many of you will know from his many appearances in the PFHC at Shelsley Walsh over the years, driving 328, F355 and 348GTC variants. Andrew, a solicitor, has always acted for the Morgan Motor Co. Recently, following the widely reported departure from the Morgan Company Board of Charles Morgan, Andrew has been appointed as their new Chairman. Sadly he has sold his most recent Ferrari, but look out for him at Shelsley and remember to doff your cap! I spoke with him today and nice to report that he still hopes to get back in a Ferrari at Shelsley one day. Francesco Balli is taking over from Matteo Torre from 1st January to head up Ferrari North Europe. Like Matteo he came from Ferrari’s Paris office, is an accountant but most importantly
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very much a car person, with huge knowledge not just of Ferrari but the whole automotive scenario. We recently met with Francesco at the Club Office and he, together with his colleagues, plans to continue the close cooperation with the FOC that we have enjoyed with FNE these last few years. Ross Brawn many of you will not know is one of our Club members. I bumped in to him a couple of days ago and said we looked forward to seeing him with one of his Ferraris in 2014 when he was not fishing. I suggested a Track Day and perhaps unsurprisingly he said no, he would prefer one of our stately home picnics. Anyway I am sure we can get him to join us at some of our events – unless of course he accepts another role within Formula One. The 458 Italia has proved to be a truly brilliant Ferrari, attracting easily the most favourable press of any new tipo I can recall. It seems hard to believe that the 458 has been in the UK market for more than three years and was launched just over four years ago. Such is the success of the car that it seems likely the production run will be long, but you can be sure the replacement model is now well advanced. It is interesting to speculate what form this will take. For Ferrari to surpass the success of the 458 Italia will be no mean achievement. Meeting worldwide legislation on emissions ensures that turbocharging will be inevitable, as will the move to smaller engine capacity. The good news as I understand it is that the V8 layout will be retained and will not be that much smaller capacity wise. Add in some sort of hybrid electricals and more than 650bhp should not be a problem plus, of course, a big leap in the torque over the outgoing car. They will need a sound symposer though! Keeping Ahead of the herd is a difficult task for manufacturers of high performance sports cars. In
earlier days production Ferrari road cars had a huge performance advantage over just about everything, the Daytona being a very good example. Nowadays there are all sorts of hugely powerful and very fast cars, some with humble badges like the recently released Nissan Nismo. This name may sound nasty but the performance figures for the Nismo are enough to seriously unsettle the engineers at Ferrari and other fine marques. The German manufacturers, even in these times of low emissions and high mpg criteria, are also still hell bent on pushing power levels to unbelievable heights. Diesels are disturbing too, and who would have believed years ago that there would be a 3-litre diesel estate car that would do 174 mph, despatch 0-60 in 4.6 seconds, and do over 50 mpg! Mind you, it probably does not sound too good! My Favourite Hill this time is by Andrew Holman. When RA asked me to pen a few words on my favourite Hillclimb I ran through them all, sprints included, as no discrimination here, and there were always pros and cons. Harewood I’ve never got to grips with, Prescott has to be a front runner and now I can drive Shelsley, in the wet anyway, I'm enjoying it much more, Doune must be a front runner, but a lack of track time there pushed it down my list. Curborough I love of course, but it may surprise people to know Bouley came out tops. I loved Bouley and the Jersey experience from the start; it’s always exciting on the boat trip, even if powered, to see how they cope with the tricky island currents. Travelling with mates makes it even better, and to have a good representation from my Anglian supporters is always the icing on this Easter mini-holiday cake. Our arrival on the island doesn’t have the impact a Ferrari convoy of that size has in other parts of Europe, they are used to
“A fast approach, a difficult braking area, the sharpest of corners with a daunting rock wall on the outside, whilst you go around a spectator crowded peninsular in the middle with everyone cheering for you to put your end out.”
seeing nice cars that venture out from their local garages. The joint car club meets we used to have at the Jersey Pearl and the runs out afterwards were tremendous; such a pity that bloke who ran it all got locked up. Being able to visit the track and drive (slowly) up this public road to embed it in your mind helps get you in the frame for the Bank Holiday Monday event. Now, I know what you’re thinking, the obvious con here is my little bump a few years ago, which funnily enough has made me even more determined to get to grips with it. Getting back to the pros of this track, it’s difficult to believe the start on the old quayside, outside the pub, it’s such a wonderful setting, especially with the sun glinting off the sea. The need to reverse into position does tax some of our drivers, but then it’s forward in turn for tyre warming, separated from the large crowd spectating by a couple of feet and a plastic barrier. Letting a suitable sized plume of smoke
drift over them is irresistible. We then get the chance to race up a road, lined with houses, walled gardens and the Spicer shed. Out of the built-up area sees the fast tree-lined straight, which isn’t really straight at all, and onto a series of hairpins, the most notable of which is Radio. A fast approach, a difficult braking area, the sharpest of corners with a daunting rock wall on the outside, whilst you go around a spectator crowded peninsular in the middle with everyone cheering for you to put your end out. There is then just one more corner with a final quick jab to the finish line to rejoin your colleagues and share experiences and times. This is all capped off by the commentary from a pair of beer fuelled wags sparking off each other, and with many years practice they now have their Ferrari jokes honed to perfection. Last time there was wet, moving to very wet, but my car was handling superbly, Mike was reporter for the day and
reminded me that ‘Practice 2 probably had the best conditions of the day – just steady rain. Andrew stormed up the hill now 3 seconds faster than his nearest rival in a 60.58 which was not only the fastest Ferrari run of the day but one of the fastest car times of the day.’ However, long experience has taught me that I can never count on Richard Prior not doing his usual trick of coming up from behind, and he did! I broke an engine mount that led to jumping out of gear off the start on the final run, but was still close enough to Prior to get the 20 points from him. Our return to the hotel saw celebrations continue for a while into the evening. What a hill! Happy Christmas time of the year again and it seems to me we have only just had the last one. May I therefore wish all CompRes readers a most enjoyable festive season and every good fortune in 2014.
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THE 2013 ASTON MARTIN OWNERS CLUB INTERMARQUE CHAMPIONSHIP
his official MSA Championship has been run by the Aston Martin Owners Club for many years and seen some famous entrants including ‘Red 5‘, a certain Mr Nigel Mansell. Over the years it has retained a similar format but the Thundersport cars of the likes of Gerry Marshall’s Aston V8, recently piloted by Anthony Reid, and the Porsche RSRs have been discouraged due to extreme speeds and costs. For those a little unfamiliar here is a brief summary of how it all works. There are 6 classes, from mildly to highly modified, across a number of age ranges with a cut-off at 1995 and this allows numerous Ferraris up to F355 Challenge, 456 and 550 Maranello. It’s primarily a team championship with the first three cars across the finish line scoring points for their respective team which include Aston, Porsche, AC, American V8, Sunbeam, Jaguar
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This season, Team Ferrari didn’t quite manage to repeat the overwhelming success achieved in 2012. However, there were lots of high spots as well as the lows. Here our team captain, TIM MOGRIDGE, tells the story. and Austin Healey. There is also an individual champion and class winners and a points multiplier is applied to each class so that, in theory at least, anyone can win. The rules are very open, perhaps the main being that all cars must run on road-legal E marked treaded tyres (although full wets are allowed). There is a minimum weight limit of 1,000kg and races are 45 minutes long with a compulsory one minute pit stop to allow for those electing for a 2-driver entry. Given the diversity of cars and speed differentials the races have rolling starts as we do in the Ferrari
Open Series. I have probably missed something out but I hope you get the basic picture. Oh, and grids are usually 30 plus. Moving to the on track action this year, Team Ferrari came to the first race with high expectations. Last year we won the team championship and Wayne Marrs was crowned overall champion. Our cars, particularly some of the F355s and the mighty 456 of Paul Brookes, had been very competitive - usually in the top 10, often on the podium and sometimes seeing the chequered flag and grabbing outright wins. Competition can be quite fearsome especially the 750 hp Sunbeam tigers of Jackie Cochrane and William Smallbridge as well as the Chris Scragg Aston V8 and a well driven (John Bussell/Pete Foster) Lightweight DB4. Of course the Aston N24 and GT4 cars have been continuously developed by both the factory and Prodrive, and are increasingly difficult to live with. And yes, before you
The AMOC rules allow full wets, for which Paul Unsworth, seen here in his 550 Maranello, was doubtless grateful.
ask, these are post-1995 cars but then AMOC makes and breaks the rules to its own advantage! However, up and down the field there is always a race to be had and, in general, driving standards are competitive but fair. In Aston Martin’s centenary year the highlight was the July 2day race meeting at Brands Hatch with the Sunday race on the full GP circuit. The weather was magnificent and grids even larger than normal. Forty-four cars lined up for the start and some of the professional drivers like Callum Lockie pushed us amateurs a little way down the grid in qualifying. Tris Simpson had a second outing in the exMark I’Anson black 355, whilst regulars like myself, Paul Unsworth, Wayne Marrs, Steven Routledge, Paul Brookes, Vance Kearney and the Squires in their 328GTB were hoping for a large points haul. Sadly it was not to be, our best result suffering a number of DNFs but it was a very memorable and exciting race with the tremendous section ‘out the back’ and ‘in the woods’ of this famous one time GP circuit. Previous rounds, at Silverstone, Oulton Park and Donington Park, had seen Wayne Marrs retain his champion’s position at the top of the table and Team Ferrari oscillating between first and third in the team standings. This year, the management of Intermarque was
after my pit stop. We still had some good results, with the Brookes/Kearney 456 being the first Italian car, in 4th position. Ted Pearson had a great race in his QV-run 328GTB and Nigel Jenkins had forgotten just how much fun it can be to stalk 911s with a wing man beside you in another F355. In the end Team Ferrari achieved 3rd place in the team championship, with Wayne coming a creditable 2nd overall. The sheer volume of Porsches, as well as the fact that those sneaky AMOC people had amalgamated all the Astons together, made it difficult for us to repeat last year’s huge success. So what does 2014 hold for Intermarque? There are a number of changes that favour our cars, which I am sure have nothing to do with the fact that I am involved in writing the rules. Tris Simpson normally likes his own class to race in and, whilst that’s not possible, the F355s will no longer be in the same class as Aston GT4. The Modsport cars,
being run by Duncan Wiltshire and his team at Motor Racing Legends, and it was a relief to have regular and speedy updates of all the results on a race by race basis, whereas previously we were left to guess until the very last race. By the time we made the trip to Norfolk for the last round of the season, Wayne was ahead by a point and we had ten Ferraris on the grid. Mathematically six people, including myself, could snatch the crown. Notwithstanding mechanical failure it was probable that the mighty Tiger would end up victorious and that Porsche Team captain Tim Mogridge in his F355 Challenge. would win the team prize. It was a cruel blow such as the Sunbeam Tigers and that Wayne suffered his second RSR Porsches, will have to make car failure in a row and Paul drastic changes to comply and Unsworth was squeezed onto the this will inevitably slow them grass at Agostini, resulting in a down. The already competitive spin which brought out the safety Ferraris will stand a better chance car and turned the race on its of recovering the championship head. Naughty boys Simpson and, based on last year’s entries, and Jenkins were penalised for will have a strong showing again. overtaking some Porsches after In fact the 328GTB attracts a the restart and I was very favourable points multiplier gobsmacked, having climbed to a and could just be the car of comfortable third place, to then choice to embark on a campaign for overall victory. be given a drive-through penalty for wheel spinning in the pit lane
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THE 2013 CHRISTMAS SWIFTY ACROSS 1 Ex-world champion stupidly ran past oil (5,5) 9 This Brazilian driver was a quiet expert (4) 10 The latest Ferrari model from a European city and French army (10) 11 A small container changed into KP nuts! (3,3) 12 A Rolls involved in a fire strangely becomes our favourite car (7) 15 Someone who tempts is carelessly rescued (7) 16 Maiden name in case of sister causes an expression of contempt (5) 17 Utter sounds like ‘twist’ (4) 18 The garages can be all mine! (4) 19 Increase the engine speed and the Spanish make merry (5) 21 In a Swiss driver from the ‘80s we find a taker of risks (7) 22 Not a day that’s damaged a V12 Ferrari (7) 24 A doctor and Bugatti initially, in a motoring club, is a parasite (6)
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If you enjoyed trying your hand with previous Christmas cryptic Swiftys you should have fun with this one. There are some great prizes for the senders of the first three correct solutions opened on the closing date of Monday, 13th January 2014. Be sure to include your name and address with your entry. Good luck!
13 Out of control lorry close to this posh limousine (5,5) 14 Bury this old Ferrari tipo (5) 15 The unknown factor in a top player might have decided his orientation (5) 19 Neutral wrongly selected in this car . . . (7)
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20 . . . And gaol by mistake for this one (7) 23 Dominate from Neath rally (6)
27 After marriage raises the flags (5,5) 28 The pipe sounds as if the head has suddenly moved downwards (4)
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25 Look, and by the sound of it, a jetty (4) CompRes, Chevy Chase, Leeds Road, SELBY, North Yorkshire YO8 4JH
26 Hide from the Rusedski nonreturnable service (4)
29 Urinal taps are out of order. Get some waterproof sheets! (10)
‘It is a bit strange at first, Miss Fitch, but I’m sure the Minister of Transport knows what he’s doing.’
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Mike and Graham Reeder Performance and Specialist Cars
Maranello Ferrari Challenge Champions 1998 and 2000 Fixed Price Servicing - Race Preparation and Track Support - Tyres Supplied and Fitted Electronic Wheel Balancing - Personal Service Guaranteed
The Garage North Newnton Pewsey Wiltshire SN9 6JU Tel 01980 630327 Fax 01980 630015 E-mail enquiries: gcreeder@aol.com
WREN CLASSICS Specialising in Aston Martin, Ferrari and other marques of distinction — from a small service to total restoration. We also provide historic single-seater and sports car race preparation, restoration and circuit support services.
Contact: Steve Farthing 01747 852899 info@wrenclassics.com www.wrenclassics.com Distinguished by Knowledge Reputation and Reassuringly Passionate about Cars Historic & Modern Race, Rally and Road Car Preparation Full Restoration & Refurbishment Service On-Event Management & Support Vehicle Storage and Maintenance Unit 5 Top Station Road Brackley Northants NN13 7UG Tel: 0844 243 7843 ian@bgmsport.com www.bgmsport.com
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