BRDC NEWS No. 120 – 31 October 2012 www.brdc.co.uk CONGRATULATIONS The final Gold and Silver Star points have been confirmed. Many congratulations to Rob Huff who has won the Gold Star for the second year in succession and best wishes for a similarly successful conclusion to the World Touring Car Championship in Macau in two and half weeks time. Congratulations are also due to Gordon Shedden for winning the British Touring Car Championship and also the BRDC Silver Star. That’s Touring Car Championship number one and Silver Star number two for Gordon. Well done! The full final standings in both competitions are listed at the end of this newsletter. WALTER HAYES TROPHY – SATURDAY 3 & SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2012 The Walter Hayes Trophy, now the largest race meeting for Formula Ford cars in the world, will take place at Silverstone on 3-4 November. This will be the last event of the season and on Sunday from 5.30pm there will be fireworks and a bonfire at the Circuit. The Clubhouse will be open on Saturday 9am – 5pm serving a 2/3 course lunch (see menu below) and on Sunday 9am – 6pm serving a Carvery. Starter King Prawn scampi and tartar sauce Potato and leek soup with Truffle oil (v) Main Course Lancashire hot pot with braised red cabbage Vegetable hot pot (v) Dessert Treacle Tart with Custard Lunch will cost just £5 per head for the Member and their Primary Guest if booked in advance. Please contact Aspire Hospitality on 01327 855 104 or by email: [email protected] if you would like to book lunch. Also taking place at Silverstone this weekend is Silverstone MotorSport UK. This is a new motor sport exhibition to Silverstone and will showcase all categories of national motor sport. More than 100 exhibitors from national motor sport will be displaying their services and products, including car manufacturers, national racing series, racing clubs, suppliers and industry associations. The entry fee will be waived to those wearing a BRDC Member or guest pass and there will be a minibus shuttle service running between the Clubhouse and the Wing on both days. CAMPSITE SHUTDOWN - REMINDER The campsite will close for winter after the Walter Hayes meeting. Could Members please ensure all motor homes are removed from the campsite as soon as reasonably possible after this meeting. Thank you. FILM NIGHT – THE SNAKE & THE STALLION – THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2012 SILVERSTONE WING We will be returning to The Wing’s Auditorium on Thursday 22 November to show the extraordinary film of how Carroll Shelby, together with a group of Southern Californian hot-rodders and the Cobra took on the might of Enzo Ferrari and his GTO in the mid 60s. Ten years in the making, this fast-paced, split screen epic film is the definitive and certainly most comprehensive film ever made on the subject. The drinks reception will be at 6pm with the film being shown promptly at 6.30pm. Following the film there will be a Q&A with at least one of the drivers featured in the film (who is also a Member of this Club, of course). A two course dinner will be served afterwards with a glass of wine. Tickets cost £30.00 per person and Members are welcome to bring guests. Please contact Hannah Thompson to book your place [email protected] or 01327 850 925. BRDC ANNUAL AWARDS – MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2012 There has been an extremely strong take up for the ever popular Club Awards at the Grand Connaught Rooms on Monday 3 December. If you are keen to attend, but have not yet returned your booking form, you are encouraged to do so at the earliest opportunity. As per last year, there is a limit on numbers and leaving your booking until the last minute, could result in disappointment. SOCIAL LUNCH (MEMBERS AND GUESTS) – WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 The next BRDC Social lunch will be held on Wednesday 14 November in the Clubhouse. Guests are welcome to attend this lunch. To reserve your place please contact Aspire Hospitality on [email protected] or on 01327 855 104. Lunch will cost just £5 for the Member if booked in advance. BRDC CHRISTMAS LUNCH – THURSDAY 13 DECEMBER 2012 This year’s BRDC Christmas lunch will be held on Thursday 13 December in the Clubhouse. Lunch is open to Members and guests and will cost £27 per person. Due to the popularity of this event Members may only book up to three guests each this year. A reserve list will be created for those Members who would like to bring more than three guests and these requests will be dealt with on a first come first served basis if space allows nearer the time. To book please contact Aspire Hospitality by email on [email protected] or 01327 855 104. LOTUS 72 TV DOCUMENTARY Members may be interested in the forthcoming documentary “Grand Prix Icon: Lotus 72” which will air on Motors TV at the end of November and then through December. The programme features newly-shot interviews with drivers John Miles and Emerson Fittipaldi and also the late Peter Warr (Lotus Team Manager). It also features a plethora of un-published photographs of the car and previously unseen movie film. A longer DVD version will be available after Christmas, please visit www.lotus72dvd.com for further information. FOR INFORMATION: NOTICE OF DEATH – MIKE HORTON Although not a BRDC Member, Mike was well known in the sport and a frequent guest at the Club. His family have asked if details of Mike’s Memorial Service can be publicised. It will be held at Crudwell Church near Malmesbury at 2.30pm on November 5th with refreshments afterwards at Peter Lovett’s house. If you would like to attend please contact Peter on 01666 577460. FINAL GOLD STAR POINTS 2012 POSITION DRIVER CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS 1st Rob Huff WTCC 305 2nd Ryan Dalziel GrandAm/WEC/ALMS/LM24 250 3rd James Winslow F3 234 4th Mark Webber F1 208 5th Lewis Hamilton MBE F1 193 =6th Jenson Button MBE F1 177 =6th Nick Tandy Porsche Super Cup/IGTO 177 8th James Calado GP2 165 9th Adrian Quaife-Hobbs AutoGP 162 =10th Sam Bird Formula Renault 3.5 135 =10th Allan McNish GrandAm/WEC/LM24 135 12th Max Chilton GP2 130 13th Oliver Jarvis FIAGT1/WEC/LM24/Blancpain 129 14th Sean Edwards Porsche Super Cup/Blancpain 119 15th Guy Smith ALMS 117 16th Gary Paffett DTM 116 17th Richard Westbrook ALMS/GrandAm/Blancpain 114 =18th Dario Franchitti GrandAm/ICS/ALMS 104 =18th Chris van der Drift AutoGP 104 20th Jamie Green DTM 92 21st Jolyon Palmer GP2 90 22nd Oliver Gavin ALMS/GrandAm 87 23rd Ryan Briscoe Indy Car Series/V8 Supercars 81 24th Robin Liddell GrandAm(GT) 73 25th Tom Kimber-Smith ELMS/ALMS/Le Mans 24 Hour/WEC 68 26th Daniel McKenzie F2 58 27th John Martin WEC(LMP2) 52 28th Martin Plowman ALMS 48 29th Justin Wilson GrandAM/ICS 47 30th Oli Webb Indy Lights 42.5 31st David Brabham LM24(WEC)/WEC/V8 Supercars 42 32nd Paul Di Resta F1 40 =33rd Marino Franchitti ALMS(LMPC) 36 =33rd Jonny Kane WEC 36 =33rd Danny Watts WEC 36 36th Alexander Sims ELMS/F3 33 =37th Karun Chandhok LM24(WEC)WEC 26 =37th Peter Dumbreck LM24(WEC)/WEC 26 =39th Adam Carroll FIA GT1 25 =39th Colin Turkington WTCC 25 =41st Anthony Davidson ILMC 21 =41st Duncan Tappy Blancpain 21 =43rd Brendon Hartley WEC(LMP2)/ELMS 19 =43rd Warren Hughes WEC(LMP2)/ELMS 19 =43rd Richard Lyons SuperGT/V8 Supercars 19 GOLD STAR POINTS CONTINUED POSITION DRIVER CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS =46th Steven Kane ALMS 16 =46th Johnny Mowlem ALMS 16 48th Andy Priaulx MBE ILMC(GTEPro)/DTM 15 49th Alex MacDowall WTCC 14 50th Mike Conway ICS 12 51st Robbie Kerr WEC(LMP2) 10 =52nd David Coulthard MBE DTM 7 =52nd Darren Turner Le Mans 24 Hours(GTEPro) 7 =52nd Lewis Williamson GP3 7 =55th Alex Davison V8 Supercars 5 =55th Ralph Firman SuperGT 5 =55th James Nash WTCC 5 =55th Stefan Wilson Indy Lights 5 FINAL SILVER STAR POINTS 2012 POSITION DRIVER CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS 1st Gordon Shedden BTCC 217* 2nd Michael Meadows Porsche Carrera Cup 207* 3rd Matt Neal BTCC 205* 4th Jason Plato BTCC 201* 5th Andrew Jordan BTCC 164* 6th Rob Collard BTCC 160* 7th Mat Jackson BTCC 155* 8th Tom Onslow-Cole BTCC 132* 9th Michael Caine British GT 88 10th David Ashburn British GT 82 11th Jonathan Adam British GT 53 12th Richard Westbrook British GT 52 13th Andrew Howard British GT 51 14th Oliver Bryant British GT 47 15th Tim Harvey British GT 43 =16th David Jones British GT 26 =16th Godfrey Jones British GT 26 18th Paul O'Neill BTCC 22 19th Phil Keen British GT 20 20th Nick Tandy British GT 16 21st Aaron Scott British GT 13 22nd Lawrence Tomlinson British GT 12 23rd Stephen Jelley British GT 10 24th Luke Hines British GT 8 25th Will Bratt BTCC 7 26th Joe Osborne British GT 5 27th Anthony Reid British GT 4 28th Piers Johnson British GT 3 NB: Silver Star points above show the 'best 12' results of the Member's season. * denotes Members counting their best 12 results AUTOSPORT INTERNATIONAL SHOW 2013 – 10-13 JANUARY 2013, NEC BIRMINGHAM Haymarket Exhibitions have again kindly offered complimentary passes for BRDC Members for all four days at the Autosport International Show at the NEC in January. Tickets are available on a first come first served basis and are limited to two tickets per Member.