FORC Newsletter November 2019
Fressingfield Oily Rag Club Newsletter November 2019 FORC: “A loose affiliation of motor sport enthusiasts”. November Meeting Preview Johnny Mowlem at FORC Wednesday 20th November Johnny, our November guest, coming fresh from the Fuji 6 Hours WEC race, is considered to be among the worlds elite sportscar drivers. His career embraces racing at Le Mans, Spa, Daytona, Sebring, Mosport, Laguna Seca, Shanghai, in Porsche, Ferrari, Lotus, Ginetta, Lola, Oreca, Aston Martin, and more. Johnny is currently racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) GTE Am class in the Red River Sport/AF Corse Ferrari 488GTE Evo. In between times, in an exhaustive programme, they manage to compete in other endurance races outside the WEC too! A contemporary of Allan McNish, Gil de Ferran, and Dario Franchitti on Jackie Stewart's "staircase of talent", Johnny moved to sportscars in 1996, winning the British Porsche Cup Class 1 championship, and the following year all 17 races of the British Porsche Cup. He is a race, class, and championship winner in all the major international sportscar series. An evening not to be missed. Make sure you arrive early for the warm up film he has supplied too ..! Booking is open – do it now! The View From The Editorial Desk For our October meeting rather than featuring a guest speaker at Stradbroke we rang the changes and moved to Classic Team Lotus at Hethel. Judging by the follow up comments and dozens of pictures you have sent in this idea seems to have been voted a cracking evening by the capacity120 crowd who booked to come! It is sure to be repeated.
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