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OOLI 'Hltll11 Cillfl\\Arb111 \Y II Were Favourable for Fas~ ~ There seems to be a national Ire:; " -:' -::- ~ "~ .• ,, '''c~,,,nt for former masters of the art to return. Geoff Rollason, the "almost" Welshman from tt."'·::: .....:, :" S"':~£" ' 2 showed that the form he displayed back in 1968 has not deserted him. His Lotus 69 FtJ.!, 2-:: '.; "~':_"~'::: =.,-",~,. -"ie Peterson engine shot up the damp hillinatime 0135.44, a nearmiracleinviewofthe CO-::::-;;O~ .. ~ ,,:F ~ · -.=:.i:S. the Cardiff garage owner, showed that he is still a force to be taken into account and ma"s;;~:': i" -ot,: ~ ..." "'g" single seater class after a struggle with Pembrokeshire's Michael Lewis(1.6MallockU2TC /0.1;';9." ·O~-T1-rP' 10 pretend that cond.:>:-s p'"" . , • OOLI 'HlTll11 CILlfl\\ArB111 \Y II were favourable for fas~ ~. - ~ .. climbing on this part:;;. 2- CE / •.: .. :: -:,e ,2< Z",j$,on. to show its potential. A crash at the April meeting was Incessant drizzle, followed "=-"" ' ~ ' :C,' . '.'" ' ·.·;i-' s>,owers followed by an appearance at Talbenny, a repair beirg during the course of t'le ;C'''2--:: : - -:.: ,: :- 23:: .: ' Wales effected in rapid time. Just in time for this meeting, David Centre of the BARC te ::.: ; :'~:" ::, ':- .., r -. :: :>ne run. caught 'flu and left Billy to fly the flag. Chris Cram er's 1.3 Large quantities of s':.:::: ='. - ~:: ,,£: -: .. ":: s .\8'. onto U2 M k.11 BM C soon had the class taped and was followed the lower ra8ches Cl :"'i ' ,a ::- :)< -; :: :-& ",aedocks in by the Landar R7 of Sandy Hutcheon, another former being rutted bycontrac::, ; : ' =~ c- ; ',;,,= - --." :':nstTuc- Mini-man. It was heartening to notice that the new tion of a swimming ;::::: ::,":y \,.. ilof 1.3 GT/SR Class, unlike some classes, is getting off the course, soon right itsel'. ground. Wales' brightest ho::£O - : .. _: :-' " &, :,,_','g car class If some people were enjoying the sports car competition was, as usual. John Pas:::" '-: _. S·a:;.:wood. On this on this occasion, one person was not. This man was John occasion, John was driving -:: :~ , ~ -- e '328 Mini Cooper Northcroft. John made his malk at this hill in a Morgan and then a Britten MG Midget. The Midget gave way to he has driven at the hill S;~:2 " ',:~;::,on;n 1967 but the Marcos Volvo of Chris Boulter which won the 1969 also a Ginetta sports car, This::" ,~ 3", t~ at once was seen Chevron-Dixon Modsports title. At Pontyrool, John was in the capable hands of the lale C- ' ; ...a.,.c~~t has a Richard gunning for the Modsports honours when the car spun Longman modified Cosworth \;",,, e-~ ~0 el~arged from 998 to 1098cc. in the Avenue and split asunder; John luckily walked away unharmed, The accident occurred in the very same By the end of the afternoon, Ja'1'l u,l,xL,.:lately h3d spot as Miss Hopkinson's shunt on the preceding run. to count himself lucky to drive home with two thrd-h-class. The smaller racing car class was the property of Nicky Porter's very rapid 1328 Mini Cooper took the small Bristoiian, David Franklin. His Vixen-Imp VB5 fairly shot Touring Car Class. after a struggle, whilst Chris Seaman's up the 840 yards in 36.29, Ro!lason preventing this from 1.3 Toll Bar Garage MG Midget was the fastest 1300 standing as FTD. Boshier-Jones took the larger single Modsports Car. In the Marque Sports Car Class, the lower seater laurels from Micha91 Lewis at the end of a damp, division went again to Brian Kenyon in the 1.3 Austin miserable day. The Top 10 run off was quietly forgotten. Sprite he shares with Miss Pat Hopkinson. These two lost a little of their stranglehold on the Castrol/BARC Champion­ Once again, the South Wales lads of the BARC were ship, for which this meeting counted, when Pat demolished unluckY with their weather. Bets were then placed en the a park bench in the Avenue on one of her runs, Her conse­ Shell/RAC round of 16th July and the weather on that, quent time must be one of the slowest ever seen at this hill. day. RESULTS The larger Marque Sports Car Class contained a few Name Car Seconds nostalgia-inducing pieces of machinery. A notable non­ FTD arrival was one of the buttresses of the Pontypool hillclimb, G. Rallason 1.6 Lotus FVA 69 34.44 Howard Parsons. His white DB6, whilst no match for the Class Winners more highly tuned affairs, lends a touch of civility to the N. Porter 1.3 Mini Cooper 38.12 A. Boyle 1.0 Mini CoopEr 38.17 proceedings. Of those there, Malvern'S Bevil Harrison J. Davies 1.3 Mini Cooper 37.48 trounced our Tommy Pascoe (father of John), driving a B. Kenyan 1.3 .A.ustin Sprite 39.02 Morgan Family 4 and Porsche 356B respectively. B. Harrisson 1.6 Morgen 44.60 C. Seaman 1.3 MG Midget 3B.75 N. Pow 4.2 Jaguar E 41.83 David Morris is not having the happiest of seasons G. Whittingham 1.6 DMW-Ford 41.32 with his U2. The car's chassis is that of a Mk8, brought up C. Cram er 1.3 U2 Mk.1I E!~!.C 40.13 H. Hutchins 1.8 Bel 43.61 to Mk.11 spec. The engine, plans for which were cunningly D. Franklin 1.0 Vixen Irr.p V85 36.29 concealed over the winter, is a FV A. and the beast has yet P. Boshier-Jones 3.5 Brabham BT21-Buick 37.89 2<) \I"\~~ ~e~,-,t' improve his chances of succeS3 by dinging his Ginetta. ­ MAE's su:np on the scrutineering platform in practice. Some borrowed Araldite ensured that the Longman tuned device ran in the afternoon, much to the chagrin of Robin Leathert who whistled his 1.3 Spridget up in 34.58, 0.21 adrift of a new class record. John Houghton's Biota had a blown mill and never appeared. Tony Harrison mada one wonder whether there is anything in co:nmon law to prevent the average citizen fro:n driving Can-Am cars in the municipal park on a Sunday afternoon. LO:Jking even more frightening than the Channon Cobra, the 7.2 McLaren M12 skated up the hill with a PONTYPOOL ••• bellow and a cloud of dust. Not surprisingly, Jack Maurice's 1969 record set in the old Fry Ferrari 250LM took a drubbing, •• • THE PERFECT only to b3 further beaten by David Gocd's Martin BMB-FVC a couple of runs later and Good going to the record books. HILLCLIMB Spotty Smith did not bring his GT40; he brought a A frequent grouse about the RAC's hillclimb champion­ n.'lW Chevron B19-BMW. One was made suspicious when ship was that, whilst it would try to visit Jersey, the 10M one saw that. in the programme, the car was given a cubic Scotland and Ulster to attempt to live up to its national capacity of 3 litres whilst the average, run-of-the-mill status, it steadfastly found a way to avoid coming to Wales. Chevron BMW usually has a two litre banger. Spotty was This year, the South Wales centre of the BARC rr:anaged late to practice after a few trauma but soon had the machine to persuade the lads at Belgrave Square that Pontypool in the groove. This came as no surprise to those who saw a is just as good as Bouley Bay, Prescott and Doune, not to 6-r:otAlpine-tuned rr:i:l nestling neatly in Bolton-builtdevice. mention Wiscombe and Shelsey. Amongst ell this two-seater excit~ment, the Welsh Any doubts of whether the meeting would click, were still getting a look-in. David Morris showed that the whether the organisation was up to the task and whether FVA-engined Mallock is not an impracticable banger but the weather would hold were dispJlled'as practice went off a rapid hill climbing car. For once, it went A-OK and with but a few hitches, one of which being Jeff Hill's David was disappointed to hear that his sterling efforts tweaking of the Temple Meads Motors U2 Mk11. The were not rewarded with a new class record. He did have presence of the RAC's Mr. Neil Eason-Gibson no doubt the pleasure of beating Chris Cramer's 1.3 Team Castrol helped the fluidity of operations. U2 Mk11-BMC and the whistling, turbocharged Lotus As for the event itself, it surpassed the wildest ex­ 7 of Simaon Riley. pectations held out for it for the hill record went twice in Nigel Pow's 4.2 lighweight Jaguar E had little trouble in vanquishing Nick Green's Modsports Cobra which did the Top Ten run-off for championship entrants with the world's fastest market gardener, Sir Nicholas Williamson, not live up to Channon's earlier performance taking the event, FTD, another hill record and 11 points David Franklin used to frighten us all by revving an in the championship. As ever gracious in defeat was Imp over the 10,000 mark and living to tell the tale. The Tony Griffiths in the Kidderminster Motors Brabham-Repco king of the hi'l-lmps now rushes up these in a Vixen, Imp BT36X. The green 'un was r.owever no match for the red engined of course. Need I tell you that he won? Welshman 'un of Sir Nick, the little red March 712S scudding up the Rees Gilchrist was out of luck when his pretty Lotus 20/22 hill in 29.66, beating Griffiths by 0.01 on the last run of the lost its gears in its second attempt at the 1100 single seater day.
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