Class Legality Completed. Asthmatic Carbs on This Week and Then Wooden Brakes

seventies AN HSCC CHAMPIONSHIP SINCE 1996 February 2018 – No1 CLASS LEGALITY COMPLETED. ASTHMATIC CARBS ON THIS WEEK AND THEN WOODEN BRAKES. LAWRENCE ALEXANDER AND I LOVE YOU COS YOU FRICKING ROCK. ‘70s SPORTS CARS??!!! IT LITERALLY DOESN’T GET BETTER! BLACK TOP MEDIA HSCC 70s Road Sports – February 2018 comment Mallory Park,a historic motor sport venue nestled in the heart of the Leicestershire countryside, offers fantastic viewing opportunities for family and friends, as well as a fast demanding track for competitors. The HSCC have been working hard behind the The exciting date to add to your diaries is scenes to locate one more double header date Mallory Park, Sunday 10 June. to complete the Championship Calendars, for both 70s Road Sports and Historic Roadsports. It has been some years since the HSCC were at this pretty Leicestershire venue, which has been hosting motor sport events since 1956. A truly Historic circuit, Mallory has entertained spectators with Formula 2, Formula 5000 and British Touring car events in its colourful past, including the return to touring car racing of Stirling Moss and Barry Sheene with Audi in the 1980s, and the infamous Radio 1 Race “The finest event that I’ve there in their rubber day in the 1970s, where fans tried swimming ever been to with Radio outfits, with flippers and the lake to reach the Bay City Rollers. One was a Radio One Fun catching these strange Day at Mallory Park. and children and carrying We think you will have a fun action packed the Bay City Rollers were them back and sort of billed to appear, so dumping them on the day although possibly not quite as exciting as hundreds and hundreds other side of the bank. some of the above. Both 70s and HRS will of small people in very expensive and badly While all of this was have individual double header races, with a fitting Bay City Rollers going on, Tony Blackburn 15 minute qualifier and two 15 minute races chic turned out as well. was speeding backwards and forwards on the all on the Sunday. So you got these rather lagoon in a speedboat, short and stubby, sort of driven by a Womble. Racing independently from the regular HSCC like tree trunks dressed up in tartan, and they are And I just thought, If I live calendar and introducing 70s Road Sports coming across the grass, to be 200 years old, I am and Historic Roadsports to a new audience we and they start wading never going to experience across this disgusting anything like this again in hope competitors will support this event with weed-filled water. my life.” their usual blend of enthusiasm, competitive And the sub-aqua people John Peel racing and beer. were sort of standing May 18, 1975 HSCC 70s Road Sports – February 2018 MALLORY PARK LAKESIDE TROPHY ROAD SPORT RACES SUNDAY 10 JUNE 2018 FIRST AWAY AND ALWAYS AHEAD HSCC 70s Road Sports – February 2018 With 70s and HRS heading for a race weekend away from the regular HSCC Calendar we have reproduced an article by Rob Ladbrook with kind permission from Motorsport News which makes a good argument in LAKESIDE TROPHY support of going off-piste, now and again. ROAD SPORT RACES SUNDAY 10 JUNE 2018 Mixing it up a bit ROB LADBROOK @LADDERSMN – MOTORSPORT NEWS February is an exciting month for motorsport Rockingham, Knockhill, Silverstone and then fans. Next week will be the Historic Motorsport Brands again. International at ExCel London followed a week Compare that to 2017, and the only change later by RaceRetro, the countdown to the you’ll find is Rockingham and Knockhill season ahead has well and truly begun. switching places. In fact, barring that reversal Big announcements are made, drivers firm up between the Scotland and Corby races, the their plans. But there’s always one thing I feel calendar is identical all the way back to 2010. that’s missing from the surprise and intrigue – And even then the circuits remained the same. variation of championship calendars. You have to go back as far as 2006 to find any Each year the schedule for the big series seems real change, when Mondello Park in Ireland to stay the same. Come August, you can held a round. Sure, there was the introduction usually guess where the British Touring Car of Brands Hatch’s Grand Prix layout for 2009 Championship, British GT and the like will be onwards to spice up the finale, but that’s hardly headed the following year. And quite often it’s taking the series to a new audience. the same ordering too. That’s 12 years of the same circuits, in largely Am I the only one who thinks the leading lights the same order. Isn’t it time to push the boat of the British motorsport scene should mix it out a bit? up a bit? Now, I know there are varying factors that Let’s look at the BTCC as an example. This year shape the calendar like it is. The BTCC is the FIRST AWAY AND ALWAYS AHEAD it’ll visit – in order – Brands, Donington, UK’s most popular series, so its calendar often Thruxton, Oulton, Croft, Snetterton, has wide-reaching effects on other classes. All HSCC 70s Road Sports – February 2018 The Italian contingent were out in force when the championship last visited Mallory Park. Mark Dudley, Alfa Romeo GTV 2000, leads from Alex Childs, Lancia Zagato, Robert Barter, Alfa Romeo GT Junior, Jon Wagstaff and John Dobson, 2000 GTV’s All images: ©Charlie Wooding Photography of its support series are largely dictated by it, favourite tracks during certain months. and so are other classes that want to avoid a Yes, having a set calendar helps form routine fixture clash, which is something British GT and keeps everybody in the know about what organisers in particular work hard to avoid they’re doing and when. But it’s not the best for whenever possible. entertainment value, or spreading the series to Then there’s the marketing. Circuits – such as new audiences. the MSV-owned Brands, Oulton, Snetterton and Outside of the current calendar Mondello Park, now Donington – handle their own marketing Pembrey, Anglesey, Castle Combe, Kirkistown and promotion of the event, so holding a and Goodwood could all theoretically host a specific calendar slot helps form the product of championship like the BTCC. selling ‘the BTCC finale/opener’ or the ‘first round back after the summer break’. OK, at Combe you’d have noise issues to overcome for a weekend and a tight paddock, There’s also the logistics to think about too. Is but the track is licenced accordingly for safety the pit lane large enough to accommodate the and the required number of starters. full grid? Can the track start the correct number of cars? Where can the supports pitch up? Are Two other circuits could also potentially host the facilities up to scratch? And, lastly, is there races. Cadwell Park could do the job, even enough space for the corporate hospitality though it can only start 28, rather than the units? I know that last one will wrangle with capacity 32 cars. Mallory Park also, however it many, but it’s a key part of the sport in the can start 30. Some entries can drop off towards modern era. the end of the campaign, but it would be an However, the downside of this set-in-stone issue to overcome. But who wouldn’t love to scheduling is a very predictable format each see a BTCC race at Cadwell?! year. And that also brings a predictability to And I’m not just picking on the BTCC either. results, with rear-wheel-drive cars always doing British GT is just as bad – Oulton, Rockingham, well at the tracks in the middle of the calendar Snetterton, Silverstone, Brands and Donington. and certain drivers performing better at their It’s been that variety of tracks since 2010 when HSCC 70s Road Sports – February 2018 Knockhill was last on the schedule. Granted race series would add extra spice to those Steve Cooke, Lotus 7 and Julian Barter, TVR 3000M there’s been variation in the European rounds conversations that will take place hundreds of lead the rag race out of – Zandvoort, Nurburgring and Spa – but for times at ExCel London and Stoneleigh, the hairpin, followed by British-based fans that’s a bit irrelevant as those Warwickshire as well as freshening up the Josh Sadler, Porsche 911 & Bob Trotter, Jensen races are largely scheduled to entice British GT’s campaigns for the fans too. Healey main customers… the drivers. With thanks to Motorsport News and Why not take British GT to somewhere like Rob Ladbrook for allowing us to reproduce Close competitive racing Anglesey for once? It has shiny new pit this article. is normally the order of the day at Mallory Park as buildings, decent facilities and a good Motorsport News: The weekly paper for demonstrated by Phil paddock space. Briggs, Porsche 928 and the motorsport die-hard, available from Ian Jacobs, Jensen In my view, varying the schedules for Britain’s Newsagents every Wednesday. Healey. HSCC 70s Road Sports – February 2018 The unedited 70s Season Review previously printed in short form in the December issue of the HSCC Historic Racing Magazine. SeasonReview2017 CHARLES DANCES TO VICTORY For generations, scientists, novelists and romantics have searched for the secret of eternal youth. Watching Charles Barter balance his Datsun 240Z on its toes and sprint to the 70s Road Sport Championship was confirmation that age is just a state of mind.

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