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FERRARICOMPETITIONRESULTS RICHARD ALLEN The latest news on RA’s medical progress is that he is out and about, albeit not yet quite as ‘about’ as he would like. He decided, very wisely, to withdraw his entry from Castle Combe on Bank Holiday Monday in order to make sure his necessary recuperation programme was not upset. He is, however, optimistic that he will be fit for the forthcoming big Ferrari Racing Days event at Silverstone on 12-14 September, where he is planning on sharing a 458 with our high-speed Finance Director Chris Butler. To ensure he is not sidetracked from this recovery regime we have excused him from penning his usual RA column for this issue. Hopefully, by the next edition, he will have so much to write about we shall have to staple in extra pages.
programmes, there is lots going on, and the Club together with our sponsors, Pirelli, will be there in force to ensure our members have a memorable time in their Ferraris.
LAST ROUND UP The last two rounds of the year of our Classic series are at Oulton Park, on Saturday 27 September. The races are, as usual, on the full International circuit, and the provisional timetable of Ferrari activity is as follows:
negotiation to obtain two qualifying sessions and two races for our Classic cars so it was inevitable that with all this track time to fit in, the organisers had difficulty in giving us an early finish. I would like this final event of the season to conclude on a really high note so I trust we shall have a brilliant turn-out of Classic Ferraris that we can be proud of!
COMPONENT INTEGRITY
From time to time, there have been isolated instances of cars running in our Classic series 07.30 Sign-on and experiencing failure of suspension scrutineering and/or transmission components. These failures have generally 09.10 Qualifying 1 applied to wishbones (both front and rear), stub axles, and wheel 11.00 Qualifying 2 bearings. Competitors will be well 13.30 Race 1 aware that the Ferraris running in our series are now quite elderly. 17.40 Race 2 A 328 is now coming up to 30 FERRARI RACING DAYS As you see, it will be a long years old, a 308GTB around 35 The final race meeting of the day! However, talking to some years, and a 308GT4 almost 40! 2014 season for our Open competitors it seems they are If the suspension components are competitors is the prestigious unaware that racing at Oulton the original ones, it will be Ferrari Racing Days event at Park is not permitted on a appreciated they are now very Silverstone on 12-14 September. Sunday. It took a lot of old indeed. Metal fatigue applies In the last issue we to Ferraris just the same as in published the provisional lesser cars! WHAT’S ON timetable but since that date Our Ferraris are production there have been one or two cars, not specifically designed minor amendments to it. The SEPT 6 Prescott Hillclimb for racing. The stresses on only alteration to the Ferrari these components on the track Open activity is the Friday are considerably higher than 12-14 Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit: free practice period has been Ferrari Racing Days: Pirelli would ever be realised in road reduced slightly to 55 Ferrari Open use and therefore it is minutes duration. (Double Header) necessary to take special care. Entries for the PFO races We strongly recommend that are rolling in and we hope to 21 Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb these components are checked have a grid that does credit regularly to make certain of to the Series. their integrity. It is also vital 27 Oulton Park: Pirelli Ferrari As well as the racing and that components are replaced formula classic showcasing of the factory’s routinely even if they show no (Double Header) F1 Clienti and XX apparent signs of impending
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failure. You will know that professional racing teams ‘life’ the various components on their race cars and replace these without question immediately the specified age or track hours have been reached. It is important to apply this same principle to cars running in our Classic series.
END OF SEASON DINNER
Although some way off, a reminder that our so-called Racers’ Dinner is on Saturday, 22nd November. The venue is the Ardencote Manor Hotel at
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Claverdon in Warwickshire. We have used Ardencote in the past and it has proved to be an ideal spot for this End-ofSeason event, with an indoor swimming pool, sauna, Jacuzzi and steam room, 2 gymnasiums, Spa treatment rooms, and for hardy souls even an outdoor hot tub! The hotel is situated in 83 acres of landscaped gardens and lakes, and has more than adequate secure car parking. As usual, we shall be presenting all the season’s awards and trophies during the evening. We shall be issuing full details and booking forms nearer the time but for now it may be a good idea to put the date in your diary.
BIRTHDAYS We like to keep track of our readers’ birthdays and Anne
religiously logs these each month for publication in CompRes. Inevitably we occasionally miss someone’s Big Day and we have to apologise when we learn of it. One such omission was the birthday of RAY FERGUSON, an absolutely inexcusable error for such a live wire in Club affairs. As many of you will know, Ray is a tremendously dedicated supporter of our concours events; his Ferraris are always presented in near faultless order and invariably take top honours. As well as being a Main Man in his local Area Group he is also a regular competitor in our Pirelli Ferrari formula classic series with his sonorous bright yellow Mondial t. So, Ray, we offer our profound apologies for overlooking your birthday this year which, for everybody’s information (and please make a note of it!) is on 23rd JUNE.
DONINGTON PARK 31st MAY / 1st JUNE 2014
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Master Class
T
HE SECOND RACE meeting of the season, on Saturday/Sunday 31st May/1st June, was organised by the BARC and the venue was the ever popular Donington Park writes JOHN SWIFT. The plan was two 20-minute races, one on each day, preceded by 20-minute qualifying sessions for each. A decent field of 21 Ferraris were entered although Tim Mogridge was an absentee after preparers RNR were unable to start his Gp3 328’s engine after it had swallowed a spark plug. Myles Poulton was making his debut in the series in his ex-Ted Pearson 328GTS, which incidentally had spectacularly caught fire here in 2013. Your reporter’s 308GTB was
making its first appearance of the previously campaigned year, having just emerged from exclusively by Richard; Pauline Shiltech’s workshops following a Goodwin in her ‘race’ 328GTB (as winter refresh that had taken opposed to her near identical longer than anticipated. Some ‘hillclimb’ 328GTB); and Paul initial running-in had been carried Griffin who owns that delectable out on the writer’s local town fibreglass 308GTB along with a bypass but needed to be collection of several other mouthcontinued on the track. Not watering sports/racing cars. much, therefore, was expected in the races. Other Ferrari drivers who were out for the first time this season were the Cartwrights, Nick and last year’s champion, James; the Mosleys: father Peter and son Richard, who Paul Griffin’s delectable Gp2 fibreglass 308GTB were sharing the was out of sorts all weekend. 308GTB
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From Top: Chris Compton Goddard (308GTB) leads the 328s of Darren Wilson and Nick Cartwright into the Fogarty Esses in Race 1. In the background on the grass is Carl Burgar’s stranded Mondial; Peter Everingham and Tim Walker had a close battle; Newcomer Myles Poulton locks up as he chases Pauline Goodwin; Richard Allen keeps ahead of the marauding Mondials of Didier Benaroya and Ray Ferguson.
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Saturday’s qualifying got underway on time under cloudy skies. Chris Goddard (308GTB) was first out and first off (down the Craner Curves) but continued. Didier Benaroya had a spin in his soft-top Mondial t while Rob Pulleyn made a stop at the pits. Jim Cartwright nipped into the pit lane twice for adjustments but there were no other incidents that we noted. Yours truly toured round using limited revs on the 308, hoping that the new piston rings and bearings would be reasonably bedded-in by race time. The timesheets showed that Gary Culver (1:21.136) had grabbed pole by 0.339 seconds from Jim Cartwright’s similar Gp4 328GTB, with Nigel Jenkins a whisker behind in third. Darren Wilson, in 4th overall, was leading the Gp3 contingent while the fastest Gp2 car, in 5th overall, was Goddard with 1:22.721. Carl Burgar, with his Gp1 Mondial QV, was marginally quicker than arch rival William Moorwood (308GT4). Just before teatime, at 4 o’clock, the gantry lights went out and the 20 car field surged off the line heading for Redgate corner. Pole man Culver reached there first with Jim Carty in close attendance. Jenkins made an indifferent launch, which caused some initial bunching, but soon caught up with the leaders. Immediately there were some problems. Pulleyn pulled off after one lap, his engine devoid of power due to electricity failure, while Griffin’s 308 was clearly out of sorts. Moorwood abandoned ship just after McLeans on lap 2 when his 308GT4’s cockpit filled with smoke and the engine emitted strange death rattle noises. He thought he had pulled off on the left of the track but, with being unable to see anything due to the smoke, finally realised he was actually on the infield on the right. Burgar, in the sole remaining Gp1 car, was no more fortunate: he lost a rear wheel on lap 4 when his Mondial suffered rear stub axle failure – a
The start of Sunday’s race, with pole man Gary Culver leading the field into Redgate.
worryingly common occurrence these days. Because the two Gp1 cars were in potentially unsafe positions on the circuit, the safety car came out. When racing recommenced it was noted that Tim Walker had fewer than the normal five gears on his Gp3 328GTB. But back to the racing. The cars following race leader Culver closed up during the safety car period, with J Cartwright in second ahead of Jenkins, Gp2 leader Goddard, and Wilson and Nick Cartwright. Walker, despite his gearbox maladies, seemed to have the legs of Peter Everingham, these two just ahead of a fast driving Richard Moseley. On lap 10 Jenkins took over second spot from Cartwright – his was now the quickest car on the circuit – and Wilson was looking handy in 5th, only a few car’s lengths behind Goddard. The Swift 308GTB was now on a more respectable pace – about 5 seconds faster than in qualy – and ahead of a close bunch of cars consisting of Richard Fenny, Pauline Goodwin and new man Myles Poulton. Right at the back of the field now was Benaroya, having pirouetted in his Mondial
coupé. The order remained the same to the finish, with Gary Culver taking a well deserved chequered flag just 1.4 seconds in front of Jenkins. Class winners were Wilson and Goddard. Nigel Jenkins set the fastest lap of the race, a new record for Gp4, in 1:19.964. Also in the record books was Chris Goddard’s Gp2 time, in 1:22.003. These times speak volumes for the new List 1B control tyres we are using this season.
Sunday dawned even better than the previous day, and the prospects were dry all day. Two cars, those of Moorwood and Burgar, were sadly non-runners but on a brighter note Pulleyn’s electrical problems had been solved by replacing the crankshaft sensor. Qualifying for the 18 cars started just after 10 o’clock. Peter Moseley, having taken over from Richard, complained that the 308’s front wheels were fouling the wheel arches but on
John Swift’s running-in programme for his 308GTB’s refreshed engine was accelerated by the close attentions of Richard Fenny (308GT4), Didier Benaroya and Ray Ferguson (Mondial t’s), and Myles Poulton (328).
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Nigel Jenkins (54) set a new Ferrari Classic lap record during his chase of Gary Culver in Saturday’s race.
reflection thought it would not hinder him too much. Chairman Richard Allen came in early to conserve brake pads on his Gp3 328GTB. Walker, once he got going, felt he wouldn’t miss his vanished 1st gear although things got more serious when 2nd speed selection started to be only intermittent. Nick Cartwright’s strident Gp4 328GTB suddenly started to go like the wind and his times were now within less than a second of Culver’s pole position figure. Jenkins was a solid 2nd in the pecking order, with Goddard’s 308GTB again the best of the Gp2 cars. Ray Ferguson needed a new alternator on his Mondial t while Griffin had a new coil fitted to his 308; having missed qualifying he would be obliged to start from the back of the grid. The start of Sunday’s race was quite late – almost 5pm – by which time the track had become very oily from previous races. The order from the lights was Culver, Jenkins, Goddard, and then the two Cartys (N followed by J). Griffin was very slow away and only managed a couple of laps in his sick 308. The order at the front remained constant except that the bigger engined cars were outpacing Goddard’s Gp2 car, which was 5th overall. After an
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early skirmish, Everingham’s Gp3 car was overtaken by Walker’s similar machine at around half distance. At this time Ferguson stopped, after spinning on oil (he also had a water hose problem), while one lap later Nick Cartwright pulled off at Schwantz curve. Again the culprit was oil – so alarming was the loss of adhesion that Nick thought he had lost a wheel! There were more spinners due to the dirty track, including Evers, although he continued at unabated pace. Swift and Fenny were having a great set-to
The victor’s spoils. Karen Edney presents Gary Culver with his winnings.
deciding on the Gp2 runner-up position, with less than a second separating them at the end; Poulton joined in the fun and finished in very close company. Up at the front, Jenkins had been steadfastly stalking Gary Culver, never more than 1½ to 2 seconds adrift and always a threat. However suddenly, on lap 11, the margin drifted to almost 5 seconds and it looked like Gary was home and dry. One final push by Jenkins, on the last lap, came to grief when he overcooked things into the final hairpin at the newly-named Fogarty Esses. The yellow car slid off the track and into the gravel trap, inextricably imprisoned with its driver cursing his rotten luck. One felt there was enough aggregate in the belly of the 328 to bring gleams to the eyes of the men from Ready Mixed Concrete Ltd. At the flag, the interval to the now second placed Jim Cartwright was well over half a minute. There was really no one else in the frame this time for the Outstanding Classic Driver of the Meeting, and the RnR trophy was duly presented to a delighted Gary Culver.
DONINGTON PARK ROUNDS 3 & 4 31st May / 1st June 2014 ROUND 3: Saturday 31st May Pos
No
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 DNF DNF DNF
34 54 69 44 10 3 71 12 16 45 7 11 25 33 28 14 9 56 29 15
Driver
Tipo
Gary Culver 328GTB Nigel Jenkins 328GTB Jim Cartwright 328GTB Chris Goddard 308GTB Darren Wilson 328GTB Nick Cartwright 328GTB Tim Walker 328GTB Peter Everingham 328GTB Richard Moseley 308GTB Richard Allen 328GTB Ray Ferguson Mondial t John Swift 308GTB Richard Fenny 308GT4 Pauline Goodwin 328GTB Myles Poulton 328GTS Didier Benaroya Mondial Cabriolet Paul Griffin 308GTB Carl Burgar Mondial QV Willliam Moorwood 308GT4 Robert Pulleyn 328GTB
Class Winners
Fastest Laps:
Gp4 Gary Culver Gp3 Darren Wilson Gp2 Chris Goddard
Group
Laps
Time
Best Lap
Qualify
Pos
4 4 4 2 3 4 3 3 2 3 4 2 2 3 4 3 2 1 1 3
13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 11 3 2 1
20:22.424 20:23.838 20:31.635 20:35.214 20:36.971 20:37.516 20:40.426 20:49.064 21:00.535 21:07.050 21:10.688 21:20.725 21:24.693 21:29.012 21:29.411 21:35.471 21:02.360 4:52.215 3:23.368 3:31.885
1:20.527 1:19.964 1:21.118 1:22.003 1:22.424 1:22.534 1:22.193 1:23.727 1:25.262 1:29.107 1:26.611 1:27.561 1:27.710 1:29.437 1:28.631 1:26.614 1:45.113 1:33.972 1:36.916
1:21.136 1:21.532 1:21.476 1:22.721 1:21.931 1:23.057 1:22.750 1:23.365 1:24.905 1:26.697 1:27.353 1:32.341 1:27.846 1:28.346 1:30.438 1:27.581 1:26.465 1:30.753 1:31.738 1:26.529
1 3 2 5 4 7 6 8 9 12 13 20 15 16 17 14 10 18 19 11
Nigel Jenkins Tim Walker Chris Goddard Carl Burgar
Gp 4 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gp 1
1:19.964 1:22.193 1:22.003 1:33.972
(89.09 mph) (86.68 mph) (86.88 mph) (75.81 mph)
Lap record Lap record
ROUND 4: Sunday 1st June Pos
No
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 DNF DNF DNF DNF
34 69 10 71 44 12 45 15 11 25 28 14 29 46 54 3 7 9
Driver Gary Culver Jim Cartwright Darren Wilson Tim Walker Chris Goddard Peter Everingham Richard Allen Robert Pulleyn John Swift Richard Fenny Myles Poulton Didier Benaroya Pauline Goodwin Peter Moseley Nigel Jenkins Nick Cartwright Ray Ferguson Paul Griffin
Class Winners Gp4 Gary Culver Gp3 Darren Wilson Gp2 Chris Goddard
Tipo
Group
Laps
Time
Best Lap
Qualify
Pos
328GTB 326GTB 328GTB 328GTB 308GTB 328GTB 328GTB 328GTB 308GTB 308GT4 328GTS Mondial Cabriolet 328GTB 308GTB 328GTB 328GTB Mondial t 308GTB
4 4 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 2 4 3 3 2 4 4 4 2
15 15 15 15 15 15 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 10 9 2
20:30.947 21:06.316 21:14.941 21:15.950 21:17.455 21:47.510 20:49.533 20:53.853 21:01.794 21:02.407 21:03.173 21:11.732 21:25.407 21:45.058 19:14.089 13:50.540 13:31.793 3:57.717
1:21.009 1:22.264 1:22.156 1:22.855 1:23.075 1:23.308 1:27.405 1:27.480 1:28.249 1:27.392 1:27.447 1:28.346 1:29.684 1:30.071 1:20.604 1:22.083 1:27.979
1:20.909 1:22.557 1:22.200 1:23.193 1:21.959 1:23.284 1:26.013 1:25.503 1:28.006 1:27.824 1:27.836 1:27.948 1:28.700 1:30.066 1:21.373 1:21.796 1:29.365 ---
1 6 5 7 4 8 10 9 14 11 12 13 15 17 2 3 16
Fastest Laps:
Nigel Jenkins Darren Wilson Chris Goddard
Gp 4 Gp 3 Gp 2
1:20.604 (88.39 mph) 1:22.155 (86.72 mph) 1:23.075 (85.78 mph)
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DONINGTON PARK 31st MAY / 1st JUNE 2014
T
HE DOUBLE HEADER event at Donington Park, on 31st May/1st June, attracted a mediocre entry of 12 Ferraris in a class mix of 4 Trofeo (F355 Challenge), 3 Class C2 (360 Challenge), 4 Class C4 (430 GT3 and 458 Challenge) and a solitary 308GTB in the Invitation class reports JOHN SWIFT. The 430GT3 was the Graham Reeder
car to be shared with Tony Jones while the 308 was the quick but sometimes brittle yellow machine of that Scotsman with the brilliant name, Mario Ferrari. It was a mystery to your writer that this event hadn’t brought more Open drivers along to this lovely circuit because, responding to the claimed aspirations from a number of competitors at the end of last season, we had introduced another (the first was at Brands
Mario Ferrari took his gloriously noisy 308GTB clear of all the F355 Challenge cars in Race 1 but had less good fortune in Sunday’s contest.
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Hatch) longer PFO race incorporating a compulsory pit stop and driver change if required. Few teams, as you will see, took advantage of this opportunity! The track was dry and in good order when the cars went out for their first qualifying session promptly at 10 o’clock. Reeder was driving the 430 while Bernard Hogarth had elected to do Q1 in the 458 he shares with son Marcus. Very soon there was a trio of drivers vying for pole: Wayne Marrs, John Seale and Graham Reeder. It was very close, but Seale clinched the top spot with 1:11.088, just 0.239 ahead of Marrs and just over a second faster than Reeder. The fastest C2 car was Robert Macfarlane’s 360, which pipped Paul Ugo’s similar machine by 0.7 seconds. In Trofeo, Nigel Jenkins was quickest with 1:19.412, just shading Vance Kearney by 0.2 seconds. John Shirley’s 360 Challenge was hampered by gearbox selection problems and Darren Laverty’s 355 was unable to take part when its alternator failed. The race was timed for midafternoon and what it may have lacked in numbers it more than made up for in excitement. The
field set off on the green flag lap but then we saw Marrs dive into the pits to tighten a loose wheel. He set off dead last from the pit lane in furious pursuit of the others. The leader from the lights was Seale with Reeder gamely tucked in close behind. Then it was Hogarth followed by the duelling pair of 360s – Ugo and Macfarlane in a single blur. Jenkins was leading the 355s although Kearney, a car’s length behind, was giving him no peace. By lap 4, Jenkins’s effort seemed to have burned out. It transpired that a throttle trumpet had become detached on his 355’s engine, causing all sorts of mayhem to his fuel injection system. The gallant Mario Ferrari then took his place in the gloriously noisy 308GTB with the remaining 355s in pursuit. All the while Marrs, driving with consummate skill, was making inroads into the leaders’ advantage, reeling them in at the rate of around 2 seconds a lap. On lap 10 he had caught them up, perhaps to their complete surprise because both Seale and Reeder put on a bit of a spurt with a new sense of urgency. Further back Hogarth was having his work cut out coping with Ugo’s 360, and at times there wasn’t as much as a coat of paint between them. Also having a very close race were the 355s of Simpson and Laverty although the former faded a little as the 25 minute race went on. Marrs took the lead on lap 12 but from then on Seale was attached to his bumper. The leader’s early exertions had taken its toll of the 458’s Pirellis and he was having to use everything he could think of to stay in front. But in front he stayed, and at the line it was Wayne Marrs ahead by the slender margin of 0.177 seconds with both drivers getting well earned applause from the crowd. Reeder took third place while Paul Ugo was the winner of C2. Darren Laverty and Vance Kearney completed a race of close finishes by taking the flag less than a length apart,
Top: Bernard Hogarth (458 Challenge) ahead of the warring 360 Challenge cars of Paul Ugo and Robert Macfarlane Centre: John Seale (458 Challenge) pursued by the 430 GT3 of Graham Reeder Bottom: Darren Laverty mixing it with Pat Gormley in their well matched F355 Challenge Ferraris.
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“All the while Marrs, driving with consummate skill, was making inroads into the leaders’ advantage, reeling them in at the rate of around 2 seconds a lap.”
Darren taking Trofeo honours. Looking at the lap times, Marrs set the quickest time in 1:10.840 which equates to an average speed marginally over the magic 100mph. Sunday’s mid-morning qualifying session was again dry. The field was the same as the previous day’s except that the Hogarth 458 now had Marcus at the wheel (opting to drive the race single-handed), Tony Jones had joined Reeder in the 430 GT3, and in the 355s Lee Moulden was accompanying Laverty while Pat Gormley shared Kearney’s car. Mario Ferrari felt he needed a rest after his previous day’s exertions and Jim Cartwright was offered the drive of his beloved 308GTB. The timesheets showed that Wayne Marrs had again blitzed everyone, setting a pole time of 1:09.885, although Marcus Hogarth was only 0.371 in arrears to take up the other front row position. Tony Jones (in 1:10.546) was a couple of seconds quicker than his leader had been the previous day to outpace Seale in the pecking order. Ugo and Macfarlane posted almost identical C2 lap times while the fastest 355 driver was Moulden. Jim Cartwright showed his versatility by putting the slick -shod Scottish 308 in the middle of the grid with a time of
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1:18.515. The long (45 minute) race got underway at 3pm under bright and dry conditions, although by this time the track surface was decidedly dirty. John Shirley was unable to cure his gear selection problems and withdrew, taking the grid numbers to just 11.
pits to try to rectify things. The trouble was diagnosed as either a faulty ECU in the management system or a u/s fuel pump; the car was withdrawn on lap 10. On lap 8 Hogarth had taken over 2nd from Seale and from then consolidated the position. The pit lane was opened at 15 minutes and the round of
John Seale and Marcus Hogarth had a monumental dice in their 458 Challenge cars in Race 2. Here, Seale is in the lead.
When the field was released at the rolling start, Marrs, now with fresh rubber, simply powered away into the distance with a 2 second lap time advantage over his nearest pursuers, Seale and Hogarth. All was not well with the 308GTB, and on lap 2 Jim Carty made the first of a number of visits to the
mandatory stops, with driver changes where necessary, began. During this time Seale, who delayed his stop until almost the close of the window, took over the lead. There were a couple of pit lane infringements during this time, both for failing to stop the engine; both the Kearney/
Gormley F355 and the Reeder/ Jones 430 were penalised 1 minute. On lap 22, with a second win of the weekend within his grasp, Wayne Marrs pulled off the track to retire. His 458 gearbox had blown up and there was nothing that could be done about it. It was wretched ill luck. Marcus Hogarth gratefully inherited the lead and from then on did an impressively workmanlike job of bringing the family car home to victory. In 2nd, some 25 seconds in arrears, came John Seale, with the Reeder/Jones 430 GT3 picking up third place. The battle between the 360s of Ugo and Macfarlane, which had been one of the most exciting of the race, was resolved when both cars spun near the end, but the former crossed the line some 5 seconds ahead. Nigel Jenkins made up for his disappointment in the first race by taking Trofeo class honours in the second, with the Laverty/Moulden car some distance behind in 2nd spot. The fastest class lap times were set by Hogarth in 1:10.400 (C4), Ugo 1:15.161 (C2) and Jenkins 1:19.213 (Trofeo). Following the issue of the results sheets, the prizes were presented, with the coveted Prestige Estates award for the Open Driver of the Event going to Wayne Marrs in recognition of his electrifying drive in winning Saturday’s race. Despite the low numbers, the weekend had been full of excitement, with wheel-towheel racing all the way down the field. And isn’t this is Top: Tony Jones, at the wheel of Reeder’s 430 GT3, made an impressive attack the 458 really what we all of John Seale in Race 2. Unfortunately the 430 was penalised 60 seconds for a pit lane infringement. Centre: Jim Cartwright took over the Scottish 308 for Sunday’s race but want!
the car was plagued with electronic problems. Bottom left: Paul Ugo had two class victories over the weekend. Bottom right: Mario Ferrari receives his trophy from Karen.
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DONINGTON PARK ROUNDS 3 & 4 31st May / 1st June 2014 ROUND 3: Saturday 31st May Pos
No
1
60
2
Driver
Tipo
Class
Laps
Time
Best Lap
Qualify
Pos
Wayne Marrs
458/Ch
C4
21
25:30.910
1:10.840
1:11.327
2
55
John Seale
458/Ch
C4
21
25:31.087
1:11.467
1:11.088
1
3
23
Graham Reeder
430 GT3
C4
21
25:31.820
1:11.223
1:12.464
3
4
33
Bernard Hogarth
458/Ch
C4
21
26:46.645
1:14.851
1:18.718
6
5
59
Paul Ugo
360/Ch
C2
20
25:55.297
1:15.519
1:16.186
5
6
27
Robert Macfarlane
360/Ch
C2
20
26:15.704
1:15.810
1:15.418
4
7
28
Mario Ferrari
308GTB
C Inv
19
25:38.676
1:18.539
1:20.444
10
8
66
Darren Laverty
F355/Ch
CT
19
25:46.143
1:20.153
*
12
9
8
Vance Kearney
F355/Ch
CT
19
25:46.368
1:19.690
1:19.630
8
10
46
Tris Simpson
F355/Ch
CT
19
25:51.168
1:19.571
1:19.712
9
DNF
54
Nigel Jenkins
F355/Ch
CT
15
21:26.127
1:19.528
1:19.412
7
NS
9
John Shirley
360/Ch
C2
1:22.474
11
* qualified out of session Class Winners C4 C2
Wayne Marrs Paul Ugo
CT
Darren Laverty
Fastest Laps:
Wayne Marrs Paul Ugo
C4 C2
1:10.840 100.57 mph 1:15.519 94.34 mph
Tris Simpson Mario Ferrari
CT
C Inv
1:19.571 89.53 mph 1:18.539 90.71 mph
C Inv Mario Ferrari
ROUND 4: Sunday 1st June Pos
No
1
33
2
Driver
Tipo
Class
Laps
Time
Best Lap
Qualify
Pos
Marcus Hogarth
458/Ch
C4
37
46:01.601
1:10.400
1:10.256
2
55
John Seale
458/Ch
C4
37
46:25.181
1:11.754
1:11.781
4
3
23
Reeder/Jones
430 GT3
C4
37
48:13.759
1:11.438
1:10.546
3
4
59
Paul Ugo
360/Ch
C2
36
46:05.338
1:15.161
1:15.333
5
5
27
Robert Macfarlane
360/Ch
C2
35
46:10.900
1:15.166
1:15.351
6
6
54
Nigel Jenkins
F355/Ch
CT
34
47:13.012
1:19.213
1:18.752
9
7
66
Laverty/Moulden
F355/Ch
CT
33
46:02.958
1:19.272
1:18.517
8
8
46
Tris Simpson
F355/Ch
CT
33
46:12.587
1:20.448
1:18.789
10
9
8
Vance Kearney/Gormley
F355/Ch
CT
33
47:25.119
1:19.920
1:19.363
11
DNF
60
Wayne Marrs
458/Ch
C4
21
26:26.888
1:10.655
1:09.885
1
DNF
28
Ferrari/Cartwright
308GTB
C Inv
9
27:01.752
1:17.980
1:18.515
7
NS
9
John Shirley
360/Ch
C2
1:28.703
12
Cars 8 and 23: 1 minute penalty – pit stop infringement Class Winners C4 C2
Marcus Hogarth Paul Ugo
CT
Nigel Jenkins
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Fastest Laps:
Marcus Hogarth Paul Ugo
C4 C2
1:10.400 101.20 mph 1:15.161 94.79 mph
Nigel Jenkins Jim Cartwright
CT
1:19.213 89.94 mph 1:17.980 91.36 mph
C Inv
PIRELLI FERRARI HILLCLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP: ROUND 5 PRESCOTT 24th MAY 2014
sufficient. Walking the hill was not even considered, just preparing the cars was enough – trying to keep them dry inside to prevent misting up took
Photos by Mark Buckland
concentration. No Spiders going up the hill with top down today, though pity those in the singleseaters who had no choice. A great shame really, as Jon
HIS LOVELY VENUE will be familiar to many who have attended the FOC Picnics there; Prescott, in the leafy Cotswolds, bathed in warm summer sun, picnic blankets spread round with fold-up chairs full of jolly folk enjoying sandwiches, and noises of V8s enduring a good thrashing up the hill reports MARK WIBBERLEY. Well, it was nothing like that for the hardy fools of the PFHC . . . Despite a dead cert wet day it was hard to picture this lovely spot without sunshine, but as forecast it was tipping it down when competitors arrived. Not just rain: stair rods, rain so hard and persistent that even attaching race numbers with three layers of tape didn’t look Mark Wibberley kept his 360’s hood firmly erected in the fractious weather.
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From top: Philip Whitehead took 3rd overall in his F355; Shaun Smith had another successful day, securing the Ferrari Owners’ Club Handicap award in his 328GTB; John Swift takes a tight line through the Esses in his F355 berlinetta.
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Goodwin brought his delightful 1962 250GT out to play for the first time, the culmination of three year’s reconstruction work and what a beautiful result, with its high-revving V12 of 3.0 litres sitting on tall tyres and Borranis. Contrast with John Marshall in altogether different machinery, in an alternative version of the 430 Scuderia with which he holds the hill record for Ferraris, shod with brand new tyres fitted the day before. The usual smattering of other tipos, though mine the only 360, Pauline Goodwin choosing her more nimble 328 for this tight hill over her heavy, wide but sophisticated California. In fact, the only one smiling at the prospect of a sopping track was Richard Preece, who always shines, if I can say that, in the wet with his Pirellis. So, on a green track it was first practice, an exercise in self preservation, daintily tiptoeing up the hill to see how slippery it really was. We’d seen how the other classes fared as we were the last to go up, which probably didn’t help confidence. And I got to go first – whoopee! Getting off the line was hard enough, 3-4 seconds being the going rate for the first 64 feet, against the usual 2.5 secs, and under the trees in the Esses it was lethal. Thankfully the organisers had placed a tyrewall halfway down the hill off Semi-Circle, the scary right hander before the home straight. How thoughtful. Best time then in P1 was Richard Preece, as predicted, in 58.96, Richard Prior 59.14, Nick Taylor on 60.01 and most of the field in the 62-66 seconds band. A full 10 seconds slower than dry times. John Marshall was extremely ginger with his new tyres, some way back, but we knew better was to come in later runs. Jon Goodwin noted how the 250 was a bit of a handful and its high lift cams made the start very hard, with the engine bogging down 5 yards after the start. Relief all round and time for a warming cuppa and butty, a lament on the lack of printers for
results this year, but still it poured. The track was closed for sweeping water off, and we readied to go again. No change in conditions and the enjoyment was wearing off to be honest, with any notion of pushing the car for a good time banished ahead of common sense. Those who did try a little bit had reminders of what might happen – Shaun Smith wagged his tail at Top Esses and reined the car in, other reported similar stories at Pardon and Ettores under braking. Times did fall though, generally by 3-5 seconds, with the leaders down to 56.01 (Prior), 57.96 (Taylor), 58.28 (Preece) and 58.35 (Philip Whitehead). Shaun Smith’s calculated gamble lopped 7 seconds off to bring him to 59.46, Mike Spicer in the yellow 328 improved by 6 to 58.11 and Brian Jackson in the other yellow car, his trusted 308GTB, down to 59.23. On a personal note, 6 seconds off my time brought a more respectable 62 ish but it was mentally very hard work – I know it’s more than a minute but the Armco is very close under the trees . . . So, with lunchtime came lunch, naturally, and a slowing to drizzle – hardly joyous but at least it couldn’t get any wetter. Richard Preece was of course crestfallen, the more rain the better for him, and Prior and Taylor, the usual suspects, were becoming favourites for the scratch win. But it was still very wet and there were points to be scored simply by completing a run, which a number of other classes found hard, with at least three going straight on after the bridge and ending up in the kitty litter. No finish, no time – we watched and learnt. First up was me again, by which time it had stopped raining entirely, and I felt I could press on a little. This resulted in my worst start of the day: 4:29 secs with a complete lack of grip and the F1 ‘box being tricky combining with over confidence and a heavy right foot. I reminded myself of the cost of new body panels on the
more recent models and took it very steady for a 60.90. Others found similar difficulties – Jon Goodwin still couldn’t get away smoothly, Brian Jackson locked up going into Pardon, and 1-2 second improvements being all that almost everyone could or wanted to manage with the track offering only marginally more grip. The leaders remained pretty much as before – Prior (54.72), Whitehead lopping 2 seconds to 55.48, Taylor close behind on 55.84 over 2 seconds up, Preece on 56.87 a second-and-ahalf faster. Despite this, the usual sense of drama and excitement was missing, there was no fighting for places, just dogged steady improvement and attempting to stay upright in a paddock resembling the Marne. Despite the attempts of the Bugatti Owners Club to engender a festival atmosphere, with display cars, cancan girls, wandering mime artists and chaps on stilts plus various trade stands, it was La Vie en Pleu, not
Two photographs that illustrate just what a lovely place Prescott Hillclimb is. Top shows Jon Goodwin’s 250GT speeding through Orchard while below Mike Spicer is seen on the bump stops with his rapid 328GTB.
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Richard Prior and his F355 proved to be unassailable, beating all comers and picking up maximum Championship points.
Bleu. The rest of the field strung behind in pretty much the same order – next were John Swift (up over 3 seconds to 57.17, Jon Goodwin starting to tame the beast at 56.60, powered by his mystery blue energy drink which turned out to be screen wash, and Mike Spicer with his supporters club of wife and last season’s PFHC competitor, son James at 57.17. So, to the final run and amazingly the sun was out, steadily drying the track and we were suddenly grateful for being last up, despite it meaning a late exit for those not winning prizes i.e. most of us. This of course made its own issues – where was it dry and where was it still wet and greasy? The debate raged in the battered hillclimbers very own pop-up (can we have a new
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one please?) while people looked with amusement at the handicap times. It was agreed that it would be patchy, just what a relative novice like me needs, and John Marshall, with his new tyres too. At least we all agreed starting would be easier, and so it proved to be, with everyone away faster, even the 250 going better, albeit with 8,000rpm off the line. Well, the track proved dry where we expected it but greasy under the trees, with some runners surprised by the dry conditions out of there towards Semi-Circle (which was dry), allowing a barnstorming final section. The first drivers took 5, 2, 3 and 6 seconds off their previous respectively, WendyAnn Marshall delighted with her 60.94 despite an error and Pauline Goodwin breaking under
57 seconds and setting the fastest 64ft time of the day at 2.54. Shaun Smith, in the 3rd 328 in a row, took 4 seconds off to end with 54.43, Mike Spicer’s 328 three tenths faster. Richard Preece was 3 seconds faster at 53.63, so maybe not just a wet weather performer as this gave him the lead, but it was short lived as once John Swift in 55.36 and Gooders’ 250 (56.60) had taken their runs, Philip Whitehead put in a 52.96. Next up, the favourite Richard Prior who didn’t disappoint with a 51.30 to throw down the gauntlet to Nick Taylor who put in an aggressive effort to finish 0.20 behind for second place. Final runner was John Marshall in the awesome sounding Scud, taking 20 seconds off his first practice time to end on 54.33 and perhaps exhibiting a portent of what he
and his car can deliver at Shelsley Walsh next week. So, the 1-2-3 was Prior, Taylor, Whitehead, with 4th place for rain man Richard Preece recognized by the organisers with a trophy too. The PEP points however went to Prior, Mike Spicer and Shaun Smith in that order. The Club handicap award was won by Shaun Smith with Mark Wibberley the runner-up. But everyone deserved a medal for safely piloting their cars back to the paddock and a day gaining valuable wet weather experience.
Nick Taylor, in his powerful 430, gave Prior a good run for his money.
PRESCOTT Hillclimb 24 May 2014 Round 5 Pirelli Ferrari Hillclimb Championship
Driver
Tipo
Pract 1
Pract 2
H/C
Run 1
Run 2
0/64ft
speed trap
splits
h/c pos
PEP %
PEP time
Pts
Richard Prior
F355
59.14
56.01
48.83
54.72
51.30
2.72
64
15.59/32.41
6
1.0
51.81
20
430 Coupe
60.01
57.96
48.53
55.84
51.50
2.88
62
15.46/32.43
7
3.0
53.05
12
Philip Whitehead
F355
63.99
58.35
50.65
55.48
52.96
2.89
65
15.63/32.91
5
0.0
52.96
13
Richard Preece
F355
58.96
58.28
51.79
56.87
53.63
2.70
66
15.77/33.23
3
0.0
53.63
10
Mike Spicer
328GTB
64.36
58.11
51.15
57.27
54.14
2.57
63
16.50/33.88
8
-3.0
52.52
17
John Marshall
430 Scud
75.19
67.86
48.43
65.45
54.33
2.82
66
16.75/33.80
13
4.5
56.77
5
Shaun Smith
328GTB
66.56
59.46
55.08
58.49
54.43
2.62
59
16.40/33.90
1
-3.0
52.80
15
F355
65.17
60.58
51.73
57.17
55.36
2.91
61
16.58/34.71
10
0.0
55.36
7
360 Spider
68.36
62.42
55.02
60.90
55.95
2.74
65
16.88/35.21
2
1.0
56.51
6
Brian Jackson
308GTB
62.45
59.23
52.35
58.31
56.12
2.78
61
16.57/35.10
11
-4.5
53.59
11
Jon Goodwin
250GT
61.99
60.36
54.95
57.57
56.60
3.17
60
16.56/35.51
4
-3.5
54.81
9
Pauline Goodwin
328GTB
60.60
60.98
52.17
59.95
56.98
2.54
59
17.62/35.10
12
-3.0
55.27
8
W A Marshall
328GTB
65.86
62.68
57.80
66.43
60.94
3.00
46
18.34/37.85
9
-3.0
59.11
4
Nick Taylor
John Swift Mark Wibberley
64ft, speed and splits for fastest run. Splits at Ettores and Midway.
BOC Class Awards
1st Richard Prior
2nd Nick Taylor
FOC Handicap Awards
1st Shaun Smith
2nd Mark Wibberley
3rd Philip Whitehead
4th Richard Preece
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SHELSLEY WALSH Hillclimb 31 May / 1 June 2014 Round 6 Pirelli Ferrari Hillclimb Championship Driver
Tipo
Pract 1
Pract 2
Pract 3
H/Cap
Run 1
Run 2
0-64 ft
split
Speed traps
PEP %
PEP time
Pts
Richard Prior
F355
34.90
34.40
33.80
33.43
34.59
34.22
2.75
21.93
88/94
1.0
34.56
20
John Marshall
430 Scud
35.23
34.70
34.90
32.98
34.63
34.68
2.72
22.30
87/98
+4.5
36.19
11
Richard Preece
F355
35.95
35.81
35.68
35.20
35.49
2.56
22.73
86/90
0.0
35.20
15
Philip Whitehead
F355
36.50
36.04
34.85
36.39
35.59
2.76
22.70
85/89
0.0
35.59
13
Mike Spicer
328GTB
36.04
36.23
35.74
36.27
36.56
2.64
23.17
83/86
-3.0
35.18
17
Shaun Smith
328GTB
39.31
37.74
36.88
38.49
36.84
2.69
24.07
71/84
-3.0
35.73
12
Mark Wibberley
360 Spider
39.21
37.43
37.00
37.38
37.40
2.84
24.24
77/85
1.0
37.35
10
Peter Rogerson
360 Modena
39.34
39.50
38.71
39.19
39.10
2.70
25.64
73/89
+1.0
39.50
9
328GTB
42.97
41.60
39.10
41.46
41.53
2.73
27.08
68/80
-3.0
40.22
8
Wendy A Marshall
MAC Class Awards: 1st Richard Prior FOC Handicap Award:
38.81
2nd John Marshall
1st Richard Preece
BLYTON PARK Sprint 15 June 2014 Round 7 Pirelli Ferrari Hillclimb Championship Driver
Tipo
Pract 1
Pract 2
Pract 3
Run 1
Run 2
Extra Run
0-64 ft
Split
PEP %
PEP time
Pts
430 Coupe
79.49
80.52
75.44
76.14
74.11
74.45
2.78
44.0
+3.0
76.33
13
Richard Prior
F355
79.12
76.59
75.90
77.23
75.27
74.80
2.63
45.1
+1.0
76.02
15
John Marshall
430 Scud
77.55
76.01
75.65
75.79
76.00
75.52
2.97
45.4
+4.5
79.20
11
Pauline Goodwin
California
77.87
78.44
76.85
77.60
76.38
81.43
2.71
45.6
+1.0
77.14
12
Shaun Smith
328GTB
82.61
81.43
81.38
80.27
78.29
----
2.74
47.3
-3.0
75.94
17
Jack Hargreaves
308GTB
82.20
80.13
80.08
80.87
78.54
----
2.53
47.2
-4.5
75.01
20
Mark Wibberley
360 Spider
94.43
83.56
82.46
82.68
79.67
80.98
2.87
47.3
+1.0
80.47
9
308GT4
89.26
86.19
89.61
88.27
84.14
----
2.55
50.4
-4.5
80.35
10
360 Modena
96.29
87.31
87.43
90.64
87.07
87.84
2.66
51.6
+1.0
87.94
7
328GTB
98.82
93.39
90.07
99.36
88.57
89.24
2.61
53.6
-3.0
85.86
8
Nick Taylor
Mark Hargreaves Peter Rogerson Wendy A Marshall
MAC Class Awards: 1st Nick Taylor
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2nd Richard Prior
3rd John Marshall
GURSTON DOWN Hillclimb 22 June 2014 Round 8 Pirelli Ferrari Hillclimb Championship Driver
Tipo
Pract 1
Pract 2
H’Cap
Run 1
Run 2
0-64 ft
Split
Speed Traps
H’Cap Posn
PEP %
PEP Time
Pts
Richard Prior
F355
37.49
36.35
35.85
36.70
37.12
2.40
19.78
85/95
8
1.0
37.07
20
John Marshall
430 Scud
38.71
37.96
35.22
36.86
37.49
2.36
20.07
96/97
9
4.5
38.52
13
F355
39.02
39.4.
38.50
38.77
38.43
2.43
20.85
84/93
5
0.0
38.43
15
Mike Spicer
328GTB
39.56
39.75
39.04
38.87
40.32
2.28
21.13
81/91
4
-3.0
37.70
17
Pauline Goodwin
328GTB
43.54
40.26
39.49
40.02
41.18
2.32
21.73
77/88
7
-3.0
38.82
11
Jack Hargreaves
308GTB
42.36
41.88
41.64
41.57
40.51
2.48
21.86
75/86
1
-4.5
38.69
12
Tony Attwood
308GT4
43.95
43.30
42.80
42.31
41.95
2.44
22.63
73/85
2
-4.5
40.06
10
Mark Hargreaves
308GTB
44.86
43.53
40.89
42.68
43.15
2.53
22.78
72/78
10
-4.5
40.76
9
Iwan Attwood
308GT4
45.38
45.88
43.00
43.36
42.78
2.60
22.79
72/78
3
-4.5
40.85
8
Wendy A Marshall
328GTB
47.19
44.01
43.88
44.09
44.69
2.57
24.23
71/82
6
-3.0
42.77
7
Richard Preece
0-64 ft, split and speeds all relate to fastest run
BARC Class Awards:
1st Richard Prior
FOC Handicap Award:
1st Jack Hargreaves
CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS after Round 8
(provisional)
2nd John Marshall
Richard Prior
95
Nick Taylor
40
Shaun Smith
87
John Swift
39
Mike Spicer
68
Mark Hargreaves
30
Richard Preece
64
Peter Rogerson
28
Pauline Goodwin
55 (31) Jon Goodwin
26 (9)
Philip Whitehead
54
Chris Hitchman
20
Mark Wibberley
54
David Snelson
13
Jack Hargreaves
52
Jeff Cooper
11
John Marshall
52
Peter Hitchman
11
Brian Jackson
51
Tony Attwood
10
Richard Allen
47
Caroline Cooper
9
Wendy Ann Marshall
42
Iwan Attwood
8
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Photography by Nick Sinkgraven
W
E ALL HAVE OUR favourite circuits. Some of them, like Spa-Francorchamps for example, seem to appeal to nearly everyone writes JOHN SWIFT. For me, and quite a few others, Zandvoort has a particular attraction. It is not just the track, although that rates with some of the very best. It is also all the other ingredients which go to make a memorable racing experience. The atmosphere at this seaside venue is unique, drawing as it does on a big audience of enthusiastic holidaymakers out to enjoy themselves. The officials from the Circuit Parc Zandvoort are friendly and helpful, and their sense of humour completely in tune with us Brits. Nothing is too much trouble for them and they always want to please. Add to this one of the finest beaches, a decent
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hotel almost on the circuit itself, and some nice restaurants in a town that’s within easy walking distance, and you have a most agreeable place to spend a weekend of serious motor racing. So it was, towards the end of last year, the opportunity arose to make arrangements to
once again savour these Dutch delights (the last time was in 2011). I won’t go into the whys and wherefores of the FIA’s current daft rules on limiting to just one the number of events we in the UK are permitted to compete at in mainland Europe (I thought we were Europeans, for
John Shirley brought his 360 Challenge car to Holland - the only PFO entry in the field. He made no mistakes, winning overall on each day.
The battle between the two warring Gp4 328GTBs of Jim Cartwright and Gary Culver was monumental. They left Holland with a win apiece.
heaven’s sake). Just to say that our accommodating hosts arranged the event to be titled the ‘European Ferrari Trophy’, with the possibility of overseas competitors joining us to race their Ferraris. And this little subtlety was sufficient to enable us to plan the races without fear of a draconian attack by the blazered ranks of bureaucrats stationed in Paris. We agreed the date with our friends in Holland and in order to make the finances work, we arranged to combine our Classic and Open cars – a system that worked well here three years before. One thing we hadn’t been told until quite late was that there would be no racing on the Sunday – there would be testing and the first qualifying on the Friday, a second qualy and Race 1 the following day, and the final race on the Monday (a Bank Holiday in Holland). Sunday would be a day for the beach. So, having set up the deal, how did it unfold? By the entry closing date I was worried. I expected that (as in 2011) a reasonable number of Ferrari drivers would leap at the chance of racing in Holland. In the event we received 8 Classic entries and, staggeringly, just one Open entry. When you buy races, you do so on the basis of an agreed price per minute of track time, regardless of the number of entries. When that number proves to be tiny, financially it
becomes disaster street. But let’s not dwell on the bad bit; I’ll concentrate on the good of which there was lots. The ferries from the UK proved to be less than reliable. Peter Everingham and Gary Culver were delayed on the Harwich boat and missed the optional free testing session on Friday morning. Our eligibility
Well coordinated. Anne Swift, the FOC Series Co-ordinator, has a bird’s eye view of all the action from the roof of the pits, in company with Alayne Fenny.
scrutineer was also late after a similar delay. Of those who did make the test period, Darren Wilson’s Gp3 328GTB emitted smoke like a destroyer on manoeuvres, eventually traced to a burst oil hose. Chris Goddard brought his 308GTB in after 7
laps with a fuel leak. In the afternoon qualifying session, in fine and warm conditions, just 8 Ferraris took part, with Wilson dashing around the area looking for replacement hoses with the correct unions to suit his car. John Shirley, his 360 Challenge car now with a full set of working gears since its Donington Park outing, was naturally the quickest (1:55.406) since it was the only PFO car present. Leading the Classic brigade was Gary Culver (2:02.382), a second and a half faster than Jim Cartwright. However at weigh-in, Jim’s car was found to be seriously underweight and his time was disallowed. The weather on Saturday for the second qualifying was even better: sunny, a cloudless sky, and temperatures climbing into the 30s. Darren Wilson tried his damnedest to resolve his oil line problems but despite a 3 hour trip and working until 1.30am he was unsuccessful. Chris Goddard cured his fuel leak but then his car sprang an oil leak from the end of the crankshaft. He also was unable to run in Q2 and had to appeal for help from the UK. Our good pal John Sinkgraven turned up with his young son, Nick. John is a race instructor and a gifted photographer but on this occasion handed his camera to Nick to take a few shots of the Ferraris. Nick is only 10 years old but as you will see from the photos we reproduce here, is going to be just as skilled behind the lens as his Dad. Cartwright loaded almost everything apart from the kitchen sink into his 328 to meet the minimum weight limit - the spare wheel and loads of lead – and finally passed muster. Apart from Shirley, we all went quicker than we had in Q1, with Culver still the fastest PFfc driver. The Saturday race was timed for just after teatime, at 4 o’clock, by which time it was extraordinarily hot. Because the field was predominantly made up
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of Classic cars, we changed from a rolling to a standing start. From the lights, Shirley took an immediate lead which he retained throughout. Similarly Culver took charge of the Classic division, with Cartwright, starting from the back of the grid due to his Q1 misdemeanour, trying manfully to catch up. At the end of the race the field was well strung out except, at the back, there was a close battle for Gp2 honours, with Richard Fenny beating your reporter by just a couple of lengths at the flag. The day on the beach was very pleasant and so was dinner Chris Compton Goddard overcame a catalogue of mechanical in the evening. For those with disorders with his Gp2 308GTB, seen here in the foreground. problems, it was a day of hard He was rewarded with a class win on the final day. work although to his, and his helpers, credit Chris Goddard a dead heat as I think we have One of the car’s two fuel pumps managed to get his 308GTB into ever seen in all the years of had ceased to function. running order for Race 2 on Classic racing. Looking at the lap times, the Monday afternoon. Nicky Paul-Barron was unchallenged Shirley clocked a The heat was just as fierce unchallenged in a distant class 1:57.875, which interestingly as it had been all weekend, and third position while Chris Goddard compares with his son Gavin’s the crowds seemed to be even had the pleasure of not only best lap of 1:57.970 two years bigger. The field was now 7 cars finishing the race but picking up before, driving a F355 Challenge – Darren Wilson had gone home the Group 2 trophy. Peter car. Jim Cartwright achieved a – and again it was a standing Everingham, the only Gp3 2:03.003, a soupcon quicker than start. runner, finished well although his Gary Culver’s best. You can Just as in Race 1, Shirley 328 was smoking quite badly check all the other times in the smoothly took his 360 Challenge towards the end. accompanying table. into the lead, his lap times Your scribe’s 308 had been So how do we sum up our around 3 seconds quicker than going slower and slower, sounded sojourn to Zandvoort? Well, I the fastest Classic machines. But dreadful, but finished the race believe everyone who went, even while the overall winner was over half a minute behind Richard those who experienced never in doubt the battle for Fenny. The problem couldn’t be mechanical disorders, had a Classic supremacy between Gary diagnosed at the time but for the fantastic time. We all got Culver and Jim Cartwright was record was due to fuel starvation. sunburnt (Jim Carty particularly monumental. No quarter so), we ate well, and was asked nor given. perhaps enjoyed the odd For the first ten laps it glass to slake our thirsts. was generally Gary who The circuit was just as held a slight territorial good as many of us advantage but then Jim remember it and all in all inched ahead to reverse it was the best of times. the order. On reflection the Together they would only sad thing was the go round Tarzan hairpin feeling that, faced with and if you were of a such low numbers of betting nature you really Ferrari entries, it is wouldn’t know where to possibly the last time we put your money. In the shall be able race here. end it was Jim who Such a shame! snatched victory but by the narrowest of margins: less than a tenth of a second after Photographer Extraordinaire! 10-year old Nick over 30 minutes of Sinkgraven was the cameraman for this race report. racing. It was as close to
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RACE 1: 7th June 2014 Pos
No
1
9
2
Driver
Tipo
Class
Laps
Time
Best Lap
Qualify
Pos
John Shirley
360/Ch
Open
15
30:19.662
1:.58.267
1:55.406
1
34
Gary Culver
328GTB
Gp4
15
30:59.838
2:02.540
2:02.382
2
3
69
Jim Cartwright
328GTB
Gp4
15
31:20.955
2:02.937
2:03.956
DQ
4
17
Nicky Paul-Barron
328GTB
Gp4
15
32:09.504
2:04.915
2:04.497
3
5
12
Peter Everingham
328GTB
Gp3
15
32:33.610
2:06.655
2:06.424
4
6
25
Richard Fenny
308GT4
Gp2
14
31:52.980
2:14.479
2:13.649
6
7
11
John Swift
308GTB
Gp2
14
31:53.988
2:11.992
2:16.256
7
NS
44
Chris Goddard
308GTB
Gp2
2:08.319
5
Class Winners
Fastest Laps:
John Shirley
Open
1:58.267
Open
John Shirley
Gary Culver
Gp4
2:02.540
Gp4
Gary Culver
Peter Everingham
Gp3
2:06.655
Gp3
Peter Everingham
John Swift
Gp2
2:11.992
Gp2
Chris Goddard
Lap record
Lap Record
RACE 2: 9th June 2014 Pos
No
1
9
2
Driver
Tipo
Class
Laps
Time
Best Lap
Qualify
Pos
John Shirley
360/Ch
Open
15
30:24.386
1:57.875
1:58.135
1
69
Jim Cartwright
328GTB
4
15
31:02.782
2:03.003
2:04.253
4
3
34
Gary Culver
328GTB
4
15
31:02.873
2:03.076
2:02.253
2
4
17
Nicky Paul-Barron
328GTB
4
15
32:03.546
2:04.921
2:03.799
3
5
44
Chris Goddard
308GTB
2
15
32:11.381
2:05.599
NS
8
6
12
Peter Everingham
328GTB
3
14
30:58.064
2:06.037
2:05.615
5
7
25
Richard Fenny
308GT4
2
14
31:33.864
2:11.927
2:12.159
6
8
11
John Swift
308GTB
2
14
32:14.001
2:15.383
2:14.096
7
Class Winners
Fastest Laps:
John Shirley
Open
1:57.875
Open
John Shirley
Jim Cartwright
Gp4
2:03.003
Gp4
Jim Cartwright
Peter Everingham
Gp3
2:06.037
Gp3
Peter Everingham
Chris Goddard
Gp2
2:05.599
Gp2
Chris Goddard
Lap record
Lap Record
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