Classic and Competition Car September 2014 Issue 48 Formula E British Hill Climb Shelsley GT Cup Silverstone VSCC 80th Bentley Drivers Club Anniversary © Simon Wright Classic and Competition Car is published by Contents simonwrightphotos.com High View Drive, Kingswinford, West Midlands DY6 8HT E-mail [email protected] Page 3 News. Tel 07905 435973 Page 14 ERA elebration at Shelsley Walsh Check out our new updated WEB site at Page 15 CarFest South www.classicandcompetitioncar.com regularly for Page 17 VSCC 80th Anniversary week additional photo galleries, wall papers and other additional content and join our Facebook Group Page 18 VSCC 80th Anniversary Hill Climb Classic and Competition Car. Page 23 VSCC Prescott Hill Climb To Subscribe for free and be notified when the Page 27 VSCC Straight line sprint, Santa Pod next issue is published please click here. To Page 31 VSCC Vintage Day Out check out our web site with additional photos please click here Page 34 Archive Photo of the Month Our Team. Simon Wright - Editor. Page 35 MGCC Race meeting, Donington Park Simon has been photographing Page 39 Coventry Classic Car Breakfast Club and reporting on motor races for many years. Served an Page 42 Wolseley Owners Club meeting, Coventry engineering apprenticeship many years ago. Big fan of the Porsche Page 45 Bonneville Speed week. 917 Page 49 Bentley Drivers Club Race Meeting, Silverstone Pete Austin. Page 53 British Hill Climb Championship, Shelsley Walsh Pete is the man for Historic racing, with an extensive archive of black Page 57 MSVR Race meeting, Silverstone. and white images covering the last few decades of motorsport in Page 60 GT Cup Silverstone Britain. Very keen on BRM. Page 63 Guide to Formula E Mick Herring Page 70 Closing Shot Mick's first love is GT racing, including Historic, especially the Lola T70. Has an extensive All content is copyright classicandcompetitioncar.com unless knowledge of all things GT. Front Cover. Ian Baxter - 1935 MG otherwise stated. All photographs are copyright the original Bellevue Special at the VSCC Prescott Hill photographer and cannot be used for commercial purposes Climb © Pete Austin unless by prior approval of the original copyright holder. We try Janet Wright. Other pictures © Simon Wright to ensure accurate and truthful reporting but if you spot an error, Janet has been taking please contact us and will we verify and correct accordingly. We photographs for many years, and do not organise any events which are mentioned and we are not is also very skilled in video. She responsible if the event does not take place or is cancelled. likes Aston Martins Please contact the event organiser before making a long trip. Classic and Competition car September 2014 Page 2 Editorial. This issue we visit the past, present and the future. The past News is well represented with the VSCC 80th Anniversary celebrations at Peterborough, Santa Pod and Prescott. The present is the GT Cup at Silverstone and the MG Car Club meeting at Donington. The future is the new electric FIA Formula E championship which starts this month in China. The initial testing has all been conducted at Donington Park where the ten teams and a host of previous Grand Prix drivers have electrified the crowds. The cars are fast, but seem strange with no noise as they approach and a soft gentle whooshing sound as they depart. Due to current limitations in battery life, each driver has 2 cars and will swop cars during the pitstop. © Mick Herring Jeff Wyatt joins British GT. By Mick Herring. Reigning GT Cup champion Jeff Wyatt has joined forces with Declan Jones to race in the GT4 class of British GT for the two remaining rounds ahead of a projected full season in 2015. The Milton Keynes driver will retain his association with his regular GT Cup BMW team, Geoff Steel Racing, who have taken over the preparation and running of the BMW M3 GT4. The ABG-prepared BMW saw action (sometimes rather too much action) in the early rounds of 2014 British GT with Peter Belshaw and Declan at the wheel. Having seen the potential of the car demonstrated at the Silverstone round, Jeff is confident of his and Declan's ability to challenge for class wins at the remaining Brands Hatch and Donington British GT © Mick Herring Classic and Competition car September 2014 Page 3 © Janet Wright GT40 celebrates 50 years at Sywell Classic - Pistons and Props. This month will see the second Sywell Classic - Pistons and Props weekend on the 27th and 28th of September 2014 at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire. A parade of Ford GT40s will demonstrate on the mile long runway which is transformed into a demonstration circuit with a right hand bend, long straight with midway chicane and a 180 degree hairpin before the flying finish.The GT40 Enthusiasts Club will lead the celebrations to celebrate 50 years since the first prototype examples were announced and the iconic vehicles competed at Le Mans for the first time. For more information visit www.sywellclassic.com Plato most successful BTCC driver at Snetterton. Jason Plato scored a double victory at Snetterton in the British Touring car Championship meeting on 3rd August 2014. After putting his MG6 GT on Pole position by nearly half a second from Colin Turkington in the E-Bay BMW, Jason won both the first and second races from Turkington. The third race with the reverse grid saw Jason finish in 4th place overall to put himself back in with a chance of the 2014 BTCC title. The MG KX Clubcard Fuel Save driver was already the most successful BTCC driver at Snetterton before his two wins this year which make 13 Touring Car victories for Plato at the A Ford GT40 in action. © Simon Wright Norfolk circuit. Classic and Competition car September 2014 Page 4 © KPB Photography Mike Conway to debut for Toyota. Toyota Racing test and reserve driver Mike Conway will make his race debut with the team in the fourth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship at the circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas on the 20th September. The Englishman who has already won two Stokes Goes Harry Flatters For the Win. races in this years IndyCar Series, will deputise for The SGC Printing Harry Flatters Rally provided its usual quota of thrilling action Kazuki Nakajima who will be racing Super Formula in on the high speed roads of the Epynt Military Training Area while David Stokes Japan. and Dessie Nutt remain tied for the lead in the Historic Rally Car Register managed Mintex MSA British Historic Rally Championship. Dursley driver Stokes and co-driver Guy Weaver were the early pace setters among the registered contenders in category 2 for cars registered between 1968 and 1974, setting a time three seconds quicker than their closest rivals and fellow Escort crew, Simon Tysoe from Nuneaton and co-driver Cliffy Simmons from Coleford. In fact, that is the way things would remain throughout the event’s 13 stages while Northern Ireland duo Stanley Orr and Brian Cairns would claim third spot despite it being the duo’s first visit to the iconic Welsh venue in around 30 years. © Simon Wright Classic and Competition car September 2014 Page 5 © Mick Herring Smith has winning ways with Passat After scoring his second win of the season in the Team BMR Volkswagen Passat CC at Snetterton at the beginning of August, Irish driver Aron Smith has confirmed that he will remain with Team BMR for the 2015 Dunlop MSA British Touring car Championship. The Dublin driver scored his first win in the Passat this year at the third race at Oulton park, where he narrowly beat former champion Gordon Shedden in his Honda Civic Tourer by just 0.846 seconds. His victory at Snetterton was even closer as Mat Jackson in the Airwaves Ford Focus ST Mk III was only 0.444 of a second behind the Passat at the finish. © Janet Wright Tomlinson joins board of BRDC. Ginetta chairman Lawrence Tomlinson was appointed to the Board of Directors for the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC) at their annual general meeting on the 31st July 2014. Following a vacancy on the Board, Lawrence was proposed for the position by Former World Champion Nigel Mansell CBE and seconded by another former World Champion Damon Hill OBE in respect of his enthusiasm for British Motorsport and extensive expertise in business. Tomlinson hopes to provide the Board with his experience as a successful entrepreneur to aid in the development of Silverstone. He is also committed to the progression of young drivers and in 2013 the Michelin Ginetta GT4 Supercup was named as a qualifying championship that can be used towards membership. The BRDC is an exclusive club for the Classic and Competition Car Facebook Group We now have a Facebook Group - Classic and Competition Car - where you most successful racing drivers from Great Britain and the Commonwealth. can join and keep up to date with additional Photographs, postings, and extra Tomlinson was invited to join as a former winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours event photo galleries. Please feel free to add personal postings and your own in 2006. photos. Classic and Competition car September 2014 Page 6 Series Preview 2014/15 MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series - Big summer ahead for MSC F5000 Series There's a big summer ahead for the MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series with rounds in Australia and here culminating in a support slot at the New Zealand Grand Prix meeting at Manfeild in February. Last season the local association paired with its Australian counterpart to run two separate but complimentary calendars with the opportunity to contest meetings on both sides of the Tasman but only score MSC series points at rounds here.