CLUB AUTOSPORT Champion of Brands HUMBLE PYE Rivett eyes Champion of Brands slate after return The voice of club racing FORMULA FORD 1600 ACE MATT Ray that World Endurance champion Pre-’80s Endurance Rivett will contest the remainder of the Anthony Davidson piloted for the works made epic debut Champion of Brands series as he returns team during the 1999 Formula Ford to racing after a five-year absence. Festival. Rivett’s father, Chris, had Rivett, 36, won the 2006 Castle formerly used the car for sprinting. Combe FF1600 title but took a break Rivett qualified 10th after engine and from racing after the 2010 Walter Hayes gearbox issues, which forced him to Trophy to concentrate on family and withdraw from the race. business matters. Rivett entered last “Obviously this weekend didn’t go weekend’s first CoB round in the 1997 to plan,” said Rivett. “I’ve wanted to get back into racing for a while, and James Rivett’s back Beckett’s series is really competitive. in FF1600 “We reworked the Ray over the winter to get it into competitive shape but before this weekend I’d done 20 laps on six-year-old tyres, so it was eye- opener running fresh tyres in qualifying. It’s a great sensation being back out there again though.” Formula 1 commentator Ben Edwards HAWKINS was fifth on his CoB return last weekend. JONES “HSCC’S PRE’80 Goodwood Revival Cobra success honoured ENDURANCE MAKES THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE £5,000,000, will be at Goodwood, Shelby Daytona Coupe’s world marking the first time they will have A FLYING START” championship sportscar success ever been together in the same place. in 1965 will be celebrated at this Two are expected to race in the RAC he opportunity to race on Indeed, there is much to look year’s Goodwood Revival. Tourist Trophy and all six will take part Silverstone’s Historic Grand forward to this season. At an TPrix circuit without the crowds exclusive soiree in Goodwood 69 The cars were built in 1964 and ’65 in a special demonstration along with to take on the Ferrari 250 GTO in the other racing Cobras in the September and duration of the annual House last Thursday, Lord March GT class and while the Scuderia still 11-13 event. Silverstone Classic has made the talked excitedly of the 23rd Festival won the International Championship All the Cobras will be based in the HSCC’s International Trophy of Speed (June 26-28) at which of Makes title in 1965, the Cobra won concrete shelters behind the Jackie meeting hugely popular with seven of the eight Mercedes-Benz the GT title. Stewart Pavilion, which will be competitors. Last weekend’s edition 300SLRs are already promised to All six original Shelby Daytona dressed to replicate the Sebring featured the club’s full palette of celebrate the 60th anniversary of Sir Coupes, each now valued in excess of pits from 1965. classes, plus Flavien and Vanessa Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson’s Marcais’ GT & Sports Car Cup (in its 1955 Mille Miglia victory, NASCAR 10th season) and the inaugural king Richard Petty will run his newly- Pre-’80 Endurance Series race, a restored Plymouth Superbird and joint promotion between the parties. MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi What a start that was! Three will weave his magic. Shelby Daytona Cosworth DFV-powered sports- Looking further ahead, our prototypes – two Lolas (one with generous host also previewed the at ’65 Le Mans T LA Le Mans pedigree) and one of 18th Motor Circuit Revival Meeting Jorg Obermoser’s delicious Toj (September 11-13), which includes confections in its Warsteiner livery a Bruce McLaren tribute, all six – two-litre Group 6 cars of the ’70s, Shelby American Daytona Cobra F3 Cup brutish V8 Chevrolet Corvette, De coupes 50 years after their GT-class Tomaso Pantera and Ford GT40, a World Championship victory and an Crossey aims for more F3 Porsche 934/5. Even Bruce all-Ferrari race. Stapleton’s Morgan +8, which As I lick my lips in anticipation, FORMULA FORD REGULAR ASH gone better. We had an ECU-mapping contested World Championship it’s back to superb grass Crossey is hoping for additional runs in problem and because of that I had a events, graced a spectacular field roots club racing for the F3 Cup this year after making his few problems getting the car off the that also embraced Historic me this weekend, debut in the category at Brands Hatch line at the starts. Sports 2000s. with the 750 last weekend. “I’d like another chance this year, As an evolution of the Martini Motor Club’s Former Castle Combe FF1600 perhaps with a more modern car.” Trophy series, for which support eagerly awaited frontrunner Crossey secured a late deal has been patchy in the face of debut at Croft. to join the Enigma Motorsport team to Crossey suffered Peter Auto’s European-based race its Dallara F301 at the Kent track. from ECU trouble CER championship, the Pre-’80 Marcus The 21-year-old from Bristol took a best promotion is going to grow. This finish of fifth place from the three outings. year’s trifecta of tasters visits Pye “I had never even sat in the car until Brands Hatch’s GP circuit (at July’s Friday for the test and it was amazing HSCC Superprix) and the wonderful how much downforce the Dallara had Dijon-Prenois, all period World compared to the FF1600 cars I’m used Championship venues. to,” said Crossey. “The races could have HAWKINS Liguori leads Hadfield in all-Lola scrap INTERNATIONAL TROPHY SILVERSTONE,MAY 16-17 HSCC Liguori il vincitore in Lola battle MICHELE LIGUORI STEERED HIS third. The sister cars of Jon Car action but his Mustang faded howling Lola-DFV T292 to victory Minshaw/Graeme Dodd and long- after locking horns with Neil over the Gitanes T282 of Leo time leader Sam Hancock followed. Brown’s similar car from the off. Voyazides and Simon Hadfield – Martin Melling and Graeme Dodd Brown won from double champion 70 Jean-Louis Lafosse/Reine Wisell/ emerged victorious in the Jaguar Tim Davies’s two-litre Lotus Hugues de Fierlant’s 1973 Le Mans Heritage Challenge, with the Cortina as New Zealander Warren mount – as the new Pre-1980 E-type of Sam Hancock/Ben Briggs won a British Commonwealth Endurance Series made a very Shuckburgh running out of fuel on Mustang pugilism bout with promising debut at the HSCC’s the final lap. John Cleland (Mk1) and Canadian Peter Hallford. annual International Trophy feast. Nick Finburgh (XK120) shed wheels John Cleland loses With French and German drivers Liguori scarpered as Voyazides, at Brooklands and Woodcote a wheel off his Jag at the sharp end and eight nations in whose Friday test was wiped out respectively, as John Clark/Richard the mix, the 1000cc F3 races gave by fuel-pressure problems, found Shaw growled home second ahead of glimpses of the screamer era’s gang his rhythm. Hadfield clawed back Martin Hunt/Pat Blakeney-Edwards. retirement, freeing Thornton, warfare of 1964-70. Francois Derossi past John Burton’s Chevron B26 Jaguar’s 1988 Le Mans hero Andy pursued by Phil Hall (F2 March 752) (Chevron) and Roland Fischer and the newly acquired B19 of Wallace (Mk1) and Calum Lockie and the F5000s of Paul Campfield (Tecno) led, but Peter Thompson Andrew Kirkaldy/Martin O’Connell (XK120) topped classes in a fine field. (Chevron B24) and Ian Ashley (Lola (Brabham) and Simon Armer in a quality field. Greg Thornton (Surtees TS11) T300), who had a rear tyre explode (March) claimed one apiece. As at Donington, Voyazides and won Saturday’s monster Derek Bell crossing the finish line. A spirited Guards Trophy lead Hadfield triumphed in the GT & Trophy counter, shaped by a Evans rebounded from the duel between Andrew Kirkaldy and Sports Car Cup showpiece, multi-car melee at Copse,which was puncture with the drive of the Simon Hadfield in Chevrons was completing a hat-trick for Voyazides triggered when Neil Glover – whose weekend in Sunday’s race. Starting defused when Hadfield tripped over in the Shelby American-sanctioned start from fifth in the unique F5000 26th, he wrung everything from his John Davison (Lotus Elan ‘Gold Bug’) Daytona Cobra Coupe. Will Nuthall/ Chevron B37 was ballistic – lifted 1600cc BDA, taking the lead on lap at Becketts. Kirkaldy and Hadfield Tony Wood finished a strong second to avoid tagging poleman Richard five to the delight of family and relayed Martin O’Connell and in Wood’s Lister-Jaguar, with Evans’s FAtlantic March 79B. friends in the BRDC stand, whose Michael Schryver respectively, but Kirkaldy/O’Connell (Jaguar E-type) Evans led until a puncture forced cheers drowned the engine noise. they remained well apart. Reigning Period F5000 ace Ashley – forced champion Mike Whitaker to switch to 13-inch diameter rear commanded the Pre-’66 GT wheels as he had no 15-inch spare brigade in his TVR Griffith. – harassed Thornton before lunging Having marked his rivals’ cards past into Brooklands. with third and second at Thruxton’s Mark Dwyer (March 742) won an Historic FF1600 opener, novice exciting F2 class from the 782s of Richard Mitchell (Merlyn) nailed Steve Allen and Swede Torgny his first victory – at mentor Mike Johansson. Max Bartell (ex-Rupert O’Brien’s SpeedSport base – after Keegan Chevron B38) earned a sensational battle with Simon Classic F3 honours, but there was Toyne, breakthrough poleman James late FAtlantic drama when, having Hadfield and Rob Wainwright. carved his way through the field, Wainwright crossed the line 0.209s LKER WA John Finch vaulted Andy Huxtable’s ahead of Mitchell after yellow-flag : Thornton (left) fights it out with Evans sister Chevron B34.