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STAG PARTY Xmas 2017 Volume 519

Publisher’s Waffle

Change. It seems to happen ever faster.

Success requires a positive attitude to change. We often comment on how Herts County Auto & Aero Club is one of the oldest in the country (possibly the World) …but what actually matters is to remain the longest-surviving club.

Although we expect our Debden Sprints to be a success on 6 th May and 7th October in 2018, we are aware that other clubs are seeing a decline in sprinting compared to track days and other unlicensed events. Thus we have teamed up with the Anglia Motor Sport Club.

The AMSC is a club of clubs, to share diverse skills and resources in the region. This will offer our competing members a wider choice of events and perhaps encourage non-competing members to enter other types of event that don’t require too much investment to get started. Overall, we will be able to offer old and new members even better value for money.

Elsewhere in motor sport we’ve seen more change in hybrid technologies, a Hertfordshire lad become F1 World Champion for the fourth time and a tide of change at the MSA.

Beyond sport, our road cars are rapidly changing from simple self-parking to higher levels of autonomous operation. A change in popularity from Diesel to Petrol, more hybrid options and a lot of news about all-electric vehicles using batteries or fuel cells (and how to charge them).

With improving control automation, we are also witnessing the potential to eventually make flying cars a safe reality (even if they are more like taxi drones). If that happens, the World will need more enthusiast clubs that are both Auto & Aero …just like us.

So our club should be well set to benefit from future change!

Finally, as we move on another year, our membership secretary will be looking to collect fees (which remain un changed at £20 for 2018). Unless you pay by standing order you will need to send a cheque to Gerry Cannon, Church Grove, 8 Church End, Arlesey, SG15 6UY …or pay electronically to Bank Sort Code 20-29-37, Account Number 70460753.

Sincerely,

Pete Walters

FRONT COVER : Change in hand. At our Debden sprint on 1st October 2017, the winner of Class A4 was this Integra DC5 of young Rik Garner. Beside Rik’s door, his father Mark (formerly a regular driver) helps as a start-line marshal together with one of our new recruits from the Police Cadets. With safety gloves (of course), our future appears to be in safe hands!

Forthcoming Events organised by Brian Horne

Annual Awards Dinner, 10th February 2018

At the Great Hadham Country Club, Great Hadham Road, Much Hadham, Herts, SG10 6JE . The bar will open at 6.30 pm with dinner commencing at 7pm, followed by the 2017 awards. Dress is smart formal but not black tie.

The cost is £25 per person, including a three-course meal …plus a magician visiting each table.

Menu

Starters

Chicken & Ham Hock Terrine with a Spiced Cranberry Chutney or Smoked Mackerel Paté with Ciabatta Toast or Mushroom & Caramelised Red Onion Bruschetta

Main

Roast Leg of Lamb with the Appropriate Trimmings or Supreme of Chicken wrapped in Smoked Bacon on a bed of Wild Mushroom Risotto with a Basil Pesto or Salmon en Croute with Baby Spinach or Mediterranean Vegetable Wellington served with Sauté Potatoes and a Green Vegetable Medley

Dessert

Eton Mess or Baked Vanilla Cheesecake or Cheese & Biscuits

As this is a popular event, you are urged to confirm your places as soon as possible. Please contact Hazel Horne with your menu choices and pay (by cheque made payable to HCA&AC or confirmed e-payment to Sort Code 20-29-37 Account No. 70460753) here:

Hazel Horne, “Foxes Walk”, The Retreat, Hutton, Essex CM13 1AN (Tel: 01277 219745)

Previous Awards Dinner by Pete Walters

What happened at the HCA&AC Awards Dinner on 21 st January 2017?

A good time was had by all. The food was excellent and the fun continued into the prize-giving for deserving endeavours in 2016. Here’s what it looked like:

The event began by thanking Pete Walters for helping to save motorsport at Debden, organise both our sprints and publish Stag Party. The Lewis Trophy now forms part of a popular presentation: “The Bentley Boys”.

Below, Lindy Scarborough presents Rik Garner with the New Hudson Cup, while in the background our Chairman

David Gibbs reads out each winner’s name and the story

behind how they have earned their award.

Above: Carl Warnell wins the st Cook Trophy (1 Overall) again, while his father Keith (above him) again wins the Jarvis Trophy for 2 nd Overall.

This has been a notable achievement for their Citroen Saxo VTS, which they bought and ran for many years on a small budget, proving that motorsport success can still be affordable.

Martin Nolan receives the Blackley Fuggle Howard Dawson & Peter Ratcliff again literally split Trophy again for 3 rd Overall in the HCA&AC the Leslie Trophy for best team performance, Championship, driving his BMW Z3. across all events within and beyond HCA&AC.

Jonathan Gibbs got the Harter Trophy for best Lindy Scarborough presented herself with the member performance at the HCA&AC Spring Wilcocks Rose Bowl for Best HCA&AC Lady, ably Sprint in 2016, with his Caterham C400. assisted by Brian Horne who organises the awards.

HCA&AC Award Winners 2016

Cook Trophy 1st Overall Carl Warnell Jarvis Trophy 2nd Overall Keith Warnell Blackley Fuggle Trophy 3rd Overall Martin Nolan Clark Trophy 4th Overall Donald MacIver Woodward Trophy 5th Overall Tony Staines Wilcocks Rose Bowl Best Lady Lindy Scarborough Ken Brown Trophy Best Novice (not awarded this year) New Hudson Cup National/International Racing Rick Garner Harter Trophy Debden, Spring Jonathan Gibbs Targa Trophy Debden, Autumn Howard Dawson Salmon Trophy Debden, Combined Graham Scarborough Fatigue Cup Non-Committee Effort Jonathan Robinson Lewis Trophy Stag Party Contribution Pete Walters Marshal’s Tankard Best Endeavour Rod Russel Leslie Trophy Team Performance Howard Dawson & Peter Ratcliff

HCA&AC Award Winners 2017

Cook Trophy 1st Overall Carl Warnell Jarvis Trophy 2nd Overall David Gibbs Blackley Fuggle Trophy 3rd Overall Mitchell Perry Clark Trophy 4th Overall Keith Warnell Woodward Trophy 5th Overall Peter Gilham Wilcocks Rose Bowl Best Lady Sally Fitzgerald Ken Brown Trophy Best Novice Kit Jones Jay Bowl Best HCA&AC Team Nationwide G Scarborough & P Ratcliff New Hudson Cup National/International Racing Chris Blewett Harter Trophy Debden, Spring David Gibbs Targa Trophy Debden, Autumn Peter Gilham Salmon Trophy Debden, Combined Tony Staines Leslie Trophy Debden Team Performance Carl & Keith Warnell Fatigue Cup Non-Committee Effort David Franklin Lewis Trophy Stag Party Contribution Pete Walters Marshal’s Tankard Best Endeavour Mark Garner Lester Trophy Non-member help at Debden Police Cadets

History of Motor Racing

HCA&AC member Richard Hinton organises quarterly events in Albury for anyone interested in historic cars, motor racing and automobile nostalgia. Entry is £30 for the whole day including all food and drink, four hours of old archive films, a quiz and guest speaker. Book with Richard on 01279 771667.

Herts County joins Anglia Motor Sports Club

Herts County Auto and Aero Club has been voted into the Anglia Motor Sport Club, which is a club of clubs that organises events and championships throughout the year by pooling the diverse skills and other resources (such as equipment) of regional clubs that include:

Club Web Site Cambridge Car Club www.cambridgecarclub Chelmsford Motor Club www.chelmsfordmc.co..co.uk Eastern Counties Motor Club www.ecmc.co.ukuk Falcon Motor Club www.falconmotorclub.c Green Belt Motor Club www.greenbeltmc.org.om King’s Lynn & District Motor Club www.kingslynndmc.co.uk Middlesex County Automobile Club www.mcac.co.ukuk Sporting Car Club of Norfolk www.sccon.co.uk West Suffolk Motorsport Club www.wsmc.co.uk Wickford Auto Club www.wickfordautoclub. co.uk The purpose in forming the group was to prevent the decline of grass roots motor sport in East Anglia. All of the clubs involved wanted to avoid any lack of competitors, organisers and marshals for the events that they were running, so agreed to pool resources in order to keep the events viable. At the time, the MSA had quite restrictive rules governing who could or could not be invited to club-level events; so the idea of an umbrella club was formed as a survival mechanism that would allow us to remain compliant with the rules of the MSA.

Anglia Motor Sport Club has no individual members, just member clubs. Individual members of each club can take part in club-level events organised by any of the other member clubs.

AMSC Clubman events include Trials, Targa Rallies and Autosolos for which no competition licence or personal safety equipment would be required. Just turn up in your road car, slap on some numbers and go. For more information visit www.amsc.org.uk

We hope that offering additional events may encourage more HCA&AC members into competing, more competing members into trying different types of events and more AMSC members to enter the HCA&AC Debden sprints. At a national level, HCA&AC is collaborating with other AMSC clubs to run the Snetterton Stage Rally on 18 th February 2018: A round of the MSVR/Motorsport News Circuit Rally Championship (visit www.snettertonstagerally.co.uk ).

This additional value will be provided at no increase to your £20 HCA&AC membership fee ...and by being a member of HCA&AC you will be automatically eligible for all AMSC events. HCA&AC may introduce some club championship points and trophies next year for success in AMSC events, such as Clubman of the Year and perhaps a multi-disciplinary trophy.

HCA&AC Spring Sprint, 7th May 2017 by Pete Walters

This would be the second sprint on our sweeping revised 1.4 mile course at Debden airfield.

Benefitting from the experience with previous events and keen to offer good value for our competitors, we invested in more tarmac resurfacing in the faster areas and purchased new equipment (including blue circular boards with white arrows, which slide over the top of our penalty cones) to help run the event better …and we gave the track its usual thorough sweep. By popular request, we retained the 64-foot speed trap.

With a healthy entry, we needed to operate briskly whilst adjusting the release intervals to ensure safe running of as many cars as possible within the constraints of our Track License.

The weather was fine (again), the burgers were delicious and these pictures tell the story:

Father and son Jez & Kit Jones (no relation to Indiana) raid Debden airfield in their green Westfield SEiW. Following the fashion for all things green, Martin Pickles had begun rubbing down his Jedi Mk1 to paint it green: DavDean Clayton squeezes his Renault Clio 197 turbo We thought this was psychedelic Jedi camouflage… very close to a penalty cone on the acute apex into Kamikaze Kanyon. Meanwhile the demon Van Diemen Formula 1st of Paul Lucas (no relation to George) awaits battle in our Car Wars with four Jedi, below.

In the Paddock

Grey is the new Black. The TVR 2500 above won Best Presented Car.

Below, the Fiat Abarth 500 of Steven Winstone Under the bonnet of this Fiat Strada lurks an iconic Abarth colour-coordinates with its parking bay. engine, presented by Andy Davies. Note the handy access We are not sure where the wildlife comes from. to items needing regular attention, like the Italian electrics.

Note how the open-seater cockpit below exhibits the minimalist art of electronics and unlabelled gearlever.

Cream is the new white: Morgan Plus 8 of Rob Toon.

On your marques…

The TVR boys were out in force, mostly Chimaeras: A cartilaginous deep-sea monster ( a.k.a. Rabbitfish). To do full justice to the way they monstered our

course, we have moved them to the following page. As usual, the Morgan owners put on a good show with a selection of models painted in green or cream (or both). Paul Bryant and Ian Hargrave rode on cream seating in In contrast, Reliant Scimitar & Sabre Owners Club their 4/4 variants, with Rob Toon’s Plus 8 painted cream. had a tightly-fought contest between some nimble After (and before) the complex handicapping formula was SS1 variants, led by Geoff Corderoy (below). applied for their own championship, the winner was 103

Paul Clarke in his 2967cc Morgan Roadster Lightweight.

Mayhem & Mishaps

John Bunting turns into a slide with his Jedi Kawasaki Mk 4-6, then begins to wonder: Is there enough lock?

Our experienced photographer Paul Hopgood shelters in the undergrowth as the Chimaeras perform. Amidst the tyre smoke above, we can just see Mark Everett pointing exactly between the “gate” arrows …but backwards.

...No. Let’s turn around and try again, shall we?

Above, James York fights the wayward tail of the Chimaera 4500 he shared with Richard Blacklee.

Below, Richard Bream scatters penalty cones as he invents his own route around the course.

Was this “The Last Jedi”? Not quite: Tony Beesley practised quicker than the eventual class winner, but conjured-up wrong-routes to fail every timed run.

Other too-fast runners included Peter Goulding whose Mygale indulged in some smokey rallycross, below.

Class winners included…

Yet again, Peter Gilham won Class B11 and finished a worthy 9 th overall in his “compliant” BMW M3.

Carl Warnell uses up a set of old tyres, to win Class A3. We heard rumours about the offside rear tyre being used so little that it may achieve Classic status…

Jon Williams nearly pushes the offside front tyre off its rim on his way to winning ClassA2 in his Honda Integra.

Graham Scarborough won Class A6 by only 0.14 secs from Howard Dawson, sharing the latter’s Ford Focus RS. This was a late change from their expected Porsche Despite scoring “wrong routes” on his first few runs, Cayman: Would this be the start of a challenge to the David Franklin emerged as winner of Class B10 in that established Subaru/Mitsubishi supremacy in 4WD? rarest of species, the 1945cc Vauxhall Viva GT.

…and the biggest winners were:

Stephen Laing drove his Caterham R500 to 8 th overall,

beating 12 others to win Class A8 Brian Winstone won Class A5 in his Porsche GT3 RS. Without any penalties, he kept reducing his times relentlessly through the day to finish 11 th overall.

David Ratcliff and his father Peter drove their Caterham R400 to 5 th & 7 th overall, from Class F.

With his ground-effect Sylva Phoenix re-classified, Jeff Wiltshire won Class C13 and finished 6 th overall

Observed by our eagle-eyed officials, the lesser-spotted (i.e. plain white) Reynard Formula Opel was driven to

fastest time of the day (70.67 seconds) by Tony Staines. Fastest Lady: Sally Fitzgerald in a Caterham SV Sport.

Final Results

As before, drivers were buzzing with pleasure after mastering this fast sprint course. Here are all the Class winners from the HCA&AC Debden Sprint, on 7th May 2017:

Class Driver Club Car Best A1 Rob Choules FDMC Citroen C2 VTS 96.95 A2 Jon Williams B19 Honda Integra 89.15 A3 Carl Warnell HCA&AC Citroen Saxo VTS 89.64 A4 David Gibbs HCA&AC Morgan 4/4 85.56 A5 Brian Winstone B19 Porsche GT3 RS 82.31 A6 Graham Scarborough HCA&AC Ford Focus RS 82.46 A7 Jed Wooten FDMC Caterham 7 Roadsport 87.48 A8 Stephen Laing B19 Caterham R500 79.66 B10 David Franklin HCA&AC Vauxhall Viva GT 101.82 B11 Peter Gilham HCA&AC BMW M3 80.04 D14 Stephen Chaplin B19 Jedi Mk 6 73.85 D15 Tony Staines HCA&AC Reynard Formula Opel 70.67 (FTD) E17 Mark Everett TVRCC TVR Chimaera 86.29 E19 Geoff Corderoy RSSOC Reliant SS1 94.33 E20 Paul Clarke MSCC Morgan Roadster Lwt 83.63 F David Ratcliff HCA&AC Caterham R400 75.92

SPRINT COURSE FOR 7th May and 1 st October 2017

Put your brains in gear, please Round 1: Motoring Miscellany

How’s your memory? Here’s a motoring quiz crafted by Trevor Scarborough:

1. Which current F1 driver has the nickname ‘Checo’? (1 point)

2. What is the name of the circuit which hosts the Russian Grand Prix? (1 point)

3. Who was ‘Red Robbo’, well-known in the 1970’s and what was his real name? (2 points)

4. What is the correct title of the new Clarkson, Hammond and May TV show and which TV ‘channel’ is it on? (1 point for each of the two parts)

5. In which city would you have found the Montjuich Park race circuit, last used for a GP in 1975? (1 point)

6. Jenson Button has competed in how many Grands Prix in his F1 career? (1 point)

7. What, chemically, is AdBlue and what is it used for? (1 point for each of two parts)

8. The premier championship for saloon / touring cars in Germany is called the DTM. What do these initials stand for? (1 point)

9. Who designed the Repco , as used by Jack Brabham in his 1966 and 1967 world championship-winning cars? (1 point)

10. Which team did Nico Rosberg start his Grand Prix career with? (1 point)

11. Who manufactures the ‘Striker’ sprint car? (1 point)

12. Why was the Elva sports car of the 1960’s so-called? (1 point)

13. In which British town was the Reliant Car Company based? (1 point)

14. Who was the only British winner of the Gordon Bennett Trophy races, held between 1900 and 1904? (1 point)

15. Where would you find ‘The Wing’? (1 point)

16. In which year did Australian Alan Jones win the F1 World Championship? (1 point)

17. Which British rally driver sadly died of a brain tumour? (1 point)

18. What was the name of Switzerland’s only luxury / high performance car? (1 point)

19. Finnish driver Mika Hakkinen was world champion in 1998 & 1999. But there was another Finn called Mika racing in F1 at the time. What was his surname? (1 point)

20. What is Lewis Hamilton’s race number? (1 point)

21. Who designed the VW Beetle? (1 point)

22. In which city was the Australian Grand Prix held immediately prior to the current Albert Park venue in Melbourne? (1 point)

23. The 84-hour long race/rally held at the old Nurburgring circuit in the late 1960’s was officially called what …and what international rally event did it replace? (2 points)

24. What nationality is Moto GP rider Dani Pedrosa? (1 point)

25. Who built the Land Speed Record contender nicknamed ‘Babs’ and was fatally injured when he crashed in it on Pendine Sands in 1927? (1 point)

26. Kimi Raikonnen took a three-year sabbatical from F1 in 2009 to go rallying. Which manufacturer did he drive for? (1 point)

Total number of points available in this round = 30 Put your brains in gear, please Round 2: Drivers Wordsearch

The Wordsearch grid below contains the SURNAMES of 26 F1 drivers , each of whom drove at least once in a GP during the 2006 World Championship season.

There are 14 names which read vertically (downwards or upwards), 10 names which read horizontally (left to right or right to left), and 2 names which read diagonally in either direction.

Ring each name you find.

As a guide, there were 11 teams competing in 2006: Renault (2), Ferrari (2), McLaren (3), Honda (2), Sauber (3), Toyota (2), Toro Rosso (2), (3), Williams (2), Spyker (2), Super Aguri (4). Numbers in brackets indicate the number of drivers for each team …and before you point out that the numbers here add up to 27, not 26, note that two drivers share the same surname (clue!)

A L R A I K O N N E N Q U R E

V I O P O U E S P E E D I S C

I U S W D B A R I C H E L L O

L Z B S F I S I C H E L L A U

L Z E E B C C S S A T O U K L

E I R D K A H U O P P X R L T

N N G R E X U K B E C L T I H

E M B O T L M O N T O Y A E A

U O U R G F A K R O S S M N R

V N T I O R C R O A T A P W D

E T T E S R H I O M S T R E Q

S A O T N D E P D S P J O B U

M G N N O E R B A N A Z A B V

V N B O L A K D L E F D I E H

A Y A M A M O T O A L B E R S

Total number of points available in this round = 26. For all 56 answers, go seven pages forward.

HCA&AC Autumn Sprint, 1st October 2017 by Pete Walters

This would be the third sprint on our fast-flowing 1.4 mile route around Debden airfield.

Although rain had been forecast, the initial “grey” dampness soon dried out to provide an enjoyable day’s sport: The timekeeper enjoyed using his new timing van, the marshals enjoyed the new caterer and the competitors enjoyed a full set of runs. In fact we finished early enough to gather afterwards for a convivial prize-giving and still be home in time for tea!

Here’s how the day began and ended:

The MSA Clerk of the Course Our other Clerk appreciates the fresh-smelling air you keeps an approving eye on proceedings through his can inhale on an airfield in Our rescue crew stand ready for action, at all times. sun-dimmed spectacles. all weather conditions. Their chief started our day with a “first on the scene” safety lecture for our marshals and drivers.

Escort users learn from local bike rides!

Above: The ancient art of driver hand gestures to convey car/circuit dynamics.

On your marques…

John Plumb won Class E6 i n the Reliant Scimitar This was the first time our sprint enjoyed the TR Register. SE6 above, in which he paired with Ben Plumb. Robert Barnard won “Best Presented Car” with his TR4. Below, the 4000cc engine in Clive Letherby’s TR6 charges our external steward with energy as he prepares to leap skywards like Superman to help people through the gate.

Although there were too few Ginettas to form a class, it was a delight to see Trevor Brown’s beautifully-prepared G15. Other Imp derivatives included Gordon Stuart’s Clan Crusader, below.

Action on track

In addition to his responsibilites as Mayor of Bishop’s Stortford, Keith Warnell decided to enhance his c.v. with airfield-fence remodelling skills in his Citroen Saxo VTS.

James York transports one of our direction discs to another location, with his (non-TVR) Ford Focus RS. Evidence is collected after each run by our course car.

The red flag warns that the airfield is “out of bounds” for the day, unless you are signed in for the sprint. It is not an antenna mounted on Rob Farley’s Alfa Romeo GTAm …that would just be a silly idea, as it would put far too much strain on the italian electrics.

Nigel Fleming wins Class C12 in his Sylva Striker, below.

Honourable mentions

Despite having only 1300cc and two “wrong routes”, rd Paul Beesley was 3 in Class A8, but more was to come. David Craig won Class A7 in his Caterham Super 7.

Steve Lyle’s Porsche Boxster S displays power oversteer.

Sarah Munns was consistently quick in her Mini Cooper.

Geoff Martin entertained in his 2200cc Escort Mk2.

The Spire GTR of Andrew Innocent winning Class C13.

Roy Millbank looking good in his Jaguar Revival D-Type.

and the winner was…

Fred Ling won Class B10 in his Ford Fiesta ST150. Stephen Laing’s Caterham R500 won Class A8. Again.

Rob Howard won Class B9 in his 3-wheeling Rover Mini. Class A6 went to the old-school Evo 6 of John Start.

As usual, Peter Gilham won Class B11 in his BMW M3.

Peter Goulding took Class D15 in his Mygale FF2000. Return of the Jedi? FTD (71.42 secs) went to Paul Beesley in his father’s Jedi Mk4: Times are changing.

After the event, drivers agreed that we had an enjoyable day despite the damp start. Here are all the Class winners from the HCA&AC Debden Sprint, 1st October 2017:

Class Driver Club Car Best A1 Martyn Williams FDMC Mazda MX5 95.76 A2 Jon Williams B19 Honda Integra 89.36 A3 Mick Davis Green Belt Suzuki Swift 92.54 A4 Rik Garner HCA&AC Honda Integra DC5 84.59 A5 Brian Winstone B19 Porsche GT3 RS 82.06 A6 John Start B19 Mitsubishi Evo 6 84.15 A7 David Craig HCA&AC Caterham Super 7 89.17 A8 Stephen Laing B19 Caterham R500 81.22 B9 Robert Howard HCA&AC Rover Mini 86.37 B10 Fred Ling HCA&AC Ford Fiesta ST150 89.08 B11 Peter Gilham HCA&AC BMW M3 84.13 C12 Nigel Fleming B19 Sylva Striker 82.13 C13 Andrew Innocent B19 Spire GTR 82.90 D14 Paul Beesley B19 Jedi Mk4 71.42 (FTD) D15 Peter Goulding B19 Mygale FF200 72.46 E19 John Plumb RSSOC Reliant Scimitar SE6 92.10 E20 Jim Giddings 7Oaks Triumph TR7 V8 88.70 F Gavin Maxwell HCA&AC Lotus Elan 98.89

HCA&AC Championship Scores (best 8 counted) 2017

Carl Warnell 89 Jez Jones 13 David Gibbs 59 Graham Scarborough 12 Mitchell Perry 56 David Ratcliff 12 Keith Warnell 54 Khan Busby 9 Peter Gilham 38 Jackie Centa 9 Rik Garner 33 Martin Nolan 9 Tony Staines 26 Steve Friedman 9 Kit Jones 25 Howard Dawson 8 Sally Fitzgerald 24 Gavin Maxwell 8 Lindy Scarborough 20 David Franklin 8 Peter Ratcliff 18 Paul Bryan 7 David Craig 17 Ted Roberts 6 Richard Centa 17 Peter Watson 6 Donald Maciver 16 Rob Howard 5 Fred Ling 14 Peter Cartwright 4 Graham Morris 13 Jonathan Gibbs 2

Pete Walters

Put your brains in gear, please Rounds 1 & 2: Answers

Motoring Miscellany

1. Sergio Perez (1 point) 2. Sochi (1point) 3. Shop steward at BL Longbridge (1 point) + Derek Robinson (1 point) 4. The Grand Tour (1 point) + Amazon (1 point) 5. Barcelona (1 point) 6. 305 (1 point) 7. Urea solution (1 point) + Reducing nitrogen oxide emissions (1 point) 8. Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (1 point) 9. Phil Irving (1 point) 10. Williams (1 point) 11. RAW Striker Ltd (formerly RAW Engineering) (1 point) 12. Elle va (French for ‘She Goes’) (1 point) 13. Tamworth, Staffs (1 point) 14. Selwyn Francis Edge + 1902, Napier (1 point) 15. Silverstone GP Circuit (1 point) 16. 1980 (1 point) 17. Richard Burns (1 point) 18. Monteverdi (1 point) 19. Mika Salo (1 point) 20. 44 (1 point) 21. Ferdinand Porsche (1 point) 22. Adelaide (1 point) 23. Marathon de la Route (1 point) + Liege-Sofia-Liege Rally (1 point) 24. Spanish (1 point) 25. J.G.Parry-Thomas (1 point) 26. Citroen (1 point)

Formula One Drivers Wordsearch

Renault : ,

Ferrari : Michael Schumacher,

McLaren : Kimi Raikonnen, Juan Pablo Montoya,

Honda : Jenson Button, Rubens Barichello

Sauber : Jaques Villeneuve, ,

Toyota : Ralf Schumacher,

Williams : , Nico Rosberg

Red Bull : , , Robert Doornbos

Toro Rosso : , Scott Speed

Spyker : Tiago Monteiro, Christian Albers

Super Aguri : , , Sakon Yamamoto, Frank Montagny

Something Old by Pete Walters

Older members of the Herts County Auto & Aero Club will remember receiving an annual Members Handbook, roughly the pocket-size shown on the opposite page. It had a durable hard outer cover, within which were stitched 36 pages including the names and addresses of all paid-up members. How times have changed, with data protection laws!

In the upper image you may notice that the club committee includes a Lord, a Major, a Chief Superintendant and a Wing Commander. You may also notice three names that appear on trophies today: Blackley, Harter and Wilcocks.

In the lower image notice that HCA&AC membership was one guinea …but for three pounds and half-a-crown you could include associate membership of the RAC, with the loan of a car badge and a key to their telephone boxes if you ever needed assistance. Of course, you could also buy the HCA&AC car badge, plus badges for your tie and lapels (ties being correct attire).

In the first history page, it is amusing that the club was founded to fight the imposition of local speed limits and inevitably began organising speed events! Typical was the Aston Clinton Hill Climb that ran through the estate of Alfred de Rothschild, who provided spacious marquees with copious supplies of lobster, salmon, strawberries and champagne. Famous competitors included W O Bentley, Victor Riley and Lionel Martin (hence naming his car the Aston Martin).

These images are from a set of five handbooks sent to us by Michael Clark (as in the trophy). He was a member for many decades and his family garage business was Grays of Hatfield on the Great North Road, beside the roundabout just north of the railway station. In 1956 he had purchased the Triumph TR2 shown below, which he used to take some spare keys to a Minor Traveller customer at Hatfield House, where the family invited him to see them again, leading to a romance with Josephine who became his wife and mother to two sons.

Sadly, Josephine died of breast cancer in 1982. Michael is now 87 and he wrote us a well presented letter to accompany the handbooks, so we can keep them safe for the future.

Something New by Pieter Volters

Nissan has taken a LEAF out of its own book, General Motors will launch fleets of fully by trialling new autonomous driving technology autonomous robo-taxis in USA cities by 2019, around its Oppama factory before public release.

expecting the technology to rapidly improve. Modified LEAFs tow trolleys carrying parts and By running as a service, GM should earn at least finished vehicles around the plant, autonomously. ten times more than actually selling the vehicles. Passenger charges will be 40% lower than Uber The tow car has an array of cameras and laser and other human-driven ride-hailing services. scanners to detect lane markings, kerbs and other hazards . This data is processed with GPS mapping Meanwhile research by the University of Illinois and wireless datacomms to computers at the heart reveals that adding a few (say 5%) autonomous of the production infrastructure, to orchestrate a vehicles can eliminate the stop-go driving of safe system that monitors adverse weather and low humans in traffic, reducing accident risk and light to control speeds and automatic stopping. lowering fuel consumption by up to 40%. This should eliminate “phantom traffic jams” that Production efficiency is improved by dynamic sometimes occur despite the absence of merges, route optimising and by avoiding the cost of rails, lane changes, bottlenecks or other disruptions. magnetic guides and other infrastructure.

To meet the need for combining high drive torque with high speeds in EVs, NSK has developed a power hub that combines two separate electric motors with a transmission that includes two planetary gears.

Controlling the speed and torque of the two motors provides smooth gear-changing. In high gear mode, the two motors revolve in the same direction. For low gearing, they revolve in opposite directions.

“In wheel” electric vehicles do not need separate engines and power transmission components, allowing more cabin space. The drive force to each wheel can be controlled independently (torque vectoring). Imagine using this hub on a McPherson strut with computer-linked steering, geometry and damping.

Electric Aircraft too?

To reduce CO2 emissions, research has begun on hybrid electric propulsion for commercial aircraft.

Battery range and charging times are A demonstrator built by Airbus Industries, Rolls current (!) concerns for electric vehicles. Royce (jets) and Siemens should fly by 2020. The test-bed is a BAe 146 short-haul airliner, with one of IONITY is a venture to construct and operate a its 4 gas turbines replaced by a 2MW electric motor. network of 400 high-speed high-power charging

stations for electric vehicles across Europe by 2020. The proportion of electric power will gradually

The first 20 will open in 2018 on major routes in increase, to explore the challenges of thermal Germany, Norway and Austria about 120 Km apart. effects, altitude, thrust management, electrical Each station will have multiple chargers complying dynamics and electromagnetic compatibility.

with the European Combined Charging System at The aim is to mature the technology and safety to levels up to 350 kW for short charge times. establish certification requirements and provide Founding partners include BMW Group, Daimler training for future generations of design. AG (Mercedes), Ford and VW/Audi/Porsche plus other manufacturers joining later. Meanwhile, a battery-driven 5-seater air taxi has already flown, using 36 software-controlled electric Meanwhile the UK Government is committing motors to take off vertically and transition £500M for Highways England to install plug-in automatically to horizontal flight (see below). charge points every 20 miles on the motorway The next Lilium prototype should travel up to network and also test the viability of dynamic 300kph, but will never be for sale as it will be run wireless power transfer to charge without stopping. as an on-demand service to avoid the traffic jams This requires magnetic field coils to be embedded and undercut the cost of normal road taxis. beneath the road surface and installed in vehicles (The same commercial concept as General Motors) that are likely to be for transport businesses.

Fisker sports cars have filed a patent for a 3D solid state battery that can charge in one minute and hold 2.5 times the energy of current lithium ion cells ...but it will require heavy charging systems.

A more practical UK project by Nexeon is doubling the range of existing Li-ion cells to 400 miles. This replaces the graphite anodes with silicon and adds a new polymer to ensure anode/binder cohesion over a lifetime of charges, as drop-in replacements. Curren tly there are many new options for flying cars, the strongest of which is the Daimler Volocopter.

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Daimler AG announces a new electric car

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